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Education
M.F.A. 2007 Studio Art (media and sound installation), Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
B.A. 1989 Graphic Design Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1991 Silkscreen Print Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
1989 Typography Parsons The New School for Design, NY (studied under Alexa Nosal)
Grants/Fellowships/Honor/Artist in Residence
2010 *June Vermont Studio Center Grant and Residency, Johnson, VT
2009 Nomura Cultural Foundation, Grant, Tokyo Japan
2009 Individual Development Awards Program, Grant (New York State / United University Professions (UUP))
2009 Strategic Opportunity Stipend (SOS) Program, Grant (Through the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), administered on Long Island by the East End Arts Council)
2007 Sculpture Space Fellowship and Residency, Utica, NY. (Funded in part by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts)
2007 Representative Hooding of Degree Candidate for College of Arts and Sciences, Stony Brook University
2004 - 07 Half tuition scholarship, Teaching Assistantship, and Graduate Assistantship, Stony Brook University
2006 Nominated to apply for the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts and the Patricia Kerr Ross Award
2006 Maurice M. Goldberger & Mariam H. Goldberger Fine Arts Scholarship (for best artist in class), Stony Brook University
2006 Nominated to apply for Robert Motherwell’s Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship
2005 Dialogues Across Differences, Grant, Stony Brook University
Awards
2009 Alpan International 2009, Best in Show ($500), Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY (light/sound sculpture)
2007 Art Student Exhibition Summer 2007, Lynn Gumpert Juror Award, ISE Cultural Foundation Gallery, Soho, NY (light/sound sculpture)
2005 Provost’s Annual Art Incentive 2005, First Prize, Stony Brook University (sculptural painting)
2000 Asahi Shimbun International / TV-CM competition, Best Film, Asahi Shimbun International, NY (3D-CG animation)
1998 3-Dimensional Illustrators Awards Show, Bronze Award, NY (mixed media/sculpture)
1995 3-Dimensional Art Directors & Illustrators Awards Show, Silver Award, NY (mixed media/sculpture)
1990 Object Tokyo Exhibition, Shinichi Nakazawa Juror Award ($2,000), Tokyo, Japan (mixed media/sculpture)(catalogue)
1989 Object Tokyo Exhibition, Bonny Colart/Liquitex Sponsor Award (Liquitex acrylic color $2,000), Tokyo, Japan (mixed media/sculpture)(catalogue)
1988 The 2nd From A the Art JAPAN, 2nd place ($3,000), Tokyo, Japan (mixed media/sculpture)(catalogue)
1988 ISHII Award Typeface Competition, 4th place ($2,000), Tokyo, Japan (type face design)(catalogue)
1988 Object Tokyo Exhibition, Encouraging Prize ($2,000), Tokyo, Japan (mixed media/sculpture)(catalogue)
1987 The 8th Nippon Graphic Exhibition, 3rd place ($2,000), Tokyo, Japan (mixed media/painting)(catalogue)
Solo Exhibitions (*invitational shows marked by asterisk)
2010 *May 22 - June 27 Sunroom Project, <untitled>, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY(8 channels surround sound installation)
2010 *April 2 - May 29 <untitled>, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA(8 channels surround sound / light installation)
2009 propagate: a light/sound installation, Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY(16 channels light / surround sound installation)
2006 propagate: a light/sound installation, MFA Thesis Solo show, Lawrence Alloway Memorial Gallery, Stony Brook University (16 channels light / surround sound installation)
2006 Revive: an interactive installation, Lawrence Alloway Memorial Gallery, Stony Brook University (2 video projectors and quad surround sound installation)
2005 Halcyon and Harboring, Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University (mixed media/sculpture/installation)
1997 *Welcome to my ROOM IV CUENCA, Futaba Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (mixed media/sculpture/installation)(half commission)
1996 *Like Soft Wind, Like Through Clear Water, 4C Open Space, Tokyo, Japan (installation)
1995 la chambre, Gallery House MAYA, Tokyo, Japan (mixed media/sculpture)
1995 *Iron Objects, Gallery Maripoza, Tokyo, Japan (mixed media/sculpture/installation)
1993 *Welcome to my ROOM III POTSDAM, Gallery Maripoza, Tokyo, Japan (mixed media/sculpture/installation)
1992 Welcome to my ROOM II FRENCH QUARTER, Futaba Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (mixed media/sculpture/installation)
1992 Welcome to my ROOM in NEW YORK, Kobayashi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (mixed media/sculpture/installation)
1990 *A Month of Takafumi IDE, Pashu Labo, Tokyo, Japan (sculpture/three dimensional illustration)
1990 3days in New York, Apartment in Chelsea, NY (lithograph/mixed media/sculpture)
1988 Takafumi IDE Work Two Weeks, Gallery Art Wad’s, Tokyo, Japan (painting/mixed media/sculpture)
Selected Group Exhibitions (*invitational shows marked by asterisk)
2010 *December 8 - February 21 Mapping Memories, Beili Liu and Takafumi Ide (two person exhibition), Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY (16 channels surround sound / light installation, propagate and sound / light installation, reverberate)
2009 *MFA Alumni Exhibition, Student Activities Center Gallery, Stony Brook, NY (light and object sculpture, breathe)
2009 *Faculty Show - 2009, Maurice N. Flecker Memorial Gallery, Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY (Computer graphic illustration for Car Graphic magazine, Japan)
2008 *In Residence: Recent Projects From Sculpture Space, Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts, New York, NY (sound / light installation, reverberate)
- Curated by a distinguished curatorial team. Artists and works affiliated with the Sculpture Space Residency Program. EFA Project Space is a program of Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts.
