Profile
1938
Born in Okayama City
1961
Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts majoring in musicology
Lives and works in Osaka, Japan
Biography
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Mieko Shiomi & Fluxus, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2004
New Works of Visual Poetry, Xebec Hall, Kobe, Japan
1998
Collagen und Multiples, Galerie & Edition Hundertmark, Cologne, Japan
1997
Fluxus to Media Opera, Gallery 360, Tokyo, Japan
1995
Fluxus Balance & Balance Poems, Gelerie J & J Donguy, Paris, France
1993
Fluxus Balance, Xebec Hall, Kobe, Japan / Swossil Studio, Vienna, Austria
1992
Balance Poems, Xebec Hall, Kobe / Art Vivant, Tokyo, Japan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Exploring the Stars, Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
2018
TRAVELERS: Stepping into the Unknown, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
EXODUS, Whitebox, New York, USA
Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2018 – At the Beginning of the Plural World, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Gallery B, Tokyo, Japan
2017
JAPANORAMA, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
A Place Where Words Are Born – flap-flop, flap-flop, Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Japan
2013
First Contact -When Events Become Art, Kurashiki City Museum, Kurashiki, Japan
2012
Intermedia/Transmedia, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Fluxus at 50
2009
elles@centrepompidou, Pompidou Center, Paris, France
2008
DISSONANCES – Six Japanese Artists, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
2007
All about Laughter – Humor in Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Fluxus East, tour exhibition Kunsthaus Bethanien, Berlin etc.
2005
Japanese Women Artists in Avant-Garde Movements, 1950-1975, Tochigi prefectural museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya
2004-05
Fluxus – Art into Life, Urawa Art Museum, Urawa
2003
In the Spirit of Kitkat, Keiyudo Gallery, Tokyo
L’INVENTION DU MONDE, Centre Pompidou, Paris
A Pillow for Dreaming, Paris & Disparis Agency, Reggio Emilia
2002
40 Jahre: Fluxus und die Folgen, Das Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt, Wiesbaden,
The Artists’ Memory, Staedtische Museen Jena, Jena
Japanese Visual Poetry, tour exhibition, Erfurt, Linz, Tokyo, etc
2000
Kreuz & Humor, Fluxseum, Wiesbaden
1999
Artists from Kurashiki and Art after the War, Kurashiki City Museum, Kurashiki
Deutsche und Japanische Visuelle Poesie, The Museum of Japanese Contemporary Poetry, Tanka and Haik, Kitakami
1998
Sogetsu and its Era, Ashiya City Museum, Ashiya / Chiba City Museum, Chiba
1997-99
Visuelle Poeseie aus Japan (tour exhibitions in Germany & Austria)
1995
TRILOGY, Galerie Cornelius Herz, Bremen
1994
Medienbiennale Leipzig 94, Minima Media, Leipzig
Book Object Show, Galerie Hundertmark, Conogne
Japanese Art After 1945, Yokohama Museum / Guggenheim Meseum, Soho, New York
Fluxus Show, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel / The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1993
Sound Object Show, Galerie Hundertmark, Cologne
In the Spirit of Fluxus, Walker Art Center & tour exhibitions in USA
Exhibiton in Cage, Galerie J. & J. Donguy, Paris
1992
Fluxus Virus, Kauhof-Parkhaus, Cologne
Excellent 1922, Nikolaj Kirke, Copenhagen, etc
Yin & Yan, Fluxeum, Wiesbaden
FluxAttitudes, The New Museum, New York
1991
Der Augenblick, der stehen bleibt, Fluxeum, Wiesbaden
FluxAtittudes, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo
1990
Sub-Atmic Fluxus Festival, Fluxus Pavilion, Venice
Telekommunikation und Kunst, Deutsches Postmuseum, Frankfurt
Fluxus Subjectiv, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
1988
Fluxus – Selections from The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1987
John Cage Exhibition, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
1981
Garten Kunst Schau, Kassel
1979
Deutsch-Japanische Koncrete Poesie, Osaka Goethe-Institute, Osaka
1977
Line and Alphabet, Gallery Pete, Osaka
1976
Flux-Show, Gallery A, Amsterdam
1968
Micro Art Show, Ginza Matsuya Gallery, Tokyo
Premier Inventaire International de la Poesie Elementaire, Galerie Danise Davy, Paris
1976
Flux-Show, Gallery A, Amsterdam
1965
The Box Show, Byron Gallery, New York
SELECTED SOLO CONCERTS/ORGANIZED PERFORMANCES
2017
Performance Workshop ‘Perform Water’, Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
2015
Fluxus Performance Workshop, Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
2014
Fluxus in Japan 2014, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
