Koji Ryui

Biography

• Born 1976 in Kyoto, Japan. Arrived in Sydney in 1992.
• Lives and works in Sydney

Education

2002  

• Graduate diploma of design, University of Technology, Sydney

2000  

• Bachelor of visual arts (honors), Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009

• Moai, Gallery 4A, Sydney (With Huseyin Sami)
• Mutual Obligation, Artspace Sydney

2008    

• So Long,  Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
• Untitled Installation, Incu, Sydney

2007  

• Extended Network Towards the Happy End of the Universe, Downtown Artspace, Adelaide

2006  

• Koji Ryui, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
• Déjà vu, Horus and Deloris, Sydney
• Nocturnal Emissions, Artbox-Sherman Gallery, Sydney

2005  

• Milk Tree Society, Artspace, Sydney

2004  

• minimall, ScottDonovan Gallery, Sydney

2002  

• He huffed, He puffed, and He blew the house in, Block, Sydney
• WFD" (collaboration with Natsuho Takita), First Floor, Melbourne

2001  

• Proposal" (collaboration with Natsuho Takita), Blaugrau, Sydney  

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009

• Dynamo Hum, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney 
• Group Show, Sedition Gallery, Sydney
• Problem Solving: Express Yourself, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne

2008  

• New  Acquisitions MCA, Sydney
• Graduation Show SCA, Sydney
• Selected Recent Acquisitions The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
• Different Shades of Black MOP, Sydney
• Melbourne Art Fair Melbourne, Sarah Cottier Gallery
• We keep our cowshit in the city, if you keep your bullshit in the city (Collaboration with Shane Haseman and Vicky Browne)           Firstdraft, Sydney

2007  

• I ME MINE,  Horus and Deloris, Sydney
•  LION,  Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

2006 

• Primavera,  MCA, Sydney
• Paper , PICA, Perth
• Transformative,  Blindside, Melbourne
• Space Invaders,  4A Gallery, Sydney

2005   

• Here (Performance project for Terminus) Firstdraft, Sydney
• Gavin Hopkins Koji Ryui Nathan Thompson,
• ScottDonovan Gallery, Sydney
• PREDICTIVE TXT,  Hamish Mckay gallery, Wellington NZ
• Nature By Proxy,  Brian Moore gallery, Sydney
• Transformative, Peleton, Sydney

2004   

• out of the blue,  MOP Project, Sydney
• Octopus 5,  Gertrude contemporary art space, Melbourne
• Fantasy Island,  Michael Lett, Auckland NZ

2003  

• Islands in the stream,  (collaboration with Mary Teague, Natsuho Takita and Hany  Armanious),  Artspace, Sydney
• Avoiding the eye area,  MOP Project, Sydney

2001   

• Necessary Invention,  Artspace, Sydney (collaboration with Natsuho Takita)

Bibliography

2008   

• New Acquisitions 2008 Exhibition catalogue, MCA Sydney
• Hot in Melbourne, Art world magazine p120-121 UK

2007   

• Koji Ryui, Artist Profile magazine, p20-22 Sydney

2006   

• Artspace Projects 2005,  Yearbook, Artspace, Sydney
• Primavera,  exhibition catalogue, MCA, Sydney
• Nothing Magazine http://www.nothingmag.com/_issue10/index.html
• Paper,  M&T exhibition catalogue, PICA, Perth
• James Steele, Interludes in motion,  runway issue 7p36-37
• Transformative, Exhibition catalogue, Peleton / Blindside, Sydney/ Melbourne
• Shane Haseman , Islands in the stream,  Exhibition catalogue, Artspace, Sydney

2005     

• A short ride in a fast machine-Gertrude contemporary art spaces 1985-2005  page7-9

2004      

• out of the blue,  MOP exhibition catalogue, Sydney
• Penelope Richardson , Octopus 5,   Artlink  Volume 24 no3
• Robert Nelson, Octopus 5,  The Age Jul 21, Melbourne
• Octopus 5,  Gertrude contemporary art space exhibition catalogue, Melbourne
• Anthony Byrt , Art is a bunny rabbit, http://www.listener.co.nz/default    

2003    

• Friends Avoiding The Eye area,  runway 2  Firstdraft gallery publication, Sydney

2001  

• Alex Gowronski, Dividing Lines,  Broad sheet,vol 31 March

Collections

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
• The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
• Chartwell Collection, New Zealand
• Maddocs Collection, Melbourne

Awards and Prizes

2006

• new work grant, Australian council of the arts