Independent curator
Double Annual 2023 SLIGHTLY FEVERISH: Heat of Reaction, Strength for New Life, An intramural selected exhibition of Kyoto University of the Arts and Tohoku University of Art & Design, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan (General Director: Kataoka Mami, Directors: Kanazawa Kodama and Hattori Hiroyuki)
Inter+Play Season 3, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan (Curator: Kodama Kanazawa and Meruro Washida, Assistant curator: Sayaka Mitome, Chieko Nakagawa and Mari Satomura)
Inter+Play Season 2, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan (Curator: Kodama Kanazawa and Meruro Washida, Assistant curator: Sayaka Mitome, Chieko Nakagawa and Mari Satomura)
Yokohama Paratriennale 2020 Book Project In Time You’ll Be Heard, publication, website and Yokohama City Hall, Yokohama, Japan (Curator: Kodama Kanazawa, Miyuki Tanaka and Megumi Hatai)
Inter+Play Season 1, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan (Curator: Kodama Kanazawa and Meruro Washida, Assistant curator: Sayaka Mitome, Chieko Nakagawa and Mari Satomura)
Hangzhou Fiber Art Triennial, Zhejiang Art Museum etc., Hangzhou, China (Artistic Director: Shi Hui; Chief Curator: Feng Boyi; Curators: Wang Xiaosong, Liu Gang, Huang Yan, Kanazawa Kodama; Assistant Curators: Zhang Fan, Wang Qi, Ian Yang)
AKI INOMATA: Significant Otherness, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan (Co-curated with Sayaka Mitome, assistant curator)
Stranger Than Fiction— Taking Creation Beyond Location, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan (Co-curated with Mari Satomura, Sayaka Mitome and Yuki Miyata, Towada Art Center)
Yuko Mohri: Assume That There Is Friction and Resistance, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan (Chief curator)
Enfance: Encore un jour banane pour le poisson-rêve (EN: Childhood: Another Banana Day for the Dream-Fish ), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (Curators: Sandra Adam-Couralet and Yoann Gourmel, Associate curator: Kodama Kanazawa)
Do Ho Suh: Passage/s, as Towada Art Center 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan (Co-curated with Fumio Nanjo)
Rafaël Rozendaal: GENEROSITY, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan (Chief curator)
Tadanori Yokoo Towada Roman Exhibition: POP IT ALL, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan (Co-curated with Kazuko Koike, Director of Towada Art Center)
Han Ishu: The Drifting Thinker, MoCA Pavilion, Shanghai, China (Chief curator)
Yuko Kokubun: Brave New World, TS4312, Tokyo, Japan (Chief curator)
KENPOKU ART 2016, Ibaraki, Japan (Co-curated with Fumio Nanjo, General director, and Yukiko Shikata, curator)
Crazy Planet: Ghosts, Folk Monsters, and Aliens in Manga – An Aspect of Japanese Media Art, Matadero, Madrid, Spain (Planning director)
Spectrum: Examining Today, Searching for the Future, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan (Guest curator; co-curated with Spiral curator Yoshie Ota)
Nobue Kitakami, in Spectrum File, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan (Nominator)
Whose Game Is It?, Royal College of Art, London, UK (Co-curated with Jennifer KY Lam, Hena Lee and Yingting Xie)
CHU ENOKI: ENOKI CHU, White Rainbow, London, UK (Guest curator)
YÛICHI YOKOYAMA : Wandering Through Maps | Un Voyage a Travers Les Cartes, Pavillon Blanc, Colomiers , France (Guest curator)
Being-in-the-Wired-World, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan (Chief curator)
Nine Holes: Masaharu Sato, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan (Chief curator)
The Trajectory of TOCHKA, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan (Co-curated with Yukiko Hirabayashi)
My Dad is a Manga Artist – Ippei Okamoto, from the view of Taro Okamoto: From the Kawasaki City Museum Collection, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan (Chief curator)
Fiber Futures: Japan’s Textile Pioneers, Japan Society New York, New York, USA (Curator: Joe Earle) (Curatorial assistant)
Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, Japan Society New York, New York, USA (Curator: David Elliott) (Curatorial assistant)
Clear Illusion: From the Kawasaki City Museum Collection, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan (Co-curator)
How to Make Manga Collection and Exhibition: From the Kawasaki City Museum Collection, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan (Chief curator)
