Biography

Chikara Matsumoto
Born in 1967, Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
1991 BA, Graphic Design, Tama Art University, Tokyo
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019“From the TOP collection: Chikara Matsumoto ‘Memory Tracer’,” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum,Tokyo

2018“ReBirth Drawings,” CAY, SPIRAL, Tokyo“POTLUCK SCREENING: Chikara Matsumoto | Tale of Books, Town of Books,”
Minatomachi POTLUCK BUILDING, Nagoya

2017“48 Quantum of Solitude,” Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba

2015“48 So It Goes.,” Hasu no hana, Tokyo

2014“Yume no Hanashi (El sueño nos habla),” Vértigo Galeria, Rome (with VOQ, Rita Ponce de Leon)2013“Return to Nichebo: Matsumoto Chikara Exhibition,” Kotokotodo, Naha

2012

“SAYO NARA / Go(o)d b ye,” saicoro, artdish, Tokyo

2011“Unknown the Sun,” FFLLAATT (on the web)2010

“That which illuminates the end, vol.1,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2008“Chikara Exhibition,” graf media gm, Osaka

2005“Somewhere upon the Stars,” TAKEFLOOR 404&502, Tokyo

2002“Animation Work and Three Roll Painting Viewers,” Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions
2019“Tsuzuki Art Project 2019,” art space Red House, Kanagawa

2018“Tsuzuki Art Project 2018, 2 bei: Rice and America - The Beginning,” art space Red House, Kanagawa“10th Anniversary,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2017“Wathann Film Festival #7: Another Landscape - from Collection of the Tokyo Photographic
Art Museum,” WAZIYA CINEMA, Yangon“Abracadabra of Drawing,” Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba

2016“Daisen Animation Project 2016,” Tottori“Fukui Yume Art 2016,” Shin-ei shopping district, Fukui“Animal & Silhouette,” Earth&Salt, Tokyo“TRANSITION,” Galerie FLUIDE, Château de Chémery, Blois“Conversation III”, SPIRAL GARDEN, Tokyo2015“DA+C Festival: Warung Wayang,” Penang State Museum, George Town, Penang (with VOQ)
“Art Ichihara 2015 Spring,” IAAES (Former Satomi Elementary School), Chiba“Odoru Ningyou, The Animation of Dancing men in Jakarta and Manila,” Jikka 2F Viewing Room, Tokyo2014“10 Years Anniversary: I think about nothing,” Shinjuku Ophthalmologist Gallery, Tokyo“Art Gallery Vol.3: Nozoki⇔Nozokare,” Kwasaki City Museum, Kawasaki“Tsuzuki Art Project 2014, New Town Iseki House,” Otsuka Remains Park,Yokohama“Search Project Vol.3: Apartment OneOneOne (111),” Art Area B1, Osaka“Tokyo Story 2014 vol.1: Artist In Yubari Program,” Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo“Hasu no hana: U-no-Mori Bunko,” Hasu no hana, Tokyo“This is not Zero Fighter.,” Former Yubari Elementary School, Hokkaido“Shimizusawa Miyamae-cho Image Festival,” Yubari City Hall, Hokkaido“Asahi Art Square Open Square Project 2014: Alterspace - Astigmatic Light,” Asahi Art Square A, Tokyo2013“5th Anniversary,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo“Rumores Ultramarinos,” gallery ton de boer, Amsterdam“Tsuzuki Art Project 2013, New Town, Fantastic Phantom Dreamy Zoo,” Center-Kita Station,Otsuka Remains Park, Yokohama“GHOSTS, UNDERPANTS and STARS,” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo“Art in Kawasaki: Resonating Art, Workshop Artist 2003-2013,” Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki

2012“Selection Group Exhibition Vol.1 Michi no Manazashi,” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo“Art Line Kashiwa 2012: Kashiwa City Jack -Asia Pacific Contemporary Media Arts from Daisuke Miyatsu
Collection-,” Chiba“Koganecho Bazar 2012,” Yokohama“Tsuzuki Art Project 2012, New Town ART Trip From Under the Raleway,” Center-Kita Station,
Otsuka Remains Park, Yokohama“Hong Kong + Japan crossing partnership in creativity Hong Kong Designer's Week,” Maru Cubein Maru-building, Tokyo“Image Art Festival MOVING 2012: MOVING Exhibition,” Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto“Oomori Art Village Project,” NPO Oomori Machi-zukuri Cafe, Tokyo“Voyager in Voyager out Vol.2 Space of Donkey,” Tokyo Kurikara Dou, Tokyo“Voyager in Voyager out Vol.1 Way of Donkey,” DOROTHY VACANCE, Tokyo

2011“TERATOTERA Festival: Movie,” BAUS THEATER, Tokyo“Tsuzuki Art Project 2011,” Otsuka/Saikachido Relics Park, Tsuzuki Private House Garden, Yokohama“NEXT - TWS 10 Years!,” Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo“Screening of Video Art, MOVING,” Kyoto Cinema, Kyoto“Chikara Matsumoto + Masanori Hata in Ryota Aoyagi, Animation by drawing + Photograph = Installation,”artdish, Tokyo“Daydream Believer!!,” Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo“Diffused Reflectional Screen -The Essay on Time by Time Traveler × 5-,” NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo“Azamino Contemporary vol.1 TOUCH OF IMAGE,” Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Yokohama

2010“BAC! 2010: TIME 11.0 Edition of Barcelona Art Contemporary Festival / Screening:JAPAN AUDIOVISUALS,” CASA ASIA, VideoArtWorld, Barcelona“Time Traveler × 5,” JINNAN 1CHOUME DEPARTMENT STORE H.P.FRANCE, Shibuya, Tokyo“fiac! GRAND PALAIS & LOUVRE, Film d'Artistes - Cinéphèmère,” Tuileries Gardens, Paris“3331 Secret Auction vol.3,” 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo

2009“Mind as Passion,” Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei

2007“Out of the Ordinary,” gallery Centre A, Vancouver“JAPANESE VIDEO ART,” Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway

“Out of the Ordinary,” MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles“Not only A but also B,” Transformer, Washington D.C.
2006

“Whispers Behind the Wall,” Mehr (Midtown), New York

2004

“How far to utopia,” Rockwell, London“TOKYO STYLE in STOCKHOLM,” Lydmar Hotel, Stockholm“EIJANAIKA! YES FUTURE!,” the Collection Lambert, Avignon“Akimahen!,” Maison Folie de Wazemmes, Lille“7th Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art,” Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki

2003“International Conference on AIDS in the Asia-Pacific region (7th ICAAP),” Kobe Art Village Center,
Kobe“DESIGNER'S WEEK 2003 CONTAINER EXHIBITION,” Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo“Haijima Internatinal Video Festival,” HOMEBASE, Tokyo“You in Red,” Virgin Cinemas Roppongi Hills, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

2002“Young Video Artists Initiative-2: Junge Japanissche Kunstler in Show des Mori Art Museum Tokyo, ”
Galerie Station im Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt“Young Video Artists Initiative-Junge Video-Kunst aus Japan,” Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin“Young Video Artists Initiative Group Show #2,” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo“Encounting the Beauty,” On the title animation movie for weekly TV program on NHK“ART DAY for KIDS, 11 Proposals for children from artists,” Watari Museum, Tokyo

Residencies
2015“beaming, dreaming, gleaming: Exhibition of the Picture Scroll,” Gei-shuku de Ge-shuku, Kanazawa

2013“Artist in Yubari,” Hokkaido

Selected Public Collections
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum