Premio Combat Prize

Artwork description:
I use a technique called “Super-realism” which is as highly realistic as photography, and I think it is the most characteristic aspect of my work. But I regard this technique not as a goal, but as a “means” of expressing my theme. The main theme I am working with is “Painting” itself. My cultural mission is to update a long history of Art and Painting with a contemporary power, I think. I create my works by referring to famous paintings of old masters, and by mixing contemporary elements with my own idea about feminity.
Biography:
1980 Born in Tokyo, Japan
lives and works in Tokyo/JAPAN
part-time lecturer at Tama Art University
EDUCATION
2003 B.F.A., Oil Painting, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
2006 M.F.A., Oil Painting, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
2006-07 School of Art and Design Berlin Weissensee, Guest student
RESIDENCE
2006 Artist in Residence Krems,TOP24 (Krems,Austria)
SCHOLARSHIP&GRANT
2014 Grant from Contemporary Art Foundation
2009-2010 Grant from Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation
2007-2008 Scholarship 2007-2008 by POLA Art Foundation Fellowship to study in Germany
2006-2007 Fellowship to study in Germany under the Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artist
2006 Scholarship from Lower Austria Government
2004 The 19th Holbein Scholarship
AWARD
2013 5th Koji Kinutani Prize
2007 Sovereign European Art Prize 2007 (London)
2006 ”VOCA ~the Vision Of Contemporary Art” (Uenonomori Museum,Tokyo)
2004 Tokyo Wonder Wall 2004 Competition (Tokyo)
Shell Art Award 2004 exhibition (Tokyo), Special Prize from the Jury
2003 Size Zero Painting Exhibition（Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo）
　Mr.O Memorial Prize
　Tokyo Wonder Wall 2003 Competition (Tokyo)
SOLO EXHIBITION
2015 ”She who dies with the most shoes wins”(A.STYLE/Jiang art gallery,Hong Kong)
2014 ”Beautiful Stranger” (POLA MUSEUM ANNEX)
2013 ”lost virginity” (G-tokyo)
2012 ”sometimes we can’t choose where we die” (imura art gallery Kyoto)
2011 ”After Image of the Red Shoes” (imura art gallery Tokyo)
2005 ”Behind the Skirt” (Gallery Honjoh,Tokyo)
2004 Solo Show (Gallery ES, Tokyo)
GROUP EXHIBITION(SELECTED)
2015 ”China-ASEAN Biennale”(Nanning/China)
2014 ”Nostalgia and Fantasy” Imagination and Its Origins in Contemporary Art
(The National Museum of Art,Osaka )
Takamatsu Contemporary Art Annual vol.4 ”Regarding the Reality”
(Takamatsu City Museum of Art/Takamatsu)
2013 ”Yamato Dynamics” (Mizuma Gallery Singapore,Singapore)
　 ”DOMANI:the Art of Tomorrow 2013 Exhibition” (National Art Center,Tokyo)
2012 ”Pola Museum Annex Annual Exhibition 2012”(Pola Museum Annex,Tokyo)
2009 the 1st Tokorozawa Biennial of Contemporary Art ”Siding Rail Road 2009”(Tokorozawa/Japan)
2008 ”Arte Fiera Art First 2008” (Art fair in Bologne/Itary)
”Shell Art Prize 2007”(Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art/Kyoto)
”Asia Top Galley Hotel Artfair 2008”(Hotel New Otani/Tokyo)
2007 ”Speclum mundi” (Galerie Davide Gallo,Berlin)
2006 ”VOCA ~the Vision Of Contemporary Art” (Uenonomori Museum,Tokyo)
PUBLIC COLLECTION
the National Museum of Art,Osaka
POLA INK.