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Ai Kumehara

Ai Kumehara

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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.

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