Biography

Minami is interested in how people perceive the world through sight and hearing and in the cognitive mechanisms involved. Based on the empirical study of his surroundings, his work emphasizes the audio visual experience of the artist's immediate environment through audio and visual material, computer graphics, animation and installation work. He considers all these media and materials as part of our cognitive architecture, of our experience of the world.

Born in Osaka, Japan, in 1976, Takao Minami graduated from the faculty of new media art at the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences in Gifu and is now based in Paris. He has held a number of significant solo exhibitions including "Collection Survey : Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples" Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples, Hokkaido (2019), "Takao Minami: Difference Between" Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo (2016), "Takao Minami" Ota Fine Arts, Singapore (2014), "Takao Minami: Motion/Movement" La Chambre Blanche, Quebec, Canada (2012), "CRITERIUM 80 Takao Minami" Gallery 9, Art Tower Mito, Mito (2010), significant group exhibitions including, "Habitat" Ota Fine Arts, Singapore (2019), "helen at the mountain" Tetsuko's Garage, Japan (2018), "19th DOMANI the Art of Tomorrow Exhibition" The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan (2016).

Works
  • Takao Minami, Sundial, Paris, 2022
    Takao Minami
    Sundial, Paris, 2022
    Set of 12 colour print photographs
    Print: 24 x 36 cm each / Frame: 40 x 52 cm each
    Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof
  • Takao Minami, Medi, 2016
    Takao Minami
    Medi, 2016
    6 channel video with sound
    9'00" loop
    Edition 2 of 5 + 1 AP
  • Takao Minami, Kishi no eizo, 2010
    Takao Minami
    Kishi no eizo, 2010
    HD video with sound
    10'00" loop
    Edition 1 of 8
  • Takao Minami, puppet study #4, 2010
    Takao Minami
    puppet study #4, 2010
    HD video, program controlled blind
    Dimensions variable
    Edition 1 of 1 + 1 AP
  • Takao Minami, Puppet Study #3, 2010
    Takao Minami
    Puppet Study #3, 2010
    3ch HD video (stereo)
    edition 1 of 8
  • Takao Minami, FAT SHADES, 2008
    Takao Minami
    FAT SHADES, 2008
    HD video with sound
    16'00" loop
    edition 4 of 10
  • Takao Minami, delta story, 2007
    Takao Minami
    delta story, 2007
    HDV Video
    17 mins
    edition 1 of 4
  • Takao Minami, in Penta, 2006
    Takao Minami
    in Penta, 2006
    HD video, single channel, 16:9 (vertical position)
    19'00" loop
    Edition 5 of 5
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