Naomi Okubo Biography

Born 1985, Tokyo, Japan

Works and lives in Tokyo, Japan

EDUCATION

2023 M.F.A. Musashino Art University, Kodaira, Japan

2009 B.A. Musashino Art University, Oil Painting, Kodaira, Japan

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

Naomi Okubo: Intimate Space,  Entangling Threads, Fou Gallery, New York, June 8–August 3, 2024. (Digital Catalogue)

2023

Naomi Okubo: Uncertain Home, Transparent Body, GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo, 2023.

2022

Naomi Okubo: Closely Glazed Space,  ELSA ART GALLERY, Taipei, 2022.

2021

Naomi Okubo: From here to somewhere, GALLERY MoMo Roppongi, Tokyo, 2021.

2018

Naomi Okubo: Piles of the Surface, ELSA ART GALLERY, Taipei, 2018.

2016

Naomi Okubo: THIS IS NOT MY LIFE, GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo, 2016.

2014

Naomi Okubo: A Dream Beyond Dreams, A.STYALE Gallery, Hong Kong, 2014. 

Naomi Okubo: Where should I go?,  Hamnmagasinet, Varberg, Sweden, 2014.

2013 

Naomi Okubo: A Dream Beyond Dreams, H.P France Window Gallery, Tokyo, 2013.

Naomi Okubo: Have a Party Forever, GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo, 2013.

2011

Naomi Okubo: It Seems Like A Dream, Gallery MoMo Roppongi, Tokyo, 2011.

2010

Naomi Okubo: Marco? Polo!, Gallery MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo, 2010.

2008  

Naomi Okubo: Tokyo Wonder Wall Award 2007, Skywalk Exhibition Space at Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo, 2008.

Naomi Okubo, Gallery MoMo, Tokyo, 2008.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Momopoly,  Spiral building, Tokyo, 2024.

2022

Yoshino Art Connect, Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation, Spiral Building, Tokyo,  2022. 

2019

Real Fairytale SPRIG/BREAK Art Show, Residency Unlimited, New York, 2019.

Real Fairytale, GALLERY MoMo Roppongi, Tokyo, 2019.

2018 

MUSE MUSE, Czech Center Art Gallery, New York, 2018.

Potpourri, Neumann Wolfson Art, New York, 2018. 

2017

Young art Taipei, Elsa Gallery, Taipei, 2017.

Emerging Artist Project, Official Japanese Ambassador Residence, New York, 2017.

On Illusion (Residency Unlimited and Artist Alliance Inc. ), Cuchifuritos Gallery, New York, 2017. 

Inaugural Group Show, Neumann Wolfson Art, New York, 2017. 

2014

XMAS' 14,  Galleri Christoffer Egelund,  Copenhagen, 2014. 

2012

CONPLEX, Nihonbashi Takashimaya Art Gallery X, Tokyo, 2012. 

Interaction vol.1, GALLERY MoMo Roppongi, Tokyo, 2012.

2011

Regenerate, GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo, 2011

2009

Tokyo Wonder Wall 2007, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2009.

2006

WONDER SEEDS 2007, Wonder Site Sibuya, Tokyo, 2006. 

2005

Shell Art Award, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, 2005.

RESIDENCIES

2019 

mh PROJECT NYC Summer residency, New York, 2019.

Anaba Summer Residency, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A., 2019.

2017

Residency Unlimited, New York, 2017

2014 

Artist in residence program,  Art Department of Halland Municipality, Sweden, 2014.

MAGAZINE COMMISSIONS

Airbnb Magazine (Publisher)

DIE ZEIT, Germany (Publisher)

ARMUSELI

ZEIT-magazine (Publisher) 

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2019  

Yoshino Gypsum Co., Ltd. Overseas Research Program for Artists, 2019.

2016  

Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists (2017-2019 in New York), 2016

2014

The 20th Holbein Scholarship, Tokyo, 2014.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Hallamds Konstmuseum, Sweden