Minami is interested in how people perceive the world through sight and hearing and in the cognitive mechanisms involved. Based on the empirical study of his surroundings, his work emphasizes the audio visual experience of the artist's immediate environment through audio and visual material, computer graphics, animation and installation work. He considers all these media and materials as part of our cognitive architecture, of our experience of the world.
Born in Osaka, Japan, in 1976, Takao Minami graduated from the faculty of new media art at the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences in Gifu and is now based in Paris. He has held a number of significant solo exhibitions including "Collection Survey : Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples" Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples, Hokkaido (2019), "Takao Minami: Difference Between" Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo (2016), "Takao Minami" Ota Fine Arts, Singapore (2014), "Takao Minami: Motion/Movement" La Chambre Blanche, Quebec, Canada (2012), "CRITERIUM 80 Takao Minami" Gallery 9, Art Tower Mito, Mito (2010), significant group exhibitions including, "Habitat" Ota Fine Arts, Singapore (2019), "helen at the mountain" Tetsuko's Garage, Japan (2018), "19th DOMANI the Art of Tomorrow Exhibition" The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan (2016).
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Waterway
Lucy Davis, Zai Kuning, Takao Minami and Nobuaki Takekawa 23 May - 28 Jun 2015 SingaporeThe sea is an invisible, ambivalent and yet powerful force. Its shape transforms like a paradox -- it can be vast and endless as the Pacific, or as narrow as...Read more -
Takao MINAMI
Takao Minami 14 Mar - 27 Apr 2014 SingaporeOpening reception in the presence of the artist: Friday, 14 March 2014 19.00 - 21.00 Ota Fine Arts is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Takao Minami, his debut...Read more -
Vivid Strata: New Representations of Asia
Firoz Mahmud, Rina Banerjee, Takao Minami, and Tomoko Kashiki 21 Jun - 21 Jul 2013 SingaporeThis summer, Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present a group exhibition featuring four contemporary artists from Asia all working in various strands of figurative representation, by means of painting,...Read more -
Behavior Model: Takao Minami, Mari Minato, Yushi Yashima
Takao Minami, Mari Minato, Yushi Yashima 17 May - 6 Jul 2013 TokyoWe are pleased to present the exhibition of 'Behavior Model' curated by Takao Minami who is the artist we represent. This exhibition features three artists: Paris-based Mari Minato, Ogaki-based Yushi...Read more -
Takao Minami "puppet study"
Takao Minami 4 Sep - 16 Oct 2010 TokyoGraduating Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences(IAMAS), Minami started his career as an artist unit, called 'ressentiment'. He has been participated in many international group exhibitions and recently his...Read more -
screening Hiraki Sawa / Takao Minami
Hiraki Sawa, Takao Minami 21 Oct - 14 Nov 2009 Tokyo -
Takao Minami
Takao Minami 30 Aug - 4 Oct 2008 TokyoThe exhibition will consist of 3 video works including installations. Each used the tools such as computer, projector, monitoring camera or mirror as media to show how the elements of reality...Read more -
Takao Mianmi
Takao Mianmi 13 Jan - 17 Feb 2007 TokyoHe started activity as a member of art unit 'Ressentiment' during studying at IAMAS, Gifu, and participated n_ext: New Generation of Media Artists in ICC (2004), Yokohama Triennale 2005 and...Read more
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Takao Minami "Collection Survey : Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples" Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples, Abashiri
30 Sep 2019Takao Minami will participate in 'Collection Survey : Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples' at Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples from 26th October to 10th November...Read more -
Takao Minami THE TETORAPOTZ live performance Hara Museum ARC, Gunma
21 Aug 2019Takao Minami will participate in a live performance as the member of 'THE TETORAPOTZ' held in association with the current exhibition'Kato Izumi: LIKE A ROLLING...Read more -
Takao Minami "THE TETORAPOTZ"rin art association, Takasaki, Gunma
6 Aug 2019Takao Minami will participate in a group exhibition 'THE TETORAPOTZ' held at the rin art association in Gunma prefecture from 24th August to 27th October...Read more -
"WEST BUND ART & DESIGN 2017" 9 - 12 November, Booth No. A1
8 Nov 2017Ota Fine Arts will participate in the art fair, WEST BUND ART & DESIGN 2017, from 9 to 12 November at the West Bund Art...Read more