Toru Kuwakubo

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New Life, 2012
oil on canvas
130.5 x 162.0 cm
©Toru Kuwakubo

夜のうず, 2012
oil on canvas
182.5 x 227.5 cm
©Toru Kuwakubo

星と鏡 / Stars and The Mirror, 2012
oil on canvas
324.0 x 130.0 cm
©Toru Kuwakubo

植物園 / Botanical Garden, 2012
oil on canvas
324.0 x 130.0 cm
©Toru Kuwakubo

裸婦燃やし / Burn the Nude Women, 2012
oil on canvas
181.8 x 227.3 cm
©Toru Kuwakubo

シーツに女 / Women on the sheets, 2012
oil on canvas
130.5 x 324.0 cm (2pieces)
©Toru Kuwakubo

現代美術の絵 / Painting of Contemporary Art, 2012
oil on canvas
130.5 x 162.0 cm
©Toru Kuwakubo

帰国売り / Sayonara sale, 2012
oil on canvas
130.5 x 162.0 cm
©Toru Kuwakubo

Oil tree, 2012
oil,wood
h.78.5 x w.10.0 x d.10.5 cm
©Toru Kuwakubo

よく着ていた柘榴色の服 / The old pomegranate color clothes she used to wear, 2011
oil on canvas
162.0 x 194.0 cm
©Toru Kuwakubo

loom, 2010
oil on canvas
194.0 x 259.0 cm
©Toru Kuwakubo

独裁者の庭 / Dectator's Garden, 2010
oil on canvas
194.0 x 259.0 cm
©Toru Kuwakubo

言葉を重ねていく女 / Woman with repeating words, 2010
oil on canvas
53.0 x 45.5 cm
©Toru Kuwakubo

波止場のギター弾き / Guitar Player at the Port, 2010
oil on canvas
53.0 x 45.5 cm
©Toru Kuwakubo

共同アトリエ / The Shared Atelier, 2010
oil on canvas
194.0 x 259.0 cm
©Toru Kuwakubo

女と緑の壷 / Woman on Green Pot, 2009
oil on canvas
91.0 x 72.7 cm
©Toru Kuwakubo

緑の女と縞の壷 / Woman in Green on Striped Pot, 2009
oil on canvas
91.0 x 72.7 cm
©Toru Kuwakubo

installation view at 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, 2012
©Toru Kuwakubo
Photo by Kenji Takahashi

沈む太陽と金撒く人　Setting Sun and People Scattering Money, 2009
oil on canvas
194.0 x 259.0 cm
©Toru Kuwakubo

深夜の電波と眠らない女 A radio wave at midnight and a sleepless lady, 2009
oil on canvas
194.0 x 259.0 cm
©Toru Kuwakubo

アトリエ Atelier, 2008
oil on canvas 194.0 x 259.0 cm c Toru Kuwakubo

詩人の庭2　A Poet's Garden 2
oil on canvas 194.0 x 259.0 cm c Toru Kuwakubo

冬の海と霊園　Winter Sea and Graveyard, 2008
oil on canvas 181.8 x 227.3 cm c Toru Kuwakubo

installation view from [World Citizens with the White Boxes] at Tomio Koyama Gallery, 2008
c Toru Kuwakubo

installation view from [World Citizens with the White Boxes] at Tomio Koyama Gallery, 2008

女たちと白い箱 The Women with the White Boxes", 2008
oil on canvas 181.8 x 227.3 cm c Toru Kuwakubo

男たちと白い箱 The Men with the White Boxes, 2008
oil on canvas 181.8 x 227.3 cm c Toru Kuwakubo

Citizen with the white box, 2008
oil on canvas 45.5 x 33.3 cm c Toru Kuwakubo

小説レモン　novel lemon, 2007
oil on canvas 33.3 x 33.3cm

南瓜と名刺　pumpkin and business card, 2007
oil on canvas 31.8 x 45.5cm c Toru Kuwakubo

明日の仕事と祖母たちの散歩 chore for tomorrow and grandmothers' walk, 2007
oil on canvas 116.7 x 116.7 cm c Toru Kuwakubo

installation view at bendixen contemporary art, Copenhagen, 2007
c Toru Kuwakubo

life of pink sand beach, 2007
oil on canvas 130.3 x 162.0cm

最後のシネマと光る花 the last cinema and shining flowers, 2007
oil on canvas 130.0 x 162.0cm c Toru Kuwakubo

Sea of Bloom -France, 2007
oil on canvas 80.3 x 100.0cm c Toru Kuwakubo

Realistic Lovers, 2006
oil on canvas 91.0 x 117.0cm c Toru Kuwakubo

Battleships and 23 of Yellow Flowers, 2006
oil on canvas 130.0 x 162.0cm c Toru Kuwakubo