2008 *Faculty Exhibition 2008, University Art Gallery, Stony Brook, NY (sound / light installation, generate)
2008 *Sonic Residues, Student Activities Center Gallery, Stony Brook, NY (sound / light installation, reverberate)
- Sonic Residues creates spaces to reflect on the relationships shaped by sonic production and reproduction. The exhibition includes works by Luke DuBois, Grady Gerbracht, Takafumi Ide, Stephen Lee, Annea Lockwood, Nick Fox-Gieg and Christina McPhee, Nobuho Nagasawa, Timothy Nohe, Jxel Rajchenberg, and others. Organized by the Consortium for Digital Arts, Culture and Technology (cDACT) Christa Erickson, Margaret Schedel, and Zabet Patterson.
2007 M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, University Art Gallery, Stony Brook, NY (sound / light installation, crossroads)
2007 CAA NEW YORK AREA MFA EXHIBITION, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY (sound / light sculpture, One of Many)
2005 3.75oz: M.F.A. First-Year Exhibition, Lawrence Alloway Memorial Gallery, Stony Brook, NY (sound / video installation, Struggle : Black/White Box)
2003 IELI student art show, CUNY Hunter College, New York, NY (a short film, Letters from Melony, poems by Yuko Hidaka, base on a novel, Cider House Rules)
2000 *1980-1999 Memorial Art Exhibition, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (3D-CG animation, Meda)
1998 *TRAVELIN’ WORD, Hiraga Square, Tokyo, Japan (screening video)
1994 *Art Stock, Tokyo, Japan (The artwork was bit by a collector.)(mixed media / sculpture)
1992 *Begegnung Mit Den Anderen (Encountering the others), Documenta IX parallel exhibition, Hann Munden Museum, Hann Munden, Germany (mixed media / sculpture)(catalogue)
Juried Exhibitions
2007 Projects ‘07, The Carriage House at Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY (3 channels sound / light installation)(catalogue)
2006 SUNY Student Fall Exhibit, 2006, SUNY Plaza, Albany, NY (archival digital print)
2005 Boats, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY (mixed media sculpture)
2004 Pork Barrel: Observations of the American Experience, Tower Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY Brockport (archival digital print)
2003 Noah’s Ark, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY (painting)
2002 Copy Cat, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY (mixed media installation)
2002 Prevailing Human Spirit, Society of Illustrators Museum of Illustration, New York, NY (mixed media painting)
2001 Coney Island Short Film Festival 2001, Coney Island, NY (short film/video)(web catalogue)
1998 Philip Morris Art Awards, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan (mixed media installation)(catalogue)
1995 Art on the Net 1995 competition, The Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts in Tokyo, Japan (web catalogue)
1993 Projected Memories, Awajicho Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (video installation)
1992 Tokyo Urbanart Competition 1992, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (mixed media sculpture)(catalogue)
1991 Object Tokyo Exhibition, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (mixed media sculpture)(catalogue)
1989 ’89 Japan Art & Culture Association Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan (mixed media painting)(catalogue)
1989 World Design Exposition’89, Design KESSAKU Competition, Nagoya, Japan (mixed media sculpture)
1988 Japan Contemporary Art Association (JCAA) Exhibition in U.S.A., Los Angels, CA (mixed media painting)
Professional Experience
2008 - present Lecturer, Art Department, Stony Brook University, NY:
- ==Theory and Practice of Digital Art: Print (ARS325)==
- Student; Sachie Hayashida, a winner of Hanae Mori Parfums’ Gift Box Design Student Contest 2009
- Student; Akane Hayakawa, selected in Flux’09 Student Design Competition
- Student; Esther Kwon, a winner of Provost’s Office Art Prize 2009, Stony Brook University
- ==Theory and Practice of Electronic Media: Print (ARS325)==
- Student; Dianna L. Quinteros, a winner of Hanae Mori Parfums’ National Art Competition 2008
2008 - present Technician, Art Department, Stony Brook University, NY
- Digital equipment supervisor (purchasing and checking out/in)
- Undergrad/Grad Students’ exhibition advisor (developing idea and installing digital equipment)
- Archival digital printer (printing with Epson 9800, 4800, R800, 2000P etc)
2009 - present Adjunct Instructor, Visual Arts, Suffolk County Community College, NY:
2007 - Present Part-time Graphic Designer, New York, NY
2000 - Present Part-time Freelance Illustrator/digital illustration, New York/Tokyo, Japan
1996 - Present Periodical illustration for a monthly car magazine Car Graphic, Nigensha Publishing Co., Ltd., Japan (two dimensional computer graphic illustration)
