About Artist & CV
Introduction
This website introduces some of the projects conducted by the artist Tatsuo Inagaki, including his latest project.
Inagaki's project is collaborative in nature, and each project to date is made in co-operation with the local residents, and tailored to the form specific to the region.
Tatsuo Inagaki was born in Kobe, Japan in 1962. He represented the 18th Street Arts Complex in Santa Monica for the LA International Biannual in 2001. He was invited to produce work for the Public Art Project at the International Building, Language Centre of Royal Holloway and Bedford College, University of London in 2000. He has also conducted other projects widely in the world, including France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, Australia as well as Japan. The artist lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Projects
2010
My Place、Arcus Project, Moriya
2009
Sanmata-Bunkoua Project, Shizuoka Art Gallery, Shizuoka
Himizo Museum Project, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2009, Tokamachi, Nigata
Nakanoshima Game, Suito Osaka, Nakanoshima, Osaka
2008
Doi Saket Museum, Chiang-Mai, Thailand
Childhood Museum, Arcus Project, Moriya, Ibaraki
2007
Childhood Museum、F Gallery, Chiang-Mai, Thailand
Tatsuo Inagaki Satellite laboratory, Bank Art Studio NYK, Yokohama
Belfast Museum,Queen Street Gallery, Belfast,
2005
Childhood Museum, IImawashi, Merz Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland [catalogue]
Childhood Museum, Toki Art Space, Tokyo, Japan [catalogue]
2004
Childhoood Museum, Localismos, Mexico City [Catalogue]
2003
My Place, Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Art, Antalya, Turkey [Catalogue]
2002 Grizedale Museum, Grizedale, UK
Moya Museum: Shoshiro Kawagoe and Moya, Artist-in-Residence Programme Exhibition, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan [Catalogue]
2001
Daikanyama Museum: Tom and Daikanyama, Daikanyama Installation, Hillside West, Tokyo, Japan [Catalogue]
My Place, ARCUS Project, Moriya, Japan [Catalogue]
Tappie Museum, LA International Art Biennial, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica,USA
2000
My Favourite Painting, Public Art Project, Royal Holloway & Bedford New College, University of London, UK
Dale Museum, Nordic Artists' Centre in Dale Studio 2, Dale, Norway
Welcome to the County Gallery of Sogn og Fjordane!, The County Gallery of Sogn og Fjordane, Forde, Norway
1999
My Place, The 8th International Artists Open Air Symposium, Muritz National Park, Germany [Catalogue]
My Place, Le Vent des Forêts, Meurse, France [Catalogue]
1998
Museums within Museum, Museum as Wonderland, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan [Catalogue]
Swedish Language School, EVENTA4, Upsala, Sweden
1996
Trial Domain, Trial Domain '96, Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo [Catalogue]
Japanese Language School, Japanese Artists in Hamburg, Kampnagel K3, Hamburg, Germany [Catalogue]
1992
Found Objects, Idea from Japan, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia
Found Objects, The 2nd Visayas Islands Visual Arts Exhibition and Conference, Bacolod, Philippines
5000 Sticks, Nature and Culture, Husum, Germany [Catalogue]
1991
Found Objects, A Room for Thinking of Beuys, Watari-um,
The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Artist-in-Residence
2009
Compeung, Chiang-Mai, Thailand
2008
Compeung, Chiang-Mai, Thailand
2007
Compeung, Chiang-Mai, Thailand
2002
Grizedale Arts, Grizedale, UK
Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan
2001
18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, USA
2000
Royal Holloway & Bedford New College, University of London, UK
Nordic Artists' Centre in Dale, Dale, Norway
Grants
2003
Pola Art Foundation (Japan)
2001
Art by XEROX (Japan)
Japan Foundation (Japan)
Japan Foundation (LA, USA)
Asian Cultural Council, the Rockefeller Foundation (USA)
Papers and Essays
2004
Art of One-to-One Communication: Case Study on Tatsuo Inagaki's 'Museum' Projects, the Bulletin of Wakkanai Hokusei Gakuen College 2004, Wakkanai Hokusei Gakuen College, Japan
2003
Art of One-to-One Communication: Case Study on Tatsuo Inagaki's 'Museum' Projects, Fieldworks: Dialogues between art and anthropology, Tate Modern, London
1998
Museums within Museum, Museum as Wonderland, catalogue, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
1996
Fieldwork, FREAK OUT vol.12 1996, Korinsha, Japan
Lectures and Workshops
2002
Workshop for children at Moya, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan (part of project)[Catalogue]
2001
Workshop for Goshu Elementary School, Matsumaedai Elementary School, Goshogaoka Elementary School, Arcus Project, Moriya, Japan (part of project)[Catalogue]
2000
Workshop for Magna Carta School students, Picture Gallery at Royal Holloway & Bedford New College, University of London, UK (part of project)
1998
Gallery Talk "Museums within Museum", Museum as Wonderland, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Lecture "What supports art" Chigasaki Art Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
1996
Workshop and lecture for art students at the Tama Art University,
"Trial Domain '96", Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan (part of project)
Lecture, "Japanese Artist in Hamburg", Kampnagel K3, Hamburg, Germany
Bibliography
2002
Moya Museum: Shoshiro Kawagoe and Moya
Goji Hamada, 'Concept of "Museum of Memory" by Inagaki Tatsuo', Aomori Contemporary Art Centre Spring 2002 Vol.1, Artist-in-Residence Programme, pp. 56-57, Aomori, Japan
2001
My Place( Moriya)
Review, Joyo Shimbun Newspaper, 16th November, Ibaraki, Japan
Review, Mainichi Shimbun Newspaper, 16th November, Ibaraki, Japan
Sachiko Namba, 'The Possibility of Communication in the Art of Tatsuo Inagaki', Art Criticism 2001, pp. 83-88, Tokyo, Japan
2000
Tappie Museum
Barbara Pollack, 'family album', arts international, p. 15, fall 2001, New York, USA
'Artist Inagaki Creates a Special Museum of a Local Residents', Rafu Shinpo Newspaper, 8th August, Los Angels, USA
'Japanese Artist Makes A Life Into A Museum', Santa Monica Mirror, 8th-14th August, Santa Monica, USA
Dale Museum
Astrid Kolbornsen, 'Skjevt blikk pa norske kuer', BERGENS TIDENDE, 22nd February, Bergen, Norway
Katrine Sele, 'Utdrag fra ei japansk dagbok', FIRDA,
22nd February , Forde, Norway
Welcome to The County Gallery of Sogn og Fjordane!
Katrine Sele, 'Kultursjefens sko som kunst', FIRDA, 24nd February 2000, Forde, Norway
1999
My Place (Le Vent des Forêts)
Lysiane Ganousse, 'La forêt prend le vent', 4th July, Meuse, France
1996
Seiji Shinohara, 'Tatsuo Inagaki's Art Work', FREAK OUT Art Magazine, vol.12 1996, pp. 14-19, Tokyo, Japan
"Hamburg-Japan day '96" P. 36, Hamburg, Germany
1995
Itaru Hirano, Review, BT Art Magazine, p. 180, Tokyo, Japan
1991
Preview, Any Magazine No.41, p. 85, 27th June, Tokyo, Japan
Preview, Hanako Magazine No.152, p. 41, June, Tokyo, Japan
1989
'Vieplan Art Scope', VIEPLAN MAGAZINE volume 2, December,p. 36, Tokyo, Japan
1988
Yasushi Kurabayashi, Review, ART '88 OCT, Bijutsu Techo(BT) Art Magazine, p. 208, Tokyo, Japan
