Poh Wang

Year 2000, Founded by Yasuyoshi BOTAN (b.1971 in Osaka) and Hirokiti (b.1972 in Tokyo). Live and work in Tokyo, Japan.


On going projects
2020   research on relation between human, nature and historical buildings, and its expression used in the novels and pairings.

Exhibitions / Screenings / Projects / Commissioned works / etc.
2019   "Welcome to Lloyd Hotel" EN/NL ver. launch party + exhibit original illustrations, Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
   video works for encyclopedia; published from Tamagawa University Press
            "Food Opera" 8ablish, Tokyo, Japan
            "7 dishes" Yamadamachi, Iwate
2018    "The Game KARUTA" OBA, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
            "invisible; science and neutrino" kamioka Junior high school, Hida-shi, Gifu
    "Dutch bicycle boogie-woogie" Ochanomizu Art Picnic, Tokyo, Japan
            "Kamiyama Awakko Holiday" Kamiyama, Tokushima
            "A view from the sky and the hole" Enokojima Art Days 2018, FLAG Studio, Osaka, Japan
2017    "Dutch Week New Hello! Lloyd Hotel Workshop" Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki, Japan
            "Welcome to Lloyd Hotel" launch party + exhibit original illustrations, The Embassy of the Netherlands, Tokyo, Japan
             AIR symposium; hosted by Union of Kansai Governments, Kamiyama, Tokushima
2015     "underskirting upskirting outskirting offskirting overtrousering" Austrian Studio House, Tokyo, Japan
2013     "Tour de Hachinohe" Hachinohe Portal Museum Hacchi, Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan
2012     "Happiness is a warm puppy" ArtOsaka, Osaka, Japan
2011      NADiff Window Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2010     "Sideshow 2010" British Art Show, Nottingham, England
             "Kamiyama Artist in Residence + Exhibition" Kamiyama, Tokushima, Japan
             "Time traveler x 5" Collective parasol, Kyoto / Aosando Art fair, Tokyo, Japan
             "3331 Presents TOKYO : part1" 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
             "Young Art Taipei", Taiwan
             "Many people ask me, Don't you miss Japan when you live abroad? "
                                   LIA, Leipzig / Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin / Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany
2009     MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
             "Art Osaka", Osaka, Japan
             "Scope basel", Basel, switzerland
             H.P.France Window Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
             "Version 9", Chicago, USA
             "101 Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair", Tokyo, Japan
             "Slick Dessin Contemporary Drawing Art Fair", Paris, France
             "Annexinema 7" startrunning, Manchester, England
2008     "ACG eyes : Moving images and Drawings –narrative-" ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, Japan
             "Annexinema 4" Stand Assembly Studios, Nottingham, England
             "Rotterdam V.H.S.Festival" Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2007     presentation with Alex Tennigkeit, Foundation B.a.d, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
             "Invitation Au Voyage" MOLESKIN travelbook competition, Aoyama book Center, Tokyo (prize)
2006     "Jardin Secret" Yukiko Kawase Galerie Art Contemporain, Paris, France
2005     "Fuckin’ brilliant!!" Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
             "Sendai Art Annual” Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan (the special award)
             "Taro Okamoto Tribute T-shirt" Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
2004     "Taro Okamoto Tribute T-shirt" LaForet Museum, Tokyo (traveled to Nagoya, Niigata, Hiroshima)
             "Hatimitu Company Bee Bee" Café Eight, Tokyo, Japan
2003     "Zero-gou-ten" Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan (prize)
2002     "Toride Re-cycling Art Project 2002" Toride Art Project 2002, Ibaragi, Japan (prize)

Residencies
2018        AGA Lab, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2013        Hachinohe Portal Museum Hacchi, Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan
2010        Kamiyama Artisit in Residence, Tokushima, Japan
2008        Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden, Scotland
2007        Foundation B.a.d., Rotterdam, The Netherlands


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