1963 Born in Fukui, Japan
1987 Graduated from Waseda University, School of Political Science and Economics
2006 The 31th Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award

<Solo Exhibitions>
1994 “The Specimen of a Woman” Hiranagachobashi Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
“Nippon” Konica Plaza (Tokyo, Japan)
1995 “Pornography” Hiranagachobashi Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
1996 “Gathering Bodies” il tempo (Tokyo, Japan)
1999 “Human Body 1/1” Zeit-Foto Salon (Tokyo, Japan)
2000 “Reclining Woo-Man” Zeit-Foto Salon (Tokyo, Japan)
“ca.ra.ma.ru” gallery mai (Tokyo, Japan)
2001 “Naked, for Example” il tempo (Tokyo, Japan)
2002 “Twelve Messengers” Zeit-Foto Salon (Tokyo, Japan)
2005 “Common Sense” Zeit-Foto Salon (Tokyo, Japan)
2006 “In My Room”　NADiff (Tokyo, Japan）
“In My Room”　KONICA MINOLTA PLAZA GALLERY C (Tokyo, Japan）
“How to contact a man” Zeit-Foto Salon (Tokyo, Japan)
2006-2007 “In My Room” GALLERY M (Aichi, Japan)
2007 “Takano, Ryudai’s Daily Photos” GALLERY at lammfromm(Tokyo, Japan)
2008 “Takano, Ryudai’s Daily Photos” Yumiko Chiba Associates Viewing room /
Ginza(Tokyo, Japan)
“PARA-PARA” Zeit-Foto Salon (Tokyo, Japan)


<Group Exhibitions>
2000 “The Vision of Contemporary Art (VOCA) 2000” 　The Ueno Royal Museum
(Tokyo, Japan)
2001 “Kiss in the Dark : Contemporary Japanese Photography” Tokyo Metropolitan
Museum of Photography Tokyo, Japan)
2002 “Kiss in the Dark : Contemporary Japanese Photography” Marugame
Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (Kagawa, Japan)
“Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition” Turkish Japanese Foundation
Cultural Center (Ankara, Turkey) 2003 “Mask of Japan : Japanese
Contemporary
Photography” aura gallery (Shanghai, China)
2004 “Les metamorphoses du quotidien” The Museum of Modern Art (Gunma,
Japan)
“out of ordinary / extraordinary : Japanese Contemporary Photography”
Casa Asia (Barcelona, Spain)
2005 “out of ordinary / extraordinary : Japanese Contemporary Photography”
Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst (Berlin, Germany, etc.)
“ 85/05 : The photography beyond 20 years from Tsukuba Museum of
Photography 1985” 　sendai mediatheque (Miyagi, Japan)
“Post Gender” Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art (Haifa, Israel)
2007 Art Fair “Art@Agnes2007” The Agnes Hotel and Apartments Tokyo
(Tokyo, Japan)
“Japan contemporary Art Festival” (Heyri, Korea)
“Japan Caught by Camera - Works from the photographic Art in Japan ”
Shanghai Art Museum (Shanghai, China)
2007-2008　“A Private History” Fotografisk Center (Copenhagen, Denmark), VB-VALOKUVAKESKUS(Kuopio, Finland)
2008 “Still / Motion : Liquid Crystal Painting” Mie Prefectural Art Museum (Mie,
Japan) , National Museum of Art (Osaka, Japan), Tokyo Metropolitan
Museumof Photography (Tokyo, Japan)
“Rudai Takano×Koji onaka / Shanghai two men show” Gallery Kaido　
(Tokyo, Japan)
“The archive exhibition / photographs of Kudanshita building” Kudanshita
bldg(Tokyo, Japan)
“The history of art and city -Paris, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai-” sendai
mediatheque (Miyagi, Japan)　

< Public Collections >
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
The Japan Foundation
KAWASAKI CITY MUSEUM

<Upcoming Exhibition>
20 September-9 November 2008
“Backlight 2008 Tickle Attack 8th International Photography Triennial” (Tampere, Finland etc.)