Artists

KANEKO Tomiyuki

1978 Born in Saitama, Japan


2009 Ph.D, Tohoku University of Art & Design, Yamagata


2006 MFA, Tohoku University of Art & Design, Yamagata


2003 BFA, Tohoku University of Art & Design, Yamagata


Lives and works in Yamagata


 


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Solo Exhibitions

2021


2021 “Apotropaic Tiger” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo


 


2019


Taipei Dangdai 2019, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Taiwan


 


2018


“Sagara Nagaraja” Art Fair Tokyo 2018, Tokyo International Forum


 


2017


“Asian Deities” Gallery Orin, Ibaraki


“Savage Deities” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo


 


2016


“Spirits, Deities and Buddhas Kitan” Sanno Art Campus 2016, Heishindo, Yamagata


 


2015


“TOHOKU Yokai Painting” Sanno Art Campus 2015, Tsuruoka city, Yamagata


“Spirits, Deities and Buddhas Kitan” Nihombashi Takashimaya Art Gallery X, Tokyo


 


2014


“Mysterium between Forest and Human”, Yamatogawa Sake Brewery Northern Climate Museum, Fukushima


 


2013


“Yokai Kitan ll”, Tokyo Takashimaya Art Gallery X, Tokyo


 


2011


“Yokai Substantiations”, Mizuma Action, Tokyo”Yokai Kitan”, Tokyo Takashimaya Art Gallery X, Tokyo


 


2006


“Nihon den Dai Yokai Painting”, Kamiyama City Sports and Cultural Center, Yamagata


“Yokai painting”, Branch school of former 3rd junior high school, Yamagata


Group Exhibitions

2021


“The Stories of Yokai and Mononoke” Yamadera Basho Museum Yamagata


“META” Kanagawa Kenmin Hall


 


2020


Fukushima Biennale 2020 “Shirakawa Art FUGETSU” Josenji Temple, Fukushima


“Seven Artists” Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Aichi


 


2019


“Takahashi Collection” Tsuruoka Art Forum, Yamagata


“NEW VIEW” Hankyu Department Store Umeda Main Store, Osaka (traveled to Fukuoka, Tokyo)


“META – Wild Card of Japanese Paintings” Kanagawa Kenmin Hall


 


2018


“Embodying Insanity” Yamagata Biennale 2018 related exhibition, Kaisendo Museum, Yamagata


“Mountainous 100 Stories –Yamagata Biennale 2018” Tohoku University of Art & Design, Yamagata


“The 7th Higashiyama Kaii Memorial Nikkei Nihonga Award Exhibition” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo


 


2017


“Yamagata made –Japanese painting-” Yusokan, Yamagata


“SERPENTIform” Art Science Museum, Singapore (traveled to Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo and Chengdu Museum, China)


“The POETRY : Open Theatre 2017” Kanagawa Arts Theatre (KAAT)


“The 5th KASHINFU, ARTIST GROUP, KAZE Small Works Exhibition”


Nihombashi Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo (traveled to Kyoto, Osaka)


 


2016


“19th DOMANI: Tomorrow” The National Art Center, Tokyo


“The 5th ARTIST GROUP, KAZE Exhibition” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Gallery B, Tokyo


“Hijiori no Hi” Hijiori Onsen, Yamagata


“AYAKASHI” palaborica-bis, Tokyo


“OSOREISM” Hajimari Art Center, Fukushima


“Exposing Ikai – The Different World: Visitors in Past and Contemporary Art” Akita Museum of Art, Akita


“Yokai and Literature / Art” Yamadera Basho Museum, Yamagata


“Imago Mundi” Pratt Institute, New York, USA


“Impacts! HAZUMI” Gallery Orin, Ibaraki


 


2015


“Is it possible “TOHOKU-GA?” –Contemporary Art Gallery for Hypothetical State of Tohoku–”


T-Art Gallery, Tokyo


“Further Towards the Future” Mizuma Gallery, Singapore


“Yokai and Literature / Art, -The History and the Beauty of MONONOKE Expression-”


Yamadera Basho Museum, Yamagata


“The 3rd KASHINFU, ARTIST GROUP, KAZE Small Works Exhibition”


2Nihombashi Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo (traveled to Kyoto, Osaka)


 


2014


“The 3rd ARTIST GROUP, KAZE Exhibition” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Gallery B, Tokyo


“Impacts! 勢み Japan Art Festival” Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, USA


“Takashimaya Fantasy Museum” Nihombashi Takashimaya Art Gallery X, Tokyo


 (traveled to Osaka, Kyoto, Yokohama, Nagoya, Shinjuku)


“Yokai and Literature / Art” Yamadera Basho Museum, Yamagata


“The 2nd KASHINFU, ARTIST GROUP, KAZE Small Works Exhibition”


Nihombashi Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo (traveled to Osaka, Kyoto)


“Archipelagoes” Mizuma Gallery, Singapore


 


2013


“The 2nd ARTIST GROUP, KAZE Exhibition” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Gallery B, Tokyo


“Is it possible “TOHOKU-GA?” ” ARTZONE, Kyoto


“Imago Mundi” Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italia


“Today’s sumi” The Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo


 


2012


“Look East!”, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore


“ZIPANGU” The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata


 


2011


“Meta ll 2011”, Kanagawa-Kenmin Hall Gallery, Kanagawa


“Seven Dilemmas”, Mizuma & One Gallery, Beijing


“WABISABI”, Oroshimachi ART FESTA 2011, Noh-BOX, Miyagi


“Meta X 2011”, Tokyo Takashimaya Art Gallery X, Tokyo


 


2010


“Meta ll 2010”, Kanagawa-Kenmin Hall Gallery, Kanagawa


“Meta X 2010”, Tokyo Takashimaya Art Gallery X, Tokyo


 


2008


The 7th Suga Tatehiko Grand-prix Exhibition” Kurayoshi Museum, Tottori


“Myth in us” Total Museum, Seoul, Korea


 


2007


“The 16th Annual Scholarship Recipient Art Exhibition”, The Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo


“Light and Darkness”, Gallery 1/f, Tokyo


 


2003


“OUROBOROS”. AXIS Gallery, Tokyo


Awards and Fellowship

2018


“The 7th Higashiyama Kaii Memorial Nikkei Nihonga Award”, prize winner, Japan


 


2015


“Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists”, Siem Reap, Cambodia


 


2007


“Painter patronized by the clan Heisei Kamiyama”, Yamagata, Japan


 


2006


“Sato International Cultural Scholarship Foundation”, Japan


“The 4th Kwai Encouraging Award”, Kadokawa Shoten, Japan