Naoki Koide

  • 聖遺物 “子の王冠”　　 Relic “Crown of Child” 2022 ceramic h.159.8 cm x w.38.0 x d.38.5 cm ©Naoki Koide
  • 聖遺物 “女王の器” Relic “Vessel of Queen” 2022 ceramic h.146.5 cm x w.52.5 x d.52.0 cm ©Naoki Koide
  • イイダラチャン　iidarachan 2022 ceramic h.17.3 x w.16.9 x d.10.3 cm ©Naoki Koide
  • chintosyan 2023 mortar and acrylic on wood panel h.71.0 x w.50.8 x d.2.7 cm ©Naoki Koide
  • Installation view from “JONICONIAN: Relics of an Unborn Kingdom” at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2023 ©Naoki Koide photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation view from “JONICONIAN: Relics of an Unborn Kingdom” at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2023 ©Naoki Koide photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation view from “JONICONIAN: Relics of an Unborn Kingdom” at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2023 ©Naoki Koide photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation view from “JONICONIAN: Relics of an Unborn Kingdom” at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2023 ©Naoki Koide photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation view from “JONICONIAN: Relics of an Unborn Kingdom” at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2023 ©Naoki Koide photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation view from “JONICONIAN: Relics of an Unborn Kingdom” at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2023 ©Naoki Koide photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation view from “JONICONIAN: Relics of an Unborn Kingdom” at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2023 ©Naoki Koide photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation view from “JONICONIAN: Relics of an Unborn Kingdom” at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2023 ©Naoki Koide photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • キノコ 1　Kinoko 1 2020 porcelain h.22.0 x w.16.0 x d.12.0 cm ©️Naoki Koide
  • lotus leaf (castle) 2020 ceramic h.44.5 × w.38.0 × d.35.0 cm ©️Naoki Koide
  • ツクシ Horsetail 2020 ceramic h.37.1 × w.27.5 × d.10.3 cm ©️Naoki Koide
  • styledoll (house) 2020 ceramic h.53.5 × w.47.3 × d.53.7 cm ©️Naoki Koide
  • 樹 Tree 2020 ceramic h.24.1 × w.18.6 × d.16.0 cm ©️Naoki Koide
  • ウィッチ Witch 2020 ceramic h.41.3 × w.26.4 × d.16.8 cm ©️Naoki Koide
  • tree（house） 2011 ceramic h. 141.0 x w. 66.0 x d. 64.0 cm ©Naoki Koide photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • installation view from "Read Me a Story, Daddy" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2013 ©Naoki Koide photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • I want mommy!（detail） 2013 ceramic, illumination h. 172.0 x w. 102.0 x d. 106.0 cm ©Naoki Koide photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • father, mother and daughter 2010 wood, ceramic h. 146.0 x w. 90.5 x d. 25.5 cm ©Naoki Koide
  • Mt. momsy & St. Baby 2010 ceramic h. 75 x w. 220 x d. 80 cm（パーツの隙間5cm x 2個所含む） ©Naoki Koide
  • cloud（cactus） 2010 ceramic h. 53.5 x w. 33.0 x d. 15.0 cm ©︎Naoki Koide
  • Ninjya towel 2010 oil on canvas mounted on panel 103.0 x 73.0 cm ©Naoki Koide
  • cloud（black） 2010 ceramic h. 58.0 x w. 45.0 x d. 24.0 cm ©Naoki Koide
  • installation view at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2008 New Home 2007 FRP, acrylic, urethane, lacquer, wood h. 160.0 x w. 100.0 x d. 80.0 cm ©Naoki Koide
  • Picnic with the Undead 2007 FRP, acrylic, urethane, lacquer and light h. 260.0 x w. 240.0 x d. 310.0 cm ©Naoki Koide
  • The Pilot 2008 FRP, acrylic, urethane, lacquer, light, wood and carpet h. 210.0 x w. 100.0 x d. 90.0 cm ©Naoki Koide
  • The Guard（devil） 2008 acrylic and lacquer on wood h. 85.0 x w. 22.0 x d. 22.0 cm ©Naoki Koide
  • studio: Kunsutohausu 2006 FRP, wood, galvanized iron, lacquer, acrylic, urethane, carpet h. 240 x w. 97.0 x d. 182.0 cm ©Naoki Koide
  • cloud（King & Queen） 2006 FRP, lacquer, acrylic, urethane h. 95 x w. 135 x d. 25 cm ©Naoki Koide
  • cloud（rain） 2006 FRP, lacquer, acrylic, urethane h. 140 x w. 170 x d. 25 cm ©Naoki Koide
  • Marriage 2006 FRP, lacquer, acrylic, urethane bride: h. 175 x w. 83 x d. 80 cm groom: h. 170 x w. 45 x d. 92 cm ©Naoki Koide
  • Tower: flog, duck, human 2005 FRP, acrylic, lacquer, urethane h. 180.0 x w. 69.0 x d. 69.0 cm ©Naoki Koide
  • installation view from "A Couple in the Bathroom" project room, Tokyo, 2004 ©Naoki Koide
  • from "A couple in the room (L)" 2004 C-print 29.5 x 24.3 cm ©Naoki Koide
  • from "A couple in the room (L)" 2004 C-print 29.5 x 24.3 cm ©Naoki Koide
  • The bed 2004 FRP, acrylic, lacquer, urethane h. 162.0 x w. 60.0 x d. 114.0 cm ©Naoki Koide
  • Like a Hippopotamus 2004 FRP, acrylic, lacquer, urethane h. 102.0 x w. 54.0 x d. 56.0 cm ©Naoki Koide
  • Undead Family 2003 FRP, acrylic, urethane, lacquar ©Naoki Koide

