1962 Born in Tokyo
1986-87 Studied in former West Germany
1988 Graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design, Major in Science of Art
1991 Completed the Master Course in Art Studies of Yokohama National University,
Graduated School of Educational Department of Art Education
2000 The 14th Holbein Scholarship
[Public Collection]
1998 Light and Greenery Art Museum, KANAGAWA
2003 Joshibi Art Museum, KANAGAWA
2005 Izumi Junior College Gymnasium, KANAGAWA
2005 Kushiro Art Museum, HOKKAIDO
2008 The National Museum of Modern Art, TOKYO
2017 Yokosuka Museum of Art, KANAGAWA
[Award]
1999 Grand Prize at “The 35th Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition”
Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, KANAGAWA
2008 ”The 21th Mihama Art Exhibition”, Mihama City Comprehensive Gymnasium,
FUKUI / Osaka Contemporary Art Center, OSAKA / Fukui Fine Arts Museum, FUKUI
2009 ”The 22th Mihama Art Exhibition”, Mihama City Comprehensive Gymnasium,
FUKUI / Osaka Contemporary Art Center, OSAKA / Fukui Fine Arts Museum, FUKUI
[Solo Exhibition]
1995.12.19-24 Mitaka City Gallery of Art, TOKYO
1996.1.5-22 Suikato Cafe & Gallery, TOKYO
1996.7.12-18 Fukuyama Gallery, KANAGAWA
1996.11.19-30 Taikido Gallery, YOKOHAMA
1997.12.1-6 Ono Gallery, TOKYO
1998.5.5-17 ”Opening Exhibition YUKO KAWADA Exhibition” Gallery Jin, TOKYO
1998.9.29-10.4 Sudo Art Museum, TOKYO
1999.1.11-16 Gallery B-ONE, TOKYO
1999.5.4-13 Gallery Jin, TOKYO
1999.12.20-25 Ono Gallery II, TOKYO
2001.1.13-2.4 Morioka Crystal Gallery, MORIOKA
2001.9.8-10.7 Gallery GALA, TOKYO
2002.9.29-10.8 Liberal Art JPN, HIROSHIMA
2002.10.28-11.2 Gallery Goto, TOKYO
2003.6.30-7.12 Kaneko Art Gallery, TOKYO
2004.1.13-31 Kaneko Art Gallery, TOKYO
2004.7.2-11 Maek-Hyang Gallery, KOREA
2005.1.14-29 Kaneko Art Gallery, TOKYO
2006.6.12-7.1 Kaneko Art Gallery, TOKYO
2008.2.2-16 Kaneko Art Gallery, TOKYO
2009.10.26－11.14 KANEKO ART TOKYO
2010.1.11-1.30 KANEKO ART TOKYO
2012.8.28-9.16 KANEKO ART TOKYO
2014.2.11-3.2 KANEKO ART TOKYO
2015.1.10-2.1 KANEKO ART TOKYO
2015.7.7-26 KANEKO ART TOKYO
2015.12.1-23 KANEKO ART TOKYO
2016.7.9-9.25 YOKOSUKA MUSEUM OF ART
2016.9.29-10.2 KANEKO ART TOKYO
[Group Exhibition]
1997.5.23-29
“4 Artists-Yuko KAWADA,Yoshinori KURIMOTO, Syu KUROKI and Mayumi NAGASAKI”, Fukuyama Gallery,KANAGAWA
1997.12.4-1998.1.25
“Sudo Art Museum Selected Collection”, Sudo Art Muserm, TOKYO
1998.2.1-26
“Gallery Jin Pre-Opening Exhibition”, Gallery Jin, TOKYO
1998.3.1-8
“Message from Young Painter ’98”, Sudo Art Museum, TOKYO
1998.6.5-14
“Contemporary Art Free Market in Sudo Art Museum”, Sudo Art Museum, TOKYO
1998.8.30-9.5
“The 3rd. Contest for The Best Contemporary Art Work ’99”, Soko Gallery-Art Exchange Society, TOKYO
1998.9.8-20
“The 34th Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition”, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery , KANAGAWA
1999.1.12-24
“Contemporary Art Free Market in Sudo Art Museum”, Sudo Art Museum, TOKYO
1999.6.19-7.4
“Artists in Sagamihara Exhibition”, Sagamihara, KANAGAWA
1999.6.28-7.9
“Propotion to Public Art Exhibition”, Space Kaleido, TOKYO
1999.7.6-13
“Contemporary Art Free Market in Sudo Art Museum”, Sudo Art Museum, TOKYO
1999.9.21-10.3
“The 35th Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition”, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, KANAGAWA
2000.1.6-15
“New Paintings-Recent Four Works”, Bar & Gallerie Toki, TOKYO
2000.1.13-24
“Jin Session Small Works 2000”, Gallery Jin, TOKYO
2000.2.19-3.20
“Kanagawa Art Annual 2000”, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, YOKOHAMA
2000.4.23-5.7
“The 29th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan 2000”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, TOKYO
2000.6.8-13
“The 11th Sekiguchi Art Scholarship Award Exhibition”, Kashiwa Citizen’s Gallery, CHIBA
2000.10.16-11.4
“Joshibi University Art and Design the 100th Anniversary Exhibition-In Other Eyes”,
Art Museum, Joshibi University Art and Design, KANAGAWA
2001.7.2-14
Gallery Goto, TOKYO
“Two Artists Exhibition – Lylical small works”
2001.12.10-22
Gallery Fukuyama, TOKYO
“Three Artists Exhibition”
2002.1.19-2.24
Modern and Contemporary Women Artists in Sagamihara and the 100th.
