Imura Art Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Imura Art Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Takashi Hinoda Exhibition
Takashi Hinoda’s profile has been rising over the past two years as a participant in international museum group shows in France, China, and Indonesian. This exhibition focuses on new works marking new...More »
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Suna Fujita “Showroom”
Imura art gallery is pleased to announce Suna Fujita Showroom, an exhibition by ceramic art collaboration Suna Fujita. Shohei Fujita and Chisato Yamano are both active ceramicists working independently,...More »
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Hideki Kimura + Sadaharu Horio “The Viewport”
An exhibition by Hideki Kimura and Sadaharu Horio.More »
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Minho Lee “Fil blanc / Fil rouge”
Lee Minho gives “thread” many meanings. Red thread, which signifies affinity and destiny, can also remind one of Ariadne’s thread in the labyrinth in Greek mythology. White balls of thread from former...More »
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Aya Hashizume “This Isn’t Happiness”
Paintings by Aya Hashizume.More »
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Masaomi Raku Exhibition
This exhibition presents the unique sculptural forms of Masaomi Raku, the second eldest son of Raku Kichizaemon who is the current 15th generation head of the Raku family. With a tradition that dates back...More »
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Keikou Nishimura Exhibition
Keikou Nishimura’s works continue to be presented both domestically and internationally. Keikou’s own works feature a bold yet refined weight to the lacquer. He creates his unique organic forms by using...More »
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Yoshimi Miyamoto Exhibition
Yoshimi Miyamoto has been constantly working on monochrome works using light and dark, which imply “life and death” for her. Its motif varies from dried flowers to vernacular photos of woman on the Internet.Miyamoto’s...More »
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Kaori Watanabe “Private Heroine”
An exhibition of small objects and drawings based on female heroines and femme fatales, by Kaori Watanabe, an artist who has pursued the aesthetic and technique of traditional oriental art.More »
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Yoshihiro Tatsuki “Blowing in the Left Hand Wind”
Yoshihiro Tatsuki graduated from Tokyo Junior Collage of Photography (forerunner of Tokyo Polytechnic University) in 1958, and became a freelance photographer in 1969. He is famous for the black/white...More »
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Satoshi Someya “Mukei-no-Asobi”
Someya draws “pop” motifs on lacquered wood with a traditional Japanese decorating technique including maki-e gold lacquer, raden mother-of-pearl inlaying, and chin-kin engraving with powdered gold. Through...More »
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Masaharu Sato Solo Exhibition
They will exhibit his two-dimensional art pieces produced with a digital tracing technique.Born in Oita in Japan in 1973, Sato received an M. F. A in painting at Tokyo University of the Arts in 1999. He...More »
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Suna Fujita “Garden + Room”
Imura Art Gallery welcomes Shohei Fujita and Chisato Yamano’s exhibition that features an installation piece built around the contrasting spaces of “Garden” and “Room”.More »
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Fumio Yamazaki Exhibition
Displaying the wood carvings and drawings of Fumio Yamazaki. (A Nuit Blanche Kyoto 2015 event).More »
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Hideki Kimura “Translucency / Skin - Squeegee Painting”
The fifth exhibition of new works by Japanese Artist Hideki Kimura. “Translucency / skin - Squeegee Painting - ” will juxtapose the latest and the chronological series from 1998 at once.More »
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Masaharu Sato “1×1=1”
Masaharu Sato divides one thing into two or consolidates two things into one, representing an unrealistic world like the boundary between a photograph and a painting. Five new photo digital paintings are...More »
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Taro Yamamoto and Unsodo— Heisei Rimpa Paintings and Unsodo Woodblock Prints
Marking the 400th anniversary of the Rimpa school of Japanese painting, this exhibition presents a collaboration between the works of contemporary artist Taro Okamoto, acclaimed as a “Heisei Rimpa artist,”...More »
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Takashi Hinoda “Dust in a Vortex in a Vortex Swirling in a Vortex”
