Tomoko Takahashi
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Tomoko Takahashi is a Japanese artist born in Tokyo in 1966 and based in London, UK. She studied at Tama University, Goldsmiths College and the Slade School of Fine Art.
She first came to attention when she won the EAST award at EASTinternational in 1997. She exhibited in the 1999 "Neurotic realism" show at the Saatchi Gallery and she has exhibited broadly worldwide. Some examples of the places she has exhibited include UCLA's Hammer Gallery,[1] the De La Warr Pavilion.[2] and the Tate Collection.[3]
Her main medium is installation art, often made of rubbish. In 2000 she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize, and her work has been reviewed in Frieze Magazine[4] and in the Guardian.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ Tomoko Takahshi, exhibited October 6, 2002 - January 5, 2003. http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/132
- ^ Tomoko Takahashi - Introspective Retrospective. Exhibition notice. http://www.dlwp.com/WhatsOn/ExhibitionDetail.aspx?EventId=1208
- ^ Tomoko Takahashi. Artist listing, Tate Collection. http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=4451&page=1
- ^ Tomoko Takahashi. by Rachel Withers. Frieze Magazine, Issue 39 March-April 1998. http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/tomoko_takahashi/
- ^ Tomoko Takahashi. by Jonathan Jones, the Guardian, Monday 28 February 2005 http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2005/feb/28/1
[edit] External links
- Turner Prize
- Word Perhect commission
- At "The Artists"
- "Demystifying the remains of our time", World Sculpture News, Autumn 1998
- Tomoko Takahashi at Beaconsfield, London, World Sculpture News, Winter 1998
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