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AWARDS:
2003 Best Visual Artist: EYE magazine reader’s poll
2003 Best in Mixed Media Award: Artfocus Magazine 12th Annual Show 2003
2002 Best Local Visual Artist: NOW magazine reader’s poll
2000 Best in Pastel/Oil Stick Award: Artfocus Magazine 9th Annual Show

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2017 Wildlife, Aoya Washi Studio, Tottori, Japan
2016 Onsen Chronicles 2, Misasa Onsen, Tottori, Japan
2016 Wallflower, Aoya Washi Studio, Tottori, Japan
2015 Lyric is poem, Tsutaya Books -Osaka and Kanagawa, Japan
2015 Onsen Chronicles, Gallery Kataoka, Toyooka, Japan
2014 Known unKnown, Funding Matters Gallery, Toronto Canada
2013 Sweet Capital, ArtBarrage, Toronto Canada
2012 Life Lessons -Toronto Edition- Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, FUNDING matters GALLERY, Toronto, Canada
2010 Bittersweet Hotel, Gallery Cero, Osaka Japan

2009 Foreign Soil, Ouchi Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2009 Hitch-Haiku revisited, Keep Six Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2008 Hitch-Haiku, Jerome Jenner Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2008 Sakura, upART Contemporary Art Fair, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada
2008 Sleeping Beauty Awaken, Keep Six Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2008 Universe. G+Galleries, Toronto, Canada
2008 AWAKE, Art x Life gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Back to Roots, Swansea Town Hall, Toronto, Canada
2007 Sleeping Beauty, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada
2004 Smoke Screen, Wagner Rosenbaum Gallery, Toronto, Canada

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2015 Kawa no kaze art festival, Takeno, Hyogo, Japan
2016 Art of oriental white stork of five artists, Toyooka, Hyogo, Japan
2015 Kawa no kaze art festival, Takeno, Hyogo, Japan
2012 GUEST ROOM organized by Art Barrage: p|m Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2010 KRAMPUSFEST, Resistor Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2008 Explicit Fantastic: Keep Six Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2008 Ode to Edo: Jerome Jenner Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2008 Bax DIY World Tour: Keep Six Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2007 Toronto Underground, Art x Life gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Yearbook, SPIN gallery, Toronto, Canada
2006 Urban Rythme, Sopa fine arts, Kelowna, Canada
2006 U-8, Sopa fine arts, Kelowna, Canada
2005 Square Foot, Project Spaceman, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
2003 Artfocus Magazine 12th Annual Fall Artists Show Metro Hall, Toronto, Canada
2002 Sweethartache Propeller Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2001 Artfocus Magazine’s Award Winners Show Starbucks Coffee, Toronto, Canada
2000 Artfocus Magazine 9th Annual Fall Artists Show Metro Hall, Toronto, Canada

CURATORIAL, PROJECTS:
2014 SUNARBUCKS, Tottori, Japan
2013 Curator for Stuart Lowe’s solo exhibition Bagpipe Blues, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto Canada
2009 ECO SHIFT TAITO, Executive producer, gallery COEXIST, Tokyo Japan
2009 ZOORI for Africa, a charity art project, Founder/Organizer
2008 The Nomadic “decob”, a world touring exhibition, Executive producer
2005 THE ROOM 406 Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada
2005 MANHATTAN DIARY New York, United States
2005 JAPANESE DREAM AUDITION, Executive producer, Sky dome, Toronto Canada
2003 SHOGI KNIFE, Co-curator, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada
2003 TOKYO DOLL, Co-curator, Design Exchange, Toronto, Canada
2002 LET’S HAVE A DREAM! S.P.I.N. Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2002 HYPE TOKYO, Acadia Gallery, Toronto, Canada

ART FAIRS, EXPOS:
2012 Scotiabank Nuit Blance, Toronto, Canada
2012 Toronto Art Expo, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
2010 Toronto Art Expo, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
2008 CAMSC Art showcase, Presented by Craig Scott Gallery, Royal York Hotel, Canada
2008 Fan Expo, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
2007 Toronto Art Expo, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
2006 Toronto Art Expo, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
2005 Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai Mart, Shanghai, China
2005 Queen West Art Crawl, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto, Canada
2005 Toronto Art Expo, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
2004 Queen West Art Crawl, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto, Canada
2004 Beaches Jazz Festival, Woodbine Park, Toronto, Canada
2004 Distillery Annual Outdoor Art Exhibition, Distillery Historic District, Toronto, Canada
2004 Toronto Art Expo, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
2003 Queen West Art Crawl, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto, Canada
2003 Distillery Annual Outdoor Art Exhibition, Distillery Historic District, Toronto, Canada
2001 One of a kind Spring Show, National Trade Centre, Toronto, Canada
2000 International Outdoor Art Biennale, Toronto, Canada

