Tomoo GOKITA
五木田智央
Born in 1969 in Tokyo. In the late 1990s, Gokita received acclaim for drawings made with charcoal and ink on paper.
Publications
2022 - Diary, 888books
2022 - Get Down, Dallas Contemporary
2021 - MOO, Taka Ishii Gallery
2021 - Works Copyright, BLUM & POE
2018 - PEEKABOO, Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation
2017 - Holy Cow, Taka Ishii Gallery
2015 - 777, 888books
2015 - Bésame Mucho, Honor Fraser Gallery
2014 - THE GRATE CIRCUS, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art
2010 - The Happy Pig, Decathlon Books
2010 - Cum To Me, Dynasty Zine
2010 - Shuffle Tetsudo Shoka, Tennen Bunko My Funny Valentine, Seems
2009 - Ballet, Zine’s Mate
2006 - LUMEN # 01, Artbeat Publishers Inc.
2001 - Oh! Tengoku, Artbeat Publishers Inc.
2000 - LINGERIE WRESTLING, Little More Co., Ltd.
2022 - Get Down, Dallas Contemporary
2021 - MOO, Taka Ishii Gallery
2021 - Works Copyright, BLUM & POE
2018 - PEEKABOO, Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation
2017 - Holy Cow, Taka Ishii Gallery
2015 - 777, 888books
2015 - Bésame Mucho, Honor Fraser Gallery
2014 - THE GRATE CIRCUS, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art
2010 - The Happy Pig, Decathlon Books
2010 - Cum To Me, Dynasty Zine
2010 - Shuffle Tetsudo Shoka, Tennen Bunko My Funny Valentine, Seems
2009 - Ballet, Zine’s Mate
2006 - LUMEN # 01, Artbeat Publishers Inc.
2001 - Oh! Tengoku, Artbeat Publishers Inc.
2000 - LINGERIE WRESTLING, Little More Co., Ltd.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 - Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2022 - Diary, Taka Ishii Gallery Viewing Room, Tokyo
2021 - Get Down, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2021 - Fresh, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2020 - MOO, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2020 - Game Over, Massimo De Carlo, Milano, Italy
2019 - Massimo De Carlo, London, UK
2018 - Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2018 - PEEKABOO, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
2018 - HOTEL PARAISO, McNamara Art Projects, Hong Kong, China
2018 - SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2017 - Beauty, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2017 - Holy Cow, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2016 - Out of Sight, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2015 - Damage Control, Bill Brady Gallery, Miami, FL
2015 - Bésame Mucho, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2014 - THE GREAT CIRCUS, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Chiba
2014 - Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2012 - Secret Life, Bill Brady KC, Kansas City, MO
2012 - Variety Show, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2010 - Funland, Aliceday, Brussels, Belgium
2010 - Wildest Dreams, ATM Gallery, New York, NY
2009 - Heaven, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Champion Carnival, ATM Gallery, New York, NY
2008 - Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2007 - Vanity Drunko, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 - Drunko, ATM Gallery, New York, NY
2005 - FINGER PRINCE, Gallery Trax, Yamanashi
2004 - Black Gainers, Kyoto Art Zone, Kyoto
2003 - Oh! Tengoku, Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka / Nadif Gallery, Tokyo
2002 - Tomoo Gokita LP Exhibition??, LOS APSON?, Tokyo
2002 - Merrow Master Cuts Vol.2, Yasu Gallery, Tokyo
2000 - Lingerie Wrestling, Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo / Nagoya Parco Gallery, Aichi / Fukuoka Artium, Fukuoka
1997 - Gallery Trax, Yamanashi
2022 - Diary, Taka Ishii Gallery Viewing Room, Tokyo
2021 - Get Down, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2021 - Fresh, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2020 - MOO, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2020 - Game Over, Massimo De Carlo, Milano, Italy
2019 - Massimo De Carlo, London, UK
2018 - Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2018 - PEEKABOO, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
2018 - HOTEL PARAISO, McNamara Art Projects, Hong Kong, China
2018 - SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2017 - Beauty, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2017 - Holy Cow, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2016 - Out of Sight, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2015 - Damage Control, Bill Brady Gallery, Miami, FL
2015 - Bésame Mucho, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2014 - THE GREAT CIRCUS, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Chiba
2014 - Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2012 - Secret Life, Bill Brady KC, Kansas City, MO
2012 - Variety Show, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2010 - Funland, Aliceday, Brussels, Belgium
2010 - Wildest Dreams, ATM Gallery, New York, NY
2009 - Heaven, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Champion Carnival, ATM Gallery, New York, NY
2008 - Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2007 - Vanity Drunko, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 - Drunko, ATM Gallery, New York, NY
2005 - FINGER PRINCE, Gallery Trax, Yamanashi
2004 - Black Gainers, Kyoto Art Zone, Kyoto
2003 - Oh! Tengoku, Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka / Nadif Gallery, Tokyo
2002 - Tomoo Gokita LP Exhibition??, LOS APSON?, Tokyo
2002 - Merrow Master Cuts Vol.2, Yasu Gallery, Tokyo
2000 - Lingerie Wrestling, Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo / Nagoya Parco Gallery, Aichi / Fukuoka Artium, Fukuoka
