Unseal Contemporary - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Unseal Contemporary. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Ryoko Kato Exhibition
From her early period up until today, Ryoko Kato's works have presented a vision of a world that keeps becoming a less and less inhabitable place, but one in which we nonetheless will surmount and continue (...)
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Ai Haibara "Secret Garden"
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Satomi Goda Exhibition
[Image: "Friends" (2008) acrylic on paper/board 72.8 × 103cm]
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Haruka Kudo Exhibition
[Image: "Mountain at the Center of the Earth's Surface" (2008) oil on canvas, 130 × 160cm]
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Adam Booth "Everything and Nothing"
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Kenichi Yokono "Innocence"
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Tomoaki Ichikawa Exhibition
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Shinsuke Kotani "Pure Twinkle"
Kotani is a young artists based in Kanazawa who gives expression to our inner desires using a variety of different media. His approach is straightforward and guileless, adhering to a singular, strongly (...)
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Azusa Yoda Exhibition
This is a solo exhibition by this emerging artist who recently received the Liquitex award and also Showa Shell award.
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Minami Komori Exhibition
Minami Komori visualizes things from a viewpoint that we once all had when we were children. Everyday matters appear mysterious and peculiar. Ultimately, she is skilled at perceiving the wonders of life. (...)
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Toru Ishii Exhibition
Toru Ishii is a young artist whose work depicts modern Japanese society through bold compositions and a sense of humor using Yuzen textile. At first Ishii was attracted to the street art scene such as (...)
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Rieko Sakurai Exhibition
She has received a lot of attention from art lovers at GEISAI and the recent progression seen in her works is truly remarkable. At first glance, her works look like just another character-based painting (...)
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Nahoko Sashida Exhibition
Nahoko Sashida first drew attention at the GEISAI art fair and went on to hold her first solo show held last year. Her large and colorful canvases are extremely busy and detailed. The themes she covers (...)
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Fumiko Oda "Transparent Skirt"
Fumiko Oda was chosen as one of the "GEISAI Girls" by Takashi Murukami at GEISAI #10 in 2006, along with Ryoko Kato and Eriko Sakuai. She appropriates the image of the heroines of once best selling comics (...)
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Maggie "Muzu Muzu Book"
Maggie is a mysterious painter. His works are based on ordinary themes with ordinary characters. Once viewers see them, they begin to dwell in their minds. The characters definitely hold a mysterious power (...)
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Ayako Kawano Exhibtion
This artist takes snapshots that capture the subtle movements in the every day world around us, but that is not the only impression we are left with. After looking at her works, there is an afterimage (...)
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Kayo Sato Exhibition
Kayo Sato creates installations with stuffed animals that are cute but scary. She is also active in the fashion scene, fuelled by the creative energy that one can see in her transformative sculptures. (...)
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Yosuke Ueno Exhibition
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Yoko Kamoshita Exhibition
Yoko Kamoshita's work cannot be categorized easily. It is not landscape, imagined landscape, nor animation with lurking monsters, and yet it has all of those elements. The source of her unique world seems (...)
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Unseal Collection Exhibition
This exhibition presents the work of the artists handled by Gallery Unseal. The works are on sale for a very reasonable price, so the gallery hopes that people will come along in search of a bargain.
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Satomi Goda "Girls on my mind"
To kick off the new year, Gallery Unseal is introducing a new artist. While she has only just left school, her works display an impressive use of composition, colour and material. Inspired by a mix of (...)
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Noritake Exhibition
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Ryoko Kato Exhibition
Kato has become an increasingly popular artist since her exhibition last year, selling at two auctions at Christie's in Hong Kong. For this exhibition she is making the first major presentation of (...)
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Adam Booth "Auspicious and Suspicious"
Adam's work has its roots in Japanese painting, but it also draws influence from a wide range of different cultures from across the world. His work takes particular inspiration from Buddhist art and mixes (...)
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Nahoko Sashida Exhibition
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Mari Doigawa Exhibition
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Tomoaki Ichikawa Exhibition
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Yasushi Yokoiyama "Confrontation"
This is Yokoiyama's second solo exhibition, for which he is exhibiting twenty paintings as well as sculptures and prints.