PERFORMANCES:
2015 Lyric is Poem -LIVE PAINTING, Tsutaya Books, Osaka, Japan
2014 SUNARBUCKS: a travelling project, Tottori, Japan
2012 TEA CEREMONY -CJS Movie Night, National Film Board, Toronto, Canada
2012 TEA CEREMONY -Keep Six Exhibits present UCHI, Fundraiser and Exhibition, Toronto, Canada
2011 TEA CEREMONY -Toronto Art Expo, MTCC, Toronto, Canada
2011 TEA CEREMONY -Ashita, Great Hall, Toronto, Canada
2008 A Peace of Lily -LIVE PAINTING, Keep Six Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2006 ALGORITHM -LIVE PAINTING, Music by Jeff Milligan/ I.V. Lounge, Toronto Canada
2006 LOVE -LIVE PAINTING, Peace Week, University of Toronto, Canada
2006 LOVE -LIVE PAINTING, Music by Azumi/ NOR-Fund-raiser, Toronto, Canada
2005 I HAVE A DREAM -LIVE PAINTING, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto Canada
2005 SPLASH! -LIVE PAINTING, ShanghaiMART,Shanghai, China
2002 I HAVE A DREAM, SPIN Gallery, Toronto Canada

INSTALLATIONS:
2015 Seventh Heaven, Onsenji temple, Toyooka, Japan
2009 Rains between East and West, Here and there, You and Me., The Young Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Canada

FILMS/VIDEOS:
2015 Kinosaki Days: Documentary film, dir. Yuki Hayashi
2014 Music video, director for Fern Lindzon’s single ‘The Windmills of Your Mind ‘
2014 Music video, director for hisaka’s ‘Higher Sky’
2014 Music video, director for James Bruce Moore’s ‘Soul’s journey home’
2014 Music video, director for hisaka’s ‘Water is wide’
2014 Music video, director for Fern Lindzon’s single ‘Jazz at the bookstore’
2013 Music video, director for Chloe Charles’s single ‘Take me naked’
2013 Music video, director for Elliott Brood’s ‘The Bridge’
2013 Music video, director for Songs of Gaia, Saina Singer and George Koller’s project
2012 24ours Vol.1 Minae/ Documentary film
2008 T’DOGS-THEME by Toru Dodo/ Music Video

PUBLICATIONS:
2015 Onsen Chronicles/ Fuso Publishing
2015 CA -Tomori Nagamoto selected works
2015 Lyric is poem /Close up project/ Tsutaya Books
2012 HAMATONBETSU-CHO/ Self-published for Machi-omoi-cho exhibition in Japan

2009 Life Lessons/ Magazine series
2008 BITTERSWEET HOTEL/ Self-published
2008 Universe. / Digital Publication/ Ocean & Pounds
2005 WONDER OF LIFE/ Self-published

EDITORIAL/DESIGNS/POSTERS/CD COVERS:
2015 Cover artwork/ design for George Koller’s ‘Secret Space Project’
2015 Cover artwork/ design for David Clayton-Thomas’s ‘Combo’
2014 Cover artwork/ design for KC Roberts & the Revolusions
2014 Cover artwork/ design for Michelle Walker’s ‘Love Misery’
2013 Cover artwork and photography for Emily Raquel
2013 Cover artwork and photography for Nathalie
2012 Jafro by Toru Dodo/ CD cover
2012 MapleLeaf RisingSun/ Various Artists/ CD cover
2012 Demo by Janet Elizabeth/ CD cover
2005 Jazzexchange/ Poster, T-shirt, Pamphlet

ARTIST TALKS/ LECTURES/WORKSHOPS:
2015 Lyric is Poem/ TALK with Yamazaki Masayoshi and Shuntaro Tanikawa, Osaka, Japan
2015 TALK/ with Yoshitaka Haba, Shonan T-SITE, Kanagawa, Japan
2015 WORKSHOP/ Bookbinding/ with Hiroshi Hata, Tsutaya Books, Osaka, Japan
2015 TALK/ How Japanese are obsessed with Onsen/ Artist talk with Nakagai, mayor of Toyooka city
2014 LECTURE/ Uwanada elementary school & Kahoku junior high school, Tottori, Japan
2014 100 questions /TALK/ Nakakura hospital, Tottori, Japan
2012 WORKSHOP/ Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada
2009 TALK/ ECO SHIFT TAITO/ Nov 14/ gallery COEXIST, Tokyo Japan
2005 WORKSHOP SERIES/ Various locations/Toronto, Canada

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