CORVI-MORATOMOAKI SUZUKI
Born in Ibaraki, Japan, 1972
Lives in London
1992-1997
1998-1999
2000-2002

Tokyo Zokei University
MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London
MA Sculpture, City & Guilds Art School, London

Awards
2008

Arts Foundation Fellowship2003-2004

Crafts Council Development Award

Solo Exhibitions
2022

Corvi-Mora, London

2019

Corvi-Mora, London (with Imran Qureshi)

2018

Ushaw College Gallery, Durham

2017

Corvi-Mora, London

2016

Museo de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, Mexico City
Centro Roberto Garza Sada, Monterrey

2014“Icons”, Corvi-Mora, London
CAPC Contemporary Art Museum of Bordeaux, Bordeaux (cat)2013

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

2012

Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York2011

Museo Marino Marini, Florence

2010

Towner, Eastbourne
SCAI The Bathhouse, Shiraishi Contemporary Art Inc., Tokyo

2008“Friends”, Corvi-Mora, London

2004“Lucy and Simba”, Corvi-Mora, London

2003

Leo Koenig Inc., New York2002

Corvi-Mora, London

2001

Michael Janssen Gallery, Köln

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023“Singular Views: 25 Artists”, Rubell Museum, Washington

2021"The day I saw you, selection of portraits of AMMA Collection", Museo de laCancillería, Mexico City1a Kempsford Road, London, SE11 4NU
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2020

NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne2019"On danse ?", Mucem, Marseille

2018"Clues for Art Appreciation", Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka"Heads Roll", Graves Gallery, Sheffield"Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking", Attercliffe™, Sheffield“Another banana day for the dream-fish", Palais de Tokyo, Paris2015“Sculpture in the City 2015”, City of London, London

2013“Postwar Sculpture: Focus on Material”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka

2012“Lilliput”, High Line, New York
The Mews Project Space, London

2010"BigMinis", CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux“Jerwood Contemporary Makers”, Jerwood Space, London

2009“Size DOES Matter”, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York“Le Sort Probable de L’Homme Qui Avait Avalé le Fantome”, Centre desMonuments Nationaux in partnership with the Festival du Centre Pompidou,Paris (cat)2008“20”, Dazed and Confused Gallery, London“Legende”, Centre d’ Art Contemporain, Chamarande, France“Attention to Detail”, FLAG Art Foundation, New York (curated by ChuckClose)

2006“Personne ne Veut Mourir”, Arquebuse, Geneva“The Youth of Today”, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt (cat)2005.

“First We Take Museums”, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (cat)“Wunderkammer: The Artificial Kingdom”, The Collection, Usher Gallery &City and County Museum, Lincoln, UK

2004“A New Christmas Crib”, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London“If You Go Down To The Woods Today”, Rockwell, London“Now is Good (ne travaillez jamais)”, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Arts,Sunderland, UK

2003“The Square Show”, Bloomberg Space, London“Bad Touch”, Keith Talent Gallery, London

2002“The Galleries Show: Contemporary Art in London”, The Royal Academy ofArts, London

2001“Jam: Tokyo-London”, Barbican Gallery, London; Tokyo Opera Art Gallery,
Tokyo

2000

“Juicy”, MA Show, Goldsmiths' College, London“New Contemporaries 2000”, Milton Keynes Gallery touring to Cornerhouse,
Manchester and Inverleith House, Edinburgh“The Songs I Like”, Galerie Michael Janssen, Köln
“Shadow of Glamour”, One in the Other, London

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1999“Japan Centre: Art Vision", Dinonis Road, London

1996“Garden”, Harajuku P.A.P Factory, TokyoPublications
2020“NGV Triennial 2020”, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2019“The Flag Art Foundation 2008 – 2018”, Gregory R. Miller & Co., p.244

2014"Tomoaki Suzuki", CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux& Museo Marino Marini, Firenze

2009“Le Nouveau Festival”, Centre Pompidou, Paris

2008

Alexis Vaillant, “Legende”, Sternberg Press, Berlin

2007

Judith Collins, “Sculpture Today”, Phaidon, p.391

Selected Bibliography
2020
MarchPeter Hill, “Pirates at large in Melbourne’s NGV Triennial”, The Financial Times,
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2018

