– Senior curator at the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
– Doctorate in modern and contemporary art from Kansai University
– 2006-2012: Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
– 1988-2006: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
– Publications: Gutai: splendid playground(2013), Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949–1962(2012)
– Lecture: ‘What’s Gutai’(Ayala Museum, 2016), ‘Gutai Lecture’(San Francisco Art Institute, 2013), ‘Gutai Workshop’(Guggenheim and Harvard, 2011)