1997 - Gallery Trax, Yamanashi
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 - ‘New Horizon: from history to the future’ Arts Maebashi and Maebashi City Centre, Gunma, Japan
2023 - ‘An Apartment for Ghosts: “57-”23’ Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2022 - ‘HANGA’ SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong
2022 - ‘Five Stories about Art - It's Always There’ Okazaki City Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2022 - ‘Lynchland: Genre, Auteurism and a Fish in the Percolator’ Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance, CA
2020 - ‘New Images of Man’ Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2020 - ‘Tableau and Music NEXT’ Gallery and Spicyfoods P, Tokyo, Japan
2020 - ‘Oketa Collectiion: A New Decade’ Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
2020 - ‘At The Noyes House Blum & Poe, Mendes Wood DM and Object & Thing’ The Eliot Noyes House, New Cannan, Connecticut
2020 - ‘Blue Child and Slow Walk’ SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong
2019 - ‘Vong Co RAHZI’ Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2019 - ‘MCMXXXIV’ Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
2019 - ‘Taka Ishii Gallery 25th Anniversary Group Exhibition:Survived!’ Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018 - ‘Art of the 21st Century: The Taguchi Art Collection Exhibition from Andy Warhol to Yoshitomo Nara’ Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
2018 - ‘THE UBIQUITY OF BORDERS : JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY’ Gallery Baton, Seoul, South Korea Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2017 - ‘Takahashi Collection Mindfulness 2017’, Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2017 - ‘Third Space / Shifting Conversations about Contemporary Art’, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
2016 - ‘Masamichi Katayama zensho hyakka zensho Life is hard... Let's go shopping' Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016 - ‘MOVED’ Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2015 - ‘A Shared Space’, Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
2014 - ‘’OK, I'll rename it‘’, Bill Brady Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2013 - ‘Wonderful My Art: Artists from the Takahashi Collection’, Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan
2013 - ‘20th Anniversary Trax Exhibition’, Gallery Trax, Yamanashi, Japan
2012 - ‘Abstraction and Form: The Unmanifested to Nowhere’, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Chiba
2011 - ‘Black and White’ Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo
2023 - ‘An Apartment for Ghosts: “57-”23’ Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2022 - ‘HANGA’ SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong
2022 - ‘Five Stories about Art - It's Always There’ Okazaki City Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2022 - ‘Lynchland: Genre, Auteurism and a Fish in the Percolator’ Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance, CA
2020 - ‘New Images of Man’ Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2020 - ‘Tableau and Music NEXT’ Gallery and Spicyfoods P, Tokyo, Japan
2020 - ‘Oketa Collectiion: A New Decade’ Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
2020 - ‘At The Noyes House Blum & Poe, Mendes Wood DM and Object & Thing’ The Eliot Noyes House, New Cannan, Connecticut
2020 - ‘Blue Child and Slow Walk’ SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong
2019 - ‘Vong Co RAHZI’ Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2019 - ‘MCMXXXIV’ Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
2019 - ‘Taka Ishii Gallery 25th Anniversary Group Exhibition:Survived!’ Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018 - ‘Art of the 21st Century: The Taguchi Art Collection Exhibition from Andy Warhol to Yoshitomo Nara’ Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
2018 - ‘THE UBIQUITY OF BORDERS : JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY’ Gallery Baton, Seoul, South Korea Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2017 - ‘Takahashi Collection Mindfulness 2017’, Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2017 - ‘Third Space / Shifting Conversations about Contemporary Art’, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
2016 - ‘Masamichi Katayama zensho hyakka zensho Life is hard... Let's go shopping' Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016 - ‘MOVED’ Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2015 - ‘A Shared Space’, Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
2014 - ‘’OK, I'll rename it‘’, Bill Brady Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2013 - ‘Wonderful My Art: Artists from the Takahashi Collection’, Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan
2013 - ‘20th Anniversary Trax Exhibition’, Gallery Trax, Yamanashi, Japan
2012 - ‘Abstraction and Form: The Unmanifested to Nowhere’, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Chiba
2011 - ‘Black and White’ Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo
Awards
2001 - Gold Prize, The Art Directors Club 80th Annual Awards, New York
Collections
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH / High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA / Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA / Miyanomori Museum of Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido / Oketa Collection, Tokyo / Takahashi Collection, Tokyo / X Museum, Beijing, China
