Mitsunori KIMURA
Installation view at Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya 2014 Photo by Tetsuo Ito
Biography
Born in 1983 in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
2005: B.A. in Sculpture, Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design
2007: M.A., Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design
2013: Artist in Residence, Changdong Art Studio – National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Asia Pacific Artist Fellowship Program 2013), Seoul, South Korea
2015: Artist in Residence, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (ACAC), Aomori
2018: Artist in Residence, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (KASHIMA 2017 Artist in Residence in Ho Chi Minh City, Dispatched by BEPPU PROJECT, Beppu)
2018: Artist in Residence, Gyeonggi Creation Center, South Korea (trans_2018-2019 Japanese Artist Overseas Dispatch, Dispatched by Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi)
Currently lives and works in Fukuroi, Shizuoka Prefecture.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023: Air, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2022: Don’t Worry, Someone is Watching You, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2021: Super Exhibition vol.04 Mitsunori Kimura: Strangers, Super Gallery, MAT, Nagoya
2020: Breath, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2019: LOVE, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2018: There are no monkeys here, Do a Front, Yamaguchi
2017: Wonderful Days, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2016: We Mammals, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2015: Wonderful Man, Gallery Kiche, Seoul, South Korea
2014: Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2013: Double Story, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2011: Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2010: How Cats Sleep, Social Kitchen, Kyoto (Curated by Fumiko Nakamura, Curator at Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art)
2010: The Man Absorbing Oil, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2008: The Tilted Man, Nagoya City Archives, Nagoya
2007: U8projects (Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design), Komaki, Aichi
2006: ISOUROU, sakurayama studio, Nagoya (Curated by Eiji Watanabe)
2005: Paint Sculpture, at the flat, Edinburgh, Scotland (Curated by Eiji Watanabe)
2004: U8projects (Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design), Komaki, Aichi
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023: Kukami Matsuri, Dorogawa Hot Spring, Tenkawa Village, Nara
2022: Growing Space, Batting Lalala Midori, Nagoya
2022: Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2022 Satoyama Art Zoo: Animals’ Social Distance, Nakago Green Park, Tokamachi, Niigata
2022: Bijutsu Joron 4: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Fujieda Civic Hall, Shizuoka
2021–2022: Positions in Contemporary Art 2021-2022, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya
2021: 2021, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2021: BLACK, COLOR – Mitsunori Kimura + Tang Rui, Higashi Shizuoka Art & Sports Hiroba, Shizuoka
2021: MIND TRAIL Okuyamato: Museum in your mind, Tenkawa Village, Nara
2021: Mobile Museum 2021: From the Collections of Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Tahara Museum, Aichi
2020: JP POP UNDERGROUND, Shinsaibashi PARCO 14F PARCO Event Hall, Osaka
2020: MIND TRAIL Okuyamato: Museum in your mind, Yoshino, Nara
2020: 2020 3rd Collection Exhibition, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya [Gallery 5: I am being reborn – Focusing on newly acquired works of Reiwa 2]
2020: Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2020, Changwon, South Korea
2020: The 8th Sapporo 500m Underground Walkway Gallery Award Exhibition, Sapporo Odori 500-m Underground Walkway Gallery, Sapporo
2019: Aichi Art Chronicle 1919-2019, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya
2019: Japanese Artist Overseas Dispatch Report Exhibition, Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi
2018: Before Form, Gallery Kiche, Seoul, South Korea
2018: Festival GCC, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan, South Korea
2017: Biennale de Lyon Rendez-vous, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
2017: Black, Color – Mitsunori Kimura and Tang Rui, Art Lab Aichi, Nagoya
2017: 6th Exhibition AGAIN-st: Sculpture of Peace, NADiff Gallery, Tokyo
2017: Enokojima Art Days 2017 Other Ways, Mark Studio, Osaka
2016: Face Up! (Artistic Practice), Art Fair Tokyo 2016, Tokyo
2015: Passage and Trajectory, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (ACAC), Aomori
2014: Two-person Exhibition Tails – Kukwon Woo, Mitsunori Kimura, Gallery Kiche, Seoul, South Korea
2014: #2motion, Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery Yada, Nagoya
2014: Koganecho Bazaar 2014: Fictive Communities Asia (Culture City of East Asia 2014), Yokohama (I saw it)
2014: Minimal Contrast – Mitsunori Kimura and Tang Rui, Sensus luoghi per l’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy (Curated by Claudio Cosma)
2014: The cave of primates, the food before the fire, Palazzetto Sannini, Florence, Italy
2013: Altari Profani, Sensus luoghi per l’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
2013: Primordial Essence, Art Lab Aichi, Nagoya
2013: 3rd Exhibition AGAIN-ST: Dependent Sculpture – What supports sculpture?, Tokyo University of the Arts, Art Space 1, Tokyo
2013: Convocatoria Internacional anual de jovenes artistas – XV Edicion, Luis Adelantado Valencia, Valencia, Spain
2013: Seoul Seoul Seoul, Changdong Art Studio, Seoul, South Korea
2013: Portfolio Archive Lounge, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (Portfolio participation)
2013: Seoul International Sculpture Festa 2013, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2013: Arts Challenge 2013, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya
2012–2013: Quadri da una collezione, Sensus – Luoghi per l’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy (Curated by Claudio Cosma, Pier Luigi Tazzi)
2012: Rokko Meets Art 2012, Mt. Rokko area (Rokko International Musical Box Museum Courtyard), Kobe
2012: untitled, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2011: Keihanna Wander Art 2011, Keihanna Commemorative Park, Kyoto
2011: One Day Cafe #3, Uwanosora, Mansho S-Kan, Nagoya
2011: WoodLand Gallery 2011, Minokamo City Museum Outdoor Area, Gifu
2010: Lord’s Straw Sandals, Hoshi Gallery, Nagoya
2009: Aichi Art Forest, Toei-cho, Aichi
2009: With Kimura-kun and Kawami-kun, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2009: IL DIO DELLE PICCOLE COSE, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy (Curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi)
2009: Hekinan Socrates: Ignorance of Ignorance part 2, Hekinan City Philosophy Trial Village Mugaen, Aichi (Curated by Eiji Watanabe)
2009: Outdoor and Indoor Research, Minokamo City Museum Outdoor Area, Gifu (Curated by Eiji Watanabe)
2008: Outdoor Research, Minokamo City Museum Outdoor Area, Gifu (Curated by Eiji Watanabe)
2007: City_net Asia 2007, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea (Curated by Masahiko Haito)
2007: Killing Time vol. 2, Cafeteria 2F (Aichi University of the Arts), Nagakute, Aichi
2005: To the Word World: Shape of a Bottleneck, Nagakute Cultural Center, Aichi (Curated by Konishi Lab, Dept. of Art History, Aichi University of the Arts)
2004: Killing Time, SpaceX (Aichi Arts Center), Nagoya
2004: conran show, OKADA STUDIO, Chita, Aichi (Curated by Eiji Watanabe)
2003: Killing Time, SpaceX (Aichi Arts Center), Nagoya