2004 - 07 Teaching Assistant, Stony Brook University:
- Beginning Electronic Media, Spring 2007 (instructor of record)
- Interactive Performance, Media, and MIDI, Spring 2006
- Music and the Moving Image, Spring 2005
- Introduction to Technology in the Arts, Fall 2004 and 2005
2004 - 06 Graduate Assistant/Design and Producer, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (TLT: Media Lab for Teaching, Learning, and Technology), Stony Brook University:
- Web/Poster graphic design
- Video/Flash/Animation Editing
- DVD Editing/Mastering
1991 - 99 Freelance Illustrator/Graphic designer, Tokyo, Japan
1991 Designer, Concept International, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
1987 Part-time Assistant Designer, Nippon Design Center, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Commissions
2008 Public art April 2008 - May 2010, Arts Across Campus Outdoor Public Art, The Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY (light/sound outdoor sculpture, threshold)
2008 Catalogue M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition 2008, Stony Brook University (editorial design)
2007 DVD Situating Hate Stopping Hate: 15th Annual Conference on Prejudice Reduction, Huntington Hilton, October 22, 2007, for a DVD project, supported by Organization of Chinese Americans and Allstate Foundation, Stony Brook, NY (DVD design/authoring/encoding)
2006 Brochure Pathways : Annual Report 2005-2006 College of Arts and Sciences, Stony Brook University (editorial design)
2006 Public art Long Island Horizon, PSC6 Selden Police Department, Selden, NY (mural painting)
2003 Brochure Spring and Fall campaign for subscribing to take newspaper, Asahi Shimbun International, New York, NY (editorial/graphic design)
2003 TV commercial Spring and Fall campaign for subscribing to take newspaper, Asahi Shimbun International (30 seconds 3D-CG animation/editing)
2002 Promotion BOOKOFF New York, Inc., New York, NY (SD video shooting)
2001 Stage Scenery Japanese Living Room, for a stage A House on a slope, directed by Yuji Takematsu, Theatre for The New City, New York, NY (stage design/construction)
2001 TV commercial Asahi15.com, Asahi Shimbun International (30 seconds 3D-CG animation/editing)
2001 Newspaper Aggregation in my memory, for new year issue’s cover image, Asahi Shimbun International, NY (mixed media/painting)
1999 Window display Rabbit & Carrot, for two window displays, The Landmark Tower at Yokohama, Japan (mixed media/sculpture)
1998 TV Studio display Iron image of Broadcasting, for a High Definition News program between 1998-2000, Nippon Hoso Kyoukai (NHK), Tokyo, Japan (steel sculpture/mixed media)
1998 Magazine Netscape vs. Explorer, for a monthly magazine Nikkei Netnavi, Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. Japan (mixed media/sculpture)
1998 Advertisement Iron Hand, for a poster of East Japan Railway Company Limited (JR-East), Japan (steel sculpture)
1998 Advertisement Green Tea Man & Red Wine Man, Ito En, Ltd., Japan (mixed media/sculpture)
1997 Magazine Wooden House, for a magazine Nikkei Architecture Mook, Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. Japan (mixed media/sculpture)
1997 Advertisement Honda car, Honda Auto Terrace (Authorized used car dealer of Honda Motor Co., Ltd.), Japan (mixed media/sculpture)
1997 Magazine Detail of Roof, for a magazine Nikkei Architecture Mook, Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. Japan (mixed media/sculpture)
1996 Window display A Deep Breath of Iron & Light, Nicos Window Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (mixed media/sculpture)
1996 Brochure Chairs: works for Kumamoto Table, for a Kumamoto prefecture PR magazine Kumamoto Table, Kumamoto, Japan (mixed media/sculpture)
1995 Brochure Photos of Iron Works, for a magazine Credit Saison Annual Report, Credit Saison Co., Ltd., Japan (photographs of mixed media/sculpture)
1994 Stage Scenery The Wooden Wall, for a stage PERSONA, directed by Miyabi Kato, Japan (stage design/construction)
1994 Floor display A Red Pear Christmas, Urayasu Brighton Hotel, Chiba, Japan (mixed media/sculpture)
1994 Movie Property, Ring, for a movie Angel Dust, directed by Sogo Ishii (silver sculpture)(catalogue)
1992 Brochure Piano: works for Kumamoto Table, for a Kumamoto prefecture PR magazine Kumamoto Table, Kumamoto, Japan (mixed media/sculpture)
1992 Window display Tokyo Electric Power Company Inc., Yokohama, Japan (mixed media/sculpture)(catalogue)
1992 TV commercial Ando Electric Company, Limited, Japan (Nippo) (mixed media/sculpture)
1990 Advertisement Large Globe, for poster, singer Toshinobu Kubota, Sony Corporation, Japan (mixed media/sculpture)(collaborated with photographer, Hitoshi Iwakiri)
