Born in 1980, Saitama, Japan, Taku Obata sculpts the exaggeration of movement and detail, between symmetry and visual hyperbole. The artist choreographs: contortion of the bodies, in balance and tension, he highlights the technicality of the gesture, as sculptor as well as a dancer. Taku Obata’s work in recent years has focused on the use of new technologies and in particular 3D creation: “Buttai” 2018, an abstract realization on gravity created in 3D motion exhibited at the Watari Museum. This “modernity” is also visible in the presentation of his work: see “B Boy Down Jacket-Naname” 2017, a sculpture scanned and then exhibited on the IJC online museum created by ANA. Recently he also exhibited in Kyoto, two works sculpted entirely at a distance by 3D motion.
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2008
MFA sculpture, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
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2022
Taku Obata, Gucci Apartment, Tokyo, Japan
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2022
“Art and Sneakers”, A+S, Tokyo, Japan
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2022
“Move the Volume”,Nanzuka / 3110NZ by LDH kitchen, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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2022
“B-Boy Revenge 2022”, Parcel, Tokyo, Japan
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2020
“Let’s move it”, Parcel, Tokyo, Japan
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2020
“Opposite Effects”, Akio Nagasawa, Tokyo, Japan
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2020
“Taku Obata Sculpture”, Japan House London, London, United Kingdom
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2020
“Taku Obata Drawing Exhibition”, White Conduit Projects, London, United Kingdom
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2020
“Bboy Jiki”, Bomma galerie, Paris, France
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2016
“ノリトグラフ | Nolithograph”, Gallery Kido Press, Tokyo, Japan
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2016
“彫刻 // 新時代シリーズ 2 vol.3 小畑多丘展 (sculpture // New Generation series2 Vol3 Taku Obata Exhibition)”, Nihonbashi Takashimaya GalleryX, Tokyo, Japan
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2014
“Bust a Move”, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, United States
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2012
“Taku Obata B-BOY on Sky Court”, Nakamura Keith Haring Museum, Yamanashi, Japan
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2011
“Taku Obata BBOYIZM”, Ginza Mitsukoshi 8F Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
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2009
“It’s just begun”, Tokyo Wondersite Hongo, Tokyo, Japan
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2023
“Kuroobianaconda 05 Sukiyaki”, AishoNanzuka, Central, Hong Kong
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2022
“Spectrums“, Jess Johnson, Oliver Payne & Taku Obata, AishoNanzuka, Central, Hong Kong
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2022
“For TZ” ,Nanzuka Underground,Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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2021
“6 Paintings by 6 Artists”, Parcel, Tokyo, Japan
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2021
“03 Sanmaioroshi / Kuroobianaconda”, Tezukayama Gallery, Osaka, Japan
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2020
“02 Wagiri / Kuroobianaconda”, the 5th Floor, Tokyo, Japan
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2020
“The Dividing Line“, (Virtual exhibition), Fluorescent Smogg, London, United Kingdom
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2020
“Fine Line”, Stolenspace gallery, London, United Kingdom
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2019
“Connections”, Over The Influence, Hong Kong, China
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2019
“01 Kirimi / Kuroobianaconda”, Ginza 6, Tokyo, Japan
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2018
“Pn—Powers of PLAY—“, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
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2018
“Hyper Landscape 超えていく風景”, Watarium, Tokyo, Japan
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2017
“Side Core 路 – 線 – 図”, Gallery Trax, Yamanashi, Japan
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2016
New Vision Saitama 5: “The Emerging Body”, The Museum of Modern Art Saitama, Saitama, Japan
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2015
“Side Core -Tokyo Walkman”, Hiromiyoshii Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
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2014
Art Fair Tokyo: “SIDE CORE”, Tokyo International forum, Tokyo, Japan
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2013
Singapore Art Week: “Tokyo Street”, Ikkan Art Gallery with Crear Editon and Gallery, Singapore
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2013
10 years of the Red Bull bc one with bboy arts festival, Seoul, Korea, Seoul, Korea
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2019
“Bboy Jiki”, Limoges porcelain, Bomma, France
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Takuspe B-Boy, acrylic on camphor, 175 × 220 × 210 cm, 2012, Sky Court, Nakamura Keith Haring Museum in Yamanashi, courtesy Taku Obata & Keith Haring Museum
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Bboy & Bgirl, wood sculpture, museum of modern art Saitama, courtesy Taku Obata and museum of modern art Saitama
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Bboy, details, wood sculpture, museum of modern art Saitama, courtesy Taku Obata and museum of modern art Saitama
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Bgirl & Bboy, wood sculpture, museum of modern art Saitama, courtesy Taku Obata and museum of modern art Saitama
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Bgirl, details, wood sculpture, museum of modern art Saitama, courtesy Taku Obata and museum of modern art Saitama
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Kiiroi Bgirl, wood sculpture, Japan house london, courtesy Taku Obata and Japan house london
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Side view, Bboy Jiki, 2020, limoges porcelain, 18,5 × 27,5 × 17 cm, Bboy Jiki show in Paris, courtesy Taku Obata and Bomma, photo by Thomas Marroni
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Untitled, Untitled, 2020, mixed media on paper, 59,5 × 84 cm, Bboy Jiki, limoges porcelain, 18,5 × 27,5 ×17 cm, Bboy Jiki show in Paris, courtesy Taku Obata and Bomma, photo by Thomas Marroni
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Front view, Bboy Jiki, 2020, limoges porcelain, 18,5 × 27,5 × 17 cm, Bboy Jiki show in Paris, courtesy Taku Obata and Bomma, photo by Thomas Marroni
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Untitled, Untitled, “Untitled”, 2020, mixed media on paper, 59,5 × 84 cm, Bboy Jiki show in Paris, courtesy Taku Obata and Bomma, photo by Thomas Marroni
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Untitled” & “Untitled, 2020, mixed media on paper, 42 × 59,5 cm, Bboy Jiki show in Paris, courtesy Taku Obata and Bomma, photo by Thomas Marroni
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Untitled, 2020, mixed media on canvas, courtesy of Akio Nagasawa gallery and Taku Obata