Toru Kuwakubo
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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
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installation view from [World Citizens with the White Boxes] at Tomio Koyama Gallery, 2008
c Toru Kuwakubo
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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
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
installation view at bendixen contemporary art, Copenhagen, 2007
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
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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
Solo exhibition
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
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
Awards
2011
The 3rd Koji Kinutani Prize, The Mainichi Newspapers
- Toru Kuwakubo
- 1978 Born in Kanagawa, Japan
Toru Kuwakubo ：Archives
- Exhibitions
- Interview
- Gallery & Artist News
- “petit” GEISAI＃15, 2011
- Reflections in collaboration with Tomio Koyama Gallery, 2011
- Taguchi Art Collection, Global New Art, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, 2011
- Temporary Exhibition : Art in an Office, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2011
- Toru Kuwakubo exhibition, [Telling of Sea, Telling of Painter] Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, 2010
Upcoming exhibitions
- [Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto]
- [TKG Editions Kyoto]