Born in Nagoya, Japan, 1960
Lives in Berlin and Tokyo
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Projects:
| 2022 | Living room, Akio Nagasawa, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2020 | The Real Reasons for Unbreakable Habits and How to Deal with Them, ANOMALY, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2018 | Life's Little Worries of Sir Adam Beck, Toronto, Canada |
| 2017 | Tatzu Nishi in Beppu, Beppu, Japan Hotel Hadakajima Resort of Memory, Tsunagi, Japan |
| 2015 | The Garden Which is the Nearest to God, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands Solo Group Show, HAB Gallery, Nantes, France |
| 2014 | Hotel Manta of Helsinki, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2012 | Tatzu Nishi: Discovering Columbus, New York, USA |
| 2011 | Nishino Travelers - What's our destination?, Art Area B1, Osaka, Japan |
| 2009 | Lugares Comunes Project, Bogota, Colombia What if someone finds out?!, Arataniurano, Tokyo, Japan Kaldor Art Projects, Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| 2007 | Studio Exhibition, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Tatzu Nishi, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, Japan MAM Project, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2006 | Cheri in the sky, Maison Hermes, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2005 | Moon Rider, Den Haag, Netherlands Cabinet 3, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belguim |
| 2004 | immer der Nase nach ! 2004 Cologne, Cologne, Germany heute mir morgen dir, Luis Campana, Cologne, Germany |
| 2002 | Engel, Littmann Kulturprojekte, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2001 | Der Neunsitzer, Junge Kunst e.V., Wolfsburg, Germany Interventionen 24, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany |
| 2000 | artothek, Cologne, Germany |
| 1999 | Das habe ich gar zu gern, Kunstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany |
| 1998 | Mir ist seltsam zumute, Bremen, Germany |
| 1997 | obdach, Cologne, Germany |
Selected Group Exhibitions:
| 2023 | Osaka Art Festival, Osaka, Japan |
| 2021 | Ichihara Art x Mix, Chiba, Japan |
| 2020 | Adelaide Festival, Adelaide, Australia EXPO’70 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2019 | Yanbaru Art Festival, Okinawa, Japan IRON ISLAND FES, Tokyo, Japan Making Art Public, Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| 2018 | The Street. Where the Wold Is Made, MAXXI, Rome, Italy The Flying Land, Jut Art Museum, Taiwan, Taiwan Encore un jour rêvé pour le poisson banane, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France |
| 2017 | Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Archtecture, Shenzhen,China Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas, Lithuania GRAND PROJECTS: HOW FAR WILL YOU GO?, 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo, Japan Monument/Document, Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori, Japan |
| 2016 | Into Nature #1, Drenthe, Netherlands PARADOXA, Casa Cavazzini Contemporary Art Museum, Udine, Italy |
| 2015 | Artbat Fest, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| 2014 | Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg, Russia |
| 2013 | Osaka Canvas Project, Osaka, Japan Cambio Cultural, Belo Horizonte, Brasil Nissan Art Award, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan Krasnoyarsk International Biennale, Krasnoyarsk, Russia Rouen Impressionnee, Rouen, France Cultural Hijack, London, UK |
| 2012 | Osaka Canvas Project, Osaka, Japan Water and Land ? Niigata Art Festival, Niigata, Japan TRACK, Ghent, Belgium |
| 2011 | Curitiba Biennale, Curitiba, Brazil Mercosul Biennale, Porto Alegre, Brazil Singapore Biennale, Singapore |
| 2010 | Blickwechsel, Schoppingen, Germany Aichi Triennale 2010, Aichi, Japan La Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala City, Guatemala |
| 2009 | Twist and Shout, Bangkok Art And Culture Centre, Bangkok, Theiland Harburger Berge, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany Estuaire 2009, Nantes/Saint-Nazaire, France |
| 2008 | Art Flower 08, Akasaka Sacas, Tokyo, Japan Scape 2008 Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space, Christchurch, New Zealand |
| 2007 | Estuaire 2007, Nantes/Saint-Nazaire, France Tatort, Paderborn, Germany Koln Skulptur 4, Skulpturen Park Koln, Cologne, Germany MDE07, International Encounter Medellin 07/Contemporary Art Practices, Medellin, Colombia |
| 2006 | 7Treppen, Elisabeth Montag Stiftung, Wuppertal, Germany Enjoyable House, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan Okkupation, Berlin, Germany |
| 2005 | Ecstasy, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA Projekt Migration, Koelnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany Yokohama 2005 : International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan Skulptur-Biennale Muensterland 2005, Kreis Borken, Germany |
| 2004 | 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain |
| 2003 | At Least Begin to Make an End, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 2002 | Licht Routen, Luedenscheid, Germany Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK Verzauberung durch Irritation, Ahlen, Germany hell-gruen, Duesseldorf, Germany Beautiful Life?, Art Tower Mito, Ibaragi, Japan |
| 2001 | Uni Kunst Tage, Muenster, Germany Poeziezome, Watou, Belgium direttissima, Muenster, Germany |
| 2000 | Kunstbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany Continental Shift, Ludwig Forum fur internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany |
| 1999 | b-l-i-k-o-p-e-n-e-r, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Dordrecht, Netherlands |
| 1998 | Hotel am Rhein, Cologne, Germany East International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK Lieblingsort:Koln, Cologne, Germany |