biscuit gallery 岩岡 純子｜Sumiko Iwaoka
Profile
Born in Chiba Prefecture in 1982
Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting, Oil Painting Major in 2007
Completed Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts in 2009
Exhibition History
Solo Exhibitions
2025
“TIME LEAP Publication Commemorative Exhibition” Morioka Shoten, Tokyo
2022
“People Walking in Nakanoshima” YOD Gallery, Osaka
“Landscape” Oakwood Apartments Roppongi Central, Tokyo
2013
“Beauty Portrait Exhibition” 3331 Gallery
Group Exhibitions, etc.
2026
“grid5” biscuit gallery, Tokyo
2025
“Tokyo Biennale 2025” Nihonbashi, Tokyo
“MUSEUM for NEWTOWN” Parthenon Tama, Tokyo
“Sampling Sensor” Ganka Gallery, Tokyo
“A Room of One’s Own” Sansiao Gallery HK, Hong Kong
2024
“New Eden” tagboat, Tokyo
“Depaysé / Journeys and Gardens” New Space Pa, Tokyo
2023
“HOMMAGE” Sansiao Gallery, Tokyo
2021
“Collectors’ Collective Vol.5” biscuit gallery, Tokyo
“dpi” KANZE ARTS, Fukuoka
Awards
2021 WATOWA ART AWARD 2021 Selection
2020 Shell Art Award 2020 Selection
2020 15th TAGBOAT AWARD Selection
Concept
I create works by cutting out illustrations of masterpieces from catalogues and reference books, combining collage and oil painting. I depict scenes as if the figures from masterpieces have appeared in landscapes within a radius of several tens of meters from my daily life.
For me, masterpieces feel more real as reproductions in art catalogues and reference books rather than as the original artworks themselves.
Starting from my own experience of learning art through such reproductions, I create works while exploring how artworks that have remained in history intersect with everyday life and how they connect to my current sensibilities.
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