Takao Minami was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1976, now based in Paris. Minami is interested in how people perceive the world through sight and hearing and in the cognitive mechanisms involved. Based on the empirical study of his surroundings, his work emphasizes the audio-visual experience of the artist’s immediate environment through audio and visual material, computer graphics, animation and installation work. He considers all these media and materials as part of our cognitive architecture, of our experience of the world.

His solo presentations have been held at Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples, Abashiri (2019); Abashiri City Museum of Art (2019); Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo (2016, 2010, 2008, 2007); Ota Fine Arts, Singapore (2016, 2014); La Chambre Blanche, Quebec (2012); Mito Contemporary Art Gallery (2010); Goethe- Institute, Hanoi (2009). Notable group exhibitions include at The National Art Center, Tokyo (2016); Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum (2016); Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun (2016); Palazzo Grassi Teatrino, Venice (2014); Abbaye Saint-André Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac (2014); 12th Biennale de Lyon (2013); Mito Contemporary Art Gallery (2013); Cité Intenationale des Arts, Paris (2011); Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art (2011); Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung (2010); Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (2009); Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2009).

In 2025, Minami was asked to undertake a commission from FRAC-Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Limoges.

Minami’s works have joined the collections of FRAC-Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Limoges; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Pinault Collection, Paris/Venice; Burger Collection, Hong Kong among others.