Last updated: 6.15. 2010

Born: Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works: Queens, New York
Education
M.F.A. 2003, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
B.F.A. 2001, University of Notre Dame (cum laude)
Area of Specialization: Painting/Drawing
Juried and Group Exhibitions
2010: LIC Armory Fest, Long Island City, New York
2009: Visible/Invisible, Holiday Inn Manhattan View, Long Island City, New York
2009, 2008, 2007: Annual Art Auction Benefit for Groundwell Community Mural Projects
2007: Interval, PSII / Windows Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2007: L.I.C . Now, The Experimental Sapce, Juvenal Reis Studio, Long Island City, NY
2006: Shape Shift: Selection 2006, Village Quill Loft, New York, NY
2006: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday: A private exhibitioin, Diaz Gallery, New York, NY.
2005: To Whom It May Concern: Cuchifritos art gallery/ project space, New York, NY.
2005: Voices of Site, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY.
2004-
2005: Queens International 2004, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
2004: Hamra Festival, Beiruit, Lebanon
2004: Fragmented Memories, Xanadu, New York, NY.
2003: The Painted Figure, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY.
2003: Revisiting Art History. Westside Gallery, New York, NY.
2003: M.F.A. Exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY.
2003-
2002: M.F.A. Open Studio, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2001: Biennial 21, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
2001: B.F.A./M.F.A. Exhibition, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN
2000: Juried Regional Exhibition- Mid West Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
1999: Juried Regional Exhibition- Mid West Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN.
Awards
2001: Emily Jacques Silver Medal of Fine Arts
2001: The William and Connie Greif Award
2000: Wrap Memorial Award
Bibliography
Queens International 2004, Vol. 2, no. 1, 2004, 14.
“Drawn to Queens,” Daily News, November 19, 2004, 83.
Julie Coppens, “Young local artist holds his own in Biennial 21” South Bend Tribune, June 10, 2001, E1.
The Juggler, Vol. 55, reproductions of paintings, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2001, cover, 1,24,64.