Hidehiko TAJIMA

1973-

Biography ｜ Works ｜ Exhibitions ｜ Collections

Biography ｜ Works ｜ Exhibitions ｜ Collections

1973
Born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
1997
B.F.A. in Oil Painting, Aichi University of the Arts
1999
M.F.A. in Oil Painting, Aichi University of the Arts
2008
First solo exhibition at KENJI TAKI GALLERY

Currently lives and works in Nissin, Aichi Prefecture.

Works ｜ Biography ｜ Exhibitions ｜ Collections

Hidehiko Tajima creates works that directly appeal to the visual senses, where splendor and peril coexist at the intersection of the ordinary and the extraordinary.
His practice ranges from two-dimensional pieces incorporating flashing lights to three-dimensional objects and installations made by altering and transforming colorful plastic toys.

birthday
2007
acrylic, paint, MDF, LED light, hand-made butterflies
72 x 72 x 55cm

Fountain
2005
acrylic, paint on MDF panel
73 x 73 cm

splash
2008
acrylic, paint, MDF, optical fiber,light bulbs, motor
91 x91.5 cm

Exhibitions ｜ Biography ｜ Works ｜ Collections

Selected solo exhibitions ｜ group

Exhibitions at KENJI TAKI GALLERY

2005
“at U8 projects” Temporary Gallery U8 projects & F.L (Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design), Aichi
2007
“at U8 projects 2” Temporary Gallery U8 projects (Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design), Aichi
2008
“Hidehiko Tajima” KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Nagoya
2009
“Hidehiko Tajima” KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Tokyo
“Boy in Paradise” Urban Research Nagoya Store
“What a wonderful world” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art Restaurant, Aichi
2010
“Ordinary Wonderful Days” KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Tokyo
2011
“Parallel World” KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Nagoya
2013
“From Window to Window, From Landscape to Landscape” KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Tokyo
2016
“From Window to Person” KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Nagoya
2019
“One and Six rooms” KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Nagoya
2026
“Bug and Diamond” KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Nagoya

Selected group exhibitions ｜ solo

1996
“PLU PLU” Nagoya City Archives
2001
“open studio studioN” studioN, Tokyo
2004
“CONRAN SHOW” OKADA STUDIO, Aichi
2006
“March part 1” KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Nagoya
2007
“something as if we do” Cafe Parlwr / Nagoya University Project Room “clas”
“NEWS” KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Nagoya
2009
“Permanent Collection Exhibition” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
“NINE” KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Tokyo
“CIRCLE” Former Faculty Housing, Aichi University of the Arts
2012
“Seals of Eastern light – Hidehiko Tajima x Kentaro Yokouchi” Art Lab Aichi
“Positions 2012” Nagoya City Art Museum
2015
“Aichi Notes : Soil, Ceramics, Climate, Memory” Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Aichi
2016
“Aichi Triennale 2016 Homo Faber : A Rainbow Caravan” Aichi Arts Center, Former Ishihara Residence (Okazaki), and other venues, Aichi
2024
“Perforated Landscape” MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto

Collections ｜ Biography ｜ Works ｜ Exhibitions

Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan