To Do

The most representative artwork would be the ones he made during his stay in German, and the cutting stone artworks from historical sites in various countries around the world, with polishing and embedding laminated glass between them. Todo's works are very much demanded both inside and outside of Japan, being a combination of what he felt intimately about Western European civilization during his staying at Düsseldorf for more than 10 years and of Japanese aesthetics. Having moved back to Japan on Great East Japan Earthquake, Todo is creating artworks using debris from famous architecture demolished in the course of urban metabolism of the society, or cultured pearls fostered in his hometown of Uwajima.

Biography

- 1969　born in Tokyo

- 1997　MFA in Sculpture, Tama Art University

- 1999　Academy of Fine Arts Düsseldorf

- 2003　Meisterschüler of Professor Daniel Buren

Solo Exhibitions

- 2020　Chikuho-Coal, ART FRONT GALLERY / Tokyo

- 2020　NADiff Window Gallery / Tokyo

- 2017　Bau / Bau, LOKO GALLERY / Tokyo

- 2016　Debris, ART FRONT GALLERY / Tokyo

- 2015　The Capital Room - 50 Säulen, Gallery αM / Tokyo

- 2011　7000 Basalt, ART FRONT GALLERY / Tokyo

- 2008　Silent History, Eurohypo / Eschborn, Germany

- 2005　Berlin / New York / Yogyakarta, plan.d. / Düsseldorf, Germany

Group Exhibitions

- 2023　Taipei Dangdai 2023, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center / Taiwan

- 2023　Dystopia: Transition from Memory, Art Front Gallery / Tokyo

- 2022　ART HANKYU 2022, Hankyu Umeda Main Store / Osaka

- 2022　Echigo Tsumari Art Field 2022 / Niigata

- 2021　Survival Nature, GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS / Tokyo

- 2021　Art Fair Tokyo 2021, Tokyo International Forum / Tokyo

- 2021　ART BOOK / ART GOODS, BankART KAIKO / Kanagawa

- 2020　artTNZ produced by AFT with APCA, TERRADA ART COMPLEX Ⅱ / Tokyo

- 2020　Drawings 16 Artists, LOKO GALLERY / Tokyo

- 2018　Kumi-So, MA2 gallery / Tokyo

- 2017　2D Printers, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts

- 2017　KAAT EXHIBITION 2017: THE POETRY, KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre

- 2014　Collection exhibition, Urawa Art Museum / Saitama

- 2013　Book - Chapter 1, MA2 gallery / Tokyo

- 2009　Everyday life Another space, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery / Kanagawa

- 2007　30ｘ40, Orangerie Schloss Benrath / Düsseldorf, Germany

- 2005　Im Volumen glaube ich an Gegengewicht, Kunstraum Düsseldorf / Düsseldorf, Germany

Collection / Public Art

- Urawa Art Museum / Saitama

- RAG Deutsche Steinkohle AG / Herne, Germany

- Palace Hotel Tokyo

- The Ritz-Carlton Taijin

- Four Seasons Hotel Kyoto

- HOSHINOYA Okinawa, and others