Tomio Koyama Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Tomio Koyama Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Tamami Hitsuda "The Garden"
Tamami Hitsuda is an artist who creates images of imaginary places by combining various images. In a series entitled "Fibbing", a huge scarlet curtain is hung from cloudless sky, allowing viewers to catch (...)
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Hideaki Kawashima "Wavering"
Sitters in Kawashima's portraits look like abstracted souls of bodiless beings. Viewers get sucked into the penetrating stare of these sitters who seem to float in the air, as they experience the tension (...)
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Kumie Tsuda "Perfect is Not Perfect"
Tsuda composes an installation by combining her little ceramic works. While her motifs have definite forms, what they convey remains uncertain rather than telling a solid story, displaying invisible relationship (...)
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Daisuke Fukunaga + Kumie Tsuda Exhibition
This is an exhibition up and coming artists in their twenties. Fukunaga shows paintings, while Tsuda shows mixed media works in her first solo show.
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Jeremy Dickinson Exhibition
The toy car collection Jeremy Dickinson has amassed since childhood is the primary motif in his paintings. The numerous vehicles - from buses, classic cars, and roadsters, to trains, caravan, and fire (...)
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Nobuhiro Fukui Exhibition
Nobuhiro Fukui's first series, Trans Am (2005), depicted scenes of the city photographed between midnight and three a.m. The city at night continues to be his central theme. Of his work, he writes: Visual (...)
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Kishio Suga Exhibition
Kishio Suga was one of the artists involved in the the "monoha" art movement in the 1970s and 80s. Suga studied with Yoshishige Saito at Tama Art University, and began making installation pieces using (...)
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Rieko Otake "Tori - Tori"
Rieko Otake fashions sculptures from camphor wood and leaves them unpainted. "Yumemushi", her series of works that is reminiscent of Buddhist statues, features girls with delicate features in various poses. (...)
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Naoki Koide "In These Days"
Naoki Koide uses deformed sculptures to express himself and the people he associates with. Using a file on fiber reinforced plastic (FRP), he forms pastel shapes that extend in all directions. At first (...)
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Tal R Exhibition
Tal R is currently one of the most active artists in Denmark. In his solo exhibition "The Sum", which is now held at Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, he approaches dual media, sculpture and painting, (...)
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Jason Teraoka "Heroes, Villains and Victims"
Jason Teraoka is an artist and a 4th generation Japanese-American from Hawaii. It makes no difference if they're young or old, Teraoka's portraits range from the downright neighborly to imaginative figures (...)
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Stephan Balkenhol Exhibition
Sculptor Stephan Balkenhol carves giant tree trunks to free the humans and animals trapped within. They stand in front of sculpted reliefs of landscapes and geometric patterns with distant expressions. These (...)
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David Ratcliff Exhibition
David Ratcliff composes collages of various images using stencils on large canvases. Many of his motifs are derived from images found on the Internet. Using a single color of acrylic paint, photographs (...)
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Tam Ochiai "Scratching, Blood or Cat Carving"
Tam Ochiai works in various media including drawing, painting, sculpture, video, and performances that invite audience-participation. In an early series entitled “Shopping Bags,” which has been shown in (...)
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Makiko Kudo Exhibition
Makiko Kudo's works feature familiar objects in imaginary scenes. Girls, trees, grass, flowers, and small animals are some of the motifs that populate her canvases; each is depicted in a delicate and intimate (...)
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Masahiko Kuwahara "At the End of Summer"
The works of Masahiko Kuwahara reflect the oddities of the modern world that we occupy now. These are reflected in the strange creatures that inhabit stagnant urban ponds, the pig that finds it has been (...)
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Summer Show from the gallery collections
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Richard Tuttle Exhibition
With a career spanning over 40 years, while he has been described as Post-Minimalist, this artist has tended to take his own approach to drawing, installation, painting, and sculpture, so that all of his (...)
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Evan Penny Exhibition
This artist creates amazingly real busts (or full figures) mainly using silicone. His creations have a strangely captivating effect on viewers. Real human hair has been applied to the models’ heads, and (...)
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Dennis Hollingsworth "Colossus"
Dennis Hollingsworth was born in Madrid, Spain in 1956, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. The abstract quality of his works comes from the viewers' sense of recognizing that something is being (...)
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Yuko Someya Exhibition
Someya applies washi paper to panels and creates outlined worlds using slender strokes so the paper’s gentle qualities remain present. Many of her motifs feature flowers and birds, plants, and animals; (...)
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Hiroshi Sugito "Shortcut to the Sky"
Hiroshi Sugito was born in 1970 in Aichi prefecture, where he is now based. He graduated from the Japanese Painting Department at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music in 1992. He returns (...)
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Diego Singh "The Indirect Man"
Diego Singh's work is described by curator Dominic Molon as "...constructing imaginary other worlds that function as self-portraits, radically expanding the possibilities of that artistic tradition... (...)
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Terry Winters "Generation Systems"
Opening Reception: March 31st, 18:00-20:00
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Benjamin Butler "Leafless Trees and Sakura"
Opening Reception: March 31st, 18:00-20:00 【Image: Untitled (Leafless Trees), 2007】
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"Wonderwall - Constructing the Sublime" Exhibition
This exhibit features works by 10 prominent German artists currently active in the contemporary art scene. The theme of this exhibition is the appearance of holy and sublime buildings. The pieces have (...)
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Rieko Hidaka Exhibition
Rieko Hidaka was born in Tokyo in 1968, and has a master's degree in Japanese paintings from Musashino Art University. Having spent a year in Germany as a trainee from the Agency for Cultural Affairs, (...)