Presenting Takashi Hinoda’s “2.5-D omnivore ceramics” inspired by manga, comics, graffiti, architecture, installation art, movies, music, and street signs. [Related Event] Opening Event Special Guests:...More »
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Satoshi Someya Solo Exhibition “Digesting Decoration II”
An exhibition of new works by Satoshi Someya, an artist who explores “Kashoku,” a Japanese lacquerware technique of adding decoration, and integrating layering lacquer and naturally occurring patterns...More »
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Sangsun Bae “Over & Over”
In these new works by Sangun Bae, circles delicately painted onto jet-black velvet float and overlap with each other, seeming to eternally intermingle with each other throughout the universe. In an age...More »
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Toru Kamiya “A”
This is Kamiya’s first solo exhibition in Kyoto. Using green as a keynote color, this series includes paintings that encompass both natural and unnatural elements. With pieces that also appear blurred,...More »
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Vanessa Franklin’s “Bleu” and Yuko Miyakoshi’s “Lacy”
Imura Art Gallery kyoto is pleased to present Vanessa Franklin’s “Bleu”(1F) and Hiroko Miyakoshi “Lacy” (2F) in the first joint exhibition of these two artists. French photographer Vanessa Franklin twists...More »
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Yukari Momoda “I, the clouds”
Momoda recreates moments which have left a deep impression upon her or imaginary landscapes formed in her mind and expresses them using vivid tints of colors that are so fresh that they almost appear “artificial.”...More »
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Takeshi Tanaka “The Tales of the Night”
Continuing to question the very definition of nihonga Takeshi Tanaka here presents a series of work formulated around the desires of the night, including his “Sixteen Erotic Figures” series, which reflects...More »
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Satoshi Someya “Digesting Decoration”
Imura art gallery Kyoto proudly presents “Digesting Decoration”, a solo exhibition for Satoshi Someya. Using Makie and Raden traditional dry-lacquer techniques, Someya emphasizes the curves of animal and...More »
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“Response”— Architecture That Surrounds 12 Art Works
For every artist, a museum of his or her own is a very special space that cannot be compared to other museums. In this special museum, various elements such as the artist and his or her works, art works...More »
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Yu Hanabusa “Gardening”
Exhibition of painting of traditional Japanese gardens by Yu Hanabusa.More »
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Fumio Yamazaki Exhibition
Fumio Yamazaki creates sculptures using “ichimoku zukuri” technique: carving from a single block of camphor wood. His pieces, which combine the body of a child with the head of an animal, explore Yamazaki’s...More »
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Yamamoto Taro 「18/24 - Eighteen Twenty Fourth 」
The seasons and annual festivals have been a common subject in Japanese art throughout history. Taking over this heritage, Taro Yamamoto, a contemporary “Nippon-ga” painter, presents these subjects from...More »
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Yu Kiwanami “Appetite for Painting”
Kyoto artist Kiwanami’ s paintings are characteristically graphic, consisting of simplified figures and backgrounds rendered in thick black lines and flatly applied colors. This exhibition of Kiwanami’s...More »
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Yura Ota Exhibition
[Image: Yura Ota "People" (2006) 318x410mm Oil on Canvas]More »
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Jumpei Ueda Exhibition
[Image: Jumpei Ueda "Banno Okimono" (2006) 14x8x8cm, ceramic]More »
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Permanent Exhibition
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Taro Yamamoto Exhibition
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Harumi Yahata Exhibition
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Kyoko Hori Exhibition
[Image: "Turning Skin" (2007) 37x42x36cm, clay, red clay and pigment]More »
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Noriyuki Nakayama "Early Pieces 1999-2002"
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Yu Hanabusa "Flower Pink Star"
New works of 8 to 10 oil paintings and 10 to 12 prints will be exhibited. Image: "w.m.g. Pink Star" 2007More »
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Sho Yoshida "Day Full of Rain"
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Yasuhiro Watarai Exhibition