Gaku Tsutaja
b. 1974, Tokyo, Japan.
Lives and works in Queens, NY.
 
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 / Residences
2017-18      Merit Scholarship: SUNY Purchase College
2016-17      Merit Scholarship: SUNY Purchase College
2004           Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan
1998­‐00     Research Fellowship, CCA Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan
1998           Zokei Award, Tokyo Zokei University of Art and Design, Tokyo, Japan


Selected Exhibitions
2018          Beyond, Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, SUNY Purchase, NY
2017          American G*rl, Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, SUNY Purchase, NY
　　　　　The Kingdom of Kitai, Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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
 
Bibliography
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, p.78­‐79
2004          Eri Otomo, Password, exhibition catalog, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd,
                                 Center for Contemporary Graphic Art, Fukuoka, Japan, p.69­‐p.92
2002          Anette Hojlund, blind date, exhibition catalog, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik,
                                 Odense, Denmark, p.8‐9