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Ai Natori

Ai Natori


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Ai Natori

Born in Saga, Japan
Degree in Imaging Arts and Sciences, Musashino Art University

Studied painting from childhood under Isao Noda, a painter of the Action Art Association. Seeking a more abstract method of expression, she entered the Department of Imaging Arts at Musashino Art University, where she expanded her field of expression to VJ work, installation, and performance. In the spring of 2011, she went back to her roots and started working with drawings again.

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/aina_to/

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Hotaru Tachi

Hotaru Tachi

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Hotaru Tachi

1996  Born in Aichi
2015  Graduated from Aichi Prefectural Asahigaoka High School
2020  Relocated to Tokyo

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2023 “Fruiting at the Table”, biscuit gallery karuizawa, Karuizawa
2021 “Deformation Garden”, ChangTing Gallery, Tokyo
2021  “Umi ni Taberareru”, MAKII MASARU FINE ARTS, Tokyo
2020  “Ajisai to Mokuyoku”, MAKII MASARU FINE ARTS, Tokyo
2020  “Awaku Mabayuku”, Gallery Camellia, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions

2022  “ART TAICHUNG”, 333GALLERY, Taipei
2022  “grid”, biscuit gallery, Tokyo
2022  “Lovely”, OIL by Bijutsu Techo, Tokyo
2021   “Ampersand ‘Elegy for a Bygone Image World'”, Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Beijing
2021   “5A.M., Ki to Kanou”, rusu, Tokyo
2021   “GINZA COLLECTOR’S CLUB”, Ginza Tsutaya, GINZA ATRIUM, Tokyo
2019   “Studio MOKAH Pre-Open Studio”, Studio MOKAH, Tokyo
2021   “SLANGS”, WHAT CAFE, Tokyo
2021   “Wakate no Chushou Kaiga”,, ChangTing Gallery, Tokyo
2021   “Kotoshi Hajime ni Misetai E”, Gallery TOWED, Tokyo
2020  “collectors’ collective vol.3”, MEDEL GALLERY SHU, Tokyo
2020  “Shibuya Style vol.14” Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo
2020  “Kaiga no Kashi” TRiCERA MUSEUM, Tokyo
2020  “FACE Exhibition 2020”, SOMPO Museum of Art, Tokyo
2019  “Shibuya Style vol.13”, Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo

Statement

“To hold on to negativity, to hold on to a sense of discomfort. In my opinion, this forces the object to strain and distort. That is why, as a result, the paintings are greatly deformed and metamorphosed into semi-three-dimensional deformities. However, I bring comfort to the negative scene by giving it the guise of gentleness, serenity, and calm. By doing so, we may be able to affirm the existence of negativity, which is often denied.”

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GORILLA PARK

GORILLA PARK

 

 

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GORILLA PARK

1998 Born in Saitama
2021 BFA in Sculpture, Musashino Art University
2023 MFA in Sculpture, Tokyo University of the Arts

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/

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松田 ハル / Hal Matsuda

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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.

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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.

 

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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.

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Keita Motooka

Keita Motooka

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Keita Motooka

1999 Born in Hiroshima
2022 BFA in Sculpture, Musashino Art University
2022-to present MFA in Sculpture, Tokyo University of the Arts 

Selected Exhibitions

2021
The Miyawaka International Triennale(July, 2021〜May, 2024)
Group show「Selection」GALLERY ART POINT
Passing by the street (Art Viewing Nishi Tama)
2022
Solo exhibition “non-zero” (Musashino Art University, Tokyo) 
Duo show “Sculpture” Kôta Echizen-ya×Keita Motooka (Alt _Medium)
「Our monsters」vol.3 Ippei Yonezawa×Misaki Motofuji×Keita Motooka (Double Tall-Art &Espresso Bar)
Solo exhibitions “Speech Baloon#” residecy exhibition Former Kanji Ueda atelier
ART AWARD TOKYO MARUNOUCHI 2022 
Group show “Directions of Choices” (GALLERIE SOL)
Solo exhibition “View in the distance” (Gallery Motomachi)
SHIBUYA STYLE vol.16 (Seibu, Shibuya)
Group show “Sculpture and House” Former Hirakushi Denchū atelier
2023
EASTEAST _TOKYO 2023 

