1974 Born in Gifu Prefecture
1993 Graduated from Gifu Prefectural Kano High School, Art Course
1998 Graduated from Kanazawa Municipal Kanazawa College of Art
1997 Taki Fuji Art Award

Group Exhibitions
1997 "Lives of Punk, Beast, Lion, Girl, Youth and Good Man" in Kanazawa
1998 Kanazawa Chunichi Art Exhibition in Kanazawa
Participated in a street gallery at the show window of a bank in Gifu
Gifu Youth Culture Exhibition at Gifu Memorial Center in Gifu
1999 Gallery Selected Exhibition at Gallery artra in Kanazawa
"Project D" Collaboration PARK KATAMACHI in Kanazawa
2000 Touring Exhibition "VOICE" in Nagoya at AICHI ARTS CENTER in Nagoya
Touring Exhibition "VOICE" in Kanazawa at Kanazawa Citizen's Art Center pit5
Touring Exhibition "VOICE" in Tokyo at Mitaka City Arts Center

Personal Exhibitions
1998 "SOUP" Gallery Asano in Kanazawa
1999 "ON THE BED" at PARK KATAMACHI in Kanazawa

Engaged in commercial arts after VOICE exhibitions. Continued production but suspended exhibition
activities.

2006 Restarted activities from participating in GEISAI #10. "GIRLDSWALKER Award"
2008 Participated in GEISAI MUSEUM #2
Participated in GEISAI #11
at Tokyo Big Sight

From the artist

The following scene occurs in Dostoyevsky's work entitled The Raw Youth.
The father of the boy who is the main character had neglected his family for many years. When the boy saw a photograph of his mother hanging in his father's study, he was shocked to find that "it looks so much like her." The boy shouted at his father, "I did not know you loved mother this much!" The father replied, "Yes, yes, how much it looks like her! Photographs almost never truly resemble the people who appear in them. But that cannot be helped, because even the 'originals,' that is to say, each one of us, do not truly resemble our true selves often. Our faces only truly express our essential natures, our most intimate and personal thoughts and beliefs, in extremely rare moments. A good artist studies faces and grasps the inner thoughts and beliefs of each face. That is why when he paints, even if the true nature of the subject does not show on her face, he can accurately portray it." I strive to capture this essential portraiture in my works. The title of this exhibit, "pro et contra," comes from the title of a chapter in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. It depicts the climax of the violent inner-philosophical struggle of a young monk, who is the main character of the story, between his beloved teacher and brother and between faith and atheism. "Pro et contra" is Latin for "for and against," and is the root of the terms "pro and con" in English.