Toki Ozaki b.Tokyo, Japan, Lives and works in NYC
My work includes video (images and sounds) ceramics, textiles. Beginning with a study of the yarn dyeing and weaving techniques, my clay work also has elements of contrast to computer-generated video work (images and sounds), both of which also offer viewers an insight into my personal life and experiences. There are commonalities that provide insight into It can extend to the symbolic message and satirical nature of nature and society surrounding my imaginative present in my narrative work.
“Sounds are like air. They float in the atmosphere, circle around and never disappear. As a symbolic system, music provides a perfect ambiguity through which ideas are filtered. Lyrics often provide a sense of humanity. They relate stories about love, life's struggles, and daily events.“ Performances: Jack Tilton Gallery, AIR Gallery, Gallery 128 (collaboration with Kazuko) Miyamoto and Gerald Jackson). Music: Knitting Factory; radio in the UK, Denmark, Austria and WFMU. She performed in a US Verizon commercial and a Hawaii TV song. Visual works have been exhibited at Gallery 128, Parker's Box, Rush Art, and more. Press: Detroit, MI, published in North Adams Transcript, MA. Interviewed at WBAI. Collection: Judy Pfaff, Ultan Guilfoyle, Joseph Masheck, Sol LeWitt,
Selected Exhibitions
2023 (Solo)Temporary, Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York, NY
2023 (Solo)I am listing, Gallery Riviere, Fukuoka, Japan Curated by David and Aya Kawano
2023 I see Summer, Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York, NY
2022 Group Show, Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York, NY
2008 in Keinster Weise Nachhaltig Verortet Gallery bvoo, Linz Austria
2004 Summer Shorts, Parker’s Box, Brooklyn, NY :Curated by Allyson Spellacy
2003 Photo Architecture Diurnal/Nocturnal, Gallery Onetwentyeight NY :Curated by Joseph Masheck
2003 Digital Bridges, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2002 New York Cross-Cut Gallery Paradigma, Linz, Austria :Curated by Kazuko Miyamoto
2002 Generations III A.I.R Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Group Show Germaine Keller Gallery, Garrison, NY :Curated by Germaine Keller
2000 Contemporary Art - International Exchange Ataka Museum, Tokushima, Japan
1999 (solo)Line of Sheets Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA
1999 Present Perfect Stadt Gallery, Krem, Austria
1999 Universal Communicativity Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York, NY
1998 Heat Up Fukuyama Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
1997 Space in Between Gallery Onetwentyeight New York, NY :Co-Curated Toki Ozaki
1997 So-i X10 Roadside Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
1997 Clothes Show Center Galleries, Detroit, MI
1996 Rising Tides Rush Gallery, New York, NY :Curated by Howard MacCallab
1996 Women Draw Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York, NY
1996 Art From Detritus III AIA Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1995 Scroll Art Show Gallery Kawafune, Tokyo, Japan
1995 Detritus II Writer’s Place, Pittsburgh, PA
1994 Local Fauna 31 Desbrosses St., New York, NY
1994 The Home Show: Objects For And About The Home Center Galleries, Detroit, MI
1994 The Neurotic Art Show II Artists Space, New York, NY
1994 Klingons: The Art Show Apre Scott’s, New York, NY
1993 Trees and... Tompkins Square Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Kici Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York, NY :Curated by Kazuko Miyamoto
Publications/Media/Grant/Lecture
July 2004, Summer Shorts Lectured by Ultan Guilfoyle, Parker’s Box, Brooklyn NY
September 3, 1999 “Artist’s work: 37 sheets to the wind”, North Adams Transcript, MA
August 1999 “Independent Studio Residency Award”, CAC, North Adams, MA
June 1999 “Art From New York”, Art Korea Magazine, Seoul, Korea
June 6, 1992 “The East Village Chair”, Detroit News, Detroit, MI
March 1992 “Feminism art”, Interview WBAI Radio, New York, NY
Performance
August 5-7, 2022 “Love Story”, by School of Hard Knocks, 4 videoworks by Toki Ozaki At Gene Frankel Theater, NYC
July 23, 2022 “Three” Vernita, Kazuko and Shamisen and voice by Toki Ozaki At Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY
Sep 24, 2011 “Umbrella Dance” by Kazuko Miyamoto, Guitar by Toki Ozaki Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York, NY
Nov. 2008 “Pink Cup” by Kazuko Miyamoto, Shamisen by Toki Ozaki A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, N
May, 2005 3 Video works along with Dance Performance, Bax Performance space, Brooklyn NY
February 1998 “Live at Jack’s”collabo with Kazuko Miyamoto and Gerald Jackson, Jack Tilton Gallery,NY
May 1999 “Cherry Tree” Solo Performance, Central Park, New York, NY
April 16, 2002 Greeley Square Gallery, New York, NY
Education
M.F.A. Hunter College, New York, NY
B.A. Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Exchange Class: Electro Acoustics,Computer Music Center, Columbia U, New York, NY