anniversary of Joshibi University Art & Design”, Sagamihara Citizen’s Gallery, KANAGAWA
2002.2.16-28
“Mishima Street Gallery”, Mishima-City Ohdohri Street, SHIZUOKA
2002.2.16-28
VOCA2002 ”The Vision Contemporary Art 2002″, The Ueno Royal Museum, TOKYO
2002.7.17-8.5
“The Moment of Being Painting”, Joshibi Art Museum, KANAGAWA
2003.2.18-8.30
“Brilliant Shine-Japanese and European Pointilism”, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, SHIZUOKA
2004.6.21-26
“KIAF”, KOREA
“KIAF, Special Exhibition-Japanese Contemporary Art-“, KOREA
2004.11.6-11
“SeoulL Art Fair of November”, Hangaram Art Museum in Seoul Arts Center, KOREA
2005.1.2-30
“The Fine Arts in the Twenty Century”, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, SHIZUOKA
2005.2.25-3.20
“Artists’ Today 2005”, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery
2005.5.24-29
“KIAF”, KOREA
2006.10.4-8
FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR
FRANKFURT MESSE HALL, Frankfurt, GERMANY
Hall 4.1 – P.150 (BATIK ART INTERNATIONAL)
- 3.1-30
“The 27th outstanding Rising Artists Exhibition. Presented by Sompo Japan Fine Art Foundation.”,
Seiji Togo Memorial SOMPO JAPAN Museum of Art, TOKYO
2007.7.21-8.26
“Yuka OHTANI X Yuko KAWADA 2Persons Exhibition”, Sagamihara Citizen’s Gallery, KANAGAWA
2010.5.14-6.13
BOURGEOIS BOHEMIAN in Himonya, TOKYO
2011
“Fascination of Matière”,The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo,TOKYO
2012
“The 5th Anniversary of Opening ー Yokosuka & Miura Peninsula’s Artists”, Yokosuka Museum of Art, KANAGAWA
2014.1.11-2.16
“Quintet : Five-Star Artist” Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art , TOKYO
Artiststatement
[Era of Individual Establishment: Inner Nature]
In the early years, beginning in the 1900s, I devoted myself to creating works in order to acquire expression as an independent individual. I believed in my own senses and tried to create a work that was my own life-size. From the experience of interacting with painting materials and making prints, I devised my own method of scratching and hatching. It became an automatic drawing on the canvas, and the scratch technique seemed to unearth the “inner nature” and mark the time of life. Hatching line drawing led to the development of paintings that visualize and record the passage of time.
[The era of coexistence production-Paintings that can exist and be completed by the viewer]
In 2012, after the Great East Japan Earthquake, I moved from Kanagawa Prefecture to Nagano Prefecture. Rather than relying on the creation of a single artist, the activity of creating together” with supporters, without relying on crowdfunding, while forming its own community, always develops activities with the attitude of experiment without answers”. became.
[Era under the influence of social conditions – To paintings that come and go in the virtual world]
Conflicts and battles to establish individual freedom are entering their final stages on a national and global scale. At this crossroads where the old system is broken and the new era is mixed up, people will avoid the influence of social conditions and acquire the freedom of time and space in order to strengthen their independent individuality. It will move to
“I want to have the ability to go back and forth between reality and virtuality.” This aspiration was originally the original mission and role of painting. “How can we realize the affinity between the virtual space of the new era and paintings with real materiality?”
I am also working on developing new activities in this unexplored land and presenting solo exhibitions in virtual space.