2012
Intermedia / Transmedia, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
2005
Fluxus Lecture & Performance, Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
2004
Satoko Plays in Xebec ‘Music of Lines + Music of Forms>, Xebec Hall, Kobe, Japan
Fluxus Performance Workshop, Urawa Art Museum, Urawa, Japan
2001
Fluxus Trial, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2000
Satoko Plays Japan, Bario Hall, Tokyo
2001
Fluxus Trial, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2000
Satoko Plays Japan, Bario Hall, Tokyo
1995
JOHNCAGE in a Time Labyrinth, Mito Museum, Mito
1994
Fluxus Lecture & Performance, Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya
Fluxus Media Opera, Xebec Hall, Kobe
1992
Media Opera, Xebec Hall, Kobe
Fluxus in the Long Afternoon, Art Vivant, Tokyo
Fluxus Performance Workshop, Xebec Studio, Kobe
1965
FLUX WEEK, Gallery Cristal, Tokyo
1964
Perpetual Flux Fest, Washington Square Gallery, New York
1963
Chieko Shiomi Solo Concert, Okayama Prefectural Culture Center Hall, Okayama
SELECTED GROUP CONCERTS
2019
Fluxus wo kataru (On Fluxus, Talk, Symposium and Concert), Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
2018
Dick e M.S. Villa Aurora – Sala Edgar, Fagagna, Italy
2017
Music Unable to be Written on the Stave, Kyoto City University of Arts, Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
2016
Fluxus Bon Festival, Gallery 360, Tokyo, Japan
2015
Takeo Tchinai Piano Recital for Left Hand Archive #9, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Recital Hall, Tokyo, Japan
2013
Izumi Tateno Festival for Left Hand, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Recital Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Music Today on Fluxus, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2012
Izumi Tateno Festival for Left Hand, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Recital Hall, Tokyo
Music and Mushroom, Yokohama Creative City Center, Yokohama
2010
Hiroaki Ooi Piano Recital, ‘Portrait of Composers #3’, Monnakatenjou Hall, Tokyo, Japan
2006
Rhodri Davies
2004
Fluxus on the Keyboard – Satoko Inoue Piano Recital, Kawai Music Saloon, Tokyo, Japan
Music from the Pacific Rim, Minnesota History Center, Minnesota
2002
Ensemble NOMAD 2001/2002 #3, Tokyo Opera City Recital Hall, Tokyo
2001
Concerts: 20-21 ~ John Cage Has Landed, Kioi Hall, Tokyo, Japan
2000
Neue Musik aus Japan, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hall, Leipzig
1996
Women Composers from around the World – Tokyo Summer Festival ’96, Tsuda Hall, Tokyo, Japan
1994
SeOUL- NymAX, The Courthouse Theather, New York
1993
Fluxus / Nancarrow & So Forth, Kyoto Goethe-Institute, Kyoto
1992
Concert & Marathon Sonic Environment: Pauline Oliveros & Deep Listening Band Tokyo Pan, Tokyo
1991
Japanese Composers ’91, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Recital Hall, Tokyo
Deutsche-Japanische Neue Musik, Kyoto Goethe-Institute, Kyoto
A Clockwork Prelude, Xebec Hall, Kobe
Masters of Piano Forte, Julia Morgan Theater, Berkley / Stanford University, California
1989
Aki Takahashi: New Year Series No.7, Yokohama City Education & Culture Hall, Yokohama
1987
Sogetsu Festival ’87, Sogetsu Art Center Hall, Tokyo
1981-84
Japanese-German Contemporary Music Series No.1 – 4, Piccolo Theater, Amagasaki
1981
ARS NOVA, Deutsch Sued-West Funk Landesstudio, Tuebingen
1979
Japanese Composers ’79, Iino Hall, Tokyo
Pro Musica Contemporary Music Concert, Pro Musica Hall, Osaka
1978
Festival Franco-Japonais de musique Contemporaine
l’Institute Franco- Japonais du Kansai , Kyoto
1977
Deutsch-Japanische Woche : Notation of Contemporary Music, Osaka Goethe-Institute, Osaka
1969
Intermedia Art Festival, Nikkei Hall, Tokyo
Cross Talk / Intermedia, Yoyogi National Studium, Tokyo
1966
From Space to Environment / Happening Concert, Sogetsu Art Center Hall, Tokyo
1964
Fluxus Symphony Orchestra Concert, Carnegie Recital Hall, New York
Monday Night Letter, Café au go go, New York
1961
Debut Concert of “Group Ongaku”, Sogetsu Art Center Hall, Tokyo
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
MoMA, USA/ Walker Art Center, USA/ The Getty, USA/ Fondazione Bonotto, Italy/ Fondazione Mudima, Italy/ Les Archives Francesco Conz, Italy/ Centre Pompidou, France/ Archiv Sohm Staatgalerie Stuttgart, Germany/ Museo Vostell Malpartida, Spain/ Queensland Art Gallery, Australia/ Nam June Paik Art Center, Korea/ The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan/ Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan/ Urawa Art Museum, Urawa, Japan/ Kurashiki City Art Museum, Okayama, Japan