JAPAN : Kingdom of Characters, traveled to 55 venues in the world hosted by Japan Foundation (Curator: Hiroyuki Aihara)(Exhibition adviser)
Yuichi Yokoyama – I am depicting time: Complete Records of Neo Manga, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan (Chief curator)
Warping Moments: Thinking about Futurism, Constructivism, Bauhaus, Contemporary Art, in Kawasaki City Museum Collection, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan (Co-curator)
Kiyoshi Awazu Retrospective: Re-Reproduction, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan (Co-curator)
Artists in the Post-war Period: From the Kawasaki City Museum Collection, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan (Co-curator)
DNA of SUNDAY and MAGAZINE, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki; Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture, Nagasaki; Kyoto Manga Museum, Kyoto; The Museum of Art, Kochi, Kochi; Yokkaichi Municipal Museum, Yokkaichi, Japan (Curator: Fusanosuke Natsume, Nobuhiko Saito) (Project Manager, Exhibition Adviser)
Faces: From the Kawasaki City Museum Collection, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan (Co-curator)
Shojo Manga Power! (Girls’ Manga Power!), Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki; Kyoto Manga Museum, Kyoto; Niitsu Art Museum, Niigata; Yokoyama Memorial Manga Museum, Kochi, Japan (Co-curator)
Curators’ Choices: From the Kawasaki City Museum Collection, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan (Co-curator)
Ga-netchû! Das Manga /Anime Syndrom, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; Manga! Japanese Images, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebeak, Denmark (Adviser)
Showa Boogie Woogie, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan (Co-curator)
Fantasy of Stars and Cosmos, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan (Chief curator)
Everyone’s Doraemon, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki; Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo; Niigata Isetan, Niigata; Museum “Eki” Kyoto, Kyoto; Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, Miyazaki, Japan (Chief curator)
Ann Hamilton: voce, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan**
Shinjuko Ready for Lady, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan (Chief curator)
naonao’s such two creators, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan (Chief curator)
Happy Home: CAMK CollectionⅡ, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan (Chief curator)
Tatsuo Miyajima: BEYOND THE DEATH “DEATH TRIOGY”, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan**
Yayoi Kusama: Sailing the Sea of infinity, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan**
Tadanori Yokoo: Kumamoto Buenos Aireszation Project, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan**
CAMK Collection I Curator’s Selection, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan**
Kinosuke Ebihara: Centennial Celebration for Ebihara, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan**
Iki-ningyo and Kisaburo Matsumoto, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan**
Marina Abramović: The Star, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan (Curator: Bojana Pjić)**
Masterpieces of Contemporary “Japanese Painting(Nihonga)”, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan**
Taro Okamoto: La solitude absolue, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan**
Open Sky – Kazuhiko Hachiya: From PostPet to Moewe, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan**
CAMK Grand Opening Commemorative Exhibition, Vol.3, The Power of Kyushu: World Art Born on the Island of Kyushu, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan**
CAMK Grand Opening Commemorative Exhibition, Vol.2, The World of Nobumichi Ide: Member of the Japan Academy of Arts and painter of Cultural Merit, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan**
CAMK Grand Opening Commemorative Exhibition Kumamoto International Art Exhibition ATTITUDE 2002, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan**
** Working as an assistant curator with the curator Hiroshi Minamishima
MA Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Doctoral Course in Art Education and Aesthetics, Tokyo University of the Arts
MA in Art Education and Aesthetics, Tokyo University of the Arts
BA in Japanese Literature, Sophia University
Fellowship of Overseas Programme, the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan