KINOSHO KIKAKU is pleased to announce the group exhibition “heavy swell” starting January 11, 2025.
KINOSHO KIKAKU will start the year 2025 with Richard kun, Ichigomochi, Inoue, and TokyoJoku, who draw skillfully sculpted characters, riding the wave of the New Year.
We hope you will take this opportunity to visit the exhibition.
Group Exhibition “heavy swell”
Exhibiting artists
Richard kun, Ichigomoch, Inoue, TokyoJoku
Saturday, January 11 – Friday, January 24, 2025
Opening hours: 12:00 – 18:00
Closed: Sunday and Monday
リチャード君 Richard kun
Lives and works in Fukuoka Prefecture. Started drawing pictures in his childhood influenced by manga and anime.
In 2018, he started full-fledged illustration and artist activities, focusing on digital works.
Currently, in addition to working on artwork for distribution and music video illustrations for music artists, he has also been creating and exhibiting acrylic paintings since 2023.
In creating his works, he uses vivid colors in various places that do not correspond to reality, challenging himself to express feelings and atmosphere that only painting can do.
August 2018 Started activities.
April 2019 First solo exhibition (Fukuoka)
December 2020 Published in ILLUSTRATION2021
March 2021 Solo exhibition (Tokyo)
August 2022 Solo Exhibition (Fukuoka)
January 2023 Solo Exhibition (Tokyo)
March 2024 Solo Exhibition (Tokyo)
いちごもち Ichigomochi
Graduated from Yokohama College of Art (now Yokohama College of Art), majoring in painting.
With the catchphrase “bold and delicate is his specialty,” he draws realistic facial expressions of human figures using the “shaved drawing” technique.
The lines drawn with intuitive strokes have a warm, crafty feel, as if he had sharpened them with a carving knife.
In addition to solo exhibitions in Tokyo, she has participated in the group exhibition “GIRLS WAVE” in Taiwan and Beijing.
He became popular for his illustrations for the music video for the opening theme of TV Tokyo Drama 24’s “Shijukara,” and has designed package illustrations for FOUR STAR’s “Amao Beer” and “Ume no Craft Beer,” as well as collaborated with Hatsune Miku and illustrated and animated Omoinotake’s official lyric video. He has also collaborated with Hatsune Miku and created illustrations and animations for Omoinotake’s Official Lyric Video.
【Solo Exhibitions】
2023 “PARADE” at Bumpodo gallery cafe
2024 “OK OK ALL OK” (THE GALLERY HARAJUKU)
【Main Exhibitions】
2022 “girls.” (TRiCERA Museum)
2022 “Aesthetic” (9s GALLERY)
2022 “Any kobe with art” (LA REINE Artist Gallery)
2022 “-slyness-” (Anicoremix Gallery)
2022 “GIRLS WAVE” at Wrong Gallery Taipei, Taiwan
2022 “GIRLS WAVE” (Wrong Gallery Beijing)
2023 “Hatsune Miku x ISETAN” (Isetan Shinjuku)
2023 “Christmas Miracle Exhibition” (9s GALLERY)
2024 Kobe Hankyu ✖️SEE? (Kobe Hankyu)
2024 NEO KAWAii Special Exhibition (Keio Department Store Shinjuku)
【work】
2021 selected illustration kids2021 / artbook secretariat
2021 illustration for waitona SNS
2022 RöE / Needle [Official lyric video] illustration & animation (📺TV Tokyo Drama 24 “Shijukara” OP theme)
2022 Shibuya Stream / Gourmet Coupon Illustration/Poster
2022 CYAN magazine “Representation of CHANEL
2022 Illustration for commercial “Suppon Komachi Otona Komachi Ryugyu-hen” for Teinei Mail Order
2023 FOURSTAR Inc. “Amao beer”, “Ume craft beer”, “WIPA craft beer” Package illustration
2023 SCENE TOKYO T-shirt illustration
2023 art ReG cafe “Midsummer Strawberry Festa” collaboration for 12th anniversary
2023 art ReG cafe “Autumn! Kai Province! Koshu Fair” main visual
2024 omoinotake “mei” official lyric video illustration and animation
2024 YAMATO TRANSPORT CORPORATION official Instagram illustration
2024 FLAP COFFEE Coffee package illustration
2024 art ReG cafe “Auri Arimura Birthday Night” goods illustration
2024 Yumi Kawai starring Yaoko Yamanaka director’s film “Namibian Desert” support comment and illustration
2024 art ReG cafe “Autumn! Kai Province! Koshu Fair” Main Visual, Goods Illustration
2024 Main visual for the 41st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Optometric Nursing
【Award】
2021 The 3rd Bumpodo Award, MARUMAN Prize
イノウエ Inoue
Graphic designer and illustrator since 1998.
