Mikio Taka

Mikio Taka ( Japanese 高 幹 雄 , Taka Mikio ; born October 30, 1978 in Hakodate ) is a Japanese artist .

Life

Mikio Taka is one of the youngest finalists to be selected for the Sapporo Contemporary Art Award in 1998. His works have been shown in group exhibitions at the Proposition Gallery in New York, the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, the Super Deluxe Gallery in Tokyo and the CAI Gallery in Hamburg (now Mikiko Sato Gallery). In the summer of 2004, the Hamburg Senator for Culture awarded Mikio Taka a residency at the studio so that he could create new works of art, which were exhibited in a group exhibition on contemporary Japanese art at the Kunsthaus Hamburg in 2005.

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Mikio Taka's drawings combine figurative drawing and dream-like landscapes. His work covers a wide range: from minimalist ink drawings to three-dimensional works. An accumulation of recurring forms and figures emerges in his works in order to create his own paradise, which at first glance seems to have been digitally generated. With the help of these elements, the artist interprets his way of looking at landscape as an amoeba-like organism that hypnotizes and fascinates the viewer.

Solo exhibitions

• 2003: "A dream, or not", FITS / CORE, Sapporo, Japan
  • "FUCK FUCK YOU", CAI Contemporary Art Institute, Sapporo, Japan
  • "I saw the ghost of flowers", Kaneido, Sapporo, Japan
  • "I did the CD jacket for BAZRA", Gallery Macro, Sapporo, Japan
• 2002: "Tsubaki" Gallery Marble, Sapporo, Japan
• 2001: Galerie Macro, Sapporo, Japan
• 1999: "An exhibition of Taka Mikio by Taka Mikio for Taka Mikio", Zoomit Gallery, Sapporo, Japan
• 1998: "Minister Karinto" Recent Art School Solo Exhibition Series, Recent Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan
• 1997: "Taka Mikio Exhibition", Recent Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan

Group exhibitions

• 2003: "Sapporo Art Exhibition: Sapporo Art 2003, 19 + 1 Artists" Attempt "Sapporo Citizen's Gallery, Sapporo, Japan
  • "SCHAU DER MEISTERKLASSEN", CAI-Contemporary Art International, Hamburg, Germany
  • "Wanna Artworks for myself -U50,000-" CAI Contemporary Art Institute, Sapporo, Japan
• 2002: "Northern Elements (SKY)", Gallery Monma, Sapporo
  • "Two person show", Gallery Yu, Tokyo
  • "AMUSE LAND 2002", Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
• 2001: "Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair-Showroom2 Booth", Nagoya Citizen's Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
  • "An Answer From 43 ° N 141 ° 21′E 5 Artist From Northern Japan", Hamburg
  • "A BRIGHT FUTURE", CAI Contemporary Art Institute, Sapporo, Japan
• 2000: "Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair-Showroom2 Booth", Nagoya Citizen's Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
  • "Tokyo Complex", CAI Contemporary Art Institute, Sapporo, Japan
• 1999: "Doraeman" Recent Art School Group Show, Recent Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan
  • "T-shirt Wars" Gallery Zoomit, Sapporo, Japan
  • "Art in hand luggage", Fundbureau, Hamburg, Germany
  • "Japanese Identity", exhibition room tauben strasse 13, Hamburg, Germany
  • "Something happened in Hamburg", CAI-Contemporary Art Institute, Sapporo, Japan
• 1997: "Reincarnation", Recent Gallery, Sapporo, Japan
  • "Art Relay", 4 Chome Plaza Exhibition Hall, Sapporo, Japan

Awards

• 1998: Sapporo Contemporary Art Award - finalist
• 1996: Dom Art Competition - First Runner up
  • Sapporo Art Annual '97 - Mayor's Prize
  • 4 Chome Plaza, Love Collection - Illustration Section, First Prize

Web links

• Personal Blog (Japanese)
• Mikio Taka at the Mikiko Sato Gallery
• Mikio Taka at Mont Blanc Collaboration
• Mikio Taka at Artcore Japan (English)