Gaku Tsutaja
Lives in Queens, New York.
Education
2018 MFA Visual Arts, SUNY Purchase College, School of Art+Design, Purchase, NY
1998 BFA, Painting, Tokyo Zokei University of Art and Design, Honors, Tokyo, Japan
Awards / Scholarships
2018 Outstanding MFA Recognition Award, SUNY Purchase, NY
2017-18 Merit Scholarship: SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY
2016-17 Merit Scholarship: SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY
1998-2000 Research Fellowship, CCA Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan
1998 Zokei Award, Tokyo Zokei University of Art and Design, Tokyo, Japan
Residences
2019 Open AIR, The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula, Missoula, MT
2018 chaNorth Artist Residency, Pine Pains, NY
2004 Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan
1998‐00 CCA Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Enola's Head, Rubin Center, The University of Texas, El Paso, TX (Forthcoming)
2020 Spider's Thread, Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY
2019 A Trip to the Moon, Shirley Fiterman Art Center at BMCC, New York, NY
Study with the Moon, Material Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico
2017 The Kingdom of Kitai, Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions / Art Fairs
2020 FAIR presented by NADA, online
Dallas Art Fair Online, Dallas, TX
2019 Translating Place, Gallery of Visual Arts, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
Ever Upward, Collar Works, Troy, NY
2018 Elsewhere, Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY
Open Studio, chaNorth Artist Residency, Pine Plains, NY
The Persistence of History, NJCU Visual Arts Gallery and Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
Beyond, Equity Gallery, New York, NY
Beyond, Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, SUNY Purchase, NY
2017 American G*rl, Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, SUNY Purchase, NY
2016 stolen/missing/disappeared, Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, SUNY Purchase, NY
fresh meet, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
2012 Living Everyday by Art, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
Make a world, nitehiworks, Kanazawa, Japan
2009 First Look 2010 Emerging Artist Series New Tale for Our Age, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
2008 Independent Drawing Gig 4, Artbreak Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Dumbo Art Festival, New York, NY
Independent Drawing Gig 3, Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives Exhibition Space, Hague, Holland
2004 Password, Center for Contemporary Graphic Art, Fukushima, Japan
2002 blind date, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
2000 here. now. 2000‐1997, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Selected Projects: Gansomaeda
Gansomaeda is an artist collective by Go Watanabe and Gaku Tsutaja.
2005 Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan
2004 CHANNEL_0, Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan
2003 25hrs, El Raval Sports Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain
2002 Art Camp Nakatsue, Oita, Japan
Young Video Artists Initiative, THINK ZONE, Tokyo, Japan
Ready Started, Hosomi Museum, Kyoto, Japan
2001 Free Standing, Beaver College Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2000 FLYING FOX, Candy Factory,Yokohama, Japan
T-shower, Gallery SOAP, Kitakyushu, Japan
Selected Bibliography
2019 John Yau, Using Animals to Talk About Historical Trauma, Hyperallergic, October 26, 2019
Paul Hamby, Open AIR:Artists in residence use unique Montana Landscapes to spark creativity, Missoulian, Jul 14, 2019
Jonathan Goodman, A New Portrayal of Enola Gay, Whitehot Magazine, April 4, 2019
Eileana Bonilla, La Odisea De Enola; Narrativas De Gaku Tsutaja, WE’RE MAGAZINE, March 7, 2019
Virginie Puertolas-Syn, Mexico City—Visual Art’s New Berlin, Artlyst, February 27, 2019
Jonathan Goodman, “Elsewhere” at Ulterior Gallery. ArteFuse, January 10, 2019
2018 Peter Delman, The Persistence of History, exhibition catalog, New Jersey City University Galleries, Jersey City, NJ, pp.5-8, p.23
Faye Hirsch, “Beyond… Complacency,” Beyond, exhibition catalog, SUNY-Purchase College, Purchase, NY, p.18
2017 Emily Burns, Artist Spotlight: Q&A with Gaku Tsutaja, Maake online. February 15, 2018.
Emily Burns, Maake Magazine, Issue 5, p.23
Machiko Harada, World News: New York. Bijutsu Techo, 2017 November issue, p.136
Kelsey Brod, The Kingdom of Kitai at Ulterior Gallery. Bad at Sports, October 16, 2017
Ulterior Gallery Opens First U.S. Solo Exhibition by Mixed-Media Artist Gaku Tsutaja, artdaily.org, October 1, 2017
2012 Eri Otomo, Make a World, exhibition catalog, Nitehi Works, Kanagawa, Japan
2009 Midori Yoshimoto, PH.D and Aileen June Wang, PH.D, New Tales For Our Age, exhibition catalog, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, p.11
2005 Yokohama Triennale 2005, exhibition catalog, Kanagawa, Japan, pp.78‐79
2004 Eri Otomo, Password, exhibition catalog, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd, Center for Contemporary Graphic Art, Fukuoka, Japan, pp.69 ‐ 92
2002 Anette Hojlund, blind date, exhibition catalog, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark, pp.8‐9
Professional Activity
2020 Artist Talk, Asian Art Archive in America, NY
2018 Workshop, New Jersey City University Gallery, NJ
Artist Talk, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
2016 Visiting artist lecture, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
2004 Artist Talk, Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan
2003-05 Part time teacher, Tokyo Zokei University of Art and Design, Tokyo, Japan