Artists

As countless one-yen coins covering the walls appear before the viewer, the coins depart from the rule of currency and reveal their materiality of aluminum. Is what emerges then the beauty of the one-yen coins as “things” or the rule of currency, of which the viewer may become paradoxically more conscious as the coins depart from it? The one-yen coins silently reflect and show the silhouettes of those entering and gazing at them. Meanwhile, the view of one-yen coins neatly spread all over the floor and shining in the light from the outside is somewhat reminiscent of a rock garden. To go further inside the Cube, the visitors must step on the coins on the floor. Such an act might be like breaking a taboo, but once it is done, they will realize that they are just things. In the brief moment the visitors wonder whether or not to step on the coins, their respective ways of thinking and ways of life manifest themselves. The different degrees of brilliance of the coins come from metal aging and handling and soiling by human hands. However inorganic they may appear, the coins accentuate and visualize human interactions and the passage of time through them. Upon entering One room, what do you think will be your feeling?

1988

Born in Kyoto Prefecture

2010

Completed Japanese-style Painting Course, Department of Fine Arts, Seian University of Art and Design

2013

Completed Master's Program in Painting, Kyoto University of the Arts Graduate School

Awards received

2020

Encouragement Award/Kyoto Mayor's Award, Kyoto New Nihonga Exhibition 2020, Museum "EKI" KYOTO (Kyoto Prefecture)

2021

Grand Prix runner-up, The 8th Triennale Toyohashi Shingo Hoshino Awardees Exhibition (Aichi Prefecture)

Main exhibition

2018

Solo exhibition "A blue tent and five rings," YOD gallery (Osaka Prefecture)

2019

Solo exhibition "faint noise," +1 art (Osaka Prefecture)

2021

Solo exhibition "Hollowness of fertility," KAGANHOTEL (Kyoto Prefecture)

2021

Solo exhibition "Mosaic life," Takashimaya Department Store Osaka, Shinjuku, Yonago, and Nihonbashi (Tokyo, Osaka and Tottori Prefectures)

2021

The 8th Kaii Higashiyama Commemorative Nikkei Nihonga Grand Prize Exhibition, The Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo)

2022

Solo exhibition "How much?" Artglorieux GALLERY OF OSAKA (Osaka Prefecture)

2022

Solo exhibition "Artists of oooo yen" SHIHODO Gallery, (Tokyo and Osaka Prefecture)

2022

Group exhibition "If Nihonga had never existed - Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum edition," Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (Tokyo)

2022

Exhibition in commemoration of the 90th anniversary of Hiratsuka City's municipal system "Our pictures, self-portraits of our times," Hiratsuka Museum of Art (Kanagawa Prefecture)