Tei Kobayashi

born in the USA, 1958

Lives and works in Tokida, Japan

Nationality: dual citizen americain / japanese

contact

749 noguramura village, ueda shi city,

nagano prefecture 386-1437, Japan

tel/fax: +81 (0)268 38 41 31

cell phone: 00 81 (0)90 61 38 64 19

teiashi@hotmail.com

formation

1972 Sarah Lawrence Art Institute, Lacoste, France

1975 The Colorado College, B.A. Fine Arts, Painting

1979 The Villa Schifanoia, Florence, Italy, M.F.A. Painting, Printmaking

1990 Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. M.A. Far Eastern Art History

-----------------------awards------------------------------------------------------

1994   womanifesto, exhibition, symposium

       National Endowment of the Arts: voices of woman in art , Video/Performance/Project

1997   The Japan Foundation Grant : women step east to west, Lithuanie/japan

       women's contempory art symposium, fieldwork and sculpture in Puurs, Belgium

1998    international symposium in Lithuanie, Nida

1999   voices of woman in asia, Mandala, Featured Artist in Cleveland Performance Art Festival

-------------selected exhibitions (* Solo Exhibition)--------------------------

2001

-"sacred", jardin de las esculturas, El Instituto Veracruzano de Cultura, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, Installation

-Myth of modern time", Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago, Chile, Installation / Perfomance.

2000

-"EL DIA", Ex-Carcel, Valparaiso, Chile.

-"sacred", jardin de las esculturas , El Instituto Veracruzano de Cultura, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico,

1999

-Abiko, International open air exhibition, Fusa, Chiba, Japan, Installation

-Open air exhibition in Naguri, Japan, Installation

-International Symposium in Lithuanie, " reflection 99 ", Vilnius - Nida

-"Innerscape Japon - Peru ", Museo de la Nacion, Lima, Peru, Installation/Performance

-International artproject 9/7, Meghalaya, Shillong, India, Installation/Performance

1998

-Kezoin Temple, " Tanabata ", Kamakura, Japan, Installation/Performance

-"Fieldwork and Sculpture in Puurs, Belgium, Hoof Van Coolheim Gallery

-Francis Van Hoof, "Shal-Mari", Puurs, Belgium Sculptural Installation/Performance,

April-December

-International Symposium, Art, Art-Traditional art, Art-Religious Art- Museum

-Creole-Eureka, " Li Pli Joli ", Mauritius Installation/Performance January

1997

-Plastic and other, Waste Project, Asia-Pacific-Artist Solidarity, Bangkok,

Thailand

-"Tokyo Bay Trash Live", Tokyo, Japan Outdoor Installation

-"TRADITIONS:HOMAGE TO LAFCADIO HEARN", ASIZ GALLERY AOYAMA ,

-Celtic Festival Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan Installation/Performance

-"INNERSCAPE", SAITO MEMORIAL KAWAGUCHI CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM, Japan

-"FINITE-INFINITE", Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan Performance

-"BIRTH", ZA MOCA FOUNDATION, Tokyo, Japan Performance

-"MEIJI HEISEI WOMAN", DEAD SOULS, Fringe Festival, Hong Kong, Installation/Performance