Chim↑Pom from Smappa!Group
An artist collective formed in 2005 in Tokyo with members Ryuta Ushiro, Yasutaka Hayashi, Ellie, Masataka Okada, Motomu Inaoka, and Toshinori Mizuno. Responding instinctively to the “real” of their times, Chim↑Pom from Smappa!Group has continuously released works that intervene in contemporary society with strong social messages. In addition to participating in exhibitions throughout the world, they develop various independent projects. In 2015, they opened their artist-run space "Garter" in Tokyo to curate and showcase work by many of their contemporaries. They also initiated, organized, and participated in the international exhibition “Don’t Follow the Wind,” which was launched on March 11, 2015, in Fukushima inside the nuclear exclusion zone created after the 2011 nuclear disaster. Since then, they recently have been working on various projects related to the theme of "borders" and presented "The Other Side," a project on the U.S.-Mexico border, in 2017. The collective received the Prudential Eye Awards in 2015, under the categories Best Emerging Artist Using Digital/Video and Best Emerging Artist of the Year.
Works
CV
Selected solo show
- 2022
- “Remember the Days”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
- “Chim↑Pom from Smappa!Group”
- ANOMALY,
- Tokyo, Japan
- “Happy Spring”
- Mori Art Museum,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2020
- “May, 2020, Tokyo / A Drunk Pandemic”
- ANOMALY,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2019
- “Threat of Peace (Hiroshima!!!!!!)”
- Art in General,
- New York, USA
- 2017
- “Non-Burnable”
- Dallas Contemporary,
- Texas, USA
- “Sukurappu ando Birudo Project: Paving the Street”
- Kitakore bldg,
- Tokyo, Japan
- “The other side”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2016
- “So see you again tomorrow, too?”
- Kabukicho Shinko-Kumiai bldg,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2015
- “SUPER RAT”
- Saatchi Gallery,
- London, UK
- “Enduring the unendurable ↑ Suffering what is insufferable”
- Garter,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2013
- “Hiroshima!!!!!”
- Former Bank of Japan Hiroshima Branch,
- Hiroshima, Japan
- “PAVILION”
- Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2012
- “Chim↑Pom”
- PARCO Museum,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2011
- “LEVEL 7 feat. ‘Hiroshima!!!!’”
- Maruki Gallery For The Hiroshima Panels,
- Saitama, Japan
- “REAL TIMES”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
Selected group show
- 2022
- “NEVER GIVE UP!”
- gallery G,
- Hiroshima, Japan
- 2021
- “ACC Gwangju & Asian Artists Exhibition ‘Adorable Big Brother: On Never Being Able to be Alone Again’”
- Asia Culture Center,
- Gwangju, South Korea
- “TOKYO: ART & PHOTOGRAPHY”
- Ashmolean Museum,
- Oxford, U.K.
- “Breaking the Waves”
- chi K11 art museum,
- Shanghai, China
- “Bubbles / Debris: Art of the Heisei Period 1989–2019”
- Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art,
- Kyoto, Japan
- 2020
- “Global(e) Resistance”
- Centre Pompidou,
- Paris, France
- “The Age of Electricity”
- Toyota Municipal Museum of Art,
- Aichi, Japan
- 2019
- “Co/Inspiration in Catastrophes”
- Museum of Contemporary Art,,
- Taipei, Taiwan
- “Japan Unlimited”
- frei_raum Q21 exhibition space/Museum Quartier Wien,,
- Vienna, Austria
- “AICHI TRIENNALE 2019: Taming Y/Our Passion -After ‘Freedom of Expression?’-”
- Aichi Prefectural Museum of Arts Gallery,,
- Aichi, Japan
- “Manchester International Festival”
- Victoria Station Tunnels,,
- Manchester, UK
- “Fragments of a Hologram Rose”
- SANATORIUM,,
- Istanbul, Turkey
- “52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS”
- ART SPACE,,
- Sydney, Australia
- “Weavers of Worlds -A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art-”
- Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo,,
- Tokyo, Japan
- “Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection”
- Hammer Museum,,
- Los Angeles, USA
- “Heroes and People in the Japanese Contemporary Art”
- Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art,,
- Hyogo, Japan
- 2018
- “THE STREET. WHERE THE WORLD IS MADE”
- MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts,,
- Rome, Italy
- “Athens Biennale 2018”
- TTT Building,,
- Athens, Greece
- “NINGEN Restaurant”
- former Kabukicho Book Center,,
- Tokyo, Japan
- “Japanorama. A new vision on art since 1970”
- Centre Pompidou-Metz,,
- Metz, France
- “6th Asian Art Biennial 2017 - Negotiating the Future”
- National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts,,
- Taichun, Taiwan
- “Invisible Cities”
- The Crow Collection of Asian Art,,
- Texas, USA
- “Floating worlds, 14th Biennale de Lyon”
- a Sucrière and the Museum of Contemporary art of Lyon,,
- Lyon, France
- “Reenacting history Collective Actions and Everyday Gestures”
- National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,,
- Gwacheon, South Korea
- “Yokohama Triennale 2017 - Islands, Constellations & Galapagos”
- Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1,,
- Kanagawa, Japan
- 2016
- “The Nanjing International Art Festival”
- the Baijia Lake Museum,,
- Nanjing, China
- “Busan Biennale 2016”
- Busan Museum of Art,,
- Busan, South Korea
- “20th Biennale of Sydney (Don’t Follow the Wind)”
- Carriageworks,,
- Sydney, Australia
- 2015
- “Risk”
- Turner Contemporary,,
- Margate, UK
- “Don’t Follow the Wind - Non-Visitor Center”
- Watari-um Museum,,
- Tokyo, Japan
- “DAS HYBRIS PROJEKT”
- HALLE 14,,
- Leipzig, Germany
- “Don’t Follow The Wind”
- inside the evacuated, radioactive exclusion zone surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant owned by TEPCO,,
- Fukushima, Japan
Public collection
- Art Gallery of Ontario,
- Toronto, Canada
- Asia Society Museum,,
- New York, USA
- The Centre Pompidou,
- Paris, France
- Hammer Museum,
- Los Angeles, USA
- The Japan Foundation,
- Japan
- Mill6 Foundation,
- Hong Kong
- Mori Art Museum,
- Tokyo, Japan
- M+,
- Hong Kong
- Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo,
- Japan
- The National Museum of Modern Art,
- Tokyo, Japan
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
- NY, USA
- Toyota Municipal Museum of Art,
- Aichi, Japan
- Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art,
- Brisbane, Australia
- 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa,
- Ishikawa, Japan