Exhibiting in PICA's Central Galleries.
Born in 1976 in Nara. Lives in Tokyo.
Video, installation and performance artist.
In 2007, Izumi completed a Masters in Oil Painting at Tama Art University, Japan.
Taro Izumi often creates situations or games that are absurd in sentiment yet become substantial interventions into space, offering all new systems for thinking about life, chance and fate. His 200m squared installation is a gigantic sugoroku board game. Part performance, part documentary, this very engaging work shows that the throw of the dice can lead one into uncharted and messy territories.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2002 Bargen (Fictitious), Pepper's Loft Gallery, Tokyo.
2005 GENIUS EPISODE 1&2, hiromiyoshii five,Tokyo.
2006 Trolly, Hiromiyoshii , Tokyo.
2010 Kneading, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama.
2010 Manhunt & Sneak Dating, Hiromiyoshii, Tokyo.
2010 Hide in a Whale's Stomach, Mouse, ASAHI ART SQUARE, Tokyo.
Image: Taro Izumi, Butter: Manhunt & Sneak Dating, 2010. Courtesy of the artist and Hiromiyoshii, Tokyo, Japan.
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