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 Zokei Award, Tokyo Zokei University of Art and Design, Tokyo, Japan
Residences
2018 chaNorth Artist Residency, Pine Pains, NY
2004 Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan
1998‐00 Research Fellowship, CCA Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan
Selected Exhibitions
2019 Solo exhibition, Material Art Fair, Mexico City (forthcoming)
Ever Upward, Collar Works, Troy, NY (forthcoming)
2018 Elsewhere, Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming)
Open Studio, chaNorth Artist Residency, Pine Plains, NY (forthcoming)
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
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
Selected Bibliography
2018 Faye Hirsch, “Beyond… Complacency,” Beyond, exhibition catalog,
SUNY-Purchase College, Purchase, NY, p.18
2017 Emily Burns (interview), Yevgeniya Baras (curation), Maake Magazine, Issue 5,
http://www.maakemagazine.com/gaku-tsutaja
Machiko Harada, Bijutsu Techo, 2017 November issue, p.136
Kelsey Brod, The Kindom of Kitai at Ulterior Gallery, BAD AT SPORTS, Oct 16, 2017
http://badatsports.com/2017/the-kingdom-of-kitai-at-ulterior-gallery/
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