Freelance since 2002.
Began working as an artist in 2020.
He uses cartoon-like techniques to express the motley images of back alleys in the city center that influenced him in his childhood and the ambiguous expressions that people show.
■2024
JAPAN EXPRESS L’art japonais réinvente l’icône EMS Gallery Jo Yana
A2A JAPAN Competition 2024 A4 Gallery
ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 木之庄企畫
個展「回顧」 木之庄企畫
Point of View イノウエ✕WATARU KIMURA two-person exhibition NOMAD GALLERY DDD ART
Road to A2A Creations of Aspiring Young Talented Asian Artists A2A TOKYO
TOKYO GIRLS MOTTO ART
Baby Scratch 木之庄企畫
Mango Art Festival 2024 A4 Gallery Mango Art Festival
KOBE ART MARCHÉ 2024 木之庄企畫 KOBE ART MARCHÉ
A4 LIVE Yaesu Mid Town A4 Gallery TASU+
ART FAIR NAGANO with plants aobouzu NOMAD GALLERY
ERIC ROSE POPUP EVENT NEWoMan YOKOHAMA NOMAD GALLERY ERIC ROSE
ERIC ROSE POPUP EVENT OMOTESANDO NOMAD GALLERY ERIC ROSE
■2023
WHAT CAFE EXHIBITION vol.32 NOMAD GALLERY WHAT CAFE
HARNEY & SONS OMOTESANDO “art project vol.1″ HARNEY & SONS OMOTESANDO
“ART POSTER PARK” SUP STAND FUKUOKA SUP STAND
A4galleryZEN ASAKURA presents “Tokyo Tones” Modern Art Infused with Subcultural Essence A4 Gallery
Art TAIPEI Toyol Gallery
popup gallery T 1st Exhibition “Hey! Nagano” popup gallery T
台北文化局主催 “AUTUMN ART EXHIBITION” A4 Gallery
TEA TOPIA TOKYO presents “MAKE TEA NOT WAR” -JOINT EXHIBITION- TEA TOPIA TOKYO
Contemporary Tokyo × YOD Group Exhibition “SUMMER VIVE” YOD Tokyo
A4 LIVE KOCHI A4 Gallery
A4 WALL MATSUYA GINZA A4 Gallery
DDD ART GROUP EXHIBITION “ASSEMBLY” DDD ART
ILLO Illustration group show Gallery Jo Yana
ART TAICHUNG 2023 A4 Gallery
A4 WALL KOCHI A4 Gallery
Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong Toyol Gallery
Group Exhibition “New green leaves” DDD ART
Solo Exhibition “絵 -電流-” DDD ART
Group Exhibition “203040” #2 YOD Tokyo
Solo Exhibition “絵” Y-Tacos
■2022
Group Exhibition “203040” YOD Editions
■2020
Japanese Artists group-show Gallery Jo Yana
東京上空 TokyoJoku
Artist Statement
I want to express something soft and something hard at the same time.
If I go to the trouble, I want to create something that is rarely seen in this world.
Born in Hiroshima in 1989.
Moved to Tokyo in 2008 when he entered university.
Started painting during the Corona Vortex.
Currently, he paints while working as an architectural designer.
2020: Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Red Bull Can Art (GUCCIMAZE, Diesuke Richard)
2023: Collaboration exhibition with Parco Youryomi “Yame Chochin”.
2024: Collaboration exhibition with BEAMS Hiroshima (1st) (2nd)
Currently active in a wide range of activities including advertising illustrations, collaborations with apparel brands, and merchandise design