YU KAWASHIMA YU KAWASHIMA

YU KAWASHIMA

YU KAWASHIMA
YU KAWASHIMA

Kawashima is one of the most promising talents who bear the future of contemporary Japanese painting. He carries on the torch of traditional techniques simultaneously breathes life into the tradition. His distinctive impersonal portraits drawn by the monotone texture with sensitive brush stroke gets to the heart of modern society. Graduates from Aichi University of the Arts in 2013 and continues the graduate program in Japanese painting there. Wins 68th Inten exhibition for the first time. In the following year, receives the Grand Prix Award and the Audience Prize at Sompo Japan Art Award FACE 2014. The prize winning work, TOXIC has been acquired by Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art. In 2015, first solo exhibition at Whitestone Gallery, Tokyo. His works also appear consecutively in the art fairs in Hong Kong Taiwan, Shanghai, etc.

ARTWORKS

ARTICLES

Yu Kawashima × Meiji Hijikata | Exploring the Depths of Young Women's Melancholy in Line Paintings

2024.02.22
INTERVIEW

Dreams in Porcelain, Melody of Ink | Solo Exhibition of Miyako Terakura and Yu Kawashima in Seoul

2024.01.25
Exhibition

GALLERY EXHIBITIONS

YU KAWASHIMA: PATHOS

Seoul
2024.01.13 – 02.18

YU KAWASHIMA: Ré-former
HK H Queen’s 7-8/F
December 12, 2020 - January 23, 2021
YU KAWASHIMA: VOID
Ginza New Gallery
June 12 - July 4, 2020
YU KAWASHIMA: BOX
Karuizawa Gallery2, 3
July 27 - September 5, 2016

MAJOR EXHIBITIONS, COLLECTIONS

EXHIBITIONS

2020
Solo Exhibition Ré-former at Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong
Solo Exhibition VOID at Whitestone Gallery Tokyo
2019
Group Exhibition Allure: Portrait at Whitestone Gallery Taipei Solo Exhibition at ART FAIR TOKYO 2019 (Tokyo)
Exhibited at ART CENTRAL (Hong Kong)
2018
Aichi University of the Arts, Doctoral Exhibition
Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi in Style of Solo Exhibition at “Autumn”
2018 FUMA CONTEMPORARY TOKYO/BUNKYO ART Yu Kawashima Nihonga Exhibition -Power Reactor-
2017
Akino Fuku Art Museum Special Exhibition “Yu Yamada Antony x Yu Kawashima – Intention of Entrusting to a Person Exhibition”
Exhibited at ART CENTRAL (Hong Kong)
2016
Exhibited in Style of Solo Exhibition at ART KAOHSIUNG (Kaohsiung) Exhibited at ART CENTRAL (Hong Kong)
Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art FACE Award Winning Artists Exhibition -Future for Paintings 2016-
2015
Aichi University of the Arts, Master’s Course Exhibition (Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art)
Whitestone Gallery Ginza “Yu KAWASHIMA Exhibition”
FUMA CONTEMPORARY TOKYO/BUNKYO ART Yu Kawashiba Nihonga Exhibition – “Coexistence”-
Exhibited at YOUNG ART TAIPEI 2015 (Taipei)
2014
Sompo Japan Museum of Art FACE 2014 Exhibition 6th Triennale Toyohashi Hoshino Shingo Prize
Nagoya Matsuzakaya Art Salon “Fugano-kai” (every year)
Nagoya Matsuzakaya Art Salon “Yu Kawashima Nihonga Exhibition” -GEOMETRY-
Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Art Salon “Jakushun-kai” (exhibited every year ever since)
Akino Fuku Art Museum Special Exhibition “Yu Kawashima Nihonga Exhibition” – “Continuing Future for Nihonga”
2013
Aichi University of the Arts Graduation Exhibition
68th Inten Spring Exhibition (selected for the consecutive years from 70 – 73th Inten)
2012
Selected for 97th Restored Inten Exhibition
(selected for the consecutive years from 98-103rd Inten)

 

COLLECTIONS

Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art (Tokyo) / Toyohashi City Museum Art & history (Aichi) / Aichi University of the Arts / Hirano Museum (Hamamatsu, Shizuoka)

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