「CIRCLE・CAIRO - 5」2014 (c)Wakiro Sumi
Wakiro Sumi Exhibition "Surface Works"
February 27 (fri) - April 4 (sat) 2015
close : sunday・monday・national holiday
open：10:30 - 18:30（Sat - 17:30)
Wakiro Sumi
1950 Born in Gifu, Japan
1969 Graduated from Gifu Prefectural Kano High School, Visual Arts Course.
1971 Left Nagoya University of Arts (major: sculpture).
1972 Completed Fujimicho Atelier B-Semi (presently B-Semi Learning System).
1972 First Solo Exhibition at Gin Gallery.
1973 Assistant of Sculptor Miki Tomio.
1976 Lived in New York.
1984 Solo Exhibition 'STOLICHNAYA' at Gallery Muramatsu and Gallery Te, Tokyo.
1985 Solo Exhibition at Eses Gallery (presently Shimada Shigeru Gallery), Tokyo (also in 1989).
1986 Solo Exhibition at Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo (also in 1988, 1991, 1995).
1986-1987 Invited by the French Ministry of Culture.
1987 Group Exhibition 'Japon Passe´-Pre´sent' at Centre de la Vieille Charite´, Marseille.
1987 Three-Person Exhibition 'Yano, Ikegaya, Sumi' at Galerie Passage, Troyes.
1991 Solo Exhibition at Shimada Shigeru Gallery, Tokyo (also in 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001).
1992 Group Exhibition 'Among the Figures' at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and the
National Museum of Art, Osaka.
1994 Solo Exhibition 'THE VEIL' at Galeri eokoro, Tokyo.
1994 Group Exhibition 'Light & Shadow' at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.
1995 Group Exhibition 'Allegory of Seeing' at Sezin Museum of Art, Tokyo.
1997 Solo Exhibition 'ARABESQUE' at IBM-Kawasaki City Gallery.
1999-2000 Lived and worked in Lyon, Agency for Cultural Affairs' Special Study-Abroad Program.
2001 Group Exhibition 'TSUBAKI-KAI 2001', Shiseido Gallery , Tokyo (continued annualy 2002-
2005).
2002 Solo Exhibition at Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo (also in 2003, 2006).
2002 Group Exhibition 'Retracing the Paths' at Sakura City Museum of Art, Chiba.
2004 Open Studio Program at Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo.
2007 Two Person Exhibition 'Artist Today 2000 XI: Sumi Wakiro & Hatakeyama Naoya' at Museum
of Modern Art, Kamakura
