Exhibition Overview
Four young artist originally from Japan have decided to get together and express their thoughts living in foreign country through their art pieces.
The role of artist is to deliver messages to the audience with artistic languages. The question for the artist is how to deliver the message in an interesting way.
Carrier pigeon, the title of this exhibition, was once used as a medium to deliver messages. The artists will deliver our messages through the medium of painting.
The artists participating in this exhibition are all Japanese. We hope you will enjoy seeing how the Japanese artists express what they have sensed in the culture of New York, a community made up of many different people.
Being artist living in NYC and Japanese nationals are the common thread running through these artists.
They are also each employed as assistants in the studio of the contemporary artist Tomokazu Matsuyama.
Hiroaki Konaka
Light Flow (Flower) 1
silver metal leaf, dye ink, and acrylic on canvas, 14×14 inch, 2021
Light Flow (Flower) 2
silver metal leaf, dye ink, and acrylic on canvas, 14×14 inch, 2021
Untitled
silver metal leaf, dye ink, and acrylic on canvas, 14×11 inch, 2021
Anniversary Flower
silver metal leaf, dye ink, and acrylic on canvas, 20×16 inch, 2021
Utopia
silver metal leaf, dye ink, and acrylic on canvas, 20×16 inch, 2021
Mariko Fujimoto
Early Summer
acrylic on canvas, 35.8×45.9 inch, 2015
Remember
acrylic and crayon on canvas, 6.3×10.7 inch, 2021
Taishi Shingu
String of Life
acrylic on canvas, 48×36 inch, 2021
Wavering Lights#1
acrylic on canvas, 20×16 inch, 2021
Wavering Lights#5
acrylic on canvas, 20×16 inch, 2021
Takura Suzuki
Tree Back Then 1
oil and inkjet print on canvas, 35×24 inch, 2021
Tree Back Then 2
oil and inkjet print on canvas, 35×24 inch, 2021
Artists
Hiroaki Konaka
Born in Osaka, Japan
2010 Graduated from Kyoto Art Senior High School, Painting Course 2014 Graduated from Kyoto University of the Arts, Department of Fine and Applied Arts,Japanese Painting Course
[Exhibition]
2013
"Painting Exhibition-Japanese Painting Laboratory Selected New Artist Exhibition vol.10-" Rissei Elementary School (Kyoto) "World Painting Award 2013" Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (Tokyo)
"GEISAI # 19" Tokyo Metropolitan Industry and Trade Center Taitokan (Tokyo) "HANARART Koa 2013" Gunzan Castle Town Area (Nara)
2014
"Kyoto University of the Arts Graduation Exhibition" Kyoto University of the Arts (Kyoto)
2015
"ULTRA AWARD 2015 Post Internet Art-New Materiality, Mediality” ( Kyoto) http://ultrafactory.jp/ultraaward2015/
2016
ULTRA x ANTEROOM exhibition 2016」 HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO ( Kyoto) https://hotel-anteroom.com/exhibition_cat/804/
2021
“Stirred Effect” Shape Shifter Lab (Brooklyn)
“Break Tim” cafe grumpy(Manhattan Grand Central)
Mariko Fujimoto
1991 Born in tokyo, Japan
2014 Graduated from the Department of Oil Painting, Tama Art University lives and works in New York and Tokyo
[Solo exhibition]
2018 "In a dream or ..."(NANJO HOUSE/Japan)
2014 "I hope no one is mean to you."(Ginza rétro Gallery MUSEE/Japan)
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[Group exhibition]
2021 "Dystopian Utopia" (NowHere /New York)
2020 "Gathering exhibition"(gallery conceal shibuya/Japan)
"FACE2020 Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Award Exhibition" (Sompo Museum of Art/Japan)
2019 "Line, such as a cloud (SAKuRA GALLERY/Japan) "The beginning green onion (Hakariya/Japan) "chirping" (Gallery Binosya/Japan)
2018 "Viewing point"(Chichibu Omotesando Lub./Japan)
2017 "SHIBUYA STYLE2017 "(Seibu Shibuya 8th floor art gallery/Japan) "Tokyo 100 People Exhibition"(MDP GALLERY/Japan)
"cross the river"(SAKuRA GALLERY/Japan)
2016 "Multi-tenant" exhibition (Toshima Art Station concept Program exhibition) (Kusunokiso/Japan) "TRANSPARENT" (Koenji ZERO/Japan)
2015 "New City Art Fair in Taipei " (Kinoshokikaku /Taipei)
"Waku Waku Mixed Bathing Department" Beppu Contemporary Art Festival 2015
Mixed Bathing Hot spring world (Tokiwa Department store/Japan) and more
2014 "Ginza Aozora de Art 2014" (Ginza Taimei Elementary School/Japan)
"Liquitex Art Prize 2014" (3331Arts Chiyoda/Japan)
"Need" Nami Okada and Mariko Fujimoto Exhibition (Yellow House Gallery/Japan)
and more
2013 "PARTY"(Tama Art University/Japan)
and more...
[Awards]
2020 FACE 2020 Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Award winner 2016 Acrylic gouache biennale 2016 winner
[Collaboration & Client Works]
2021 "Mariko Fujimoto solo exhibition" (Hair salon Royd.) 2020 "PETIT HOTEL KOCHI" Leaflet illustration
"Kanko school uniform" panel illustration for store photography "CURUM crape and sweets" Original illustration for store interior
2019 " Cafe BiRd & rUbY" Store interior design, mural
[Residencies]
2015 Beppu Contemporary Art Festival 2015 Mixed Bathing Hot spring world /Beppu,Japan
Taishi Shingu
1985 Born in Kyoto, Japan
2011 Graduated from the Department of Design,, Tokyo University of the Arts.
He has worked as a designer and design instructor before turning into an artist.
[Solo exhibition]
2021 “”Wavering light” Fashion District - Cafe Grumpy
2021 “Tasihi Shingu Exbition” Stella & Fly
[Group exhibition]
2021 “Stirred Effect” Shape Shifter Lab
Takura Suzuki
Takura Suzuki was born in 1996 in Tokyo. He is now based in Brooklyn, NY. His work focuses on the relationship between contemporary digital technology and humans and investigates how this relationship shapes today’s society. In his work, he metaphorically depicts a world that reflects a contemporary society where the digital aspects and the physical aspects are mixed.
[Education]
2021: MFA in Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 2019: BFA in Painting, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
[Group Exhibition]
2021: New Contemporaries, Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021: Stirred Effect, Shapeshifter Lab, Brooklyn, NY
2021: smoke, signals, space: 2021 MFA-VA Thesis Exhibition, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
2021: Salon: Parabola 2021, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2020: A Transitory Space, Online exhibition
2020: Fallout (online exhibition), Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington, IN
2020: MFA in Visual Art First-Year Exhibition, Art & Education; online exhibition 2019: Extraterrestrial: Parabola 2019, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2019: Distortion/Reality BFA Thesis Show, Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington, IN
2018: Non-Graduating MFA/BFA Exhibition, Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington, IN
[Awards, Grants]
2020: The Gary and Sherry Wolff Art Scholarship, Washington University in St. Louis
2019: The Gary and Sherry Wolff Art Scholarship, Washington University in St. Louis 2018: Harry Engel Scholarship, School of Art, Architecture and Design, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2018: Dean’s award from School of Art, Architecture and Design, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
