Director, Tottori Prefectural Museum of Art

Education :
Completed Postgraduate Course of Osaka University,
Department of Art History, Faculty of Letters
Receiving the Degree of Master of Arts in 1987

Occupation :
1987―1995 Curator of Hyogo prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe
1995―1998 Curator of the National Museum of Art, Osaka
1998―2005 Curator of the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
2006― Chief Curator of Tottori Prefectural Museum
2021― 2023  Director of Tottori Prefecutral Museum
2024― Director of Tottori Prefectural Museum of Art

Selected Publications:
“Art in Gutai : Action into Painting” GUTAI DOCUMENTS　Ashiya City Museum & History, 1993
“Gravity ― Axis of Contemporary Art”　Gravity ― Axis of Contemporary Art The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 1997
“Body and Place : Action in Postwar Art in Japan” Out of Actions : Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979,The Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A, and Thames and Hudson, London, 1998
Painting Theory And After Toshindo Publishers, Tokyo, 1999

Selected Exhibitions Organization
Gravity ― Axis of Contemporary Art The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 1997
Out of Actions: Between Perfomance and the Object(with Paul Schimmel, Kristine Stiles, Guy Brett, Hubert Klocker)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1998
Traces ― Body and Idea in Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 2004
Shindo Tsuji : A Retrospective Tottori Prefectural Museum, 2010
Cubism in Japan – Picasso’s Impact Tottori Prefectural Museum, 2016