Mizuma Action - Nakameguro - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Mizuma Action - Nakameguro. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Susan Philipsz "Did I Dream You Dreamed About Me"
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Tomiyuki Kaneko "Yokai Substantiations"
Starting July 21st, we will be holding an exhibition by Tomiyuki Kaneko in Nakameguro, Mizuma Action. The decision to exhibit “Yokai Substantiations” at Mizuma Action was sudden as the building that houses...More »
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Yujiro Miyazaki "Blue, Green and Mount Fuji"
Yujiro Miyazaki was born in Ota in 1977. After graduating from Tokyo Zokei University in 2001, he participated in and won the Grand Prix at the Tokyo Wonder Wall open call exhibition in 2005, subsequently...More »
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Ryoko Kimura "Paradise"
Ryoko Kimura was born in Tokyo in 1971 and graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts with a Master's degree in mural painting. Kimura, who trained in oil painting during her studies, had been creating...More »
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Ikuyo Yamada "Never Ever In My Life"
Mizuma Action is pleased to present “Never Ever In My Life”, Ikuyo Yamada's first solo exhibition at the gallery. Yamada was born in 1983. After receiving a master’s degree in oil painting from Musashino...More »
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Hiromi "Something Lolita"
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Kozue Oshima "Star Atlas"
In this exhibition, Oshima focuses on the wide universe and nature expanding above our heads. Just like how people have been looking up to the sky since ancient times, connecting stars to create stories,...More »
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Eli Okamoto "To See the Voices of the Spirits"
Eli Okamoto is a young artist born in 1987 in Chiba prefecture, currently enrolled as a graduate student in the painting department of Tokyo University of the Arts. She received the Taito Ward Mayor Prize...More »
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"Eyes and Curiosity Vol. 6" Exhibition
This is the 6th edition of the "Eyes & Curiosity" series of group exhibitions featuring artists that aroused the curiosity of owner Sueo Mizuma. On display are works by Vol. 4 participant Nanami Ishihara,...More »
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Toru Ishii "Metropolitan Moment"
Toru Ishii's early work focused on motifs influenced by graffiti works associated with hip-hop culture. A study abroad stint at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in the UK, however, prompted Ishii...More »
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Sai Maruta "Peace and Undulation"
Sai Maruta was born in 1969 in Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture. This is his first solo show in Tokyo featuring a number of acrylic and oil paintings on paper and canvas that have also been "hit" with...More »
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Robert Waters "Man"
Mizuma Art Gallery is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition in Asia of controversial Canadian artist Robert Waters. Roberts Waters' art is a study of our ongoing evolution in post-industrial...More »
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Mikiko Kumazawa Exhibition
We are pleased to announce Mikiko Kumazawa's first solo exhibition at Mizuma Action with a selection of new and old pencil drawings. Kumazawa was born in Aichi prefecture in 1983 and graduated from Musashino...More »
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Kyotaro "I Saw a lot of Fairies 2004-2010"
We are pleased to announce Kyotaro's exhibition, "I Saw a lot of Fairies 2004-2010". This is her first solo exhibition in two years at Mizuma Action. Kyotaro is well known for her wide range of activities,...More »
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Naoko Majima "In the Jungle"
This exhibition by Majima is composed of pencil drawings and objets d’art made with various materials. Majima creates her drawings without making a draft beforehand, starting with a single line that...More »
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Yumi Karasumaru "It's Our Tokyo Stories"
Based in Bologna, Italy, Karasumaru portrays her feelings of melancholy and anxiousness that arise from being away from Japan. Painting over photographs of Tokyo projected over a canvas, the artist creates...More »
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Masakatsu Sashie "de facto standard"
Masakatsu Sashie was born in Kanazawa in 1974, and is currently based there. He attracted attention for his participation in the group exhibition "Eyes and Curiosity vol. 4" last year, and his work enjoys...More »
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Hiroko Okada "Dusky Room"
Okada's works, which are based on observations of actual life, have won high critical acclaim both in Japan and abroad. In recent years, she has participated in group exhibitions in American and France...More »
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O Jun + Junichi Mori "Keirenshi"
This exhibition features impressionistic paintings by O Jun and wood carvings of natural phenomena by Junichi Mori that attempt to seek out "convulsive" sensations, inspired by the way in which Surrealist...More »
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Sara Dolatabadi "Pejvak (god is great)"
Mizuma Art Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by the Iranian artist, Sara Dolatabadi. Dolatabadi was born in 1978 in Tehran, Iran and graduated from Azad Art University in 2001. She currently...More »
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Masao Yamamoto "Kawa=Flow"
Mizuma Art Gallery is holding Masao Yamamoto's second solo exhibition in three years, "Kawa-Flow," from July 22nd onwards. Yamamoto is an artist who works mainly in America and Europe. This year saw...More »
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Jin Kurashige "Hollow Point"
This exhibition by Kurashige is his first in Tokyo in about two years. In that time he has participated in the Sydney Biennale, the "Move On Asia 2009" exhibition at Gallery Loop in Seoul, and various...More »
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Kozue Oshima "Pictorial Book"
Oshima was born in 1978, earned a BA in Design from Tokyo Zokei University in 2002, and started her career as an artist in 2004. She held solo exhibitions at Gallery ES in 2005 and 2007, and participated...More »
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Mari Ota Exhibition
Mari Ota was born in Nagoya in 1982 and graduated from the department of oil painting at Tama Art University in 2006, after which she completed a graduate course in painting at the Kyoto University of...More »
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Aiko Miyanaga "Dwelling in a Boat"
Aiko Miyanaga was born in Kyoto in 1974. She has gained a fast reputation for her work shown together with Katsuhiko Hibino at the Oyamazaki Sanso Museum (2004), at a solo show at the Sumida Riverside...More »
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Satoru Aoyama "Glitter Pieces #1-22"
Aoyama was born in Tokyo in 1973 and graduated from the textile department of Goldsmiths College, London in 1998. He obtained a Master's from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2001 and is currently...More »
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Ai Kato "Kyupin"
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Koji Tanada "Girl Tying"
In September 2008, Tanada broke his two year silence and held an exhibition of 12 new works at the Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum in Shizuoka Prefecture tailored to suit the space. "Eleven Adolescents,...More »
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Manabu Ikeda Exhibition
Ikeda was born in 1973 in Saga, and received his master's degree from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 2000. In 2001, he won the grand prize in the fourth Hamamatsu nationwide public...More »
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Ryuki Yamamoto "Shi Shin Kei - Super Privatism"
Yamamoto was born in 1976 in Mie Prefecture. He is known for his detailed photorealistic self-portraits that are full of humor. He calls his works "super privatism painting," and he often uses the self-portrait...More »
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Hisashi Tenmyouya "Fighting Spirit"
Hisashi Tenmyouya is known for his satirical work that makes use of traditional Japanese drawing and painting techniques and subject matter while taking an ironic stance towards contemporary society. His...More »
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Makoto Aida "I'm Mizuma's Iwaki!!"
Mizuma Gallery is holding an exhibition by Makoto Aida starting September 3rd. This is Aida's first solo exhibition in Japan in three years. After participating in the 2006 Singapore Biennale, Aida was...More »
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Akino Kondoh "Flesh"
Mizuma Art Gallery is pleased to announce “Flesh”, an exhibition by Akino Kondoh. This is her second solo show at this venue and features new oil paintings. In her previous and first solo exhibition...More »
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"Eyes and Curiosity" Exhibition Vol. 4
This 4th edition of the "Eyes and Curiosity" exhibition at Mizuma Action highlights the gaze of the artists, the curiosity of the gallery director Mr. Mizuma, while also providing a space for viewers to...More »
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"Order Received" Exhibition
This exhibition introduces the original works whose copies have since become familiar to viewers through media like art books. On display are works with a different perspective from their usual production,...More »
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Tomoko Konoike "Hidden Mountain and The Lodge"
This exhibition, held over the 2nd and 5th floors of Mizuma Gallery, has the structure and progression of a mountain expedition, posing the possibility of accident and encounters with natural phenomena...some...More »
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Paul Johnson "Sensitive Chaos"
Mizuma Art Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Tokyo of the work by the British artist Paul Johnson, "Sensitive Chaos". Johnson creates paintings from intricately detailed constructions...More »
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Sissi "Over the Glance Ties the Rope"
Sissi was born in Bologna, Italy in 1977. She received a degree from the Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna. She has received numerous awards, including first prize from the Fondazione Querini Stampalia...More »
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Shinsuke Tsutsui Exhibition
Shinsuke Tsutsui uses beeswax to create his paintings incorporating motifs of "insects." He collects bugs and takes microscopic photographs of them, and uses the images to determine what patterns to use...More »
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Satoru Aoyama "Crowing in the Studio"
This exhibition features works by Satoru Aoyama. Included are detailed drawings of his studio, a number of sketch-like drawings created with a sewing machine, and an animated collaboration with his artist...More »
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Naoko Majima "In the Dense Forest"
Majima was born in Aichi prefecture in 1944. Since the early 1980s, she has continuously created ghastly and frightening, yet beautiful pencil drawings and objet d’art with her own unique style. In 2006,...More »
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Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba "The Ground, the Root, and the Air"
Born in 1968, in Tokyo, to a Japanese mother and Vietnamese father, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba spent his early years in Japan. After moving to the U.S., he finished the MFA program at the Maryland Institute,...More »
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Hiroko Okada "Love & Hate Lunch Box"
"Love & Hate Lunch Box" is a faux cable TV cooking show presented by the artist Okada, a.k.a. "Hiroko Okada Sensei" from San Francisco. As the title implies, Obento (Japanese style lunch box) recipes...More »
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Gino Rubert "True Blues"
For his first exhibition at Mizuma Action, Gino Rubert presents the "True Blues" series. The title of the show translates as real sadness, but it also refers to the concept "true blue", which means fidelity...More »
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Hirofu Iso / Komainu "Nighthopper"
Born in 1978, Hirofu Iso / Komainu creates installation works based on the ordinary scenes and happenings that surround him, applying elements of architecture and art, which he studied at university. Hirofu...More »
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Hiroyuki Matsukage + Kosuke Tsumura "Fantasy Mode to Order"
Hiroyuki Matsukage's large scale installation titled "Star" was highly acclaimed at last year's Singapore Biennale. He has done a dangerous performance piece called "Echo", and also has been working on...More »
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Yoo Seung-Ho "Echowords"
Yoo (b.1973), currently living and working in Seoul, received his degree in painting at Han-Sung University in 1999 and was awarded the "Seoknam Art Award" prize for emerging and promising artists in 2003....More »
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Jin Kurashige "His Shadow Enwraps Me"
After his first solo exhibition in Japan in 2005, Kurashige participated in several group exhibitions such as "The Pantagruel Syndrome" at the Turin Triennale in Italy in 2005, "Rapt! 20 Contemporary Artists...More »
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Ai Yamaguchi "Yama, haruru"
Ai Yamaguchi depicts underage prostitutes back in the late Edo period, using unusual supports for her paintings. The stories take place at a teashop in the middle of the mountains, where those girls have...More »
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Susan Philipsz "Did I Dream You Dreamed About Me"
Opening Reception: March 14th (Wed) 18:00-20:00 Suzan Philipz, born in Glasgow and currently living in Berlin and Belfast, creates sound installations using her voice. She was featured in Sculpture...More »
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O Jun Exhibition
O Jun's first solo exhibition in five years will feature a series of work that is the culmination of a career during which he has consistently been producing 2D works: the "Yuen (playful garden)" series...More »
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Akira Yamaguchi Exhibition
The first solo exhibition by Akira Yamaguchi in two years will feature works that he has worked on for the past 5-6 years. They are different from his past works, which were produced with motifs of battle...More »
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Tomoko Kounoike "The planets are temporarily hidden by clouds"
As the artist of inventive animations, sculptures and installations that continue to surprise her audience, Tomoko Kounoike has been the object of much attention in the past year. For this exhibition,...More »
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Yumi Torimaru Exhibition
The first solo exhibition in Tokyo by Bologna-based Yumi Torimaru will consist of 15 new works from the 'Teenager' series. Toriyama uses a projector to project on a canvas photographs that she took herself,...More »
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Manabu Ikeda Exhibition
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Hisashi Tenmyouya "Made in Japan"
Hisashi Tenmyouya is an artist that embodies counter culture in the spirit of 'Basara' of the Muromachi Period and 'Kabukimono' of the Edo Period. His style of "Neo Japanese art" portrays traditional Japanese...More »
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Ryuki Yamamoto "A Thousand Self-Portraits"
For this exhibition, Ryuki Yamamoto will fill the Mizuma Gallery with a thousand self-portraits he painted in acrylic. [Part of "Personal Internal War 2"]More »
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Akino Kondo "Death of a Ladybug"
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Group Exhibition "Gazing and Curiosity"
Director Sueo Mizuma shows his finds to the public in this exhibition featuring a group of promising young artists.More »
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Koji Tanada Exhibition
This exhibition's centerpiece is four sculptures of young girls called "girls on the horizon" that represent each of the four cardinal points. Although Koji Tanada is known for his wooden sculptures of...More »
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The Souvenir Mine
This group exhibition curated by Mizuma Art Gallery's Satoru Aoyama will be exhibited at Mizuma Action and A.R.T. at the same time. Aoyama splits his time between Tokyo and London. He introduces the...More »
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Jim Lambie "P.I.L"
Jim Lambie’s first solo exhibition in Japan will be held in Mizuma Art Gallery (2F) and Action Mizuma (5F). Born in Glasgow in 1964, Lambie is a young artist already receiving great recognition in both...More »
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Masao Yamamoto "é"
Solo exhibition by Masao Yamamoto, an artist recently getting a lot of attention from the art scene in America, known for using photographs as part of installations. As the unusual title suggests, the...More »
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Makoto Aida Exhibition "Pre-Climacteric Love"
Makoto Aida's first solo exhibition at the gallery in 2 years. Be prepared to be radically challenged on what you thought you knew about the artistic expressions of contemporary Japanese art. For this...More »
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Jeanne Susplugas Exhibition
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Hisashi Tenmyouya Exhibition "The Other Self"
The theme for this exhibition is "the other self", the other characters that reside within ourselves. Western artists, and Japanese writers such as Haruki Murakami have long been influenced by those themes....More »
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Motomiya Kaoru 2005
This is the third exhibition held by Kaoru Motomiya. For her installations, she gets inspired by the structures and patterns of nature. She is also well known overseas. Since 2000, she has used traditional...More »
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Jin Kurashige Exhibition - Old Holborn
Mizuma Art Gallery is pleased to announce Kurashige Jin’s first solo exhibition in Japan. Born in Japan, 1975, Kurashige currently lives and works in France, producing works mainly in video and installation....More »
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Sachie Noda "Another World - Reproduction of Kitari Residence"
Installation view at Biwako Biennale2004, Quantum Leap Kitari-tei, photo by Yuto Hirakochi More »
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Yuko Okada - Housewife’s Hobby
Hiroko Okada creates works that are based on her own experience of love, marriage, childbirth and children upbriging. Her works are fiction-based but feel disturbingly familiar. The theme of this exhibtion...More »
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Satoru Aoyama - Air Coffee, Good Morning Tokyo
Aoyama is an artist known for creating detailled photo-realistic embroidery works that look like panting or photography at first glance. The theme of this exhibition is man and “between-ness”. This exhibition...More »
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Tomoko Konoike Solo Exhibition
Mizuma Art Gallery is delighted to announce the Tomoko Konoike Exhibition, to be held 20 April - 21 May. This is Konoike’s third solo exhibition at Mizuma Art Gallery in three years since 2002. Konoike...More »
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Mizuma Art Gallery The 10th Anniversary Exhibition
Mizuma Art Gallery is delighted to announce our 10th Anniversary Exhibition from March 16th- April 9th. Taking this opportunity, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to you all as this was made...More »
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Shinsuke Tsuitsui Exhibition
Tsutsui is an artist who has consistently been using beeswax as media, expressing “insects” as his motif. Motifs of the nine works shown in this exhibition are parts of Ecdyonurus yoshidae larva, adult...More »
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Akira Yamaguchi Exhibition
Exhibition of the Japanese painter Akira Yamaguchi, famed for his work for the 100th anniversary of the Mitsukoshi department.More »
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Karma of Suburban villa [abbr.KOSV]
Ujino calls his activities "Death Arts and Crafts" as in "Death Metal". He has made an original instrument "LOVE ARM" series composed from pieces of motorcycles and decorative trucks, presenting works...More »
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Hisashi Tenmyouya Exhibition
Hisashi Tenmyouya whose work is known for unfolding unique world of expression is one of the artists who have rapidly gained recognition both domestically and abroad in recent years. He has being showing...More »





