Gallery Near - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Gallery Near. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
Masakuni Murakami + Seth High “Works On Paper”
[0][1]- Media: Photography
- 2014-09-05 - 2014-09-21
A joint exhibition by Murakami and Seth, consisting of their new and collaborative works. Sharing many common features in their work and private lives, various works from the past to the present are available...More »
Kana Otsuki Lab 1: Painting Portraits of 16-Year-Old Girls
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2014-08-15 - 2014-08-27
Revisiting the meaning of expression, this exhibition series freely experiments with new forms through daily creative processes.More »
Fades Away, Morning Glow, Sometime
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2014-08-01 - 2014-08-13
Held in Hiroshima’s “GalleryG” earlier this year, this exhibition comes to Kyoto with the addition of guest artist “Yumiha”. A series of seemingly objective paintings as though the landscape was drawn...More »
Satomi Terao “Idea of Brilliance”
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2014-07-18 - 2014-07-30
Satomi Terao’s acrylic and pencil works on paper and canvas sublimely express the artist’s unique interpretations of the ideas of ancient Greek philosophers such as Socrates and Plato. “Idea of Brilliance”...More »
Itsuha Shimada “Nighthawk— From Kenji Miyazawa’s The Nighthawk Star”
[0][0]- Media: Illustration - Painting
- 2014-07-04 - 2014-07-16
Working mainly with Japanese paper, Itsuha Shimada composes single-frame works from an array of materials including pastels, mineral pigment paints, charcoal, pen, and aluminum foil. Straight lines, arcs,...More »
Take Out Art! Small Works of Art To Bring Home
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Talks
- 2014-06-20 - 2014-07-02
A selection of works in the ¥5,000–¥50,000 range no larger than S10-size (53 cm x 53 cm), making them easy to bring home and hang on your wall. This session marks the 5th “Take Out Art!” event, which is...More »
Tamuraguria “Above the Line”
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2014-06-06 - 2014-06-18
Based in Osaka, Japan, painter/performance artist Tamuragrea creates surrealist oil paintings that explore her deep and stirring emotions. Her canvases are full of dream-like imagery in which living forms...More »
Sakurako Yamabe “Categorize of the World”
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2014-05-23 - 2014-06-04
Composed of 47 small works featuring a broken-up version of the Japanese archipelago, this map-themed exhibition incorporates elements of installation art and digs deeply into the concept of borders and...More »
Fuyuji “Green Light, Indigo Forest”
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2014-05-09 - 2014-05-21
The paintings of 2001 Osaka College of Art graduate Fuyuji were selected for the 2011 VOCA exhibition, which recognizes up-and-coming young artists. From 2D art to live paintings to collaborations with...More »
Masaru Hitomi ”A Common Language“
[0][1]- Media: Photography
- 2014-04-18 - 2014-05-07
Photography by Masaru Hitomi. This exhibition is part of KG+, a series of events related to Kyotographie.More »
Kaori Takahashi “Stories of My Father”
[0][0]- Media: Product - Crafts
- 2014-03-28 - 2014-04-09
Kaori Takahashi’s works raise questions about the extent to which people in society understand each other. We live our lives with joys and sorrows in these ambiguous relationships, the uncertainty of which...More »
Yu Kondoh “The Beat”
[0][0]- 2014-03-14 - 2014-03-26
Caught in a world of lies, deception and vanity, exhausted from the torrent of information which blasts us from all angles, it seems increasingly important to find a way to live in simplicity. With his...More »
Kazunori Fuji “Unravelling World”
[0][1]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2014-02-28 - 2014-03-12
In his first solo exhibition Kazunori Fuji takes on the notion of the proverb“Fire on the other shore” as he dissects the definition of “world” as a line, border or boundary, a limited community or range...More »
Masafumi Tanaka “Gathering - Douoku - to - National Flags”
[0][1]- Media: Sculpture - Product - Crafts
- 2014-02-14 - 2014-02-26
Tracing the transformation of Masafumi Tanaka’s work centering on the motif of blocks, as developed from 2006, this exhibition introduces a collection of his major series including “Douoku”（Moving Memory),...More »
Yuta Ikehara “Dreams Spun in Fragments”
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2014-01-31 - 2014-02-12
The world of fragmented dreams, a projection of reality, is surely the only place where a person can confront his or her true self without obstruction. Through the world of dreams he spins for us, Ikehara...More »
Yumie Endo “Double Game”
[0][2]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2014-01-17 - 2014-01-29
Specializing in dyeing techniques Yumie Endo has continued to move from strength to strength in her work which has been widely exhibited throughout the country and has earned her a range of awards and...More »
Tomoko Sakurai “Raise a Storm of Excitement”
[0][2]- Media: Painting
- 2014-01-04 - 2014-01-15
Tomoko Sakurai’s detailed paintings of real and imaginary creatures and microorganisms have attracted much attention at solo and group shows in venues such as Tokyo and Osaka department stores. At the...More »
Take Out Art! Small Works of Art To Bring Home
[0][2]- Media: Illustration - Painting - Drawing
- 2013-12-13 - 2013-12-28
A selection of works in the ¥5,000–¥50,000 range no larger than S10 size (53 cm x 53 cm), making them easy to bring home and hang on your wall. This session marks the 4th “Take Out Art!” event, which is...More »
Ryuzo Satake “Paper and Paint and Pictures”
[0][1]- Media: Graphics - Illustration - Painting
- 2013-11-22 - 2013-12-04
Using the materials of Nihonga painting, Ryuzo Satake creates richly colorful and somewhat translucent works with original techniques of pointillist composition. Children are common subjects of his paintings,...More »
Yukihiro Nakamura + Hikari Shimoda + Kana Ohtsuki “Before Words Are Formed”
[0][2]- Media: Graphics - Illustration - Painting
- 2013-10-25 - 2013-11-13
An exhibition from 3 young artists brought together by their sense of “transience” and offering an insight into the perception of a an age. The work of these 3 grasps at a “life” embedded in the psychological...More »
Masako Nakahira “Transparent Room”
[0][2]- Media: Painting
- 2013-10-11 - 2013-10-23
Exhibition of new paintings by Masako Nakahira.More »
Michi Ogasawara “Infinite Spiral”
[0][2]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2013-09-27 - 2013-10-09
Each of Michi Ogasawara’s pen drawings have been drawn only once, without any adjustments or alterations. From the moment she sets her pen to paper, the work becomes a stream of consciousness: her emotions...More »
Tomo Ueda “Move”
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2013-08-30 - 2013-09-11
Tomo Ueda creates dynamic works using the ancient Japanese technique of sumi-nagashi (ink marbling works) yet are more akin to graffiti and street art, composed in line with the rhythm and melody of music....More »
Kazumasa Taniguchi “Moon Songs”
[0][2]- Media: Sculpture - Party - Performance Art
- 2013-08-16 - 2013-08-28
Exhibition of Kazumasa Taniguchi who creates metallic sculptures imitating the waxing and waning of the moon that also symbolize the cycle of life. More »
Tokonoma
[0][1]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Ceramics
- 2013-07-26 - 2013-08-14
The theme of this group exhibition is “Tokonoma”, referring to the alcove found in traditional Japanese buildings commonly used to display art such as a scroll or vase. Both works 2D works and ceramics...More »
Fumi Terawaki “Come And Go”
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2013-07-05 - 2013-07-17
Exhibition of new and past works by up-and-coming painter Fumi Terawaki, who has exhibited both in Japan and in major art fairs abroad. [Image: Fumi Terawaki, “1017” (2011) 652x910mm]More »
