ASAE SOYA
曽谷 朝絵
Asae Soya obtained a doctorate in fine arts from the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2006. She works in interdisciplinary fields, such as painting, installation and video installation. Asae’s works are all filled with vibrant colors and light, while also possessing a dynamic sensation and subtlety that can awaken not only viewers’ visual senses but also their physical sensations.
In 2001, she won the Grand Prize in the SHELL ART AWARD, and in 2002, the VOCA Prize in Vision of Contemporary Art. In 2013, she won the Culture and Art Incentive Award in the Yokohama Culture Award, and also the Future Prize in the Kanagawa Cultural Award. For all of 2014, she was in NYC through a fellowship from the Japanese Government. Her activity is currently based at ISCP in 2014.
Soya creates paintings, installations and visual installations that express the integration of light, color and physical sensation.The series “Bathtub” was the first work to express this concept to focus on bathtubs as a special place to confront physical sensation. Recognizing the nature of physical sensation should lead to the interest in the dynamism in the brain on expressing it and the installation series titled “Ringing Color” and “Ringing Light” were created to “visualize scenes where colors and lights generate sounds”. These installations works represent scenes that she senses whenever she draws pictures and those were produced by attaching the objects that represent ripple of sound throughout the room. Followed by this is another visual installation work titled “Space” where “energy produced in our mind on creation” was illustrated as “forest of colors”. The installation projects an animation created from the watercolor paintings saturating the room.
In the understanding of how we sense the world, what is happening in our mind when we try to express that world by using a variety of ways, Soya creates a process that could be a trigger to activate not only our visual sensation but also our physical sensation.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
‘’Rainbow’’ Aki Gallery, Taipei (2015)
‘’Float’’KAAT (Kanagawa Arts Theatre) (2014)
"sora iro (Color of the air)’’ Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki(2013)
’’Swim’’Obuse Museum, Nagano (2011)
"Ringing Colors’’Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo (2010)
‘’Prism’’Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo (2007)
"Asae Soya Exhibition’’ Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo (2002)
Selected Group Exhibitions
Bullet P(roof) - Artificial Interference, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
Mandy Plaza, Xi'an; @KCUA (Kyoto City University of Arts) (2015)
Aki Gallery, Taipei (2014)
Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki; PYO Gallery, Beijing (2007)
Sezon Museum of Modern Art (2005)
Nagano; Art Tower Mito,Ibaraki (2003)
Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo (2002)
In 2001, she won the Grand Prize in the SHELL ART AWARD, and in 2002, the VOCA Prize in Vision of Contemporary Art. In 2013, she won the Culture and Art Incentive Award in the Yokohama Culture Award, and also the Future Prize in the Kanagawa Cultural Award. For all of 2014, she was in NYC through a fellowship from the Japanese Government. Her activity is currently based at ISCP in 2014.
Soya creates paintings, installations and visual installations that express the integration of light, color and physical sensation.The series “Bathtub” was the first work to express this concept to focus on bathtubs as a special place to confront physical sensation. Recognizing the nature of physical sensation should lead to the interest in the dynamism in the brain on expressing it and the installation series titled “Ringing Color” and “Ringing Light” were created to “visualize scenes where colors and lights generate sounds”. These installations works represent scenes that she senses whenever she draws pictures and those were produced by attaching the objects that represent ripple of sound throughout the room. Followed by this is another visual installation work titled “Space” where “energy produced in our mind on creation” was illustrated as “forest of colors”. The installation projects an animation created from the watercolor paintings saturating the room.
In the understanding of how we sense the world, what is happening in our mind when we try to express that world by using a variety of ways, Soya creates a process that could be a trigger to activate not only our visual sensation but also our physical sensation.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
‘’Rainbow’’ Aki Gallery, Taipei (2015)
‘’Float’’KAAT (Kanagawa Arts Theatre) (2014)
"sora iro (Color of the air)’’ Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki(2013)
’’Swim’’Obuse Museum, Nagano (2011)
"Ringing Colors’’Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo (2010)
‘’Prism’’Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo (2007)
"Asae Soya Exhibition’’ Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo (2002)
Selected Group Exhibitions
Bullet P(roof) - Artificial Interference, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
Mandy Plaza, Xi'an; @KCUA (Kyoto City University of Arts) (2015)
Aki Gallery, Taipei (2014)
Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki; PYO Gallery, Beijing (2007)
Sezon Museum of Modern Art (2005)
Nagano; Art Tower Mito,Ibaraki (2003)
Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo (2002)
AKIHIRO YASUGI
安来明宏
安来明宏
Restructuring.
To transplant old memories of a previous dwelling into a new home.
My memory, memories of the Japanese people, memories of mankind…
Rural breeze in the countryside, physical memory through handwork, a photograph found in a desk drawer..
Whether I live abroad or in a temporary shelter or far and out in Mars
Like transferring old data into a newly purchased computer
I will replicate memories into the work that i create and I myself reside in those objects.
RESUME
To transplant old memories of a previous dwelling into a new home.
My memory, memories of the Japanese people, memories of mankind…
Rural breeze in the countryside, physical memory through handwork, a photograph found in a desk drawer..
Whether I live abroad or in a temporary shelter or far and out in Mars
Like transferring old data into a newly purchased computer
I will replicate memories into the work that i create and I myself reside in those objects.
