Masayuki KISHIMOTO

1971 Born in Tokyo
1990-94 Major in Metal Craft Art, Department of Industrial Design and Craft Art,
Musashino Art University
1994 Graduated Musashino Art University
1994-97 Worked as a blacksmith in Saitama(Japan), Mainz, and Pliezhausen(Germany)
1998-2003 Kassel Art University (Kunsthochschule Kassel)
2003 Graduated Kassel Art University
2003 Returned to Japan
2004- Opened an work studio in Tokyo

EXHIBITIONS
1997 Grand Prize, "Junge Metallgestalter in Baden Wuerttemberg," Ulm, Germany
International Exhibition "Querschnitt Metallgestaltung Heute,"
Friedrichshafen, Germany
1999 North-Hessen 2nd Public Advertisement "In Reih und Glied," Korbach, Germany
2000 Group Exhibition "Yellow," Kassel, Germany
2001 The 4th Art Festival Kassel, Germany
Artist in Residence at Metal Sculpture Symposium,
Halle/Saale, Germany
2003 Group Exhibition, Kassel, Germany
Solo Exhibition "i get up 'n look around," Gallery Villa de Bank, Enschede, Holland
2005 Solo Exhibition "Window Dressing of buyable art", DESPERADO, Tokyo
2007 Group Exhibition, "P&E", Artcourt Gallery, Osaka
2008 Solo Exhibition "why not spin round im the bathroom" Gallery Senkukan, Tokyo

OTHERS
2005 Display at interior shop "finerefine", Osaka,Nanba
Display at "Levi's store", Osaka, Umeda
2006 Display at "Takatora cafe&bar", Osaka, kNot Minamihorie
Comission Artwork for ASOBOT Office, Tokyo, Aoyama
Comission Artwork for Daiwa house "D'grafort", Osaka. senri
Display at Txtile shop "cocca", Tokyo, Daikanyama