Reviews
2008 Pearson, James. Arts in Review 2007-2008: Sonic Residues.
2008 Billmyer, Steven. OCC dedicates two sculptures today.
2007 Goleas, Janet M. Working the Rooms. Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY. 11 Jan, 2008
2007 Stony Brook’s Masters.
2007 MFA Thesis Exhibit.
2007 MFA Thesis Exhibit at Staller Center.
2006 Cockroft, James. TAKAFUMI IDE’S “PROPAGATE.
2005 Harrison, Helen. A. ART REVIEW; Islip Show Sets Sail on a Metaphor ‘Boats’,
2005 3.75oz: MFA First-Year Exhibition,
2005 Wang Center Exhibits Peace Through Artwork,
2003 Harrison, Helen. A. ART REVIEW; The Timeless Beauty Of the Human Body ‘Noah’s Ark’,
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Invited Lecture and Talk
2009 Panelist, Life After An MFA Degree from Stony Brook, MFA Alumni Exhibition, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook, NY
2009 Artist Talk for a work, propagate, Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
2008 Artist Talk for a work, generate, University Art Gallery, Stony Brook, NY
2008 Lecture for ephemeral human life and its beauty. Interviewed for a full-time tenure track position in New Media, Western Michigan University, MI
2008 Artist’s Talk for a work, threshold. Art Across Campus program, Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY
Curatorial Projects
2006 SBU Art MFA Open Studio 2006, west campus MFA headquarters, Stony Brook University
2005 a Piece of Peace, International open call - post card project, Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University
Screening (*invitational shows marked by asterisk)
2003 IELI student art show, CUNY Hunter College, New York, NY (a short film, Letters from Melony, poems by Yuko Hidaka, base on a novel, Cider House Rules)
2001 * Coney Island Underground Short Film Festival 2001 screening, The Siberia Bar, New York, NY (short film/video)
2000 * 1980-1999 Memorial Art Exhibition, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (3D-CG animation, Meda)
1998 TRAVELIN’ WORD, Hiraga Square, Tokyo, Japan (screening video)
Citation
1999 (photo: Iron Hand) Dimensional Illustrators Annual Award Winners USA.
Contribution to Books
1996 Takafumi Ide: Return to New York.
1994 Welcome to my ROOM -Iron-.
1992 Takafumi Ide: Concept of my work.
Bibliography
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2007
2002
2001 The 21st Century The Light of Transparent Era -Healing and Symmetry-,
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1996
1995
1993 Iron Objects,
Colloquium
2007 ephemeral human life and its beauty. Graduate Colloquiums. Stony Brook University
Professional Organizations
1999-2003 Graphic Artist Guild, NY
Travel/Foreign Languages Spoken
Travel: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Spain, and the United States
Language: English and Japanese
Technical Abilities
Computer software
- teaching and working level experience -
- Adobe AfterEffects
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Photoshop
- Apple DVD Studio
- Apple Final Cut Pro
- Apple Logic Pro
- working level experience -
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- Adobe Flash
- Apple Compressor
- Autodesk MAYA
- Cycling’74 Max/MSP Jitter
- NewTek Lightwave3D
- having experience level -
- Autodesk Combustion
- Eagle
- Atmel AVR Studio
Other Skills
- Simple programming for Atmel AVR Microcomputer
- Electronic circuit soldering
- Electronic prototyping with Eagle (printed circuit board)
- Welding (tig/mig)
- Silver work
- Silk screen printing
- Wood block printing
Operation system: mainly Mac OS X
Selected personal equipment for making artwork
- Mamiya 645 pro / medium format camera with simple light sets.
- Nikon D80 10 mega pixels Digital SLR camera with Nikon Capture NX
- Sony DSR-PD170 / mini-DV CAM camera
- MOTU Traveler Audio I/O
- MacBook Pro/2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- Powermac G4/867 Dual
- PowerMacintosh 9600/G3-466
- HP 6320 Notebook (Windows XP) for mainly AVR programming
- Epson printers/scanners
- Sony monitor display for video editing
- Fostex monitor speakers for Surround Sound editing