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Hibiki Nagashio Exhibition
This is a sculpture exhibition, which is unusual for Gallery Unseal. However, while these are sculptures, the figures are not hard to understand - anybody can relate to them.
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Yoshiyuki Koinuma Exhibition
Making an untypical use of colour is one of the themes in this artist's work. The spirit of contemporary youth is another strong theme, as Koinuma was undoubtedly affected by the incident involving Masato (...)
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Megumi Hashiguchi Exhibition
Hashiguchi calls herself an illustrator, but her work has a big impact beyond the framework of that field. She has consistently produced finely-drawn images of animals, insects and reptiles, distorting (...)
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Hajime Ito "The Beauties of Nature, Ito Style"
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Yoko Kamoshita Exhibition
Yoko Kamoshita is a brand new artist who has submitted work for GEISAI. She has a rare gift for being able to create magical worlds on small two-dimensional surfaces. Her works are composed of finely drawn (...)
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Hisao Sakai Exhibition
Hisao Sakai's paintings depict strangely shaped creatures in a both humorous and tragic fashion. His unique works have been displayed in quite a few location in Japan, but also abroad in New York. This (...)
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Yuko Mawatari "Planet"
Every young person experiences moments when they are struck by the strangeness of their existence. Most people forget these moments as they grow old. However, there are some people who are not able to (...)
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Emi Matsunaga Exhibition
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Tetsuo Ikeda Exhibition
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Mariko Takita Exhibition
Mariko Takita is a cartoonist who currently studies a Master's in block print. Her light-hearted mangas focus on ordinary sceneries however her drawings and 3D art works leave a more scientific impression. This (...)
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Group Exhibition "Viewtiful"
This is the first group exhibition to be held at Gallery Unseal. Noritake creates expressive illustrations of people and trees. Tokuro Sakamoto has an innovative way of using colors to attract the viewer's (...)
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Soo Hyang Exhibition
Watercolors by Soo Hyang. His style is closer to that of Marie Laurencin and Chihiro Iwasaki than other Korean artists such as Ufan Lee, who creates constructed abstracts. A passionate nature can be felt (...)
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Toshiaki Takayasu Exhibition
Toshiaki Takayasu creates images using video as material. He wonders, 'In this world full of computer games and virtual reality, what is truth?' Are the images that we see on TV and on the Internet real? (...)
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Masami Hayasaki Exhibition
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Shigeki Tateshima "Slow"
Shigeki Tateshima's first solo exhibition in Tokyo. Tateshima has been creating works to the theme of "slow" since 1991 after realizing that "time" was the base of his creativity. He regards everything (...)
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Toru Teranishi "Child's View"
"What makes 30-year-old men different from 3-year-old children?" "The view from a height of 1.8m". Correct! But there are others. The original view of the world through children's eyes fades away as (...)
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Terutoshi Akamatsu Exhibition
Illustrations of girls and animals in a variety of styles by Terutoshi Akamatsu. He has previously had exhibitions at the Ginza Geijutsu Laboratory and Gallery e Siesta.
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Shizuko Kiyohara Exhibition
This exhibition of lithographs and paintings asks questions about animal in sceneries. Animals in a picture, thrusting headfirst into the canvas, lying down, floating, and looking back at us, make us wonder: (...)
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Wataru Kataoka exhibition
Wataru Kataoka is an artist that has a firm grasp of the Japanese sense of aesthetics. While many of his peers utilize pop culture in an attempt to create new styles from traditional ways, Kataoka's works (...)
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Yasushi Yokoiyama Exhibition
Various animals, or animal-like things can be seen in Yokoiyama's art pieces. Among them, a human with a head of Jizo; beasts and humans mingled together. In the same spirit, Ai-Kora (Idol Collage) is (...)
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Shunsuke Sawaguchi
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Yuka Nemoto Exhibition
Yuka Nemoto's works are testimonies of the art of painting. Wary of artists painting flat, photographic sceneries, Nemoto loves "cruising" with her brush over the canvas, which results in dreamy surfaces (...)
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Adam Booth - White Elephant
An exhibition of works by Adam Booth, a British artist inspired by Nihon-ga (Japanese style paintings). In recent years, Takashi Murakami has been recognized for his work incorporating anime into his paintings (...)