Awards

2021 “The Miyawaka International Triennale TRAiART” first prize 
2022年「Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2022」 Tomoko Yabumae award

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Hiroyuki Mori

Hiroyuki Mori

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Hiroyuki Mori

May, 1982 Born in Fukuoka
March, 2009 MFA in Art department at Hiroshima City University Graduate School

Concept

Mori mainly uses wrestling as a motif and works with Japanese painting techniques. By using traditional Japanese painting styles and techniques, he attempts to reveal the “stylistic beauty” of the motifs. In addition, wrestlers cultivate a strong body and mind through rigorous daily training. There is a sense of greatness to the figure that even makes one wonder if something sacred resides in it, and by highlighting the magnitude of the figure’s existence, he hopes that it will become a kind of “lucky charm” that will accept the pain and suffering of those who see it.

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2019 “MUCHA LIBRE”(HASHI GALLERY・Mexico)
2019 “The German Suplex”(Iwata Syouten gallery, Mie)
2022 “プロレス詣 (Wrestling Pilgrimage)”(OVER ALLs store, Tokyo)
2022 “Grateful Days”(Iwata Syouten gallery, Mie)

​Group Exhibitions
2018 “Beauty of Techniques”(JILL D’ART GALLERY, Aichi)
2018 “ART ASIA 2018″(KINTEX, Korea)
2019 “ART FAIR ASIA / FUKUOKA”(The Okura Fukuoka)
2019 “Christmas exhibition”(s+arts, Tokyo)
2020 “Step Over Art Breaker&(The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Tokyo) 
2022 “Royal Jumble”(Shōonji Temple, Tokyo)
2022 “Foreshadowing”(Eslite Gallery, Taiwan)
2022 “ART! ART! OSAKA”(Daimaru Umeda, Osaka)
2022 “ANIMAMIX”(Eslite Gallery, Taiwan)

https://www.instagram.com/mori_hiroyuki_/

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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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Ryoko Furukawa

Ryoko Furukawa

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Ryoko Furukawa

1994 Born in Hyogo, Japan
2020 BFA in Oil Painting, Hiroshima City University
2022 MFA in Oil Painting, Hiroshima City University

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2023 
“Pacific is made of silver”, HIROSE COLLECTION, Hiroshima

2022 
“mawaruhane-wo-kiru/haru”, MONO.LOGUES, Tokyo

2021 
“About Mr. and Mrs. X I Know”, gallery RYO, Tokyo
“Cowboy without Memory is in the Garden”, gallery G, Hiroshima

2020
“Strangers in a strange place”, Hiroshima art center, Hiroshima

2019
“Faceless ghost”, Book and liberty, Hiroshima

Group Exhibitions 
2023
biscuit gallery second anniversary exhibition “grid2” biscuit gallery, Tokyo
“Expression of Contemporary Artists”, Soil Museum SHIDO, Hyogo
“kɯβzɨβɾe^ collapse”, Decameron, Tokyo

2022 
“SHIBUYA STYLE vol.16”, Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo
“Itʼs Gonna Be Awesome!!! Part 2”, YOD TOKYO, Tokyo
biscuit gallery first anniversary exhibition “grid”, biscuit gallery, Tokyo
“Between one and another”, ARTDYNE, Tokyo

2021
“The 30th Annual Scholarship Recipient Art Exhibition”, The Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo
“SLANGS”, WHAT CAFE, Tokyo 

2020
“Let’s present”, Gallery G, Hiroshima

2019
“Forest without a figure”, HIROSHIMA ART CENTER, Hiroshima
“THE PORTRAIT within 1km”, Atmosphere, Tokyo

Art Fairs
Art Fair Tokyo 2023
ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2022
3331 ART FAIR 2021

Awards

2022
Hiroshima city University Graduation Doctoral Program Final Exhibition, Oil Painting Major Prize
2021
PIGMENT Prize, The 30th Scholarship Exhibition
2020
Sato International Cultural Scholarship Foundation 

Concept

I create paintings based on images associated with words, and as a rule, the following items are my rules. (1) I cut up the text written by a third party. (2) The creator reconstructs the text in (1). (3) The artist creates a painting using only the text in (2) as a clue. The artist cuts up words found around her, such as the instruction manual for the fan she uses at home and the piano instruction book she used in her childhood, and creates paintings from the reconstructed sentences.

https://www.ryokofurukawa.com

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