Selective CV

1959     Born in Hillingdon, UK


1979 - 1982  Studied Fine Art at Bristol Polytechnic


1987 - 1988  Artist in Residence, Cobham Hall, Cobham, Kent, England



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Solo Exhibitions


1988   Exhibition of paintings finished while Artist in Residence at Cobham Hall


1994   USO - one man show at the Shomeido Hall, Takanodai, Kodaira City, Tokyo


1996   Succour - Playbill, Jingumae, Tokyo


1999   Peter Bellars TEN - works 1989 - 1999 - Gallery Idea, Aoyama, Tokyo


2002   Par for the Course - Yokohama Museum of Art, Art Gallery


2007   Data: Building on Experience - Project show, KANDADA, Kanda, Tokyo


2012   The Path to Understanding - Command N Shift, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo



Group Shows


1982   Stowell's Trophy Exhibition, Royal Academy, London


1989   Gallery and Company, Aoyama, Tokyo


1993   Ginburart - Guerilla art show on the streets of Ginza, Tokyo


1994   Nakamura Masato's 'Rental Gallery'- Ai Gallery, Kyobashi, Tokyo


1995   Jyugemu - SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Yanaka, Tokyo


1996   Survival Tools - Sakura City Museum of Art, Sakura City, Chiba, Japan


1997   Damp - Daigital Art Museum Project (online)


1997   Two Thousand Bug - Series of shows by pairs of artists, Gallery Ryugi, Tamachi, Tokyo


1997   Morphe 97 - Transmission - @zone deisgn company, Aoyama, Tokyo


1998   Damp II - Online


1998   Jyugemu - Contemporary Art Factory, Sumida-ku, Tokyo


1999   Ten - Ai Gallery, Kyobashi, Tokyo


1999   Akihabara TV - Video show on monitors and TVs in stores across Akihabara, Tokyo


1999   Networking - Drawing exhibition, P-House, Ebisu, Tokyo


1999   Artist's Proof - Toki Art Space, Jingumae, Tokyo


2000   Akihabara TV2


2000   Cities on the Move - New Nasubi Gallery, Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany


2000   (un)related - 4 Collaborators - Saison Art Project, Jingumae, Tokyo


2000   Sukima Project - Command N, Akihabara, Tokyo


2000   Jyugemu FAKE - SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Yanaka, Tokyo


2001   NiCAF - Nippon International Art Fair -  CNT (Command N Time)


2001   Tokyo Rabbit Paradise - Selfridges Department Store, London - Neo Tokyo - Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art


2001   Sukima Project II - Command N, Akihabara, Tokyo


2001   Sex and Consumerism. Contemporary Art in Japan - University of Brighton Gallery / Aberystwyth Arts Centre / Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University / Hotbath Gallery, Bath.


2002   Akihabara TV 3 -  Command N, Akihabara, Tokyo


2003   Watashi no otakara koukan project - TREASURE FOR TREASURE - six person show Asahi Art Festival 2003 - Sumida Riverside Hall, Tokyo


2004   Even the Moon is not Autonomous - Group show of Japanese Art, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany


2005   Even the Moon is not Autonomous -  Lothringer Dreizehn, Munich, Germany  


2005   Tokyo Rabbit Paradise - Show and blind Auction, KANDADA, Jimbocho, Tokyo


2008   Secret Auction @ KANDADA - KANDADA, Jimbocho, Tokyo


2010   Secret Auction @ 3331 - Auctions show coninciding with the opening of 3331 Arts Chiyoda.


2012   Sobyoten - Drawing Show - Tanaka Yaesu Gallery, Chuo-ku, Tokyo


2012   Secret Auction @ CommandN SHIFT - 3331 Arts Chiyoda


2020 Early 90's Tokyo Art Squad - 3331 Arts Chiyoda



Articles and TV appearances


1988   The Japan TImes Weeky 11/6/1988 - Finding his own in another's footsteps - Gilles Kennedy


1993   Asahi Evening News 3/4/93  - Ginburart - The Search for Art in Ginza - Maria Jordan


1994   Daily Yomiuri art notes 23/9/94 - True Lies


1996   Daily Yomiuri 19/7/1996 - A sugar-coated moment of relief - PJ McGuire


1996   JAP Magazine, Vol 3 Number 11 Winter - Tokyo Cafe Interview (Japanese)


1997   Japan Times 30/11/97 - The Trajectory of the City and its Art - Arturo Silva


1998   NMP International - network museum & magazine interview online


1999   NHK News 26/2/1999 - NHK TV 6pm ( news)


1999   Fuji Television Art Museum 7/3/99 - Fuji TV


1999   New Sunday Art Museum 7/3/99 - NHK TV


1999   The Daily Yomiuri 11/3/99 - Get the Message - Chiyono Sugiyama


1999   Look Japan August 1999 - Changing Channels: Akihabara TV - Nakamura Masato


1999   Japan TImes 17/10/99 - Designed for your new consumer life - Kara Bescher


1999   Book TV  ARTBooker Vol 16 - Cable TV Documentary 'Peter Bellars'


2000   Link Club Newsletter April 2000 - Mac Freak File p1-3 ( Japanese)


2000   Sankei Shimbun 3/26 - Video art ga Akihabarajack ( Japanese)


2000   Bijutsu Techo JUNE - Colour Special p30/31


2000   JAMA ( Journals of the American Medical Association) November edition Japan. Cover and article


2001   Sex and Consumerism, Contemporary Art in Japan - Catalogue to exhibition


2001   The Money Makers -  The Argus Oct 10 - Review


2001   Knickers to fragility - THe Sunday Telegraph October 7 - Review


2001   Real Tokyo - Xenophobic Landlords


2002   Peter Bellars: Par for the Course - Metropolis Magazine Oct 11


2002   Educational crazy gold is a hole in one - Japan Times October 16


2012   Artscape Japan FOCUS - review of show in 3331