PROFILE

SATOMI MATOBA

Education

1979-1983   BA in Painting, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music
1995-1996 MA in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design (London)

Solo Exhibitions 

1988   Hiroshima Terminal Hotel
1991 Lui Regulus/Sakai Painters, Osaka
1995 Gallery Tengu Square, Hiroshima
1998 In Vitro, Geneva
2002 Yebiden Gallery /Shareo Chuouhiroba, Hiroshima

Selected Group Exhibitions

1986   DEVELOPMENTS IN CONTEMPORARY REPRESENTATION, Ehime Prefectural Museum
HIROSHIMA ART WEEK, Hiroshima Kenmin Bunka Center (also in 1987, 1988, 1989)
1987 ART IN PLACE, Danto Gallery, Hiroshima
WORKS ON PAPER 87, Osaka Contemporary Art Centre
HIROSHIMA LIGHT UP STREET GALLERY (also participated seven times untill 1994)
1988 WORKS ON PAPER 88, ABC Gallery, Osaka
IMPACT ART FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL, Kyoto City Museum
CPPD 88, Ishikawa Prefectural Museum
1989 SMALL WORKS 89, Hungary
LAND WORKS 89 IN ENOSHIMA, Enoshima Island, Hiroshima
1990 HIROSHIMA ART COMPETITION , Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (also in 1992, 1994, 2000)
OBJECT + OBJECT, YAMAHA Living City Hiroshima
HIROSHIMA 90, Hiroshima Kenmin Bunka Center
1991 HIROSHIMA 91, Hiroshima Kenmin Bunka Center
1994 HIROSHIMA CULTURE PRIZE FESTA, Hiroshima Kenmin Bunka Center
1996 Chelsea School of Art and Design MA Mid Year Show, London
Chelsea School of Art and Design MA Degree Show, London
1997 LA MAISON, Hiroshima
CROCK, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
1999 REMAPPINGS, Cable Street Gallery, London
NANOSTATE READING ROOM, The Golders Green Club, London
2000 SOME NOMANSLANDS, The Lanchester Gallery, Coventry, England
RE: KINDLE, Queens Wood, London (also in 2001)
2001 LIVING IN A MATERIAL WORLD 2001, Brighton University, England
REFLECTIONS FROM THE FLOATING WORLD, Chapman Gallery, Salford, England/ Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, Darlington, England/W.A.S.P.S Gallery, Edinburgh/The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, Fraserburgh
2002 THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY 2, Gallery England & Co, London
110 PAINTERS IN HIROSHIMA, Fukuya, Hiroshima
2003 MY ROOM SOMEHOW SOMEWHERE, gm, Osaka
ROOM AIR, IT Park Gallery, Taipei
THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY 3, Surry Insutitute of Art & Design, England
A PLEA TO SOMEWHERE ELSE, Bury Art Gallery & Museum, England
HIROSHIMA ART DOCUMENT 2003, Former Bank of Japan Hiroshima Branch, Hiroshima
CROSSING, Kamiyacho Underground Streets, Hiroshima
2004 MOBILE KINO, a video screening project on a tram, Basel,
DIGITAL ART LIMITED (Korean International Art Fair special exhibition), Seoul, Korea
ECO METRO (Gwangju Biennale, Site 4), a subway station and train in Gwangju city, Korea
2005 PRACTICE AND THINKING,Hiroshima prefectural Museum of Art
THE OKAYAMA ART ENCYCLOPEDIA, Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art
ARTOM 60, Former Bank of Japan Hiroshima Branch
2006 A FRONTE, Casa degli Artisti, Milano
IN BETWEEN, Studio Cristina del Ponte, Locarno,Switzerland
DISTANCE, Aster Plaza, Hiroshima
THE CITY AND STARS, Landesamt fur Vermessung und Geoinformation, Munich
AKITSU DNA, various locations in Akitsu town centre, Hiroshima
2007 COAST INTERNATIONAL ARTIST WORKSHOP, A Foundation, Liverpool, UK
(C)ARTOGRAPHY, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
JAPANESE CULTURE AND ART, Hiroshima University Library
CAMERA OBSCURA, Higashikumin Bunka Centre, Hiroshima


Curatorial works

1997 La Maison -an artists in residency and open house exhibition in a private house in Hiroshima by three Swiss artists.
2003 Crossing -an international site-specific multi-media public art project, Kamiyacho Underground Streets, Hiroshima


Selected Publications

2000 A work Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima and a text were featured in the book CITY A-Z edited by Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift, published by Routledge London (ISBN: 0-415-20728-2)
2006 A work Map of Utopia was featured in the book THE MAP BOOK edited by Peter Barber published by Walker & Company, New York (ISBN: 0-8027-1474-9)
2006 Works and a text were featured in the book START + STERN / The city and the stars published by Landesamt fur Vermessung und Geoinformation, Munchen (ISBN: 3-89933-281-4)


Public Collections

Bury Art Gallery & Museum, England
Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art

Contact: satomi_matoba@hotmail.com

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