RESUME
NOBUKI MIZUMOTO
水本 伸樹
水本 伸樹
Nobuyuki Mizumoto is a native of Hiroshima, Japan, currently working and residing in Tokyo. His determinately precise works are produced from various materials; wood, resin, metal, etc., and implements a combination of multiple traditional techniques from the masters. His handling of fine lines and forms is a result of his rooted researches on 18th and19th century Japanese printing methods. Miuzmoto’s work is an exploration of an inheritance of Japanese quality standards placed in the context of contemporary Western art.
EXHIBITIONS
2016 George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 NEO JAPONISM:SHUNGA / Japan Foundation Los Angeles
2015 "Faux Sho': Japonism" / Balconi Coffee Company
2015 KACHOFUGETSU : FLOWERBIRDWINDMOON / Arena 1 Gallery
2014 i23 / Zaim Cafe Annex
2014 Mizumo Daily / Cafe Bolivar
2014 ART APART FAIR / PARKROYAL Pickering Hotel
2013 marooned / jaus
2013 Hong Kong Contemporary / Excelsior
2012 Co/Lab / artplatform
2012 Hong Kong Contemporary / Park Lane Hotel
EXHIBITIONS
2016 George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 NEO JAPONISM:SHUNGA / Japan Foundation Los Angeles
2015 "Faux Sho': Japonism" / Balconi Coffee Company
2015 KACHOFUGETSU : FLOWERBIRDWINDMOON / Arena 1 Gallery
2014 i23 / Zaim Cafe Annex
2014 Mizumo Daily / Cafe Bolivar
2014 ART APART FAIR / PARKROYAL Pickering Hotel
2013 marooned / jaus
2013 Hong Kong Contemporary / Excelsior
2012 Co/Lab / artplatform
2012 Hong Kong Contemporary / Park Lane Hotel
NAOHIKO ONODERA
小野寺 直彦
小野寺 直彦
Onodera’s recent projects deal with existentialist themes of human interactions with machines of warfare. War machines, in a sense, possess a very sophisticated aesthetic, but once in use causes catastrophic results. Instead of unilaterally condemning such contradictions and differences in historical and social awareness, Onodera’s focus is an acceptance of current world issues as it is and hopes to establish new relationships that will unite a worldly vision.
Born 1967
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
2016 “bullet p(roof) - artificial intelligence” George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
2016 Daikokuya Contemporary Art Competition Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya Salon
2015 Group exhibition XINLABANSHO:FOREST OF EXPONENTIAL, Paul Loya Galley, LA
2014 Nishiwaki City Thumbhole Prize, Okanoyama Museum Of Art
2012-16 Group exhibition Vector21 Yamawaki gallery
2012 Group exhibition（Heisenten）The National Art Center Tokyo
Born 1967
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
2016 “bullet p(roof) - artificial intelligence” George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
2016 Daikokuya Contemporary Art Competition Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya Salon
2015 Group exhibition XINLABANSHO:FOREST OF EXPONENTIAL, Paul Loya Galley, LA
2014 Nishiwaki City Thumbhole Prize, Okanoyama Museum Of Art
2012-16 Group exhibition Vector21 Yamawaki gallery
2012 Group exhibition（Heisenten）The National Art Center Tokyo
SAKIKO OHBA
大場咲子
大場咲子
Sakiko Ohba produces highly meticulous copper engravings. While studying at Tokyo University of Arts she acquired the expression to conserve the ancestors craft and tradition in making plates, taking editions, and placement into a frame. As this idea has become a norm, and Ohba’s concern of where to take this handed down technique into the next generation, she implemented the “hariko” technique to liberate the 2 dimensional print from the picture frame and make it a stand alone printed object.
RESUME
1990 Born Saijo, Ehime prefecture, Japan
EDUCATION
2014 BFA Tokyo Zokei University
2016 MFA Tokyo University of the Arts
EXHIBITIONS
2016
Group show - George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fable of the Forest 2016, Kiuchi Gallery, Chiba
Group show, Mitsukoshi, Ginza
Group show, Matsuzakaya, Nagoya
Group show, Isetan, Shinjuku
2015
Group show, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo
Group show, JAPM, Shanghai, China
Group show, PALETTEGALLERY, Tokyo
2014
Group show, Machida Museum, Tokyo
Group show, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
Group show, Guangzhou International Art Center, China
2013
Group show, Machida Museum, Tokyo
Group show, Bunboudou Gallery, Tokyo
RESUME
1990 Born Saijo, Ehime prefecture, Japan
EDUCATION
2014 BFA Tokyo Zokei University
2016 MFA Tokyo University of the Arts
EXHIBITIONS
2016
Group show - George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fable of the Forest 2016, Kiuchi Gallery, Chiba
Group show, Mitsukoshi, Ginza
Group show, Matsuzakaya, Nagoya
Group show, Isetan, Shinjuku
2015
Group show, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo
Group show, JAPM, Shanghai, China
Group show, PALETTEGALLERY, Tokyo
2014
Group show, Machida Museum, Tokyo
Group show, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
Group show, Guangzhou International Art Center, China
2013
Group show, Machida Museum, Tokyo
Group show, Bunboudou Gallery, Tokyo
