| REI NAITO | |
| 1961 | Born in Hiroshima, Japan |
| Lives and works in Tokyo | |
| 1985 | Graduated from Visual Communication Design, College of Art and Design Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan |
| SOLO SHOWS (SELECTION) | |
| 2016 | Color Beginning, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
| 2015 | The Joys Were Greater, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2014 | The Emotion Of Belief, Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2012 | What Kind Of Place Was The Earth?, Oku-kyodoten, organized by colocal, Okinawa, Japan |
| What Kind Of Place Was The Earth?, Kurenboh, Tokyo, Japan | |
| What Kind Of Place Was The Earth?, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan | |
| What Kind Of Place Was The Earth?, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2011 | 2 – Rei Naito, sagacho archives collection plus, sagacho archives, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2009 | Tout animal est dans le monde comme de l’ eau à l’ intérieur de l’ eau, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Color Beginning, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany | |
| Color Beginning, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2007 | Matrix, Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama, Japan |
| 2006 | Giving Back / Reconnaissance, Sakushima Benten Salon / Outdoor Installation, Aichi, Japan |
| 2005 | Giving Back / Reconnaissance, Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum, Kyoto, Japan |
| What Kind Of Place Was The Earth?, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2003 | Une Place Sur La Terre / New York 2003, D'Amelio Terras, New York, USA |
| 2002 | Une Place Sur La Terre / Tokyo 2002, Rice Gallery by G2, Tokyo, Japan |
| Drawing Sculpture, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 1999 | Sculpture, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan |
| Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France | |
| 1998 | Sculpture, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan |
| Sculpture, D'Amelio Terras, New York, USA | |
| Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France | |
| 1997 | Being Called, Galerie im Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (special exhibition organized by Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main ) |
| Un luogo sulla terra, Japanese Pavilion, The 47th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy | |
| 1996 | Namenlos / Licht, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan |
| Potential Aspects Of Life, D'Amelio Terras, New York, USA | |
| 1995 | Namenlos / Licht, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, USA |
| Migoto ni harete otozureru wo mate, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan | |
| 1994 | Potential Aspects Of Life, Gallery Shimada, Tokyo |
| 1993 | Une Place Sur La Terre, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales, UK |
| Namenlos 1989 / 1993, Gallery NW House, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Une Place Sur La Terre, Galerie du Rond-Point, Paris, France | |
| 1992 | Under The Distance, The Root Of The Light Is Flat, Drawing, SAI Gallery, Osaka, Japan |
| 1991 | Une Place Sur La Terre, Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1989 | Under The Distance, The Root Of The Light Is Flat, Sagacho-bis, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1987 | Apocalypse Palace, Gallery It's mo, Tokyo, Japan |
| Apocalypse Palace, Sapporo CAPA, Hokkaido, Japan | |
| 1986 | Apocalypse Palace, Parco Space 5, Tokyo, Japan |
| GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION) | |
| 2016 | Tsubaki-kai 2016 — Shoshin—, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| Ecce Homo: The Human Images In Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan | |
| 2015 | Disegno - The Art Of Drawing For The XXI. Century, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany |
| Proportio, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy | |
| All Begun In Kamakura 1951-2016 Part 1. 1985-2016: The Present and Future, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan | |
| Tsubaki-kai 2015 — Shoshin—, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2014 | Collection I, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan |
| Tsubaki-kai 2014 — Shoshin—, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Tama / Anima (please breathe life into me) Rei Naito / photographs Naoya | |
| Hatakeyama Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Leap Into The Void, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium | |
| 2013 | From The Collection: Where There Is Light, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Antigravity, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan | |
| Art Arch Hiroshima 2013 Peace Meets Art!, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan | |
| Tsubaki-kai 2013 — Shoshin—, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2012 | Osaka: The Allure Of The Collection, The 35th Anniversary of the National Museum of Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan |
| 2011 | Masked Portrait Part II, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2010 | De Mattisse Abracero, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France |
| 2008 | Frágil, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain |
| Yokohama 2008: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Kanagawa, Japan | |
| Parallel Worlds, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2007 | J’embrasse pas, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France |
| 2006 | rapt! -20 contemporary artists from Japan-, Birrarung, Eltham, Australia |
| Art And Object: Affinity of the Jomon and the Contemporary, Aomori, Japan | |
| Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan | |
| The 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006, Gwangju, South Korea | |
| 2005 | Decelerate, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA |
| Praying For Silence, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany | |
| 2004 | Eijanaika! Yes Future!, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France |
| 2003 | Love Planet, Former Izushi Elementary School Classrooms, Okayama (planning by Benesse Art Site Naoshima) |
| Ineffable Beauty, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany | |
| Stacked, D'Amelio Terras, New York, USA | |
| 2002 | Sleeping / Dreaming / Awakening, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan |
| 2000 | Collection Lambert Randez-vous, Hotel de Caumont, Avignon, France |
| 1999 | Works On Paper, D'Amelio Terras, New York, USA |
| The MOT Annual 1999 - Modest Radicalism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, USA | |
| 1998 | La Collection Yvon Lambert, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan |
| 1997 | Change Of Scene XII, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 1995 | On Kawara 1954, 1954, 1956/Rei Naito 1991, Nagoya City Art Museum Aichi, Japan |
| 1994 | Art Today 1994 Sanctuary, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan |
| 1993 | Prospect '93, Frankfurter Kunstverein / Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 1992 | Centrifugal Sculpture - An Aspect Of Japanese Sculpture In The Last Decade, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan |
| Spatial Drive, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA | |
| 1985 | Clear Garden, Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan |
| AWARDS | |
| 2003 | Asahi Beer Art Awards, Asahi Beer Arts Foundation |
| 1995 | Award for Promising Artists and Scholars of Contemporary Japanese Arts (Installation), Japan Arts Foundation |
| PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS | |
| 2010 | matrix, Teshima Art Museum, Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan |
| 2001 | Being given, Kinza, Art House Project Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan |
| PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | |
| Benesse Ave Site Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan | |
| Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan | |
| Collection Lambert, Avignon, France | |
| Deutsche Bank, Germany | |
| Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France | |
| Fukutake Foundation, Kagawa, Japan | |
| The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel | |
| Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Germany | |
| Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan | |
| The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan | |
| The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA | |
| Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan | |
| The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan | |
| Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany | |
| Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan | |
| Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia |