Biographie

Akira KUGIMACHI

Né en 1968 à Yokohama Japan, vit et travaille à Paris Fance

FORMATION
2000-2002	Bourse pour les artistes talents par l’Agence pour les affaires culturelles, Gouvernement japonais
1996-1999	Master de l’Art Plastique à l’Université Paris VIII Saint-Denis, sous la direction de Jean-Louis Boissier
1995-1996	Ecole National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, France
1989-1995	Master à l’Univesité de Beaux-Arts de Tama, Tokyo

EXPOSITION PERSONNELLE
2020	Elpis, Gallery Pierre-Yves Caër, Paris
2019	Akira KUGIMACHI The Works – 2019, Abeno Harukas Kintetsu, Osaka
2018	Elewhon, Gallery Art Composition, Tokyo
2017	Re-génération, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo
2016	« Akira Kugimachi » Fujisaki Art Gallery, Sendai
2015	Bifröst, Tobi Art Fair 2014, Tokyo Bijutsu-Club, Tokyo Eclipse, Art Fair Tokyo 2014, Tokyo
2014	Kyoto Art Fair -Air&Snowscape-, Akira Kugimachi, Miyakomesse, Kyoto Snowscape＋constellation, Tazu Art, Kyoto
2013	Akira KUGIMACHI -Snowscape-, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo Snowscape, Art Fair Tokyo 2013, Tokyo « Akira Kugimachi – Snowscape » Gallery Espace Kyoto, Nagoya
2012	Snowscape, Art Fair Tokyo 2012, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo Akira KUGIMACHI, Gallery Espace, Nagoya Ichigo-ichie, Shinseido Gallery, Tokyo
2011	Lightscape (Seasons), Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo Art Fair Tokyo 2011, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
2010	Watergrass and sky, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo Akira KUGIMACHI, Art Gallery Tsuruya, Kumamoto
2009	Lightscape Spectrum, Gallery Shorewood, Tokyo Akira KUGIMACHI – Lux Aeterna-, Art Gallery Fujisawa Saikaya, Kanagawa Akira KUGIMACHI, Yamagataya, Kagoshima Art Fair Tokyo 2009 -Shadows + Lightscape-, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo Tobi Art Fair 2009, Trees + Seascape, Tokyo Bijutsu-Club, Tokyo
2008	Akira KUGIMACHI – Lux Aeterna-, Takanawa-kai, Prince Hôtel Takanawa, Tokyo Akira KUGIMACHI – Lux Aeterna-,Yokohama Sogou, Kanagawa Akira KUGIMACHI – Seascape Daylight-, Seibu Ikebukuro Art Forum, Tokyo Akira KUGIMACHI – Seascape & Trees-, Daiwa, Toyama Light Scape, Art Fair Tokyo 2008, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
2007	Akira KUGIMACHI -Seascape Daylight-, Seibu Numazu, Shizuoka Akira KUGIMACHI, Elgala, Fukuoka Akira KUGIMACHI -the artists of 21st Century-, Saikaya Fujisawa, Kanagawa Art Fair Tokyo 2007-Waves-, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo Tobi Art Fair 2007 -Seascape-, Tokyo Bijutsu-Club, Tokyo
2006	Akira KUGIMACHI New Paintings, Gallery Shorewood, Tokyo Paysage / Mouvement / Image, Landscape / Movement / Image, Galerie Laurence Belle, Paris Akira KUGIMACHI New Paintings -Light Scape-, Gallery Shinseido, Tokyo
2003	Infinity Waves, Gallery Shinseido, Tokyo
1999	Dismantling Utopia, Galerie Point Jal, Paris
1995	Akira KUGIMACHI, Gallery Surugadai, Tokyo
1991	Akira KUGIMACHI, Hachioji, Tokyo

EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES
2019	Art Paris 2019, Pierre-Yves Caër Gallery, Paris Art Fair Tokyo 2019, Gallery Art Composition, Tokyo
2018	Renaissance contemporaine / Contemporary Renaissance, Pierre-Yves Caër Gallery, Paris Cabinet Da-End 08, Galerie Da-end, Paris France Japon, Gallery Dutko Bonaparte, Paris Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London
2017	I LOVE TAIWAN, Whitestone Gallery Taipei, Taiwan Collection de Galerie / Gallery collection, Gallery Dutko Bonaparte, Paris L’Aurore de Paysage / The Dawn of Landscape, VILLA 88, Bordeaux Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London Symbiose/Symbiosis, Gallery Insighter, Paris So to Zo 2017, Tokyo Bijutsu Club, Tokyo, Kyoto, Kanazawa, Osaka, Nagoya
2016	YAMAGIWA, Tokyo « Paysages Subjectifs (Subjective Landscape) » Ianchelevici Museum, La Louvière PAD (ART＋DESIN) , Paris « Sou et Zou 2016 » Tokyo Art Club, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Kanazawa « ENCOUNTERS » Galerie Jean-Jacques Dutko, Paris
2015	« RINPA 400ème EXPOSITION COMMÉMORATIVE » « Ombres & Lumières » Galerie Jean-Jacques Dutko, Paris « ART ELYSEES » Pavillons, avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris
2013	« Ku kai 3 » Gallery Kunimatsu, Tokyo « Contemporary japanese ink painting » The National Art Museum, Tokyo
2012	A force de regarder au lieu de voir / By dint of looking instead of seeing, Art-Cade, Galerie des Grands Bains Douches de la Plaine, Marseille « Nihonbashi kai 2012 » Onward Gallery, Tokyo « Ku kai 2 » Gallery Kunimatsu, Tokyo « MASURAO japanese peinting » Osaka Takashimaya Art Gallery
2011	Group Horizon, Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo Ku kai, Gallery Kunimatsu, Tokyo Tragique du Paysage/ Tragic of the Landscape, Galerie Eric Mircher, Paris Sennen no kai, Onward Gallery, Tokyo
2010	Shinpükai, Shinseido Gallery, Tokyo Sennenno-kai, Onward Galerie Nihonbashi, Tokyo 0+SM+3GO, Galerie Shorewood, Tokyo
2009	Petit tableaux / Small paintings, Onward Galerie Nihonbashi, Tokyo 2016 Exhibition, Promo-Arte Gallery/ Tokyo Metropolitan Government / Takeo / Galerie Ginza / Galerie Bokushin, Tokyo Art Gallery Fair Kyoto, Miyako Messe, Kyoto Sennenno-kai, Onward Gallery Nihonbashi, Tokyo Gingano-kai Ⅲ, Gallery Taigado, Kyoto Ceux qui ont choisi Paris -Les talents venus de l’Est / Those who chose Paris – Talents from the East,　Galerie Orenda, Paris
2008	Petit tableaux / Small paintings, Onward Gallery Nihonbashi, Tokyo Nihonbashi-kai 2008, Onward Gallery Nihonbashi, Tokyo Sennenno-kai, Onward Gallery Nihonbashi, Tokyo « Nocturne in Ginza » Gallery Yamashita, Tokyo
2007	Petit tableaux / Small paintings, Onward Gallery Nihonbashi, Tokyo Nihonbashi-kai 2007, Onward Gallery Nihonbashi, Tokyo Art Shanghai 2007, Shanghai mart, China Chicago Red Art Fair 2007, Lorado Taft Studio Midway, Chicago
2006	Star of Millennium, Seibu Ikebukuro, Tokyo / Sogo Shinsaibashi, Osaka / Sogo Kobe, Hyougo Art Gallery Fair Kyoto, Miyako Messe, Kyoto
2002	Horizont 21, Gallery Shiraishi, Tokyo
2001	« Horizont 21 » Gallery Shiraishi, Tokyo
1998	Atelier Portes Ouvertes de Belleville / Atelier Open house day at Bellville, Paris
1996	Escale / Stopover, Galerie des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, Marseille
1994	Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition, Ueno-no-Mori Museum, Toyko Axe, Gallery Surugadai, Tokyo
1993	Takifuji Art Award Gallery Tokyo Wall, Tokyo

Selected Projects
2018	Folding Screen, Eclipse Platine, residence of Kenzo Takada , Paris
2017	Permanent collection, Seascape, Colorscape #1-#6, Paris Braunch of Mitsubishi Corporation, Paris
2015	Hand bag “Polochon”, Shorin-zu, Collaboration with DOGNIN, Paris
2014	Wall painting, Eclipse, Paris Miki London, London
2013	Wall painting, Shadows, residence of Kenzo Takada, Paris
2012	Competition of Valenciennes culture center with Moreau Kusunoki Architects (not appointed), Paris
2012	Sensu, japanese folding fan and Gakuya Noren, entrance curtains of Kabuki backstage for Chusha Ichikawa (Teruyuki Kagawa), Tokyo
2011	Permanent collection, vertical waves, Temple Ryugenji, Tokyo
2011	Natsume, tea box for collaboration with Hanako Miwa, Paris
2010	Permanent collection, Folding Screen, residence of Katsuhisa Otsuka residence, Tokyo
2009	Permanent collection, Shadows, Nishi Shuzou, Kagoshima
2006	image/paysage/mouvement, workshop, Ecole supérieure des beaux-arts de Marseille, Marseille

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