Sea of Bloom - Estonia, 2006
oil on canvas 100.0 x 80.3cm c Toru Kuwakubo

貝の髪飾りの女　A woman with shell works on her hair, 2006
oil on canvas 53.0 x 50.0cm ©Toru Kuwakubo

海辺の首飾り　necklace by the seaside, 2006
oil on canvas 60.0 x 50.0cm ©Toru Kuwakubo

55-year-old, 2005
oil on canvas 130.0 x 162.0cm c Toru Kuwakubo

Sand Beach, Giverny, 2005
oil on canvas 130.0 x 162.0cm c Toru Kuwakubo

Sea of bloom - Myanmar, 2005
oil on canvas 50.0 x 73.0cm c Toru Kuwakubo

installation view from [The Flower of Hole in the Sand] at Tomio Koyama Gallery, 2005
c Toru Kuwakubo

TORINASU Practice, 2005
oil on canvas 50.0 x 73.0cm c Toru Kuwakubo

Carnation, 2004
oil on canvas 41.0 x 41.0cm c Toru Kuwakubo

Twenty Flowers of Hole in the Sand, 2004
oil on canvas 91.0 x 116.7cm c Toru Kuwakubo

White Flag, 2003
oil on canvas 130.0 x 130.0cm c Toru Kuwakubo

Red Holes, 2003
oil on canvas 194.0 x 130.0cm c Toru Kuwakubo

Dig, Dig, Dig, 2002
oil on canvas 194.0 x 130.0cm c Toru Kuwakubo

1978　Born in Kanagawa, Japan
2002　B.F.A., Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan

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Solo exhibition

2012
”The Sea by Night and Day”　The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, England
”Toru Kuwakubo　exhibition” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2010
"Out of Noise" GALLERY HYUNDAI Gangnam Space, Seoul, Korea
"Telling of Sea, Telling of Painter" Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

2008
"World Citizens with the White Boxes" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2007
"Women Living by the Sea" doART Gallery, Seoul, Korea
"SCENERY OF TOMORROW" bendixen contemporary art, Copenhagen, Denmark

2006
"Illusion of the Sea Ebbing Away" Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin, Germany
"sleepless women" Gallery Stump Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan

2005
"The Flower of Hole in the Sand" Project Room / Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Drawings" TKGY at lammfromm, Tokyo, Japan
"BLOOMFIELD" Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

2003
Tokyo Wonder Site, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan

2002
Pepper's Loft Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Group exhibition

2013
"Tokyo Painting II | Mindscape between interior and exterior"　Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"Wonderful My Art"　Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan

2012
"KISS THE HEART #1"　Isetan Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
"Azamino Contemporary vol.2 Viewpoints Drawing ＆ Painting"　Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Kanagawa, Japan
"Painting Never Dies"　YUKA TSURUNO, Tokyo, Japan
”Blindsight”MA2Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2011
"Temporary Exhibition : Art in an Office" Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
"Taguchi Art Collection, Global New Art"　Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
"Reflections in collaboration with Tomio Koyama Gallery"　ford PROJECT, New York, USA

2010
"Paintings by Four Artists" Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
"Artist File 2010 : The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art" The National Art Center, Tokyo
3331 Arts Chiyoda　Grand Opening Exhibition "3331 Presents Tokyo : Part1", 3331 Arts chiyoda 1st Floor Exhibition Space, Tokyo, Japan
"TOKYO WONDER WALL 2000-2009 10 years! " Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

2009
"Happy New Year(s)" bendixen Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

2007
"Portrait Session" NADiff, Tokyo / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
"Summer Show" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo

2004
Yokohama Shimin Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
"The Artists of Tokyo Wonder Wall" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

2003
Promnard Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Tokyo Wonder Wall" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Public collection

Toyota Art Collection
Takamatsu City Museum of Art
Takahashi Collection
Flowerman Collection
The Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Company
The JAPIGOZZI Collection

Awards

2012
VOCA Encouragement Prize

2011
The 3rd Koji Kinutani Prize, The Mainichi Newspapers

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1978　Born in Kanagawa, Japan

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Upcoming exhibitions

[TKG Editions Kyoto]

Ryota Aoki

2013. 5. 31st（fri.） - 6. 15th（sat.）
[8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery]

The Official Art Print Edition 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™

2013. 6. 5th（wed.） - 6. 17th（mon.）
[8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery]

Jeremy Dickinson

2013. 6. 19th（wed.） - 7. 8th（mon.）
[Tomio Koyama Gallery 7th floor]

Satoshi Ohno

DEAD PHYSICS.

2013. 7. 6th（sat.） - 7. 27th（sat.）

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