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Okubo, Takahiro

大久保 貴裕

Painter / Contemporary Artist based in Tokyo & San Francisco

 

1990

 Born in Tokyo

 

2010-2012

 Bigakko Art School: Nobuhiko Utsumi Pictorial Expression Laboratory, Tokyo

2013-2017

 Studio Assistant to artist Nobuhiko Utsumi, Tokyo

2019-2023

 B.A. in Art (Studio Art) San Francisco State University (SFSU), San Francisco

Group Exhibitions

2022

 -35th Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition, SFSU Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco (kinetic painting installation)

 -APAture 2022: Autonomy (Focus on Emerging Asian Pacific American Artists), ARC Gallery, San Francisco (kinetic painting sculpture)

 -Nobuhiko Utsumi Pictorial Expression Lab 20th Exhibition: Apocalypse, Artemisia absinthium, or A Rainbow of the Hope, Gallery K, Tokyo (kinetic painting sculpture)

2021

 -34th Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition, SFSU Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco (painting, installation)

 -Nobuhiko Utsumi Pictorial Expression Lab: Moonlight Anus, Gallery K, Tokyo (painting, installation)

​ -Beautiful Time, Gallery K, Tokyo (painting, sculpture)

2020

 -33rd Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition, online juried exhibition (painting, installation)

2019

 -32nd Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition, SFSU Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco (painting, installation)

 -The Elephant in the Room, SFSU Martin Wong Gallery, San Francisco (painting, sculpture)

 -Nippon Collage 2019, Gallery K, Tokyo (painting, sculpture)

2018

 -What are the colors of the winds? , Gallery K, Tokyo (painting, sculpture)

2017

 -Charity Exhibition: Postcards of Words - Words and the Sky, Gallery K, Tokyo (painting)

 -What are the colors of the winds? , Gallery K, Tokyo (painting, sculpture)

 -Nobuhiko Utsumi Pictorial Expression Lab 16th Exhibition, Gallery K, Tokyo (painting)

2016

 -Momo Tent -Performance Vol.7- “Hatsuboku-Sansui Story - Grace and Sex Road”, Gallery K, Tokyo (performance, installation)

 -Nobuhiko Utsumi Pictorial Expression Lab: 3+4 Exhibition, Gallery K, Tokyo (painting)

2015

 -Momo Tent -Performance Vol.6- “Phallusfal - the Phimosis Operating Room PIG'S STOMACH”, Gallery K, Tokyo (performance, installation)

 -Nobuhiko Utsumi Pictorial Expression Lab: 2+2 Exhibition, Gallery K, Tokyo (painting)

2014

 -One in 31,536,000: Now, Gallery K, Tokyo (painting)

 -Momo Tent -Performance Vol.5- “Degenerate Art Exhibition”, Gallery K, Tokyo (performance, installation)

2013

 -Momo Tent -Performance Vol.4- “Karamanzok’s Trial”, Gallery K, Tokyo (performance, installation)

 -Momo Tent -Performance Vol.3- “Kuritori Story - the Premature Ejaculation Tower and the Sandglass on a Crotch”, Gallery K, Tokyo (performance, installation)

2012

 -TAKAGI Yosuke + OKUBO Takahiro Exhibition, Gallery K, Tokyo (painting)

 -Bigakko Art School UTSUMI Nobuhiko Pictorial Expression Lab Degree Show, Bigakko, Tokyo (painting)

2011

 -Momo Tent -Performance Vol.2-, Bumpodo Gallery, Tokyo (performance, installation)

 -Nippon Collage 2011, Gallery K, Tokyo (painting)

2010

 -Momo Tent -Performance Vol.1-, Gallery K, Tokyo (performance, installation)

Awards / Grants

2022

 -35th Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition - Best in Show, San Francisco

 -Andrew Sanders Memorial Art Scholarship

2020

 -Martin Wong Scholarship for Painting

2019

 -32nd Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition - Best in Show, San Francisco

Teaching Experiences / Related Employments

2022-Current

​ -Equipment Assistant at DMET (Digital Media / Emerging Technologies), San Francisco State University, San Francisco

2021-Current

 -Research Assistant at Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco

2021

 -Teaching Assistant to Paula Levine, Video Art, San Francisco State University, San Francisco

2017

​ -Art Manager at Gallery Center Point, Tokyo

2013-2017

 -Studio Assistant to Nobuhiko Utsumi, Tokyo

2012-2016

 -Executive Director of Nobuhiko Utsumi Lecture Series "Dropout School", Waseda University, Tokyo

2012-2016

 -Travel Coordinator for Nobuhiko Utsumi Summer Workshop, Tokyo

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