Gaku Tsutaja
Lives in Queens, New York.

Education
2018           MFA Visual Arts, SUNY Purchase College, School of Art+Design, Honors, 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)
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
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           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
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