I always enjoyed drawing and have been working as a graphist for the past twenty years ( my professional works can be seen on http://www.exprime.co.jp/). In 1999, Maia Maniglier, my wife and exprime inc.'s president, organized my first exhibition in Paris. To show for the first time your works in a foreign country is an exciting and moving experience; a melting pot, a maelstrom ( UZU in Japanese ). It's how uzu.info became my artist site. 1961 Born in Wakayama, Japan 1980-84 Art university of Osaka, Japan 1985 Winner of 25th Kyoto's Design Grand Prix 1997 Jury's Price - Japan National library architectural competition 1998 Starts to create personal works as artist 1999 «exposition UZU Paris 1999» ( Paris, rue des Beaux-arts ) 2000 Exhibit works at Grand Marche d'Art Contemporain ( Paris, Bastille ) 2001 Exhibit works at "1er Festival d'estampe numerique" 2001 Grand Prix winner of Kinomiya price - TOKOHA CG ART 2001 ( Japan ) 2002 Exhibit works at "Exposition digital art" ( Photography museum of Tokyo ) 2002 "Exposition Tirages par Tatsuya OKA" ( Tokyo, Musee Pictorico ) 2002 Exhibit works at "Relais Gourmand" (aiD'en, Tokyo ) 2002-3 Exhibit works at "Japan Art", Hongrie 2003 Exhibit works at "Ueno Break" ( Gare de Ueno station, Japan ) 2003 Tatsuya Oka's exhibition in Europe 2003 (Slovacia, Roumania, Hungary) 2003 Gofuku Nakashimaya exhibition L'estampe numerique et le Yukata en 2003 ,Tokyo 2003 Exhibit works at "Asean Graphiqs 2003" The Japan in the computer, Yokohama 2003 Buto danse "Fujin Raijin", Paris 2003 Edo a la carte - L'estampe numerique / Modern Japanese estampe exhibition, Tokyo 2004 “Art in computer graphics”, Tokyo 2004 “Asian graphics 2004 Yokohama exhibition”, Yokohama 2004 Buto danse "Fujin Raijin", Paris 2004 Exhibit works at "TOKYO STYLE IN STOCKHOLM T-SHIRT EXHIBITION "...without borders", Sweden 2004 Exhibit works at "TOKYO STYLE IN STOCKHOLM T-SHIRT EXHIBITION "...without borders", Tokyo 2004 Les Quatre fleurs, Hakata 2004 Exhibit works at "Le voyage au Japon", Paris 2005 “GO West in kimono” exhibition, Kyoto 2005 Exhibit works at AppleExpo2005, Paris 2005 Exhibit works at Asean Graphiqs Creators representing Japan , Aichi World Exposition 2005 Tatsuya Oka's estampes numeriques works are on permanent exhibition in two french companies in Tokyo : EDF and Lacie. http://www.aiden.info/ Member of : aiD'en, JAGDA ( Japan Graphic Designers Association )
(C)2004 Tatsuya OKA