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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