1951

&1951 - Born Tokyo, Japan

1970 - Moved to New York

1976 - BFA Parsons School of Design, New York. Assoc. Prof./Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

1997 - The Pollock Krasner Foundation

1998 - The Elizabeth Foundation

1999 - Recipient of the 1999 John Simon Guggenheim memorial foundation award


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007 - Danese Gallery, New York

2006 - Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London

2005 - Galerie Jean Luc Takako Richard, Paris, France.Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2004 - Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA

2003 - Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY

2002 - Galerie Schuster & Scheuermann, Berlin Germany. Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt, Germany

2001 - Feigen Contemporary, New York. Galerie Evelyne Canus, La Colle-sur-Loup, France (catalogue). Centre d?art d?Ivry, Ivry-sur-Seine, France (catalogue)

2000 - Centre d?art d?Ivry, Ivry-sur-Seine, France (catalogue)

1998 - Feigen Contemporary, NY, NY, (catalogue)

1997 - Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA (catalogue) Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY

1996 - Galerie Evelyne Canus, La Colle-sur-Loup, France. Villa Arson, Nice, France. Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milan, Italy

1995 - Feigen, Inc., Chicago, IL

1994 - Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY

1992 - Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY



Selected Group Exhibitions

2006 - Extreme Abstraction , Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris

2005 - Hommage a Matisse, Artiscope, Brussels, Belgium. Adaptation Syndrome: Painting in Contemporary Image Culture, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA. Couleurs & Formes, Galerie Evelyne Canus, Basel Switzerland

2004 - Surface Tension, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY

2002 - New Economy-Painting, Acme, Los Angeles, CA

2001 - Constellations, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA.New Works, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY.Warped: Painting and the Feminine, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, England

2000 - Maximal Minimal, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY. Super-Abstr-Action, les filles du calvaire, art contemporain, Paris, France

1998 - Exploiting the Abstract, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY. Painting Objectives, Galerie Evelyne Canus, La Colle-sur-Loup, France Ornaments, Galerie Haffemann, Wiesbaden, Germany. Sick of Photography: A Painting Show, University of Santa Barbara, CA (curated by Michael Darling)

1997 - Divergent Models, Kunstverein, Weisbaden, Germany (catalogue). Made in Santa Barbara: Work From The Atelier Richard Tullis, Channing Peske Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA. Re:Fab, Painting, Abstracted, Fabricated & Revised, Robert Hull. Fleming Museum, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT. [travelled to Wolfson Galleries, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL and University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (catalogue)]

1996 - Face to Face: Recent Abstract Painting, List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA (catalogue)

1995 - Color: Sign, System, Sensibility, Stark Gallery, New York, NY. Summer Group Show , Feigen, Inc., Chicago, IL. X-Sightings, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Works For A Funhouse, E.S. Vandam, New York, NY

1994 - Painting, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL. Print project, Horodner/Romley Gallery, New York, NY. Sourballs, Sue Spaid Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1993 - A Sculpture, A Painting, and A Drawing, Muranushi/Lederman Projects, New York, NY. Medium is the Medium, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY. Art Is Life, Museo dell 'Automobile, Turin, Italy. Beau Domage, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY. Summer Group Show, Feigen, Inc., Chicago, IL. Five Uses of Space, Artiscope, Brussels, Belgium (catalogue). Sailing to Byzantium with Disenchantment , Sergio Tossi Gallery, Prato, Italy(catalogue). Things to Feast Your Eyes On, Muranushi/Lederman Projects, New York. N.Y. Defrost, The Living Room, Amsterdam, Holland. Abstrategies; Abstract Painting in the 90's, Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin, FL. Songs of Retribution, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY

1992 - The Void Each Time, Galleria In Arco, Turin, Italy (catalogue). Shades of Difference, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY

1991 - Conceptual Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY. In Full Effect, White Columns, New York, NY (catalogue). Distraction/Abstraction, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY. Just Painting, Trenkmann Gallery, New York, NY. Little Things Mean A Lot, Momentary Modern, Amsterdam, Holland

1990 - The Ends of Painting: The Edges of Abstraction, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)

1989 - Painting Between the Sacred and the Profane, Galerie Rahmel, Cologne, Germany. Painting: Between Awareness and Desire, Cyrus Gallery, New York, NY


Selected Collections

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH
Philip Morris USA
Sprint International Corporation
Saks Fifth Avenue Art Collection
(collection includes among others: Richard Serra, Robert Mangold, William Wegman)
Banco do Torino, Turin, Italy