2005

BFA, Tama Art University Department of Moving Images and Performing Arts, Tokyo

Selected Solo Shows

2023

“Why does humankind engage in economic activity?” Satoko Oe Contemporary, Tokyo

2022

“Can Humankind Kill Products?” Edel Assanti, London

2021

“Yoshinori Niwa: On Rehabilitation of Domination and Domain” Match Gallery/The Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, Ljubljana
“Withdrawing Adolf Hitler from a Private Space” GOLD+BETON, Köln

2020

“Rehabilitation of Ancestors” Zimmermann Krachtowill, Graz “FROM 1 OCTOBER 2017: FACE COVER BAN IN AUSTRIA” das weisse haus, Vienna

2019

“The Communities We Must Have Imagined” Satoko Oe Contemporary, Tokyo
“We Unanimously Agree on a Plan that Nobody Has Asked For” PARCO gallery X, Tokyo

2017

“That Language Sounds Like A Language” Edel Assanti, London
“We’re Heading to a Place Where Nobody Wants to go By the Will of All” 1335MABINI, Manila
“MAM screen #5: Yoshinori Niwa Selected Video Works” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

2016

“Zapoznela hipoteza – Od A do B” Alcatraz Gallery, Ljubljana
“Against Reason” CAPSULE, Tokyo
“Power of Ownership” 1335MABINI, Manila
“Against Name” Minatomachi Art Table Nagoya, Aichi

2015

“Historically Historic Historical History of Communism” Edel Assanti, London

2014

“Research and Production: Artistic Methods in a Transitional Period” Tamsui Historical Museum, Taipei
“Never Trust in People without Contradiction” 1335MABINI, Manila

2012

“Possibilities is the antonym of today” AI KOWADA GALLERY, Tokyo
“Possibilities is the antonym of today” GALLERY TERRA TOKYO, Tokyo
“Clapping hands for the bears in Bern” NADiff Window Gallery, Tokyo

2011

“Searching for community, or their escape drama” AI KOWADA GALLERY, Tokyo

2010

“No solution, but brawl” AI KOWADA GALLERY, Tokyo
“The Poetics of Activism” gallery αlpha M, Tokyo
“Communicating with Thieves” HIAP Project Room, Helsinki

2009

“Face round, community!” Migigawanikenme, Tokyo
“Transforming puddle A to puddle B” Art in General, New York

Selected Group shows

2024

“8th Yokohama Triennale WILD GRASS: OUR LIVES” Yokohama Museum of Art and others, Kanagawa

2023

“The Constitution of Japan” Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo

2022

“Bucharest Biennale 10” Bucharest “spring show: Yoshinori Niwa and Naoya Hirata” Satoko Oe Contemporary, Tokyo
“Uncurated” Kunstraum Feller, Vienna
“INEXISTENT BOOKS V” Aula46, Barcelona
“COLOMBOSCOPE 2021” Colombo
“Five Exercises of Resistance” Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv

2021

“Disposing of Hitler: Out of the Cellar, Into the Museum” The House of Austrian History, Vienna
“Rule?” 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo
“summer show” Satoko Oe Contemporary, Tokyo
“Taking My Thoughts for a Walk” Dortmunder Kunstverein+Urbane Künste Ruhr, Dortmund

2020

“#JAPANREVISTED202X” online, Austrian Cultural Forum Tokyo “BIG IDEAS– Political Ideologies and their aftermath” philomena+, Vienna
“TIME FOR OUTRAGE! ART IN TIMES OF SOCIAL ANGER” Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
“Everything You’ve Ever Wanted is On the Other Side of the Planet” Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, Vienna
“Genealogie der Dinge” Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt
“RISO IS IT” OIL by Bijustsutecho, Tokyo
“Evacuation” Satoko Oe Contemporary, Tokyo
“FIT’RI:NA فترينة” philomena+, Vienna
“Choreographing the Public / The Social Contract” OnCurating Project Space, Zurich

2019

“das weisse ab haus verkaufskunstschauw” das weisse haus, Vienna
“Shigeru HASEGAWA and Yoshinori NIWA” Satoko Oe Contemporary, Tokyo
“AOMORI EARTH2019: AGROTOPIA – WHEN LIFE BECOMES ART THROUGH LOCAL AGRICULTURE” Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori
“45th National Salon of Colombia”　Bogota
“JAPAN UNLIMITED” frei_raum Q21 exhibition space, Vienna
“Protocols of Together” MEDO Space, Vienna
“Heimat/Homeland/Tierra” Otazu Foundation, Spain

2018

“Limited Vision” The National Forum of Music Wroclaw, Wroclaw
“steirischer herbst’18” Graz
“Practice of Occupation of the Work” Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw
“Wars Of Worlds” Visual Kontakt, Cluj-Napoca
“Imagining Memory: Between Anaesthesia and Amnesia” 1335MABINI, Manila “Current Sign” das weises haus, Vienna

2017

“Too Pretty To Throw Away” Asia and Pacific Museum, Warsaw
“Wars Of Worlds” MOA contemporary, Bucharest
“Wars Of Worlds” National Museum of Art Constanța, Constanța
“Socially Engaged Art” 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
“Where are we going?” Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz

