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EXHIBITIONS

2009

Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
“V” solo exhibition
Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan
“Residency Project” solo exhibition
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
“Front + Center” group exhibition
NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NYC
“Interface : Nature” group exhibition
Mission 17, San Francisco, CA
“All Good Things” group exhibition

2008

Galeria Sztuki Wspólczesnej, Poland
“3 way calling” three person exhibition
Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
“The Great White” group exhibition
NEXT, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
Swarm Gallery, invitational exhibition
LMAN Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Artists’ Choices” two-person exhibition

2007

Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
“The Little Show” group exhibition
Space 47, San Jose, CA
“Apoptosis” solo exhibition
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
“Cultivating Creativity”
Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
“Fabric of Identity”
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
“2007 Art Auction”
Judson Memorial, New York, NY
“Anarchist Book Fair”

2006

Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA
“APAture 2006”, juried show for Asian American artists
The LAB, San Francisco, CA
“Some Assembly Required”, juried exhibition
Photo SF, San Francisco, CA
Steven Wolf Gallery, international art exposition
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
“Future Tense”, group show
Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
“Artists’ Diary: The Chapter of Spring Light”, group show

2005

Rocket World Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Beaut Brute”, solo show
RPS Gallery, Oakland, CA
“Bubble Trouble in Doubles”, group show
Bound Together Bookstore, San Francisco, CA
“Packed”, public window display
SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Thirty Something”, group show organized by Kala Art Institute
Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA
"2005 Open House”, open house event
Mission 17, San Francisco, CA
“The Diorama Show”, (invited) group show

2004

Gen Art at Old Mint, San Francisco, CA
“Emerge 2004”, juried group show
Mission 17, San Francisco, CA
“Happy Pack”, collaborative solo show of Studio Islander
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
“The Big Picture.”, group show
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
“Close Calls: 2004”, juried group show

2003

Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
“Missing | Persons”, group show
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
“2002 Kala Fellowship Exhibition / Part 1”, group show

2002

The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
“Paradise in Search of a Future”, group show
Safety-Kleen Gallery One, Elgin, IL
Group show with other video installation artists

2001

Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY
“Mitochondria Emancipation”, juried group show
Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Art/Tech, ABSOLUT vision6, art: the next generation”, group show
CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
“Paradise in Search of a Future”, group show
Ssamzie Space, Seoul, South Korea
“The impossible”, group show
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
“IMMOBILITY”, one person show
Art Chicago 2001, Chicago IL
Peter Miller Gallery, international art exposition

2000

Dupreau Gallery, Chicago, IL
Two person show
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Dissimulation”, group show
Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY
“2 Far 2 Close”, juried group show
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, group show

1998

Chicago Cultural Center, IL
“Chicago’s Own”, group screening
Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
“Textuality”, group show

CURATORIAL PRACTICE

2008

Mission 17, San Francisco, CA
“Amidst the Ruins –Val Britton, Michael Damm & Zchary Ryer Scholz”
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
“Interplay –David Kwan, Nora Pauwels, Bartosz Posacki & Steve Reich”

2007

Mission 17, San Francisco, CA
“Blabbable Doodads –Eunjung Hwang & Miriam Dym”

2007 -current

The LAB, San Francisco, CA
Member of Curatorial Committee

2005

RPS Gallery, Oakland, CA
“Bubble Trouble in Doubles”

2004

Mission 17, San Francisco, CA
juror for “By Any Means Un/Necessary”
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
“The Big Picture”

2003

Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
“Missing | Persons”

PUBLICATIONS

Square Cylinder, “Taro Hattori and Jordan Essoe @ Swarm” DeWitt Cheng, November 2009
Art Practical (Shotgun Review), “V” Stephanie Baker, November 2009
Art Voices, “The Great White” Jenelle Davis, September 2008
Artforum.com, “The Great White” Natalie Sciortino-Rinehart, August 2008
Gambit Weekly, “White Space” D. Eric Bookhardt, July 2008
Modern Painters, “INTERPLAY” Yasmine Van Pee, July 2008
Artweek, “Taro Hattori at Space 47” David Buuck, March 2008
Percolator Magazine, “Amidst the Ruins” Tonya Warner, March 2008
East Bay Express, “Quality in Quantity” Jakki Spicer, December 2007
Flash Art, “Blabbable Doodads” Alison Bing, July 2007
Berkeley Daily Planet, “The Fake Real of ‘Future Tense’” Peter Selz, July 2006
EGG Magazine, “Taro Hattori,” All that Glittering Issue, Rabbit Pei, February 2006
SF weekly, “Beaut Brute,” Sharon Mizota, December 2005
East Bay Express, “On The Wall: What's Happening in East Bay Art,” David Downs,November 2005
East Bay Express, “Scenes,” Bubble Trouble in Doubles, Kelly Vance, November 2005
San Francisco Bay Guardian, “Thirty Something,” Clark Buckner, July 2005
San Francisco Bay Guardian, “Kala Artists Annual Exhibition”, Clark Buckner, January, 2005
San Francisco Chronicle Online, “Happy Pack”, Alice Bing, September 2004
ArtWeek, “’Close Calls’ at Headlands Center for the Arts”, Mark Van Proyen, April 2004
East Bay Express, “This Week’s Day-by-Day Picks”, Kelly Vance, April 2004
Newsletter East Asian Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan, October 18, 2001
Art Monthly, Korea, “Exploring Banality and Potentials of Media Art”, Won-Kon Lee, July, 2001
Chicago Shimpo, “Immobility”, Hiroko Saito, March 14, 2001
New York Times, “2 Far 2 Close”, Holland Cotter, October 27, 2000
Chicago Shimpo, “SAIC group show”, Hiroko Saito, February 11, 2000
Chicago Reader, “Chicago’s Own: World Views”, Fred Camper, April 17, 1998

PUBLIC / ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

2009

UC Berkeley, “It's All About Image” a symposium , Berkeley, CA
California College of the Arts, "Artist Talk" an artist talk for interdisciplinary department, Oakland, CA

2008

College Arts Association, “Art Blogging” a panel discussion, Dallas, TX

2007

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2006

California State University at East Bay, Hayward, CA

2005

Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
National Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco, CA

2004

Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

2003

Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

2002

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2001

Korea Society, New York, NY

AWARDS / AFFILIATIONS

2009

Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, Artist-in-Residence Award
The Nomura Cultural Foundation, Tokyo, Japan, Art Project Grant

2008

McColl Center for Visual Arts, Artist-in-Residence Award for 2009
Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan. Artist-in-Residence Fellowship

2005

The 2005 Leah Middlebrook & Norio Sugano Fellowship, 2005

2004

Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA., Resident Artist for 2005
Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan, Fellowship Artist-in-Residence Award

2003

Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, IL. Fiscal Partnership

2002

Kala Art Institute, Kala Fellowship Artist-in-Residence Award

2000

Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL. Represented Artist

1998

INTERCOM, Gold Plaque Award in Student Narrative Section
Chicago Cultural Center, 2nd Place Award in Loop Student Screenings

EDUCATION

2000

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Master of Fine Arts, Time Arts/Video

1994

Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology

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