Ai Kumehara
Profile
Ai Kumehara
1989 Born in Saitama
2015 MFA in Japanese Painting, Tama Art University
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2021
“Comfortable Boundaries”, Artglorieux GALLERY OF TOKYO, Tokyo
“Comfortable Boundaries”, Hertz Art Lab, Tokyo
2020
“Comfortable Boundaries”, Itsuki Art Gallery, Tokyo
“The Sign of Beyond”, Funen Art Academy, Odense, Denmark
2018
“Foamed Garden”, Ueno Royal Museum Gallery, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions
2023
biscuit gallery 2nd anniversary exhibition “grid2”, biscuit gallery, Tokyo
2022
“ONE ART TAIPEI”, The Sherwood Taipei, Taiwan
“Collection of rainbows”, Gallery Chokodo, Gifu
2021
“TECHNICOLORS”, Space O, Tokyo
“CIRCLE”, Itsuki Art Gallery, Tokyo
2019
“Twelfth Lunar Month”, Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo
“Toy Box”, Gallery Chokodo, Gifu
2018
“FIELD OF NOW”, GINZA YOKYO HALL, Tokyo
2017
“NEXT ART”, MATSUYA GINZA DEPARTMENT STORE, Tokyo
“Achievement Exhibition”, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
“Exhibition of Young Japanese and Chinese Artists”, Yunjian Gallery, Shanghai, China
2016
“The telling flower”, FEI ART MUSEUM, Yokohama
“2016 Byobo Exhibition”, TOKYO GINZA ART MUSEUM, Tokyo
Awards
2016 34th “Ueno Royal Museum Award” First prize
2015 26th “Garyuzakura Award” Grand prize
2013 “ALBION AWARDS 2013” First prize
13th “Satou Taisei Award” Encouragement prize
Public Collections
Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
Sato Sakura Museum, Tokyo
Nichinancho Museum, Tottori
Yunjian Gallery, Shanghai, China
Concept
After creating a sketch with highly transparent paints, she applies thin Japanese paper over the entire screen and colors it with rock paints. Once the screen is reset to translucent, the boundaries of colors and shapes are blurred, and the depicted objects are abstracted. The artist depicts animals on the screen as “something suggestive” based on his experience of confronting animals that suddenly appeared in the places where he stayed where people had disappeared due to the lockdown caused by the coronavirus.