2016

“Rivers – The way of Living in Transition/Asia Contemporary Art Links” Gwanju Biennale Hall, Gwanju
“Packaging Design from Japan: Too Pretty to Throw Away” Siebold Huis, Leiden
“Packaging Design from Japan: Too Pretty to Throw Away” Managua Center, Krakow
“Setouchi Triennale 2016” Naoshima Island, Kagawa
“House of Day, House of Night” @KCUA, Kyoto

2015

“OUR BELOVED WORLD” Marugame Inokuma-Genichiro Contemporary Art Museum, Marugame
“Rivers – The way of Living in Transition/Asia Contemporary Art Links” The Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung

2014

“Some Like It Witty” Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
“Forces at Work” Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Manila
“Susukino Triennale 2014” Sapporo

2013

“The 7th Move on Asia: Censorship” Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul
“Aichi Triennale 2013” Aichi Arts Center, Aichi
“Roppongi Crossing 2013: OUT OF DOUBT” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

2012

“Double Vision: Contemporary Art From Japan” Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
“Double Vision: Contemporary Art From Japan” Hiafa Museum of Art, Hiafa
“New Gallery × New Artists × New Works” AI KOWADA GALLERY, Tokyo
“RYUGU IS OVER” Ryugu Bijutsu Ryokan, Yokohama
“Similarities and Differences— Asian Contemporary Media Arts from Daisuke 2012 Miyatsu Collection” BEXCO, Busan
“Identity VIII – curated by Shihoko Iida” nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo
“Daikanyama Art Street” HILLSIDE FORUM, Tokyo
“But Fresh” Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo

2011

“Social Dive – Exploratory Imagination” 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
“Gallery Artists’ show 2011” AI KOWADA GALLERY, Tokyo
“Art Struction” 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
“Re-Modernologio phase2: Observation and Notation” Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori
“Busan Biennale Sea Art Festival 2011” Busan
“BONE 14 – Performance Art Festival BERN” Schlachthaus Theater, Bern

2010

“UTOPIA OF EXOTIC” PAVILION UNICREDIT, Bucharest

2009

“The Arts of Togetherness” Gendai Gallery, Toronto

2007

“ENSEMBLE OF MEN” Matucana 100, Santiago
“Beauty Farm” Neue Kunst im Hagenbucher, Heilbronn

2006

“Living Art from Tokyo and San Francisco” The Lab, San Francisco

2005

“Ongoing vol.04 – Read Look Look!” BankART1929, Tokyo
“BOY! BOY! BOY!” Ochanomizu Women’s University, Tokyo
“The Experimenter Project” Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest

2004

“Eyelevel Gallery Summer Performance Series 2004” Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax
“While you were away: Mail Art Show” 667shotwell, San Francisco

Selected Performances, Screenings

2015

“OUR BELOVED WORLD” Marugame Inokuma-Genichiro Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa
“Project Bakawan” University of Philippines Film Center, Manila

2011

“6th Carnival of e-Creativity” Sattal Estate, Bhimtal
“BONE 14 – Performance Art Festival BERN” Schlachthaus Theater, Bern

2010

“Communicating with Thieves” Helsinki
“Tossing Socialist in the Air in Romania” Bucharest

2008

“Make Tama Art University Pikapikapikapika” Tama Art University, Tokyo
“6th DaDao Live Art Festival” Shanghai
“UP-ON First Live Art Festival” Chengdu

2007

“Bucharest Biennale 3 parallel event” National Theater Bucharest, Bucharest
“Video screening II” Lothringer 13, Munich
“East-West Study Project 2007 – The Art of „Encounter“” Koln, Dusseldorf, Hanover
“KargART Video Festival” Istanbul

2006

“INPORT – International Video-Performance Art Festival” Tallinn
“Action Art After Zerojigen Generation” Tokyo
“SPRINGTIDE” Salzau Castle, Schleswig-Holstein

Awards, Nominates, Grants, Scholarships

2019

Harmonic Ito Foundation, JAPAN
POLA Art Foundation, JAPAN

2018

Bildrecht, Austria
Nomura Foundation, JAPAN
Follow Fluxus – After Fluxus2014, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, GERMANY (nominated)

2017

Aethetica Art Prize 2017 Longlist, UK

2016

Future Generation Art Award 2016, Victor Pinchuk Foundation, UKRAINE (nominated)

2015

Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists (long term), Agency for Cultural Affairs, JAPAN

2014

Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists (short term), Agency for Cultural Affairs, JAPAN
Prudential Eye Award 2015, Prudential Contemporary Art, SINGAPORE (nominated)
Future Greats 2014, ArtReview, UK
Follow Fluxus – After Fluxus2014, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, GERMANY (nominated)

Publications

2019

Following Red People in Vienna, PARCO, Tokyo

2018

Welcome Disappointed Welcome Government, Self-publishing, Wien

2017

Till the Demise of Capitalism, Art-Phil, Tokyo

2015

Historically Historic Historical History of Communism (monograph), Art-phil, Tokyo

2013

Reenacting Publicness – Translating Art Work Descriptions into 23 Different Languages (artist book), My Book Service, Tokyo

2010

The Community of Ruin, self-publishing, Tokyo

Public Collections

Otazu Foundation, SPAIN
Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, POLAND
Kadist Foundation, Paris/San Francisco
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JAPAN
Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, JAPAN
The Fukutake Foundation, Kagawa, JAPAN
Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, JAPAN