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松田 ハル / Hal Matsuda

Hal Matsuda

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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

Selected Exhibitions

【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

Awards

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

Concept

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.

https://www.instagram.com/hal_matsuda/

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Miu Kurihara

Miu Kurihara

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Miu Kurihara

2001　Born in Gunma, raised in Fukushima
2023　BFA in Oil Painting, Tohoku University of Art and Design
2024 – Current MFA in Tohoku University of Art and Design

Selected Exhibitions

2023
“Tohoku University of Art and Design Graduation Exhibition”(Tokyo Selected Works Exhibition), Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
biscuit gallery 2nd anniversary exhibition “grid2”, biscuit gallery, Tokyo
2022
“Tohoku University of Art and Design Tokyo Exhibition Special Program The team” Tohoku University of Art and Design Main Building 7th Floor THE TOP, Yamagata 
“T.I.P at OF HOTEL | OF HOTEL LOCAL SESSION Vol.002” OF HOTEL, Miyagi
“T.I.P RESPONSE” STUDIO CORE’LA, Yamagata
2021
“bubbles/debris: Art of the Heisei Period 1989-2019” （Participant in “Is Tohoku painting possible?”), Kyoto Kyocera Museum, Kyoto
2017
“ArtUnit Hanjuushin Exhibition 2017 Closet Land” Galerie Lã, Tokyo

Concept

Inspired by the world’s spiritual rituals, Kurihara extracts elements from them to reconstruct them from Kurihara’s own perspective into costumes. The resulting costumes are also used as motifs for paintings and installations.
The artist depicts people facing and accepting death as a universal concept.

https://www.instagram.com/miu_kurihara/

 

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Yutaka Shimomura

Yutaka Shimomura

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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

Selected Exhibitions

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

Concept

By materializing and reconstructing the image, Shimomura works to rethink their relationship with the image itself.