Pop_Osushi
2001 Born in Hokkaido
2022 – Current BFA in Oil Painting, Musashino Art University
Group Exhibitions
2021
“Bobonnmonnchechenntsuenn” Sapporo Chikamichi (Chikaho), Sapporo
“‘Good mood and trace amounts of insanity’
No matter what happens,
Somewhere everyone wants to be in good spirits.
I’m serious!
With the madness that comes out of desire!”
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/pop_
Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/@pop_o
emumoto
2003 Born in Fukuoka
2023
“LongPress, Flick, PinchDown ,Swipe” Gallery10[TOH], Tokyo
“SHIBUYA STYLE Vo.17” Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo
2022
“SHIBUYA STYLE Vo.16” Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo
Taking the mental changes caused by destruction as their starting point, emumoto focuses on the possibility of “invisibility” created by applying noise to the information on the screen, and pursues the beauty of this nature through their work.
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/em_moto_p/
Yasuyo Maruyama
1985 Born in Kanagawa
2009 BFA in Oil Painting, Tokyo Zokei University
2011 MFA in Sculpture, Tokyo Zōkei University
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Redbud Arts Center, Houston, Texas
2021
The FORUM, Wichita Falls, Texas
2020
Ro2 Art | Downtown, Dallas, Texas
2016
GALLERY MoMo Projects, Tokyo
2015
Foyer Gallery, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas
2012
GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo
2010
Gallery Sakamaki, Tokyo
2009
GALLERY MoMo Roppongi, Tokyo
2022
NEW AMERICAN PAINTINGS WEST #162
9th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition — Special Jury Prize
2018
VAA 35th Juried Open Exhibition — Third Prize
2013
Sompo Japan Art Award — Selected
2012
Liquitex Art Prize 2012 — Hideyasu Moto Award
2011
ZOKEI Award at the 2010 ZOKEI Exhibition — Winner
Idemitsu Art Award Exhibition — Tamayo Iemura Award
The scenes, memories, air, colors, and specific gestures that I see in my daily life as I interact with others are all motivations for my work. I became interested in the human face after suffering from severe atopic dermatitis as an adolescent, and I use the people I encounter as my medium while mixing my own perspectives to create “someone” and depict the “face” within each of them.
Rikako Inoue
1997 Born in Tokyo
2021 BFA in Oil Painting, Musashino University of the Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2022
“Oni ha Kawa Haita Momo no you ni”, biscuit gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2020
“Kanashimi ni Kuchiduke wo”, LOKO GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2019
“Schrammfish”, GALLERY b. TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2023
“grid2”, biscuit gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022
“grid”, biscuit gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2021
“15th Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi”, Maru Bldg. 1F Marucube, Tokyo, Japan
“Z_01”, Ginzasix 6F Art Wall Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2021
9th Edition FACE2021 — Tsubai Reiko Judges’ Special Award
2019
51st Kanagawa Art Exhibition — Winner
2018
47th Idemitsu Art Award — Selected for Honorable Mention by Tomoko Yabumae
2019
Moriya Art Education Encouragement Award
Inoue is inspired by a wide range of media from tragic history to ridiculous home videos on social networking sites. While oil painting is her main medium, she incorporates pain, sorrow, love, and forgiveness that exist in the world created by humans into ephemeral and light expressions of pain, sorrow, love, and forgiveness through her non-standard painting and spatial expressions, combining various painting materials such as her own bearings, brushes, and needles.
Yennie Ebihara
2003 Born in Japan, raised in Hong Kong
2021 – Current BFA in Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts
2022 Recipient of the Keiichiro Kume Scholarship Fund
Solo Exhibitions
2024 ” Before the Current’s ” biscuit gallery, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions
2022 ”CROSSROADS” WHATCAFE, Tokyo
“Point de Part” bumpodo, Tokyo
Art Fairs
art stage OSAKA 2022
ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2022
Tokyo University of the Arts Art Fair 2022 — Guest Jury Award
Ebihara was raised in Hong Kong since childhood and returned to Japan in 2015. She has experienced a variety of different cultures and languages as a person of Korean and Japanese descent who was raised in an English speaking environment. From this foundation, she observes the social environment and social issues she is involved in from her own perspective and expresses her thoughts on the society that surrounds her through the medium of her artwork.
Hal Matsuda
1998 Born in Iwate, Japan
2021 BFA in Printmaking, University of Tsukuba
2023 Enrolled in Kyoto University of Arts Graduate School Global Seminar
【Solo Exhibitions】
2021
“VIRTUAL ABSTRACTION” Bunka DOGO, Tokyo
【Group Exhibitions】
2022
“KUA ANNUAL 2022” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
“ARTISTS’ FAIR KYOTO 2022 Satellite alter in form – Henyou Kyoto” Chiso Gallery, Kyoto
“KUMA EXHIBITION 2022” ANB Tokyo, Tokyo
“1998” KAIKA Tokyo, Tokyo
“Kakusan kyori / Convaato no sahou / Kahen taiyou” Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo
Shinnosuke Tojo × Hal Matsuda × Ryu Ika “積層 | Layers” RICOH ART GALLERY, Tokyo
“CAF Award 2022 Finalist Exhibition” Daikanyama Hillside Terrace, Tokyo
2022
CAF Award 2022 — Selected
2021
WATOWA ART AWARD 2021 Special Prize — (Tomoko Ashikawa Award, Aoi Shigeru Award, Maho Kubota Award, Taka Komatsu Award）
100人10 between the arts — Sponsorship Award
Dichotomies such as real and virtual, AI and human, are transformed into matter by the medium of painting and sculpture. The evolution of human technology and science may extend our imagination. But our bodies have not changed from those of hunters tens of thousands of years ago. We take for granted our use of smart phones and the many images and information we can easily share. The device feels like our skin, as if it has always been there. Our desire has fueled the development of replication technology. But when that desire takes a different form, it will return to the universality of the organism, transcending the violence born of desire.
Yutaka Shimomura
1999 Born in Shiga, Japan
2022 BFA in Oil Painting from Kyoto City University of the Arts
2023 Enrolled in Kyoto City University of Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department
Solo Exhibitions
2023
“＃ Re-touch” KUNST ARZT, Kyoto
Group Exhibitions
2023
“ARTISTS’ FAIR KYOTO” The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto
“Osaka Kansai International Art Festival” Osaka Prefectural Nakanoshima Library, GRAND FRONT OSAKA, Osaka
2022
“Tokeau konseki” YOD TOKYO, Tokyo
“It’s Gonna Be Awesome!!! part2” YOD TOKYO, Tokyo
“Yuudachi” Shinjuku Ganka Art Gallery, Tokyo
“Art Exhibition” Kyoto City University of Art, Kyoto
“Tokidoke” Shinjuku Ganka Art Gallery, Tokyo
2019
“Fuyuusuru hentai vol.2 coexitence” KAGANHOTEL, Kyoto
By materializing and reconstructing the image, Shimomura works to rethink their relationship with the image itself.