Extended Profile of
Artist Ponzi 1995-2009
1995 First solo show
1999 BFA from Montserrat College of Art Beverly
Mass
1997 First Professional Group Show
1998 Group Show
"Evolution Series and other Surrealism"
1999 Group Show Senior thesis
1999 "Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club
Band"exhibition
Faculty Award received
999 "Impressions of a city"
First Notable Large Scale painting sale
Newspaper recognition
1999-2000 John Hancock Life Insurance company
Various studio works
2000-2001 Hiatus and small collaboration (Learning
Japanese)
Fashion Model for Isetan fashion Show
Movie "Jyu En" "ten cents"
actor
2002 Exhibitions
2002 April Pax gallery Shibuya
"Pop positives and Negatives"
First one man show in Japan
2002 September Radio:on:active
"Giant Grapfruit Projections"
Second solo show
2002 September Le Deco gallery Shibuya
"Eyesaw Contemporay Multimedia Exhibition"
2 large paintings and live painting and poetry
reading
2002 Summer Gunma Prefecture Green Palace
10ft by 30ft Mural painting with Junna Obu
2002 Live Painting spaces
BLUE Aoyama
"Night Talking and Borderless"
2 events with Ace Mori
Crocodile Club Shibuya
Victor records CD release party
Seco Bar Shibuya
"Nuphoria event"
many different events
Planet 3rd Shibuya
Book release party with Guitarist Kaya
MITSUKOSHI Department Store
Nagoya 3 days
Nihombashi 5 days
GIG Yokohama
with Guitarist kaya
Le deco Shibuya
"eyesaw event"
Scruffy Murphy's Harajuku
with Guitarist Yugo
also played music
Air Dikonyama
"Nuphoria with Groove Collective"
2003 Exhibitions
Gabi Gabi Harajuku
"Semi Retrospective with Keisuke
Kamahora"
Sign Gallery Gaienmae
"Time Stands Still Exhibition"
Tokyo Big Site
Interior and Furniture Exhibition2003
Live Painting 2003
Gabi Gabi Harajuku
"Semi Retrospective with the Windermere
May"
Seco Bar Shibuya
"Nuphoria"many dates
Core Roppongi
"Asobi Gocoro" Playful Heart
Fashion Show
Mitsukosi Department Store
Nihomabashi and Sendai
Fresco painting demonstration
blue moon beach house Hayama
beach party live painting
Kaya Blue Tour
Nagoya Bar Seesaw live painting
Kukala Yokohama
Bar Cozy Higashi Kitazawa
(Video Available)
La Fabrique Shibuya
live painting
2006
Noize Fukuoka
live painting
Volume Fukuoka
live painting
Mama Mia Fukuoka
live painting
ROOMS Fukuoka
live painting
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Seisu painting exhibition 48 paintings
measuring 305 cm's across.
2004
Gureforeya
"Gemini Exhibit"
Good Honest Grub Café
"Gemini Exhibition"
2004 Live Painting
The Ruby Room
East Point Production Funky Friday
JZ Brat
Shibuya Jazz club Nuphoria
The Pink Cow
Nuphoria and Tatsuya Nakamura event
Plug
Shibuya Live House "Traveling with the
Mastermind"
Gaienmae Cultural Center
Rock for Regime Change
GEMINI TOUR 2004(click for dates)
all Japan tour 20 shows
Club Edge
Heineken sponsored
Hong Kong event
2005
WOMB Shibuya
live painting Breeding Ground
Seco Bar Shibuya
live painting
PLUG Shibya
live painting
Club Pure Shibuya
Tsunami Benefit
Katrina relief benefit
live painting
Pink Cow
Tsunami Benefit Live painting
Eggman Shibuya
live painting
Super Deluxe Roppongi
live painting
Ya pari Nama de Sow Ginza
live painting
Planet 3rd Koenji
Howz ans Y's painting and denim
exhibition
2007
solo exhibition Seco Bar Shibuya
various paintings sold out
many live paintings in various venues
Ueda Joint Jazz Festival
live painting
2008
re-birth live music and art event
live painting in A971 midtown Roppongi
Japan wine Championships 2008
Live painting for the Crown Princess of
Japan with the painting being sold for
Charity to the president of Lotte Korea
where the painting is hung in the lobby of
the Lotte hotel
2007
solo exhibition Seco Bar Shibuya
various paintings sold out
many live paintings
Ueda Joint Jazz Festival
live painting
2008
re-birth live music and art event
live painting in A971 midtown Roppongi
many events.
Japan wine Championships 2008
Live painting for the Crown Princess of
Japan with the painting being sold for
Charity to the president of Lotte Korea
where the painting is hung in the lobby of
the Lotte hotel
2009
Artist in Residency Living in Peace
Rongo Backpakers and Gallery
Karamea New Zealand
5 weeks of workshops live painting and
oil painting in paradise
www.livinginpeace.com
Kev Rock Hakuba Japan
4 by 4 meter live painting with various
well known bands
www.kev-rock.com
Kick Start Your Heart! Rock music
and Live painting event
various bands and live painting @ club
edge in Roppongi
www.club-edge.com
Solo Exhibition and live performance
@ the Pink Cow Shibuya
new oil paintings and live painting at the cow
www.thepinkcow.com