Eiji WATANABE
1961 Born in Aichi, Japan
1985 Graduated from Sculpture Course, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music
2004-2005 Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh (grant from Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs）
Lives and works in Nagoya
Solo Exhibitions
1989 Stegosaurus Studio, Nagoya
1990 Stegosaurus Studio, Nagoya
1991 Stegosaurus Studio, Nagoya
1992 Stegosaurus Studio, Nagoya
1993 Stegosaurus Studio, Nagoya
1994 "Stroke of Projection : part 1" Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
"Stroke of Projection : part 2" Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
1995/96 "Brocken Spectre"Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
1997 "Mist" Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
"Name of a Star" Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo
1998 Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
1999 "Memory of Things" Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
Kenji Taki Gallery,Tokyo
2000 "Beyond Time" Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2001 Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
"View" Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2002 "Tomorrow is Yesterday", Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2003 "Garden of the Appellation installation 2003" sculpture court at Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
2004 Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2005 "Garden of the Appellation installation 2005" The Glasshouse, Edinburgh
"Re-" Open Studio, C3 studio at Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
2006 "Red of blue. Blue of red." Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2007 "Pause", Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2008 "The champion jumps with a magazine on Sunday", Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
“Garden of the Name” Minokamo City Museum, Minokamo, Gifu
2009 "talking mirror" Mugaen, Hikinan, Aichi
"The Name Collecting" Hirakata Municipal Gotenyama Art Center, Hirakata, Osaka
"Butterfly's eye view, installation of Cairn”Cairn Gallery, Pittenweem, Scotland, U.K.
2010 Artist in Residence in Orkney, Orkney UK
2011 "comet " Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2012 "comet ll" Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2013 Tent, Edinburgh UK
sleeper, Edinburgh UK
"Vehicles" Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
"Garden of the Appellation installation 2013" Nanatsudera theatre Studio, Nagoya
2014 "Garden of the Reproduction" Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2015 "Festina Lente" Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2016 sleeper (basement floor), Edinburgh, UK
2017 "Blink" Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2018/19“Dream of Butterfuly” Fuji Paper Art Museum, Fuji, Shizuoka
2020 “Merman” Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2022 “Release” Higashi-Shizuoka Art and Sports ? Hiroba, Shizuoka
“Sea of Eden” Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2024 “The Morning Star” Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions
1991 "10th Parallelism in Art" Ohararyu-Kaikan, Tokyo
1995 "NCAF (Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair), Nagoya Citizen's Gallery,Nagoya
1998 "New Works - by 6 artists" Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
"Innocent Minds" Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya
2000 "Scope" Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2001 "Encounter" Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
"Art in the Home" Yamaguchi" private House, Yamaguchi
2002 "Field Studies" Essor Gallery, London
"Elsewhere" WBD + essor gallery, Berlin
"Art in the Home" private House, Edinburgh
"Transformation and Transition - by four artists" Aichi Arts Center
"Off-Side" gm, Osaka / Yokohama Museum of Art, Art Gallery, Yokohama
2002/03 "TAG TEAM EXPERIMENT” Billy McCall Studio, Edinburgh
2003 "Take off/Take OFF for" Giacomo Manzu Museum in Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo
"The Human Body in Contemporary Sculpture" The National University of Fine Arts and Music Exhibition Hall, Tokyo
2004 "MIRUNA NO ZASHIKI " BABA, Kanazawa
"The concert of Sea and Sky" Seaside of Gamagori, Aichi
"Garden of the Appellation installation +ecaUNION" sculpture court at Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
2005 "TATSUO MAJIMA x EIJI WATANABE" BABA, Kanazawa
2007 "All about Laughter : humor in contemporary art”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
"Never Been to Houston" Lawndale Art Center, Houston, U.S.A.
