Motohiro Tomii

1973　　Born in Niigata, Japan

1997　　BA Fine Art (Sculpture), Musashino Art University / Tokyo

1999　　MA Fine Art (Sculpture), Musashino Art University (Excellent Graduates) / Tokyo

1999　　The 4th contest for the best contemporary art work 2000 Grand Prix

2015-2016　　Stayed in New York, granted a fellowship of the Japanese Government Overseas study program for artist by the Agency of Japan Cultural Affairs, Japan

Currently lives and works in Saitama

Solo Exhibitions

2025

SHOW-CASE PROJECT Extra-2 Motohiro Tomii: Conditions of Contact, Keio University Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

2024-25

SHOW-CASE PROJECT Extra-1 Motohiro Tomii: The Presence of Objects and Matters, Keio University Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

2023

Motohiro Tomii : Sculptures, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan

Two-Person Exhibition: Motohiro Tomii and Masakazu Horiuti – Contorting Forms, Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan

TOMII MOTOHIRO TIME TO SEE, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan

2021

Superimposed lines, Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

2020

mellow, KAIKA Tokyo by THE SHARE HOTELS, Tokyo, Japan

Sloping Sculpture, Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan

wastepaper and space, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan

slightly, Shouonji, Tokyo, Japan

motion, switch point, Tokyo

2019

Can it be a sculpture? ーnote,broom,bar, Matsumoto art center; awai art center; kulwa, Nagano, Japan

HIGURE 17-15 cas, Tokyo, Japan

Accommodating Sculpture, RC HOTEL KYOTO YASAKA, Kyoto, Japan

2018

Borrow lines, void+, Tokyo, Japan

Composition – Rules within objects, ATELIER MUJI, Tokyo, Japan

Interact, (PLACE) by method, Tokyo, Japan

2017

turn, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan

sketches, Gallery and Bar “Daitabashi Nando/ gallery DEN5, Tokyo, Japan

Connecting Images, Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

2015

Composition for Clay, Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku Tokyo, Japan

2014

SHOW-CASE project No.1: Motohiro Tomii “three erasers” , Keio University Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

daily composition, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan

Fabric Town in Nihonbashi, NICA, Tokyo, Japan

SHOW-CASE project No.0: Motohiro Tomii “Blind Composition”, Keio University Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

2013

Straight Lines and Circumferences, switch point, Tokyo, Japan

Fabric Town, N-mark, Tokyo, Japan

combine-still-, Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan

2012

Kart Invitation Program Vol.3 The Reason to Make, Gallery Kart, Tokyo, Japan

clothes, switch point, Tokyo, Japan

“four work” (Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo)

2011

“taking bump” (switch point, Tokyo)

“5×14” (NADiff Window Gallery, Tokyo)

“Placing Colors and Shapes” (Radi-um von Röntgenwerke AG,Tokyo)

2010

“Table of Pencils” (switch point, Tokyo)

“The requrements to make” (The Art Gallery Kanazawa College of Art, Kanazawa)

Tamagawa Art Gallery Projects No.3 “ball pipe ball” (Tamagawa University, Tokyo)

“STACK” (NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo)

“Motohiro Tomii, works” (NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo)

“catch as catch can” (GENDAI HEIGHTS Gallery DEN, Tokyo)

2009

“New works” (switch point, Tokyo)

“Paper works” (Art Center OnGoing, Tokyo)

“copy boy” (Gallery Gen, Tokyo)

2008

“Time to See” (switch point, Tokyo)

“Color and form in usual objects” (Play Room (Toru Nakazaki + Mizuki Endo), Ibaraki)

“Temporary=Permanent Exhibition” (ARCUS Studio, Ibaraki)

2007

“Time to See” (Musashino Art University Museum and Library, Folklore Archive Gallery, Tokyo)

“αM Project – On the Trail vol.2” (art space kimura ASK?, Tokyo)

“Circles and Rectangles” (switch point, Tokyo)

“How to Make the World” (art & river bank, Tokyo)

2006

“Re-Meet” (switch point, Tokyo)

“Solo Show” (Gallery Gen, Tokyo)

2005

“Nap-like” (Toru Nakazaki Playroom, Tokyo)

“How to make a blank” (U8 Projects, Aichi)

“Solo Show” (CAS, Osaka)

“Usual Things” (switch point, Tokyo)

2004

“baggage” (switch point, Tokyo)

“THE COVER” (ZaGallery Ariake, Tokyo)

2003

“Up above the world” (art & river bank, Tokyo)

2002

“Neighbor Dreams” (Naruse Bijutsuza, Tokyo)

“Peripheral and Marginal” (Moris Gallery, Tokyo)

“Forward, Rewind” (ZaGallery Ariake, Tokyo)

2001

“The way things are” (Makii Masaru Fine Arts,Tokyo)

“Be” (Ai Gallery, Tokyo)

2000

“Obvious” (Moris Gallery (The 4th contest for the best contemporary art work 2000 Grand Prix Exhibition) ,Tokyo)

“nologue” (homeido Gallery, Tokyo)

1999

“moke’s Dot” (Gallery Gen, Tokyo)

“An Invisible Room” (GALERIA RASEN, Tokyo)

“An Object-form” (Naruse Bijutsuza, Tokyo)

1998

“Daily Shapes” (Gallery Gen, Tokyo)

Commission work

2008

HYS (House of Hiyoshi, designed by Hiroyuki Tanaka Architects) / Kanagawa

Others

2013

”ELTTOB TEP” (ISSEY MIYAKE GINZA Window space, Tokyo)

2012

”Art critic Federation Symposium 2012” (Tokyo)

Art Fair “TOKYO FRONTLINE 2012” (3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo)

2010

Performance “can work, hand work and other works” (blanClass,Kanagawa)

2009

Installation for the bookshelf of Shin Fukunaga (Junkudo Bookstore, Shinjuku,Tokyo)

2008

Prints book “Kabegiwa” (Printed by Itazu Litho-Grafik)

Public Collection

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Niigata City Art Museum

Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo

Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa