Jiro Miura Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Jiro Miura Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Pandra’s Box 2020
This is to be the 6th installment of the “Pandora’s Box” group exhibition showcasing the works of female artists. On display at this exhibition are the works of five artists comprised of Sato T who depicts...More »
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Boldly and Meticulously
Featuring artworks that strike an excellent balance between the size of the subject and the size of the piece. More »
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Mirrors and Windows
Referencing a 1978 MoMA show by the same title, this exhibition considers how photography and painting can both be mediums of personal reflection and depictions of the outside world.More »
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Life is a Dream
Featuring work by five artists. Akika Kurata’s portraits capture the vibrancy of youth. Yoku Takamatsu’s Surrealist works depict fantastical worlds. Yuki Toyonaga’s poetic and intricate paintings of plants...More »
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Hitomi Shiono + Yuniko Yaomoi “Secret Lyricism V - Fantastic Stories Drawn Secretly“
This exhibition showcases work of an epic nature full of whimsy, storytelling, imagination, and fantasy. More »
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Akika Kurata “Pink Panther”
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Kenichi Mori “Cirque du Desir”
Kenichi Mori (born in 1969) is a portrait painter who started his career in 1995 in Hokkaido, Japan. Since graduating from Schools Des Beaux Arts De Versailles in 2007, Mori has been actively exhibiting...More »
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Jock Sturges Gelatin Silver Print Exhibition
Jock Sturgis is an American photographer born in 1947. Since the 1980s, he has been photographing American and European naturist families with a large 8x10 camera. The presence exuded by the portraits...More »
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Sawako Goda Exhibition
Born in Kochi in 1940, passed away in Kanagawa in 2016, Sawako Goda attended Musashino Art University where she primarily produced objet d’art which earned her the recognition of Shuzo Takiguchi. As her...More »
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“You Should Go in the Sun During Summer 2020”
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Sato-T “I Thought We Could Meet Again Someday”
In the artist’s first solo exhibition, Sato-T presents 20 works including pen and pencil drawing as well as acrylic paintings. More »
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Bijinga Borderless 2020
A contemporary take on bijinga portraits of beautiful women by multiple artists. More »
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Ai Gonoi + Takuya Mitani “The Light That Shines on Mahoroba 2”
With a gaze that somtimes stabs, at other times engages, and at other times is thrust away, there is a mouth with words it earns to say. The works of Ai Gonoi play upon the hearts of the observer. Light...More »
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Ken Matsuyama “Sculptures Fired on the Ground, Photo Paintings, and Earthenware Cups”
*Jiro Miura Gallery is temporarily closed from Apr. 13 to May. 6. “No-yaki” is the way of making unglazed earthenware from clay by burning firewood on the ground without using a kiln. “Doki” (earthenwares)...More »
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Bijinga Borderless 2
Presenting works by 14 artists to mark the publication of “Bijinga Borderless 2.” Artists : Rie Asamura, Kana Fujii, Atsuko Goto, Kei Hanabishi, Tomoyo Ito, Elly Kawaguchi, Yumi Nakai, Chikako Ono, Eriko...More »
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Secret Magic 3
Ball-pen drawings with ephemeral and feminine motifs by three artists. More »
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Invitation to the World of Ukiyo-e
An exhibition of 20 ukiyo-e masterpieces by Hiroshige Utagawa, Toyokuni Utagawa, Eisen Keisai, Kuniyoshi Utagawa, Kunisada Utagawa, and Hokusai Katsushika [Related Event] Storytelling Date and Time:...More »
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Faces and Heads 2020
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Tangetsu-Tan 2020 (Tales of January)
Exhibiting the work of five artists. Asako Sugano dazzles the viewer with surreal and colorful images. Shuka’s ephemeral, dreamlike drawings stir the imagination. Tsubaki Torii offers glimpses of other...More »
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Secret Lyricism – Quietly Spun Fantasies
Three artists depict melancholic children with elements of pop art and cuteness. At Jiro Miura Gallery bis.More »
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Pandora’s Box 2019
Group exhibition featuring five female artists. The delicate brushstrokes of Yukari Sakata’s black and white ink work. The movie scene-like acrylic work of Satoh T. Harumi Shinozuka’s landscapes that delve...More »
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Atsushi Tomita Exhibition
The work of Atsushi Tomita has focused on the depiction of people’s expressions- the ambivalence hidden in the shadows of their smiles while still expressing the kindness in people. Venue: Jiro Miura...More »
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Hitomi Shiono “Fleeting Fruits”
Paintings depicting girls’ transitions into womanhood. More »
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Ayako Yonemitsu “Forlorn Flowers”
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Ephemeral - Territory of Girls 2019
Artists: Kaori Aoki, Jana Brike, Amy Crehore, Olga Esther, Yuko Fukase, Atsuko Goto, Mao Hamaguchi, Kumiko Higami, Miho Hirano, Miki Kato, Audrey Kawasaki, Rie Kawabe, Chihiro Kogure, Kimi Kuruhara, Satomi...More »
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Takao Ono “The Day the Carousel Stopped”
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Sawako Goda “With Friends”
Sawako Goda’s eighth exhibition at Jiro Miura Gallery features works by her and other artists she is affiliated with. Rediscover the appeal of her work within a broader context. More »
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Nanako Oyama + Shinri “Record the Memories”
“Record the Memories” is an attempt to capture the differing flows of time as experienced by a man and woman living in the same time. More »
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Ai Gonoi + Takuya Mitani “The Light that Shines on Mahoroba”
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Like the Twisted Rope
“Like the Twisted Rope” is the Tokyo satellite exhibition of Ken Matsuyama’s show at the Najomon museum in Tsunan-machi, Niigata Prefecture. This group exhibition of works by contemporary artists considers...More »
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Chisoku wo Aisu - I Love Them Even If They Could Be Early Or Late
Artists: Nico Hirano, Kenichi Mori, Misa Ohtera, Satoh T, Shuka, Atsushi TomitaMore »
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Hibari-gochi – Spring Easterly Wind
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Faces and Heads 2019
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Tangetsu-Tan (Tales of January)
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Ibuki Minami Exhibition
Ibuki Minami mainly works in abstract painting. However, he also works on stories in graphic novels, printmaking, and the business side of IBA (International Business and Artists), company that manages...More »
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Ikumi Ishii “Affective Liberation”
Ikumi Ishii has been broadening his horizons as an artist, as seen in these colorful, pop-influenced works using collage and paint-dripping techniques.More »
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Pandora’s Box 2018
Presenting the works of six women artists.More »
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Kenichi Mori “Toi es/et Moi”
Kenichi Mori (born in 1969) is a portrait painter who started his career in 1995 in Hokkaido, Japan. Mori has been active in Sapporo after graduating from Schools Des Beaux-Arts De Versailles majoring...More »
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Nico Hirano Exhibition
Presenting around 20 watercolors and color pencil drawings in the first exhibition by Nico Hirano.More »
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Tomoyo Ito Exhibition
Tomoyo Ito was born in Nagano Prefecture in 1985. In her own unique style, her work depicts what she feels to be the ideal girl. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with 14 new works to be shown....More »
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Akika Kurata “When I Came Back to Myself”
Young people today are good at expressing superficial ideas, using the internet and social media to express daily thoughts and personal tastes. This project aims to understand the deeper, harder to reach...More »
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Summer Story/Chapter 1
- Media: Graphics - Illustration - Painting - Drawing - Nihonga - Party
- 2018-08-18 - 2018-09-03
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2018
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Yoku Takamatsu Exhibition
Yoku Takamatsu was born in Hokkaido in 1945 and studied design at the Kuwasawa Design School. Applying a classic painting technique, he was able to achieve a unique translucent effect, and producing fantastic...More »
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“Bijinga Borderless” Publication Memorial Exhibition
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Tamaki Maki “Sanctuary – The Kingdom of Girls”
Tamaki Maki, born in Osaka in 1983, started drawing oil paintings from 2014 and has also been learning mixed painting techniques from Shuji Tateishi. Maki also learns under Simon Yotsuya and is making...More »
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Takao Ono Exhibition
Takao Ono (born in Iwate Prefecture in 1950) moved to Italy in 1971 at the age of 20 and learned classical techniques by studying restoration. He worked on repairs of church murals, including the Basilica...More »
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Faces and Heads 2018
Jiro Miura Gallery mainly exhibits portraits of various media. In this exhibition, you can enjoy a wide variety of artistic expression with works focusing on the face and facial expressions. This fifth...More »
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Shiori Matsumoto “Meiso-en”
This exhibition marks the long-awaited release of Shiori Matsumoto’s publication “Meiso-en” (Garden of Meditation), which features numerous paintings of girls in fantastical worlds. Here around 20 original...More »
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Lapis Lazuli and Crystal
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Elpis – Pandora’s Box
Venue: Jiro Miura Gallery bisMore »
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Pandora’s Box 2017
This exhibition displaying and selling works by five women artists takes inspiration from the myth of Pandora, daughter of Zeus with incredible powers.More »
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Tomoyo Ito Exhibition
Tomoyo Ito was born in Nagano Prefecture in 1985. She portrays what she feels to be ideal girls in her own unique style. Her purified image of girls is not merely cute, for their flawless porcelain-like...More »
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Yoichi Nebashi “Universal Flirt”
It has been four years since Yoichi Nebashi’s last solo exhibition at the gallery, and here he will present a fantastic world of girls as depicted in his own unique palette and style. Approximately 20...More »
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Ephemeral - Girls’ domain 2017
Group exhibition presenting a variety of works by female artists. *Please visit the official website for the further information. Artists: Emi Adachi, Nicoletta Ceccoli, Amy Crehore, Yuko Fukase,...More »
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Kazune Shintaku “From Spring to Summer”
When the spring of life and the passion of adolescence has passed, we face the oncoming summer. What is necessary for girls at this point is the courage to get out of their warm beds and run spiritedly...More »
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Sawako Goda “Journeys Toward Light”
On the cultural scene since the 1960s, Sawako Goda’s practice encompasses everything from sculpture to Surrealist painting, photography, dance, stage performance, and film. This exhibition celebrating...More »
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Nico Hirano + Mayu Yukishita Exhibition
Displaying Nico Hirano’s softly hued watercolor and color pencil illustrations of girls and Tama Art University student Mayu Yukishita’s oil paintings and illustrations of moments in the everyday lives...More »
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Hommage à B
A 2014 retrospective brought fresh attention to the solitary artist Balthus, who passed away 16 years ago. More than a few artists hold great respect for Balthus and have been influenced by the mystique...More »
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Jock Sturges Exhibition
Jock Sturges (b. 1947, New York) is a 21st century icon best known for his longstanding work with American and European Naturist families. His photographs, mostly shot on a large format 8x10 classic camera,...More »
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5th Anniversary Commemorative Exhibition
April 21 will mark five years since the opening of Jiro Miura Gallery. To commemorate this occasion, the gallery will hold a special exhibition with a selection of artists that have graced its walls over...More »
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Noriko Yabu “Burial”
Noriko Yabu began taking photographs as a student at Waseda University under the tutelage of Osamu Hiraki. She later decided to continue pursuing photography after participating in Higashikawa International...More »
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Sawako Goda “The 90-Degree Look”
Sawako Goda (b. 1940), who passed away in February last year, was a multidisciplinary artist that rose to prominence on the Japanese art scene in the 1960s. She penned numerous essays and reviews on the...More »
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Kazune Shintaku + Mayu Yukishita “Two People”
This exhibition features works by Kazune Shintaku, an artist who completed her graduate studies at Tama Art University with a degree in graphic design, and Mayu Yukishita, currently an undergraduate student...More »
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Takeshi Nagase “Being in this World Now”
This current exhibition will feature approximately 50 works done in acrylic paint, produced with a combination of airbrush and the paintbrush. The works have a photographic realism, yet possess the physicality...More »
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Yuka Sakuma “There are nights not yet known, and mornings not yet known.”
Paintings of girls by Yuka Sakuma.More »
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Ryuzo Satake “Boys and Girls”
Pointillist works made with mineral pigment paints by Ryuzo Satake.More »
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Hiroyuki Takei “Make it Count”
Hiroyuki Takei captures the joy, embarrassment, freshness, sadness and pain of young girls in their late teens.More »
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Marcelo Suaznabar Exhibition
Marcelo Suaznabar (born 1970, Oruro, Bolivia), began exhibiting his work as part of group shows at the age of 16. His early works were focused on religious themes, influenced by colonial baroque artists....More »
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Jock Sturges Exhibition
Jock Sturges (born 1947, New York), is a 21st century ikon best known for his longstanding work with American and European Naturist families.His photographs, mostly taken with a large format, 8 x 10,...More »
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The exhibition commemorating Rieko Sakurai “neko neko Rieko”
For the memory of the painter Rieko Sakurai who passed away at the age of 38 in July of 2015, the following artists exhibit their works which featured the cat which she loved. More »
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Misa Otera “Hourglass Without The Sand”
Misa Otera graduated from Musashino Art University this March and her graduation work won the Award of Excellence. Otera is studying Japanese Painting in the graduate school of Musashino Art University...More »
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Shiori Matsumoto Exhibition
Shiori Matsumoto was born in the Kagawa-prefecture, Japan, and studied oil painting at The Kyoto Saga University of Arts. Matsumoto creates dreamlike, melancholy and cryptic atmospheres with girls who...More »
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Ken Matsuyama “Heroines, Moukozu, Enkouzu”
Presenting 34 works by Ken Matsuyama created with oil paints, watercolors, color pencils and pencils: “Heroines” portraying women, “Moukozu (fierce tiger pictures)” depicting cats, and “Enkouzu” drawings...More »
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Noriko Yabu “Kaso (Flower Burial)”
Noriko Yabu was born in Kagawa Prefecture in 1981. While a student at Waseda University, she started taking photographs under the tutelage of Osamu Hiraki. Working as a volunteer staff member at the Higashikawa...More »
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Ryosuke Handa “Maniera”
Ryosuke Handa here unveils numerous “Maniera” (techniques) centered mainly on his “photogravure” works implementing the print style he has recently returned to challenging. The exhibition will also include...More »
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Faces and Heads 2016
Artists associated with Jiro Miura Gallery present an exhibition of faces.More »
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Nico Hirano and the Gallery Collection
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Akemi Kai Exhibition
The Obihiro based doll artist brings his solo exhibition to Tokyo for the first time in 19 years, with four ball-jointed dolls which sit in the gap between human and object. [Related Event] Akemi...More »
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Yoichi Nagata “Star of the Stars”
Fairies? Deities of another world? With eye-opening colors, exorbitant fashion, and an undying desire for transformation, Jiro Miura Gallery presents an exhibition of portraits of eccentric Tokyo nightclub...More »
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Etsuko Sato “Room”
Etsuko Sato first presented “Room 1”, in which she photographed an abstract space consisting of walls and a floor, with colored cubes and manipulated shadows, in 2012. She then started on a new series...More »
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Maya Wakabayashi “Out of Control”
Since her studies at Tokyo University of the Arts, Maya Wakabayashi has placed her focus upon the unseen presence of the hear and mind, coming to catch upon images which embody a sense of humankind enwrapped...More »
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Ephemeral
Participating artists: Jana Brike, Amy Crehore, Virginia Mori and Ania Tomicka Emi Adachi, Fuco Ueda, Kaori Ogawa, Miki Kato, Kimi Kuruhara, Kozue Kuroki, Satomi Kuwahara, Atsuko Goto, Yuka Sakuma, Minae...More »
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Sawako Goda Exhibition
This exhibition marks the third installment in a series following the artistic direction of the multimedia artist Sawako Goda, who has continued to contribute her own unique style to the Japanese art scene...More »
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Ken Matsuyama “Hi Pussy”
The theme of this solo exhibition is “bodies and desire.” In works like “Hi Pussy,””Hello Titty,” and “body,” female body parts are painted on an adorned background, while “desire” explores the ideas of...More »
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For Humans
A group of 4 contemporary artists take on the psychology and social context of humankind in an attempt to express what it means to be human from a multitude of perspectives. [Related Event] Closing...More »
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Faces and Heads 2015
Focusing on faces and heads, these portraits display diverse expressions. These 40 works by 19 artists include oil, Nihonga, and watercolor paintings, photography, ceramics, and illustrations created with...More »
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Ken Matsuyama “Pictures of Paint Calendar”
Ken Matsuyama presents work from his “Pictures of Paint” series in which he literally paints pictures of paint in a hyper realist style, combining photo realism of the prepared paint with the abstraction...More »
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Alain Laboile “La Famille”
Alain Laboile is a French photographer living in Bordeaux. He first began his career as a sculptor creating plaster portraits, and iron depictions of insects. In 2004 he accidentally got into photography....More »
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Toru Nishimaki “Pollen of the Rocaille”
Jiro Miura Gallery is pleased to present Toru Nishimaki’s solo show and announce the publication of his first book, “Pollen of the Rocaille.” This show will exhibit approximately 20 of Nishimaki’s pencil...More »
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Kennichi Murata “Colored Photograph Retrospective”
[Related Event] Talk Show “Kennichi Murata and his Models” Date: October 11(Sat) 16:00-18:00 reservation required Admission: ¥1000More »
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Noriko Yabu “Suisou”
Noriko Yabu uses the self-timer function of the camera to capture images of her own figure submerged below the surface of water, creating a new feature through which to view the human form and points to...More »
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Ryuzo Satake “Someone’s Childhood”
Building on his exhibition of the same title held in Osaka in January 2013, Ryuzo Satake presents a new series of children’s portraits, merging images of past childhoods, children of today and new generations...More »
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Hiroshi Osaka “Recollection”
In the 90s Osaka created a collection of work printing photographs of women upon washi paper in a transfer process, which is here again reconstructed through scanning the original images, printing them...More »
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Jacqueline Roberts Exhibition
Featuring the seris “Kindred Spirits”, modeled on the artist’s own three children and “Blood Flow” family portraits, produced through the early technique of wet plate photography. [Image: Jacqueline...More »
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“Girls’ Hell”
An exhibition of oil painting, printmaking, illustration, sculptures and dolls filled with sensual fantasy in their depiction of a narrative of “girls”. Artists: Chiiko Ayasaki, Saori Furukawa, Satomi...More »
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Maya Wakabayashi “Metal & Glass Works”
Works of metal and glass with the theme of the “human heart.”More »
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Yoichi Nebashi “Secret Picture Book of Girls”
Celebrating the artist’s first publication, this exhibition features 56 works from the dreamlike world of Yoichi Nebashi, filled with motifs of girls and nymphs depicted in vibrant colors. [Related...More »
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Renèe Jacobs “Paris”
Renèe Jacobs is an American photojournalist. Her work, which has appeared in the New York Times and other high-profile newspapers and magazines, received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for excellence in journalism....More »
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Alain Laboile Photography Exhibition
Alain Laboile was born in Bordeaux, France in 1968. Working for a time in plaster statues of people, an interest in insects later prompted him to create iron insect sculptures. In 2004 he suddenly switched...More »
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Ryosuke Handa “Erogene”
A series of polaroid images, which had been planned for publication in a famed collaboration with book designer Eshin Sobu 13 years previously until the collapse of the associated publishing company, are...More »
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Sawako Aida “Towards Another World”
Sawako Aida presents here recent diary like work “Dance of Color Penciles, along with the silk screen print “Buttery Blind Design”, the series “Eye”, based on a serialized novel by Kenji Nakagami published...More »
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Deborah Parkin Exhibition
In her first solo exhibition in Japan Deborah Parkin presents 35 monochrome photographs filled with a particular sense of stillness, also accompanied by the sale of her recent photography book published...More »
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Jock Sturges
36 works presented in two parts by Jock Sturges, the photographer known for his continued documentation of naturalist families in France and America. In this body of new work he returns to focus on black...More »
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Kenji Aoyagi "Blooming"
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Arthur Tress Exhibition
Features around 30 key works from the photographer. [Image: Arthur Tress, "Bride & Groom" (1970) Gelatin silver print]More »
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"Pandora's Box" Exhibition
Works by outstanding female artists. [Image: Sawako Aida]More »
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Jules Pascin Exhibition
On display are prints, oil paintings, drawings and illustrations by the Bulgarian-born Ecole de Paris artist.More »
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Irina Ionesco Exhibition
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Shinji Ogawa "Projection"
11 pencil and pen works.More »
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Jock Sturges "B/W Works"
Features around 20 black and white prints from photos taken between 1988 and 2003.More »
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William Ropp "Color Works"
William Ropp is a photographer born in France in the 1960s known as the "shadow sculptor" who creates portraits in complete darkness by exposing one part of his subject to light at a time. This is his...More »