TAO ART is pleased to present Endless Life Cycles, a new solo exhibition by Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima, opening on October 21, 2025.

This exhibition centers on the act of living.
Each count is a gesture of the present moment.
Each movement marks a continuous state of transition.
Every “life cycle” unfolds as a performance in flux — constantly shifting, repeating, and evolving within the grand theater of existence.
Everyone, including the audience, becomes a performer within their own rhythms of change, invited to contemplate their roles in the greater cycles of life.

About Artist — Tatsuo Miyajima
Born in 1957, Tokyo, Japan
Tatsuo Miyajima was born in 1957 and lives and works in Japan. He finished undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1986, after which he began experimenting with performance art before moving on to light-based installations.

Miyajima’s supremely technological works have centred on his use of digital light-emitting diode (LED) counters, or ‘gadgets’ as he calls them, since the late 1980s. These numbers, flashing in continual and repetitious — though not necessarily sequential — cycles from 1 to 9, represent the journey from life to death, the finality of which is symbolized by ‘0’ or the zero point, which consequently never appears in his work. This theory derives partially from humanist ideas, the teachings of Buddhism, as well as from his core artistic concepts: ‘Keep Changing’, ‘Connect with All’, and ‘Goes on Forever’. Miyajima’s LED numerals are all aligned with his interests in continuity, connection and eternity, as well as with the flow and span of time and space.