The Jean Pigozzi Collection Of Contemporary Japanese Art
Somewhere Upon the Stars - 2005
25.5 x 18 cm
Video Installation includes a chair, LCD Monitor and 28 drawings
Run time 3 min 52 sec
Edition 1/8
Dimensions provided are for drawings
Chikara Matsumoto
b. 1967, Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
Education:
1995 BA, Graphic Design, Tama Art University, Tokyo
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2011
Chikara Matsumoto: Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Chikara Matsumoto: Azamino Festival for Contemporary Video, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino
2010
That Which Illuminates The End, Vol. 1, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Chikara Matsumoto: Time Traveler x 5, DEPARTMENT STORE H.P.FRANCE, Tokyo
2008
Chikara Exhibition, graf media gm, Osaka
2005
Somewhere upon the Stars, Take Ninagawa,Tokyo
2002
Animation Work and Three Roll Painting Viewers, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2013
Ghosts, Underpants and Stars - A Place Where Children Can Be Children, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2009
Mind as Passion, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2007
Out of the Ordinary, gallery Centre A, Vancouver
JAPANESE VIDEO ART, the Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway
Out of the Ordinary, MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, LA
Not only A but also B, curated by Atsuko Ninagawa, Transformer, Washington DC
2006
Whispers Behind the Wall, curated by Atsuko Ninagawa, Mehr (Midtown), New York
2004
How far to utopia, Rockwell, London
TOKYO STYLE in STOCKHOLM, Lydmar Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden
EIJANAIKA YES FUTURE, the Collection Lambert, Avignon
Akimahen, the Maison Folie de Wazemmes, Lille
The 7th Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kanagawa
2003
International Conference on AIDS in the Asia-Pacific region, (7thICAAP) Kobe Art Village Center, Hyogo
DESIGNERS WEEK 2003 CONTAINER EXHIBITION, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
Haijima International Video Festival, HOMEBASE, Tokyo
You in Red, Virgin Cinemas Roppongi Hills, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2002
Young Video Artists Initiative-2: Junge Japanissche Kunstler in Show des Mori Art Museum Tokyo
Galerie Station im Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt
Young Video Artists Initiative-Junge Video-Kunst aus Japan, Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin
Young Video Artists Initiative Group Show #2, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Encounting the Beauty, On the title animation movie for weekly TV program on NHK channel 2001
ART DAY for KIDS, 11Proposals for children from artists, Watari Museum, Tokyo