T A I J I   M A T S U E

1963                 Born in Tokyo, Japan

1996                 Higashikawa Prize

2002                 27th Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award

Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan

Education

1982-8                    University of Tokyo, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography

Solo Exhibitions

2008                       Nest, TARO NASU, Tokyo

                                Nest, COHEN AMADOR GALLERY, New York

2007                       cell,TARO NASU OSAKA Osaka

2006                       JP-22, L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt (also 2003, 2001)

                                Landscape, COHEN AMADOR GALLERY, New York

                                JP-22, TARO NASU GALLERY, Tokyo (also 2003, 2002, 2000, 1999)

                                JP-22, The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka

2005                       Landscape, Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany

                                CC gazetteer, NADiff, Tokyo

2001                       Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya

1999                       Staff Gallery, New York

1993                       il tempo, Tokyo

1987                       Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo (also '99, '98, '98, '97, '96, '95, '95, '94-'92)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008                       Between the Wall and the Ground, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

2006                       FASCINATION, Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Art Gallery X, Tokyo

                                GIFT, THE STORE presented by Spiral Online Store, Spiral Garden, Tokyo

                                Spectacular City, NRW-FORUM Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf

                                Modern Paradise: Japanese and Western Masterpieces from Ohara Museum of Art and The National Museum of                                 Modern Art, Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

                                Spectacular City PHOTOGRAPHING THE FUTURE, NETHERLANDS ARCHITECTURE INSTITUTE (NAI), Rotterdam

                                my cup of tea -Private Luxury, TARO NASU GALLERY, Tokyo

2005                       take art collection 2005,

                                Spiral Garden, Tokyo Landschaft als Metapher, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unterowisheim

                                36 Photographers of the Kimura Ihei Award, Kawasaki City Museum

                                The ancient Sound of the Image, Contemporary Photography from Japan, Palazzo Poli, Rome

2004                       35th Rencontres d'Arles, Arles OFFICINA ASIA, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna

2003                       Resolution, MUSEE F, Tokyo

2002                       Emotional Site, Sagacho Shokuryo Building, Tokyo

                                Multitude, Artists Space, New York

                                27th Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award Exhibition, Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo, Osaka

                                VOCA 2002, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

2001                       SURFACE - contemporary photography and video from Japan, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam

2000                       The Unseen - Taiji Matsue, Sam Samore, Noritoshi Hirakawa, galerie deux, Tokyo

1999                        Internationale Fototage Herten 99, Herten Modena per la Fotografia 1999, Galleria Civica, Modena

1998                       REFERENCE, Galeria Rasen, Tokyo

                                 Photography Today - The absence of Distance, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

1996                       IMPLICATE ORDER, Gallery MYU, Tokyo

1995                       another reality - Aspects of Contemporary Photography, Kawasaki City Museum

                                Objects, Faces and Anti Narratives, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

1994                       Kawasaki Monument, Kawasaki City Museum

                                Liquid Crystal Futures : Contemporary Japanese Photography, FruitMarket Gallery, Edinburgh

Publications

2008                       cell, AKAAKA ART PUBLISHING, Inc.

2006                       JP-22, Daiwa Radiator Factory

2005                       CC, Daiwa Radiator Factory gazetteer, Daiwa Radiator Factory

                                 In-between 7 Taiji Matsue: United Kingdom, Slovakia, EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee

                                 Taiji Matsue Landscapes Museum Schloss Moyland, KERBER VERLAG

2003                        TAIJI MATSUE, Ugeyan

2001                       MATSUE Taiji, Hysteric Glamour

Public Collections

Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo

Kawasaki City Museum

Yokohama Museum of Art

Higashikawa Town, Hokkaido

Japan Foundation

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido

Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris

Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi

Maison Europeenne de La Photographie Ville de Paris

Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archives, California