Naoki Koide was born in Aichi prefecture in 1968. He graduated from Tokyo Zokei University in 1992. He currently lives and works in Chiba. Since the group exhibition “Magic Room” (curated by Satoshi Okada) in 2003, the solo exhibitions “A Couple in the Bathroom” (2004), “Marriage” (2006), and “In These Days” (2008), “Maternity Leave” (2011), this marks the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with Tomio Koyama Gallery. His other major exhibitions include “Cafe in Mito” (2004, Art Tower Mito, Tochigi), “Magical Art Life” (2006, Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya), “Fiction@Love” (2006, MOCA Shanghai), “neoneo Part1[BOY]” (2009, Takahashi Collection Hibiya, Tokyo), “Echigo-Tumari Art Trienial” (2009, Nigata) and “Paul Clay” (2011, Salon 94 Bowery, New York).

Solo Exhibitions

2023 “Fingertip Destination ~ Paper, Cloth, Wood, Plastic, Soil, and Then” Komaki City Central Library, Aichi, Japan
“JONICONIAN: Relics of an Unborn Kingdom” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022 “new frontier / I make over my room tonight ＋ A DAY” artcafe TOAST AND HONEY, Narita, Chiba
2021 Manabi Creation Center, Komaki, Aichi
2018 Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013 “Read Me a Story, Daddy” Tomio Koyama GAllery, Tokyo, Japan
Roppongi Hills, A/D GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2010 “Maternity Leave” Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto, Japan
2008 “In These Days” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2006 “Marriage” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004 “A Couple in the Bathroom” Project Room / Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2000 GH Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
K.ArtMarket, Aichi, Japan
1995 Kaffa 2, Tokyo, Japan
Too's Bar, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibitions

2025 “Sanbao International Ceramic and Glass Art Invitational Exhibition: Likeness and Unlikeness 2025” Sanbao International Ceramic Village, Jingdezhen, China
“Three RECORDS” Venues: TANERI Studio Gallery & Shop, Koide Zaisho, Jōanji Temple, Aichi, Japan
“SERENITY AND SURGE” Shalom Shalom, Taipei, Taiwan
2024 “The Mush Room Show 2024 in Tokyo” TAKU SOMETANI GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
“Small Things Here and There” PTT Space, Taipei, Taiwan
“Meigai no Kogei 2024” Nagoya Sakae Mitsukoshi 7th floor, Gallery, Aichi, Japan
“25th Anniversary Project: Favorite Shapes” Gallery Suki, Aichi, Japan
“Symbiosis 30 / OUTLINE” Gallery Icho no Ki, Tokyo, Japan
"Obon Night 2024” Zaisyohouse Koide, Aichi, Japan
“A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
“Rokko Meets Art 2024 beyond” Rokko, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Taji, Gifu, Japan
“two” chin chin pottery, Taiwan
2023 “24th Anniversary Project: Favorite Shapes” Gallery Suki, Aichi, Japan
“Obon Night with Mushrooms” ZaisyohouseKoide, Aichi, Japan
“Meigei no Kogei 2023” Nagoya Sakae Mitsukoshi 7F, Gallery, Aichi, Japan
2022 ”International Art Festival BIWAKO BIENNALE 2022” Omihachiman City and Hikone City, Shiga, Japan
"Obon Night" ZaisyohouseKoide, Aichi, Japan
2021 “萬華鏡 KALEIDOSCOPE” YIRI ARTS, Taiwan
“LUMINE meets ART AWARD 2020-2021 The Award Winner’s Exhibition” LUMINE SHINJUKU, LUMINE 2 1F, Show Window, Tokyo, Japan
“New Collection Exhibition” Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan
2020 “Face” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2019 “SOMETHINKS” Art Laboratory Hashimoto, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
“Obon night in Koide ke” ZaisyohouseKoide, Nishi-kasugai-gun, Aichi, Japan
“Exchange and Experimentation – Toward a New Generation of Ceramic Art” The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga, Japan

“Rokko Meets Art 2019” Rokko International Musical Box Museum, Hyogo, Japan
2018 “Bubblewrap: After Mono-ha, the next established art movement is Superflat, but that means the interim period overlapping the years of Japan's economic bubble has yet to be named, and I think calling it “Bubblewrap” suits it well. It especially makes sense if you incorporate the realm of ceramics. This show will contemplate this period through works including those from Takashi Murakami's collection.” Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
“Obon night in Koide ke" ZaisyohouseKoide, Nishi-kasugai-gun, Aichi, Japan
“Takahashi Collection Face and Abstraction” Kiyoharu Art Colony, Yamanashi, Japan
2017 “Tomio Koyama Gallery: Works from the Gallery Artists and the Collection2” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2015 AOSANDO ART FAIR 2015, TRICO FIELD TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan
2014 “Takahashi Collection 2014 Mindfulness!” Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
2013 “Takahashi Collection, Mindfulness!” Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima; Sapporo Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan
“Why not live for Art? II - 9 collectors reveal their treasures” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
La Nouvelle Garde Japonaise Exhibition, Galerie Robespierre, Grande-Synthe, France
2012 “Rieko Otake, Hideaki Kawashima, Naoki Koide” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2011 “ORANGE SKY” RH Gallery, New York, NY, USA
“JAPANCONGO” Le Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
“Paul Clay” Salon 94 Bowery, New York, NY, USA
2009 neoneo Part1 [BOY], TAKAHASHI COLLECTION, Tokyo, Japan
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009, Niigata, Japan
2008 “SPOT! Japanese Contemporary Art” Gallery IHN, Seoul, South Korea
Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
“Figures as Artifacts” Kasugai City Library, Culture and Art Center, Aichi, Japan
2006 “Fiction@Love” Shanghai MOCA, Shanghai, China
Yokoyama Memorial Manzu Art Museum, Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo, Japan
“a magical art life” Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
2004 “CAFE in MITO” ART Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
2003 “Magic Room” Project Room/Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2000 “5 Art Pieces” Westbeth Gallery KOZUKA, Nagoya, Japan
1997 “K.ArtMarket2” Westbeth Gallery KOZUKA, Nagoya, Japan
1996 “K.ArtMarket” Westbeth Gallery KOZUKA, Nagoya, Japan

Public Collections

The JAPIGOZZI Collection
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
Jyoanji, Aichi, Japan
Nanjo Art Museum, Japan
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan
Ryutaro Takahashi Collection
The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan

Group Exhibition “Bubblewrap: After Mono-ha, the next established art movement is Superflat, but that means the interim period overlapping the years of Japan’s economic bubble has yet to be named, and I think calling it “Bubblewrap” suits it well. It especially makes sense if you incorporate the realm of ceramics. This show will contemplate this period through works including those from Takashi Murakami’s collection.” Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan

December 15, 2018 - March 3, 2019