Alexis Da Silva, “On a vu : L’exposition « Encore un jour banane pour le poissonrêve » au Palais de Tokyo”, vl media, July 8
Rachel Conner-Hill, “Ushaw’s new exhibition shows stunning detail of artist
Tomoaki Suzuki’s miniature figures”, Northern Echo, July 5

2017“Tomoaki Suzuki at Corvi-Mora, London”, Blouinartinfo.com, January 30“Ten to see – London”, ArtReview.com, January 27“Tomoaki Suzuki”, Wsimag.com, January 16
Nicholas Forrest, "Sculpture in the City 2015 Transforms London's Square Mile",
UK.BlouinArtInfo.com, July 13
Martin Coomer, "Outsider art", Time Out London, May 26, p.98
"London's best new public art", TimeOutLondon.com, May 21

2015

2014

Camille Carrau, “En plein coeur de Londres”, Direct matin Bordeaux 7, April 3
Anna Maisonneuve,”Archeo du present”, Sud-ouest, April 3

2013

Dale Eisinger, “Tomoaki Suzuki’s Incredibly Lifelike Woodcarvings”, Complex,October 27“Tomoaki Suzuki’s urban icons”, ArtDiscover, October 22“Miniature Urban Youth Sculptures by Tomoaki Suzuki at the Art Institute ofChicago”, Monarch Daily (blog), August“Miniature woodcarvings of urban youths by Tomoaki Suzuki”, designboom, August 5

2012

Holland Cotter, “Art in Review: Tomoaki Suzuki”, The New York Times, November30, p.C28
Katya Kazakina, “Chelsea Galleries Reopen With Chernobyl, Tiny People”, Bloomberg.com, November 21“Artists’ Artists”, Frieze Masters, Issue 1, October, p.89

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Piper Marshall, “High Line Art”, Kaleidoscope, Issue 16, October, pp.8-13
Ken Johnson, “Eye Candy or Eyesore?”, The New York Times, August 23“The High Line Hosts Art Treasure Hunt”, Phaidon.com, April 25Madeline McLean, “Engaging a Community with Public Art on The High Line”, dailyserving.com, April 25
Mathew Katz, “Teeny-Tiny Art Exhibit Debuts on the High Line”, DNAinfo.com,April 19
2011“Tomoaki Suzuki Solo Exhibition at Towner”, Artface, January
Ossian Ward, “Tomoaki Suzuki”, The World of Interiors”, January, pp.116-117

2010“Tomoaki’s Graven Images to Street Style”, Esquire, December 9
Edward Alington, “In Some Small Way”, Frieze, January/February, pp.98-101

2008

Sandra Rehme, “Tomoaki Suzuki”, Time Out, March 20-26, p.68
Zoë Blackler, “Figuratively Speaking”, Crafts, March/April, pp.22-23
Emily Pacey, “Winners of Arts Foundation Award Announced”, Design Week, January 25

2006

Laura Gascoigne, “Miniature Miracle”, The Tablet, December 16-23, p.46

2004

“Crib Notes”, Time Out, December 15-22, p.10
Stephen Bates, “Sculptor Wins Contest to Replace Nativity Damaged by RugbyFans”, The Guardian, December 17
Richard Cork, “Away with the Manger”, The Times, November 20, pp.18-19, pp.2628
Charles G. Beyer, “New York, New York”, Flash Art, January/February, p.67

2003.

Rachel Campbell-Johnston, “Rachel Campbell's Best London Shows”, Play (TheTimes), August 9, p.25
Fisun Güner, “Creative Space”, Metro, August 5, p.19
“Tomoaki Suzuki”, Luca, no 2, p.80
“Scoop: Behind the Scenes”, Vogue Nippon, February, p.89
Dick Onians, “Ideas in the Making”, Wood Carving, January/February, pp.17-20

2002

Sally O'Reilly, “Tomoaki Suzuki”, Time Out, December 11-18, p.50
Fisun Güner, “Compact and Bijou”, Metro, November 8, p.22
Rose Aidin, “Tokyo Rising”, Vogue, November, pp.75-78
Pernilla Holmes, “RA Modern”, ArtReview, September, pp.50-65

2001

Jessica Lack, “JAM: Tokyo-London”, The Guide (The Guardian), May, p.32
Ekow Eshun, “Fish & Chips”, The Face, April

2000

Dave Beech, “New Contemporaries 2000”, Art Monthly, October, pp.25-27

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