Chim Pom

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Chim-Pom (stylized "Chim↑Pom") is an artist collective formed in Tokyo in 2005, when all the members were in their twenties. The six members are Ellie (エリイ), Ryuta Ushiro (卯城竜太), Yasutaka Hayashi (林靖高), Masataka Okada (岡田将孝), Toshinori Mizuno (水野俊紀) and Motomu Inaoka (稲岡求).

The group is somewhat influenced by Makoto Aida, as three of the members had been apprentices and Ellie had modeled for him. The collective has been described as "neo-Dadaist" and "the enfant terrible of Japan’s art world". Many of their projects have tackled provocative social themes.

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History

Chim-Pom first gained attention in 2006 with a project titled "Super Rat" (スーパー☆ラット), an installation of taxidermied rats captured from Shibuya district, which were painted to resemble Pikachu, the naming a riff on Takashi Murakami's "Superflat" reading of Japanese aesthetics.

Solo exhibitions

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2013 ‘“Hiroshima!!!!! Exhibition” Preparation Show’ Hot Spot Galleries in Hiroshima City

2013 “PAVILION,” Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, Tokyo

2012 “Chim↑Pom,” PARCO Museum, Tokyo

2012 “Beautiful World: SURVIVAL DANCE,” PROJECT FULFILL ART SPACE, Taipei

2011 “LEVEL 7 feat. ‘Hiroshima!!!!’,” Maruki Gallery For The Hiroshima Panels, Saitama

2011 “Chim↑Pom,” MoMA PS1, New York

2011 “K-I-S-S-I-N-G,” The Container, Tokyo

2011 “SURVIVAL DANCE,” MUJIN-TO Production, Tokyo

2011 “REAL TIMES,” MUJIN-TO Production, Tokyo (traveled to Standard bookstore, Osaka)

2010 “Imagine,” MUJIN-TO Production, Tokyo

2009 “FujiYAMA, GEISHA, JAPAnEse!!,” MUJIN-TO Production, Tokyo

2009 “Good to be human,” YAMAMOTO GENDAI, Tokyo

2009 “Hiroshima!!,” NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo

2009 “Disposed Dick,” Gallery Vagina (a.k.a. MUJIN-TO Production), Tokyo

2009 “Hiroshima!,” Vacant, Tokyo

2008 “Oh My God! –A Miami Beach Feeling–,” MUJIN-TO Production, Tokyo

2008 “Becoming Friends, Eating Each Other or Falling Down Together / BLACK OF DEATH curated by MUJIN-TO Production,” hiromiyoshii, Tokyo

2008 “Japanese Art is 10 Years Behind,” NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo

2007 “Thank You Celeb Project – I'm BOKAN,” MUJIN-TO Production, Tokyo

2007 “Oh My God!,” MUJIN-TO Production, Tokyo

2006 “SUPER☆RAT,” MUJIN-TO Production, Tokyo

Selected group exhibitions

2013 “SHIBUKARU MATSURI,” Shibuya PARCO, Tokyo

2013 “Atomic Surplus,” CCA Muñoz Waxman Galleries, New Mexico

2013 “adidas Originals PRESENTS BETTER NEVER THAN LATE,” Kodachi Seisakujo, Tokyo

2013 “Now Japan; Exhibition with 37 contemporary Japanese artists,” Kunsthal KAdE, the Netherlands

2013 “inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2013 – MicroCities,” Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York

2013 “Why not live for Art? II – 9 collectors reveal their treasures,” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo

2013 “Takahashi Collection – Mindfulness,” Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima

2013 “MOT collection – From Me to You –Close but Distant Journeys–,” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

2013 “All You Need Is LOVE: From Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku,” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

2012 “Artists and the Disaster –Documentation in Progress–,” Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito

2012 “The 9th Shanghai Biennale – REACTIVATION,” Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art

2012 “Project Daejeon 2012: Energy,” Daejeon Museum of Art, South Korea

2012 “Son et Lumière, et sagesse profonde,” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

2012 “Get Up, Stand Up,” Seattle Art Museum

2012 “The Angel of History – I Love Art 12 Photography,” Watari-um Museum, Tokyo

2012 “Turning Around” (curated by Chim↑Pom), Watari-um Museum, Tokyo

2012 “Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan,” Moscow Museum of Modern Art (traveled to Haifa Museum of Art, Israel)

2012 “The Fire that Doesn't Go Out,” Richard D. Baron Gallery, Ohio

2012 “TPAM in Yokohama 2012,” BankART Mini, Yokohama

2011 “Life, no Peace, only Adventure,” Busan Museum of Art, South Korea

2011 “Villa Tokyo,” Kyobashi area, Tokyo

2011 “Sky of Elpis,” TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK 2011 (TDW-ART), Tokyo

2011 “SHIBUKARU MATSURI,” Shibuya PARCO, Tokyo

2011 “City_net Asia 2011: Asian Contemporary Art Project,” Seoul Museum of Art

2011 “Mildura Palimpsest #8 – Collaborators and Saboteurs,” Arts Mildura, Mildura, Australia

2011 “Invisibleness is Visibleness: International Contemporary Art Collection of a Salaryman – Daisuke Miyatsu,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei

2011 “Never give up!,” PASS THE BATON GALLERY, Tokyo

2010 “The 29th São Paulo Biennial – There is always a cup of sea to sail in,” Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo

2010 “Asia Art Award,” SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul

2010 “Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?,” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

2010 “REFLECTION: alternative worlds through the video camera,” Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito

2010 “Moving – The first and final group exhibition in MUJIN-TO, Koenji,” MUJIN-TO Production, Tokyo

2009 “Good to be a mummy,” YAMAMOTO GENDAI, Tokyo

2009 “Spooky Action at a Distance: A Big In Japan exhibition of new video works from Japanese artists,” Black & Blue　Gallery, Sydney

2009 “A Blow to the Everyday,” Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong

2009 “Urban Stories: The X Baltic Triennial of International Art,” Contemporary Art Centre [CAC], Vilnius, Lithuania

2009 "Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art,” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

2008 “DEATH BY BASEL,” Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami

2008 “TOKYO NONSENSE,” SCION Installation L.A., Los Angeles

2008 “KITA!!: Japanese Artists Meet Indonesia” Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2008 “When Lives Become Form: Dialogue with the Future – Brazil, Japan,” The Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo

2008 “New Tokyo Contemporaries,” (marunouchi) HOUSE, Tokyo

2007 “Emotion Burglar,” BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama

2007 “DAIWA RADIATOR FACTORY VIEWING ROOM vol.4,” DAIWA RADIATOR FACTORY VIEWING ROOM, Hiroshima

2007 “Re-Act: New Art Competition 2007,” Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Awards

2007 “New Art Competition 2007,” Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art Award

Public collections

Mori Art Museum (JAPAN)
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (JAPAN)
The Japan Foundation (JAPAN)
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (JAPAN)
Asia Society Museum, New York (U.S.A.)
Queensland Art Gallery (AUSTRALIA)

Publications

“SUPER RAT” (Parco Publishing, 2012)
“idea ink 03 – Geijutsu Jikkohan” (written by Chim↑Pom, Asahi Publishing, 2012)
“Chim↑Pom” (Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2010)
“Why we can’t make the sky of Hiroshima ‘PIKA!’?” (co-edited by Chim↑Pom and Abe Kenichi, MUJIN-TO Production, 2009)

Discography (DVD)

2009 3rd DVD “Joy to Love”

2007 2nd DVD “The Making of Thank You Celeb Project – I’m BOKAN”

2006 1st DVD “P.T.A. (Pink Touch Action)”

References

Chim-Pom Wikipedia

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