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Mika Kato Exhibition
Mika Kato (1975-) was born in Mie Prefecture and graduated from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music with a master's degree in oil painting in 2001. For her second solo exhibition at this (...)
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"Portraits from China" Exhibition
Opening reception: December 16th, 18:00-20:00 ['Miffy want to be an artist', 2006]
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Mika Ninagawa "Everlasting Flowers 2"
An exhibition of 20 large works and 60 small works portraying imitation flowers placed in cemeteries, which is a common practice in countries with strong sunlight like Mexico, Guam and Saipan. The flowers (...)
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Peter Wu "Red Parrot on a Shoulder of a Black Pirate"
Opening reception: October 21st, 18:00-20:00 ["Fold Fold Me Me In In An An Ocean Ocean Spin Spin", 2006]
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Atsushi Fukui "The Eyes of the Midnight Sun"
This is a solo exhibition of new works by Tokyo-based Atushi Fukui. Fukui was born in 1966 in Aichi Prefecture and graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. This is his third solo (...)
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10th Anniversary Exhibition
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Jonathan Pylypchuk Exhibition
Based in Los Angeles, Pylypchuk graduated from the Masters program at UCLA in 2001. This is his second solo exhibition at the Tomio Koyama Gallery following the exhibition at the Project Room in 2003. (...)
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Daisuke Fukunaga "Neighborhood Garden"
Daisuke Fukunaga's first solo exhibition will feature new paintings and drawings. The title ”Neighborhood Garden" comes from a display of random things being placed in an old garden: hoses, wooden boxes, (...)
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Ernesto Neto Exhibition
Also showing at Gallery Koyanagi. There will be an opening reception on August 1st, 18:00-20:00. ["Celula Nave. It happens in the body of time, where truth dances", 2004]
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Mitsuru Tokutomi "Plus, Minus, Infinity"
This exhibition, curated by Koji Higashiya, is the first large-scale retrospective of Mitsuru Tokutomi's works since his death. For Tokutomi, 'unfinished work' meant 'a work that was denied its finish' (...)
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Naoki Koide "Marriage"
Tokyo based Naoki Koide (1968-) is a graduate of Tokyo Zokei University. His artwork consists mainly of sculptures using a kind of plastic called FRP, and photographs of those works. He has two main motifs (...)
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Gallery Collection Exhibition
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Mamoru Tsukada "Specter"
Mamoru Tsukada was born in Nagano prefecture in 1962. After studying photography in the U.S, he is currently based in Tokyo. He started his career as a photographer taking pictures of blind people. Blind (...)
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Satoshi Ohno "Acid Garden"
Satoshi Ohno was born in Gifu prefecture in 1980. His visit to the U.S army base in Yokota on the very first day of the Iraqi war inspired him to create his first series "Yokota US Air Base". While searching (...)
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Kishio Suga Exhibition
Kishio Suga was born in 1944 in Morioka, Iwate prefecture and graduated from Tama Art University. In 1967, he won the Shell Art Prize while still attending university. For the next 40 years, he participated (...)
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Think Warm: Miami Draws for You
A survey of the drawing medium with works by 24 Miami artists. When we think of Miami, hot beaches and steaming asphalt are first to come to mind. We also think of its people as warm, extroverted, the (...)
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Yoshino Masui Exhibition
Yoshino Masui was born in Shizuoka prefecture in 1976. She has graduated from the Tama Art University, Department of Fine Art. She is now working in Tokyo. In 2004, she was discovered by Tomio Koyama during (...)
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Yoshie Sakai
Yoshie Sakai was born in Chiba in 1965. She graduated in post-graduate studies from the Kyoto City University of Arts in 1993. She is now living and working in Kyoto. Sakai depicts surfaces of water, (...)
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Satoshi Hirose "Blue Box"
One of the themes that Hirose works with is "travel". Travel is not necessarily an escape from daily life, but it is an act of finding a new daily life. Hirose also works around the theme of "sky". "Blue (...)
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Philippe Perrot Exhibition
[Philippe Perrot "Sans titre (Remix)" 2005 courtesy Art : Concept, Paris]
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Opening Group Exhibition of the Gallery Artists
Opening: November 11th, Fri, 5pm-7pm Reception Party: November 11th, Fri, 7pm-9pm
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Masahiko Kuwahara "Land Development"
Masahiko Kuwahara was born in 1959 in Tokyo. What is consistently expressed in Kuwahara's work is the darkness that surrounds the contemporary society, and the overwhelming feeling of emptiness that (...)
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Makiko Kudo
Makiko Kudo was born in 1978 in Aomori, Japan. She graduated from the Joshibi University of Art and Design (Oil Painting Department) in 2002, and she is now working based in Tokyo. Things that she encounters (...)
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Shintaro Miyake - Atsumori
Shintaro Miyake was born in 1970 in Tokyo. He graduated from Tama Art University (Department of Fine Art, Painting Department Print Major) and has been working in Tokyo. Miyake's works are drawings, (...)
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Tom Sachs "McDonald's"
Tom Sachs' art pieces can be described as sort of "handmade pieces from ready-made goods". For instance, his toilet bowl piece is made of Prada logos stitched together and his "McDonald's value-set" is (...)
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Franz Ackermann
Franz Ackermann was born in 1963 in Neumarkt, Germany, and graduated from the Art Academy of Munich in 1988. The theme of his work is related to traveling. Traveling around the world, he has received a (...)
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Hideaki Kawashima "mutablilty"
After he graduating from university, the artist entered Buddhism priesthood practice. While in university, he studied Yukio Mishima's novels and the toughened style of his early works was perhaps influenced (...)
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Mika Ninagawa "photographs 2001-2004"
Mika Ninagawa's first solo exhibition at Komio Toyama Gallery.





