Category: Artists

Selected Exhibitions

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

Awards

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

Scholarships

2019
Moriya Art Education Encouragement Award

Concept

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.

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2023
“Sarada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” John Gallery Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
“Magic Earth: barnacles” Hitsuji to Yagi, Tokyo, Japan 
“Magic Earth” Nice Tea Meet You, Tokyo, Japan

2022
“Summer” John Gallery Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan

2021
“Flats & Spirals” At Kiln Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
“Yunomi” John Gallery Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan

Group Exhibitions
2023
“The Martinsons Award Exhibition” 4th Latvia Ceramic Biennale 2023, Daugavpils, Latvia
“18th Kajima Sculpture Competition” Tokyo/Osaka, Japan
“Dessing up plants” minamo Kyoto, Japan
“Harvest festival” KUJIMA, Fukuoka, Japan

2022
“Lucky omen” Mizusai, Tokyo, Japan

2019
10th Snow Design Competition Exhibition, Nakaya Ukichiro Museum of Snow and Ice, Ishikawa, Japan
he 83rd Exhibition of Shinseisaku, The National Art Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

2017
Marunuma Art Park Annual Exhibition, Saitama
“Art x Asaka”, Asaka city museum, Saitama
 “Creator 3”, Artcomplex Center of Tokyo
“Phase”, Lerverk, Gothenburg
“Freedom”, Husby konsthall, Stockholm

2016
“Marunuma Art Park Annual Exhibition” Saitama, Japan
“Cheonju Museum of Art” Seowongu Cheonju-si, South Korea
“A-venue, Lighter darkness” Gothenburg, Sweden
“HDK Graduation Show 2016” Vasagatan 33, Gothenburg, Sweden
“Creator 2” Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Japan

Concept

Currently inspired by lessons learned in surfing, she works on developing abstract sculptures and wall pieces on movement and speed. Comical names as Wakame Rider or Longboard boogie, gives a light-hearted impression, but we all know how merciless the ocean can be. 
Human against nature is a new satirical theme, telling the story about human struggle to find balance and clarity if only just for a short ride.

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2024″Hear the Silence“, biscuit gallery karuizawa, Karuizawa,Nagano
2023
“Blueness”, +D.A.Y.O.N.E GALLERY, Tokyo
2019
“BLUENESS”, UYart Gallery, Taichung

Group exhibitions
2023
“L0-Fi Diversity”, +DA.YO.NE.GALLERY, Tokyo
2019
“Japanese Artist Exhibition”, Google Office Taipei, Taipei

Art Fairs
MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2023
ART TAIPEI 2023
FOCUS ART FAIR PARIS 2022

Awards

2015
Newcomer Award at YOUNG ART TAIPEI
2014
KATHARINE HAMNETT LAB DESIGN AWARD

Concept

Blue is the color of the sea which is the origin of the creature. On the other hand it’s also the color of the death which lost the temperature. That it can be an image which disagrees seems to be an expression of a concept that life and death include each. That seems to be a sign which mixes unstably in order for 2 of something sometimes to become one and a sense in the moment which keeps changing. Many people are charmed by this color and try sublimation of various feeling including me so, and I think they may find sublimation of various feeling again. After earthquake disaster in 2011, sense in the moment which was being kept vaguely became clear for me. The world through which one lives so came to feel harder, more beautiful. I draw the environment, the strength of the person, me, the other ones and the moment which mixes unstably and beauty through the blue world.

https://www.instagram.com/ya_shirokuma/

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2021
“I’d like to meet an alien ghost”, GALLERY TAGA2, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions 
2022
“Drawing – the trajectory of the body”, UENO ART GALLERY, Tokyo
“1998”, GALLERY ROOM・A, Tokyo

2021
“Sculptures with the House”, Hirakushi Denchu House and Studio, Tokyo
“ART AWARD TOKYO MARUNOUCHI 2021”, Marunouchi Oazo, Tokyo
“Musashino Art University Degree Show 2021”, Musashino Art University Takanodai Campus, Tokyo

2020
“CAF Award Exhibition 2020”, Daikanyama Hillside Terrace, Tokyo
“Uwagoto”, KOGANEI ART SPOT Chateau, Tokyo
“Loss Time”, GALLERY 33, Tokyo

Awards

2021　ART AWARD TOKYO MARUNOUCHI 2021 – Hasegawa Arata Award
2020　CAF 2020 – Overseas Travel Awards

Concept

Gorilla Park reconstructs specific images on the earth as tangible objects. He seeks to create objects that cannot be recognized and have never been seen by humans, using universal materials and human hands.

https://www.instagram.com/gorilla___park/

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

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.

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.

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