Born in 1967 in Okinawa, Japan
Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.

EDUCATION

2002
M.F.A., California State University, Los Angeles

1998
B.A., California State University, Los Angeles

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014
Chasing Ghosts, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA

2013
Logical Disjunction, Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong, HKG
Still Life, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2011
Sunset Drone,Las Cienegas Project, Los Angeles, USA
Zeuxis pop,Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France

2010
Home Anthology, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France
Sundowner, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, USA, in collaboration with galerie frank elbaz

2009
False Gesture, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Kaz Oshiro, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, USA

2008
Kaz Oshiro, Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels, Belgium
Untitled Recordings, Clear Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Sorry We’re Closed, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen (special storefront window project)

2007
Common Noise, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France
Room Acoustics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Paintings and Works on Paper, 1999-2006, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, USA
New Works, Project Room, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, USA

2006
Driving with Dementia, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Subpar, Steven Wolf Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

2005
Pomona College Museum of Art, Project Series, Claremont, CA, USA
Drone, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica
Room Acoustics, Tokyo Hipsters Club, Inart Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2004
Out-n-In, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica

2002
Pet Sounds, Vol. 13: No Sound, More Alchemy, California State University, Los Angeles
Pop Tatari (Curse of Pop Music), Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014
Between Critique and Absorption, Haggerty Museum of Art, USA

2013
Lifelike, The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, USA
Spook Rock Road, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France
Lifelike, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, USA

2012
American exuberance, Rubell Family Collection / Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, USA
The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, USA (collection)
Simulacrum, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
Okinawa Art in NY, The Nippon Gallery at the Nippon Club, New York, NY
Bruce Conner and the Primal Scene of Punk Rock, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Denver, CO
Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Notations: The Cage Effect Today, Hunter College, New York, NY
Twelve, West Los Angeles College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Object Fictions, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Frieze New York, Galerie frank elbaz, New York, USA
Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
The Cage Effect Today, The Hunter College / Times Square Gallery, Curated by Joachim
Pissaro, with Bibi Calderaro, Julio Grinblatt and Michelle Yun, New York, USA

2011
The margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, USA
Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
American exuberance, Rubell Family Collection / Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, USA
California Art : Selections from the Fredrick Weisman Art Fondation, Pacidfic Standart Time, Los Angeles, USA
Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Greater LA, New York, USA
New Image Sculpture, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Conversation with Mathieu Mercier, Takaaki Izumi, Yuki Kimura, Soshi Matsunobe, Kaz Oshiro, Koki Tanaka about Abstract Objects, Super Window Project, Kyoto, Japan
New Image Sculpture, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Berlin-Paris, Galerie Frank Elbaz at Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2010
The Artist’s Museum, MOCA, Los Angeles, USA
Even Better Than the real Thing, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art at Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA
Crosstown Traffic, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany

2009
Une exposition de peinture, Zoo Galerie, Nantes, France
Extending the Line, Fine Art Gallery, California State University, USA
Rogue Wave ‘09, L.A. Louver, Venice, USA

2008
Lure, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France
Like Lifelike : Painting in the Third Dimension, UC Riverside, Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, USA
Call + response, MUDAM, a series of events hosted by artist Candice Breitz, Luxembourg
One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, Japanese American National Museum,
Los Angeles, USA, curated by Melissa Chiu, Karin Higa, and Susette S. Min
Less is less, more is more, that’s all, CAPC-Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Some Paintings, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, USA, curated by Doug Harvey
Specific Objects, Johann König Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2007
If Everybody Had An Ocean: Brian Wilson, Tate St. Ives, UK & CAPC-Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery New York, NY, USA
Forged Realities, Universal Studios, Beijing, China
One Way or Another : Asian American Art Now, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA

2006
Red Eye: Rubell Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA
One Way or Another : Asian American Art Now, Asia Society and Museum, New York, USA
Smoke and Mirrors: Deception in Contemporary Art, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
Banquet : A Feast for the Senses, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA
Deaf “from the Audible to the Visible”, galerie frank elbaz, Paris
Tina B, Praha, Czech Republic, Curator : Pascal Beausse

2005
Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Re-form, Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, Chicago, USA

2004
Rock, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Giggles, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, USA
Nothing Compared to This, Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, USA
Boundary Creatures, Kansas City Jewish Museum, Kansas City, USA. Curator : James Brinsfield
January 13-February 28, 2004, Swiss Institute, New York

2003
Summer Program, Apex Art, New York. Curators : Mitchell Algus, Michelle Maccarone
Group Show, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica
Redux, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles

2002
Group Show, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica

2001
A Proper Aesthetics of the War, Gallery Zero One, Los Angeles
Lazy Susan, Long Beach City College Fine Arts Gallery, Long Beach, USA
I’m in This Show, Fifty Bucks Gallery, Los Angeles
LA, CA, Newspace, Los Angeles