"Tokoname Art & Design Factory" at the ceramic factory, Tokoname Aichi
"Cycle and Recycle", Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya
2008 "Field Studies" Minokamo City Museum (outdoor) , Minokamo, Gifu
2009 "Field Studies" Minokamo City Museum (outdoor) , Minokamo, Gifu
Fukutake House in Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009, Tokomachi, Niigata (selected by Kenji Taki Gallery)
"Tactile Vision" Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
2010 "Editions" Cairn Gallery, Pittenweem UK
"Woodland Gallery", Minokamo City Museum (outdoor), Minokamo Gifu
Aichi Triennale 2010, Nagoya
2011 "This is not a book" Urawa Art Museum, Saitama
"Keihannna Wander Art 2011 - Art Trail in the Woods" Keihanna Commemorative Park, Kyoto
"simple things" Nagoya Citizens Gallery Yada, Nagoya
2012 "Contemporary Art in Toyohashi" Toyohashi, Aichi
"Woodland Gallery", Minokamo City Museum, Minokamo Gifu
"Natural History of Nature and Fantasy"Toyohashi City Museum of Art & History, Aichi
"Rokko Meets Art 2012" Rokkosan area, Kobe, Hyogo
2013 "NISSAN ART AWARD 2013" BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama
2014 "Meets Art - Treasure Box in the Forest" Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Kangawa
"Shinshu University Large Exhibition" Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Nagano
2015 "Between Botany and Art" Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya
2016 "Eiji Watanabe / Yasuko Otsuka" Hebel_121, Basel
Assembridge Nagoya 2016 “Panorama Garden” MAT, Nagoya [Brancusi's sewing box and other works with Eiji Watanabe + Coracle]
“LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL”, Art Lab Aichi, Nagoya (participated as Star Projects)
Art Obulist 2016 “Hurry! Slowly” Worker's Culture Hall, Obu, Aichi
2017 Art Zuid 2017, Art Chapel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“Eiji Watanabe / Yasuko Otsuka” Artists’ bookshop, Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kakegawa Chaennale, Kakegawa, Shizuoka
2019 “KAYA NO SOTO (Out of the loop) ” Hebel_121Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
“Aichi Art Chronicle 1919-2019” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya
“Nagoya Teramachi Art Project 2019 : Shikashi Kashika” Hioki Shrine, Nagoya
2020 “task” Art Lab Aichi, Nagoya
2021“Passage of Life” Hekinan City Tatsukichi Fujii Museum of Contemporary Art, Hekinan, Aichi
“Delta” KAYOKOYUKI and Komagome SOKO, Tokyo
“Art Seaside Naoetsu” Naoetsu area, Joetsu city, Niigata
“Kakegawa Chaennale 2020+1” Kakegawa, Shizuoka
“2021” Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2022 “Our Secret Flower Garden” Higashi-Osaka Art Centre, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka
Selected Publications
Exhibition Catalogues :
"Encounter" (2001,Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo)
"Art in the Home in YAMAGUCHI"（2001, Yamaguchi Prefecture Cultural Festival, Yamaguchi）
"art in the home in Edinburgh"（2002, City Art Centre, ECA, Edinburgh, Collective gallery UK）
" Transformation and Transference-Installation by 4(+1)Artist" (2002, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya)
"All About Laughter / Humor in Contemporary Art" (2007, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo)
" Cycle and Recycle " (2007, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya)
Natural History of Nature and Fantasy” (2012, Toyohashi City Museum of Art & History, Aichi)
"Between Botany and Art" (2015, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya)
Aichi Art Chronicle 1919-2019” (2019, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya)
Projects (curating exhibitions and other activities)
2004 “conran show” OKADA STUDIO, Chita, Aichi
2005 “at the flat” Edinburgh, UK
2006 project space sakurayama studio, Nagoya
2008-2009 “Field Studies” (outdoor) Minokamo City Museum, Minokamo Gifu
2010-2012 “WoodLand Gallery" , Minokamo City Museum (outdoor), Minokamo Gifu
2009 “Hekinan Socratess : Ignorance of Ignorance ” MUGAEN, Hekinan Aichi
2010-2016 Star Gallery, Nagoya
2015-2018 Botao Gallery, Nagoya
2016 “LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL” Art Lab Aichi, Nagoya / participated as Star Projects
2016-2018 “Art Obulist", Obu, Aichi
2019 “a secret garden” OCAILLE, Tokyo / installation in the shop
2020 Super Gallery, Nagoya / exhibition advisor with MAT, Nagoya
2023 Jingu 339, Nagoya / running the Project space
Public Collection
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya
Oita Prefectural Art Museum (OPAM) , Oita
Hekinan City Tatsukichi Fujii Museum of Contemporary Art, Hekinan, Aichi
