Category: Artists

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2022   　 “WAVE WAVE”, Musashino Art University Building 2 FAL, Tokyo
　　　　”WAVE SCENE”, GALLERY b.TOKYO, Tokyo
　　　　”SCENE SCENE”, Gallery &Café Mu, Osaka
2021　     “Re:Co(mmuni)cation”, GALLERY b.TOKYO, Tokyo
                  “Co(mmuni)cation”, GALLERY b.TOKYO, Tokyo
2020 　 “Jyokei”, GALLERY b.TOKYO, Tokyo

Statement

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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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 

https://www.instagram.com/motonini3768/

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_/

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

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
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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

https://www.instagram.com/ryoko_furukawa_/

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2022 “Third Time’s the Charm－Last garden The Movie－”, GINZA SIX Art Wall Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022 “Garden”, Shimokitazawa Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2022 “The Garden Once More”, MAKII MASARU FINE ARTS, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibitions
2023 “biscuit gallery Christmas Exhibition”, biscuit gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022 “Love&Peace Exhibition 2022”, SOGO Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
2022 “Nine Colors”, Hankyu Umeda, Osaka, Japan
2022 “ART IS…”, WHAT CAFE, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Duo Show “introduction”, S.Y.P Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
2015 “Immaturity – Starting here”, 634 Tenjishitsu, Tokyo, Japan

Statement

The motifs of Fukuhara’s paintings include a wide range of subjects, including people, still life, and landscapes, and the types of paintings range from abstract to figurative. Fukuhara finds the subjects of his paintings when he is alone or in the midst of his mundane daily life with friends. He creates paintings based on images he takes with his smartphone, but arranges these images freely through the artist’s sensory filter. Fukuhara always hopes to shorten the distance between the viewer of his paintings and himself, the artist, and to have the viewer relive the perspective he had when he was painting. In other words, Fukuhara’s paintings and drawings are an effective medium for sharing with strangers the sensations and perceptions he has in his daily life that are not fully articulated through his artwork. However, Fukuhara never forces the viewer to have a “correct” view of his paintings, but rather allows the viewer to perceive them freely through his or her own sensibilities. In the midst of an increasing number of contemporary art works that overly demand context and prerequisite knowledge and compete only with each other for “esotericism,” Fukuhara’s painting practice is strikingly fresh.

Hiroki Yamamoto / Art Critic