Group Exhibition – Even though it never rains in space -” will be held at KINOSHO KIKAKU from Friday, July 5, 2024.
We look forward to seeing you there.

「Even though it never rains in space」
Yuki Kosaka, Taro Yamada, Ayaka Minami, Natsuki Sato
Friday, July 5 – Thursday, July 18
Opening hours: 12:00 – 18:00
Closed Sunday and Monday
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小坂由希　Yuki Kosaka

1985 Born in Saitama Prefecture
2010 Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University, Department of Fine Arts, Painting

Lonely, quiet, but a little bit relieved. I want to depict such a comfortable place and atmosphere. In the space, a girl and mysterious creatures are spending their time quietly. Why don’t you spend a moment together in this comfortable and peaceful world?

山田太郎　Taro Yamada

Born in 2001 in Ibaraki, Japan.
In 2024, I entered the first year of the printmaking course of the graduate school of Musashino Art University.

I create my works while moving back and forth between the realms of two-dimensional expression (painting, printmaking, and digital illustration). Mainly using actual places I have visited as motifs, I contemplate the boundaries between objects between the visible world and the reflected world.

南あやか　Ayaka Minami

Graduated from Kobe Design University and began working in 2016. Based in Kansai, he creates works on the theme of trivial moments of daily emotional turmoil. Published in “ILLUSTRATION 2021″ (Shoei-sha) in 2020.

サトウナツキ　Natsuki Sato

Born in 1992 in Mie Prefecture.
Graduated from Kyoto Seika University, Faculty of Art, majoring in printmaking.

I depict the feelings that arise in daily life and the instability of one’s existence and place in society and environmental changes.
Even if they are negative, I believe that they will be alright, and I hope that my paintings will provide some relief and hope.

Yumi Ohta’s solo exhibition “Go around and around” will be held at KINOSHO KIKAKU from June 13, 2024 (Thursday).
We look forward to seeing you there.

Yumi Ohta Solo Exhibition 「Go around and around」
Thursday, June 13 – Wednesday, June 26
Tuesday – Saturday 12:00 – 18:00
Sunday and the last day of the exhibition: 12:00-17:00
Closed on Mondays
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「Go around and around」
From the beginning to the end, from life to death, from spring to winter, and again from the end to the beginning.
I am in the middle of the cycle of things, and I accept and allow the middle (now), and paint the present.
I paint with the importance of facing what I am able to paint at the moment.
The main theme of this exhibition is “Acceptance and Forgiveness,” and I would like to express the idea of living and painting.

太田由美　Yumi Ohta

Graduated from Kyoto Art Junior College, Department of Fashion Design, Graduation Work Encouragement Award

Active in the fields of painting, sculpture, words, and installation

＜Artist Statement
I give form to the feelings and sensations that arise in my life.

As I chew through the influences from various worlds through myself, the emotions and sensations that emerge as energy are once made unconscious, and characters and forms are born.

The characters in my work contain a variety of meanings.

For example, the main character, Ruby with blond hair and blue eyes, symbolizes “energy,” Ruby’s twin, Lulu with blond hair and green eyes, symbolizes “introversion,” the skull is poison, the rabbit is the weak part of the core, and the unicorn symbolizes strength and energy.

By creating and presenting my work, I am sometimes surprised to learn about my current self from objective remarks from people other than myself, and at that point I can say that the work is finally complete in my mind.

2019 Solo exhibition “Magure, Affirmation” at Kinosho Kikaku, Ginza, Tokyo

2018 Solo exhibition “Spiral” at matoga, Koenji, Tokyo

2014 Solo exhibition “Between the Blink of an Eye” at Margaret Station, Shiga, Japan

2013 “Falling into a Dream” solo exhibition at Spectrum Gallery, Osaka

2012 “Love Color” solo exhibition at Spectrum Gallery, Osaka

2011 “Seeds and Eggs” solo exhibition at D+5 ART Gallery, Niigata.

2010 Solo exhibition “Passion for Life” at Spectrum Gallery, Osaka.

2009 Solo exhibition “Love and Poison” at Art Complex Center, Shinanomachi, Tokyo

2009 “Yumi Ota Solo Exhibition 2009” at Kinosho Kikaku, Ginza, Tokyo

2008 Solo exhibition “Hitoritabi” at Design Festa Gallery, Harajuku, Tokyo

2006 Solo exhibition “Emotion” at CASPER`S Gallery, Nakameguro, Tokyo

2005 Solo exhibition “Love Disease” at Design Festa Gallery, Harajuku, Tokyo

2004 Solo exhibition “Gekisashi, Publication Memorial Solo Exhibition” at Gallery Maison d’Art (Osaka)

2002 Solo exhibition “All Nude” at Gallery Maison d’Art (Osaka)

2022 “Kawaiii~Art Exhibition” at Hankyu Umeda Main Store (Osaka)

2021 “Japanese Pop Culture Exhibition” at Tokyu Department Store (Shibuya)

2020 “Contemporary Art and Masters” at Odakyu Department Store (Shinjuku)

2011 Hankyu meets art summer” at Hankyu Umeda main store, Osaka

2005 Three Artists Exhibition at M.P.B (Maison d’Art Paris Branch), Paris, France

2003 Characterism Exhibition at Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Williamsburg, NY

Pigozzi Collection

Notogawa High School, Shiga, Japan

Aito Junior High School, Higashiomi City, Shiga, Japan

Kibogaoka Cultural Park

Giant mural painting, giant installations, live painting, painting on cars, wrapping cars, billboards, CD and DVD jackets and flyers, paintings and sculptures for movies and videos, painting instructor, etc.