Daisuke Takeya

Born and raised in Japan, interdisciplinary artist Daisuke Takeya obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Graduate School of Figurative Art at the New York Academy of Art and received Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Currently based in Toronto, Canada and Ishinomaki, Japan, Daisuke has had numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally. Venues have included the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Nuit Blanche (Toronto), SVAGallery (NYC), Wagner College Gallery (NYC), Kyoto Art Center, Sezon Art Program, Roppongi Art Night 2013, Fukushima Contemporary Art Biennale, Canon New Cosmos Exhibition, Yamagata Biennale, the Japan Foundation, Toronto, and the Prince Takamado Gallery at the Embassy of Canada in Japan. Daisuke is also the representative and curator of Field Trip Project/Field Trip Project Asia, Responding Performance Art Initiative, and one of the founders of Transnational Coalition of Art (Transnation).