MIDORI HARIMA
1976 Born in Yokohama,
Japan
2001 Relocated to San Francisco, United States/ Currently lives in New York,
United States
Education
2000 Jyoshibi University of Art and Design, Kanagawa, Japan /Bachelor of Arts
oil painting, printmaking
Selected solo exhibitions
2010 “Written image", curated
by Elisabeth Akkerman,Maiden Lane Exhibition Space, NY, NY
2010 “Written-Lighten”, EXHIBITION SPACE, Tokyo,
Japan
2010 “Light source”, Gallery Jin, Tokyo, Japan
2008 “NEGATIVESCAPE”, Honey Space, NY, NY
2008 “Wound: internal/external”, Gallery Jin,
Tokyo, Japan
2008 “America”, Gallery Jin Annex/ Gallery
Kingyo, Tokyo, Japan
2007 “Midori Harima”, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL
2006 “Breath”, Holasek Weir, NY, NY
2006 “Midori Harima Drawing work 2000 － 2006”,
Gallery≠Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2006 “Free fall”, Gallery Jin, Tokyo, Japan
2005 “Circumstantial Message”, San Francisco Art Commission View 155, San
Francisco
2005 “Suture”, Gallery Jin, Tokyo, Japan
2004 “Transparent Story”, Kala Arts Institute, Berkeley, California
2004 “Engagement”, Gallery Jin, Tokyo, Japan
2002 “Beginningless story”,
curated by Arnold.J.Kemp,JPMorgan
Chase lobby,San Francisco, CA
2001 “Clean Castration”,curated
by Youichi
Sato, 300 days gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2001 “Untitled”, curated
by Youichi
Sato, T.L.A.P,
Tokyo, Japan
2000 “Untitled”, Ginza Gallery Forest, Tokyo, Japan
Selected group exhibitions
2011
“Everyday life hidden reasons”, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama,
Japan
2009
.Scope New
York at Saatchi online booth, NY, NY
2010 “Carrying Across“, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
2009
“Re-Creation“, The Ogilvy Chocolate Factory, NY, NY
2009
“On The Planet“, Nagoya city gallery Yada, Nagoya, Japan
2009 “THE DROP 2012+“, 521 West 25th St, NY, NY
2009 “Open“, Deitch Studios, Long Island City,
NY
2009 “Evolution of Print: Artists of Kala“, Oakland
Museum at the Oakland International Airport, CA
2009 “re: con-figure“, Kala Arts Institute, Berkeley,
California
2008 “TALENT PReVIEW '09“, White Box, NY, NY
2008 “Her Land“, Para Glove Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008 “Object salon”, Honey
Space, NY, NY; traveled to White Space,
London, UK
2008 “Gallery Jin 10th anniversary”, Gallery
Jin, Tokyo, Japan
2007 “Black Milk”, Vanina Holasek Gallery, Scope Basel, Switzerland
2007 “Daydream nation: the suspiria version”,
time-based art festival, Portland, OR
2007 “Five Artists from New York”, Egon Schiele
Art Centrum, Cesky´ Krumlov, Czech Republic
2007 “Winter group show”, Gallery Jin, Tokyo,
Japan
2006 “Who's that girl?”, Vanina Holasek,Gallery, NY, NY
2006 “Summer group show” Holasek Weir, NY, NY
2006 “The Edge of Reason”, The Wild Space Brooklyn,
NY
2006 “Inner child”, Toyota Municipal Museum of
Art, Toyota, Japan
2006 “The white album”, Kala Arts Institute,
Berkeley, California
2005 “Jin Small works”, Gallery Jin, Tokyo, Japan
2005 “Paper Pushers”, Richard L. Nelson Gallery,
University of California, Davis
2005 “Fearless”, Gallery Jin, Tokyo, Japan
2003 “Jin Winter Session”, Gallery Jin, Tokyo, Japan
2003 “Revealing Influences”, crated by Renny
Pritikin,Museum of Craft & Folk Art,San
Francisco
2003 “The Road Not Taken”, crated
by Emiko
Sawaragi Gilbert,FLYNNDOG,Vermont
2002 “The Bay Area Award Show 2002” ,New Langton Arts, San Francisco
2002 “Bay Area Now 3”, Yerba Buena Center for
the Arts, San Francisco
2001 “Retrospestive exhibition”, 300days gallery,Tokyo, Japan
2000 “Jugemu-FAKE-“, Sponsored by Art By Xerox/ SCAI THE BATHHOUSE ,Tokyo,
Japan
Awards
2010
“Project and research grant”, Fumiko Omura Foundation / Jyoshibi University
of Art and Design
2004 “Kala Board Prize 2004”, selected
by Yuzo Nakano,Kala Arts Institute, Berkeley,
CA
2004 “Visions from New California”, James Irvine
Foundation
2002 “The Bay Area Award Show 2002”, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
2000- 2008 Fuji-Xerox, “Art By Xerox” sponsored member, Tokyo, Japan
Artist in Residence
2009 Art Omi International Artists Residency, Ghent, NY
2007 Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Cesky´ Krumlov, Czech Republic
2006- present “Emergency Arts” studio resident, NY, NY
2006 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, California founded from Mill Atelier
foundation
2004 “Visions from New California”, Kala Arts Institute, Berkeley, California
Collection
The Francis J. Greenburger Collection, New York, NY
Memorial Health University Medical Center/William and Iffath Hoskins Center
for cvmedical Research ,Savannah,GA
The Buhl Collection, New York, NY
Bibliography/catalog
2010
“HARIMA MIDORI/ Written- Lighten”, catalog, essay by Chihiro Minato, published
by EXHIBITION SPACE
2008 “Midori Harima Works 2001- 2007”, brochure, essay by Syogo Otani, published
by Gallery Jin
2007 MAG 09 May/June 2007 issue, “A Delicate Balance” exhibition Richard Butler
and Midori Harima at Kevin Bruk Gallery review by Mariangele Capuzzo
2006 “Inner child”, catalog, published by Seigensya / Asahi shinbun April
20 2006, “Inner child” review by Eiji Yamamori / Artweek, May 2006 “The white
album” review by David Buuck /BT-bijyutsu techo, July, 2006, “free fall” review
by Seiko Kohno
2005 “Paper Pushers”, catalog, essay by Renny Pritikin ,Richard L. Nelson
Gallery, University of California, Davis/”Visions from New California”, catalog,
published by James Irvine Foundation/ Sculpture Magazine, May 2005 Vol.24
No.4 issue, exhibition “Transparent Story” review by Peter Selz/ Artweek,
February 2005, exhibition “Transparent Story” review by Colin Berry
2004 “The Road Not Taken” catalog, published by Art by Xerox
“Paper Trail of Perception” exhibition “Transparent Story” review by Sasha
Vasilyuk, Oct 21, Daily California / BT-bijyutsu techo, March,2004, Yuri Shirasaka/
BT-bijyutsu techo, April, 2004, exhibition “Engagement” review by Chieko Hirano
2003 “Revealing Influences “ catalog, essay by Renny Pritikin , A Report vol.19,
published by Museum of Craft and Folk Art
2002 “Bay Area Now3” catalog, , essay by Renny Pritikin, published by Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts/ “Anxious Times” Bay Area Now 3 review by Adrienne
Gagnon, SF Weekly, Dec. 4-10, 2002 / ”Not clear Not dark”BT-bijyutsu techo,
February, 2002, Yuri Shirasaka
2001 BT-bijyutsu techo, April, 2001, exhibition “Clean Castration” review
by Yuri Shirasaka