Biography
Tadashi Seto / 瀬戸 直
Summary
Born in Kyoto, lives in Chiba, Japan
Contemporary Artist and Designer, Part-time University Lecturer
Deeply committed to creating things in various forms.
Graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design (now Kyoto University of the Arts)
Clinical Art LecturerOrganized by Art Refresh (Japanese only).
Awards, Publications, etc.
- 2021
- Featured in the photo book 377975 Vol.1, a spin-off project of the JAPAN PHOTO AWARD “INTUITION”.
- 2011
- Selected as a representative work for the project Hamburg TEGAMI – Perspektiven japanischer Künstler.
- 2007
- Finalist, Snow Design Award, Ukichiro Nakaya Museum of Snow and Ice.
- 2006
- Honorable Mention, Peugeot 1007 Caméléo Kit Design Competition.
Works Timeline
- 2025
- Even Knowing It Would Vanish, I Carry My Load in the Basket.
- Daughter, Father, and the Signboard
- 2024
- The Last Mountain Climb
- 2023
- Drinking spring water on a spring day.
- 2022
- Opening Lines Karuta
- 2021
- Photos Displayed in a Tokonoma Alcove Series
- Sakura Conveyor 2021
- I Want to Eat Meat 2021
- 2020
- amabie.monster
- Spin "Ne"
- Pitch Black 2020.
- 2019
- Trees and Starry Sky
- Inheriting Relations — Protected by Reflective Poles
- Portfolio Quest
- New Year Dictionary “I”
- Night, Morning, Tree, and Time
- 2018
- Half, in Yellow
- Season of Ginkgo
- Sakura Conveyor
- 2017
- Specimen Library Series:“Various Flowers” — Complete 16 Volumes
- SAKURA Belt Conveyor
- The Orange Teacher
- 2016
- Project FRYPaN
- Corpse Line Series
- L'heure pour moi et l'arrêt de bus. (Time at the Bus Stop.)
- 2015
- Snow Light
- Paula
- Experiment W
- 2014
- Nap Dream
- Nature’s Gate Series
- Insert the Name Plate
- 2013
- Hōshi Cicada
- Happy Birthday.
- White New Year’s Card
- 2012
- Gesso on Loan
- Wasshoi! Hosting the Eight Million Gods
- Tadaima 2012
- Frills of the Dead and Sweet Syrup
- Akabane Illustrated
- Aobane Illustrated
- Mischief of the Body
- Correspondence Letters
- The Best of Door Stopper
- Original Leaf of the Dragon Books (A.D.15)
- 2011
- White Photo Frame
- Keep the Song —Place the Crying Voice Here—
- Ginkgo’s Season
- papier ist geduldig.
- Please Tell Them “I Am Here”
- Sin Gutenberg.
- Let Us Entertain the Eight Million Gods
- New Year Greetings 2011 “U”
- Rabbit New Year’s Card
- 2010
- Ashide (ancient Japanese decorative script)
- Library of Nostalgia Vol.1 “Writing” / Vol.2 “Loss”
- Itadakimashita!
- Itadakimasu.
- Mountain Trail
- Ant Tracks -3,203,5-
- Riding the Clouds
- Sloppy Book (Zasshi)
- White Birthday
- Goodbye Our Chief Director!!
- Fracture!
- Specimen Library Series — Complete 7 Volumes
- 2009
- Three Maps
- Strange Ties 2009
- Welcome Back
- I’m Home
- Let’s Make a Graduation Certificate
- Earn with Your Feet
- 2008
- B42 (Soul of Flyers)
- Office Lunch 2008
- 2007
- Message from the Sky.
- Fabric Scraps Available
- Excellent Domestic Product: Memory Storage Machine
- 2006
- France au Japon.
Exhibitions
- 2020
- Mar 4–29 Special Exhibition “Book Lovers”, MOTOYA Book Café Gallery, Tokyo
- 2017
- Dec 19–24 Special Exhibition “Garden of Absence”, Art Space Niji, Kyoto
- Sep 5–9 Solo Exhibition “Balance of the Archive”, Gallery Camellia, Tokyo
- 2016
- Oct 4–9 Solo Exhibition, Art Space Niji, Kyoto
- Mar 9–20 Special Exhibition “TEGAMI 5th Anniversary Exhibition — Returning from Germany”, Kamoe Art Center, Hamamatsu
- 2015
- Dec 8–20 Special Exhibition “Calendar for 2016”, Art Space Niji, Kyoto
- Mar 7–11 Special Exhibition “TEGAMI”, Das Japanische Haus e.V., Leipzig
- Mar 7–11 Special Exhibition “New Works”, Das Japanische Haus e.V., Leipzig
- 2014
- Mar 4–16 Special Exhibition “TEGAMI”, ULA, Berlin
- Jan 11 Solo Exhibition “Put Up a Nameplate!”, ANEWAL Gallery, Kyoto
- Jan 10–18 Special Exhibition “New Year’s Selection”, Gallery Camellia, Tokyo
- 2013
- Dec 10–22 Special Exhibition “Calendar for 2014”, Art Space Niji, Kyoto
- Jun 11–16 Solo Exhibition “—Place the Crying Voice Here—”, Art Space Niji, Kyoto
- Mar 23–27 Traveling Exhibition “TEGAMI”, WangHohmann
- Jan 11–20 Special Exhibition “New Year Greetings”, Gallery Mizunosora, Tokyo
- 2012
- Aug 16–18 Solo Exhibition “Conclusion of the Archive”, Gallery Camellia, Tokyo
- Mar 24 Roppongi Art Night — Midnight Workshop “Our Future Art” (Guest Speaker)
- Mar 12–Apr 26 Special Exhibition “TEGAMI and New Works from Tohoku”, Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum, Berlin
- Jan 16–27 Special Exhibition “TEGAMI”, Buenos Aires
- Jan 7–15 Special Exhibition “New Year Greetings”, Gallery Mizunosora, Tokyo
- 2011
- Aug 20–27 Solo Exhibition “Breath of the Archive”, Gallery Camellia, Tokyo
- Aug 27 Special Exhibition “TEGAMI” (Benefit Concert for Japan with Exhibition), St. Stephan Church, Hamburg
- Jun 17–19 Special Exhibition “TEGAMI: Postcards from Japanese Artists”, Altonale 13, Stadtteil- und Kulturzentrum Motte, Hamburg
- May 26–30 Special Exhibition “TEGAMI: Postcards from Japan”, Japan Film Festival Hamburg, Kino Metropolis, Hamburg
- Mar 26–27 Roppongi Art Night — Project “Roppongi Art-Mikoshi” (Cancelled due to the Great East Japan Earthquake)
- Jan 8–15 Special Exhibition “New Year Greetings 2011”, Gallery Mizunosora, Tokyo
- 2010
- Dec 4–11 Special Exhibition “The Shape of Books ’10 — Artist’s Books II”, Gallery Mizunodo
- Nov 16–21 Group Exhibition “Itadaki (Summit)”, Gallery NOAH, Tokyo
- Aug 26–29 Solo Exhibition “Veins of the Archive”, Gallery Camellia, Tokyo