ARTISTS
Tomohiro INABA
I would like my creations to be "the sculptures that keep engaging with the viewers through their imagination".
This is because I consider one of the ways of art is to be instrumental in bringing the viewers "a fruitful time" to fantasize about something that eyes cannot see.
For this reason I always pursue figures that inspires people's imagination.
I leave "blanks" in my works in order to create sculptures that engage with the viewers through their imagination.
In addition, by capturing the moment of one figure transforming into another, the art works start to tell us stories that evoke the flux of time.
PROFILE | ||
1984 | Born in Tochigi, Japan | |
2011 | Ph.D. at Bunsei University of Art(Tochigi, Japan) | |
AWARD | ||
2002 | 23rd Utsunomiya citizen Arts Festival Citizens Art Festival Award | |
2003 | 24th Utsunomiya citizen Arts Festival Citizens Art Festival Award | |
2006 | Bunsei University of Art Graduation Exhibition : [Sculpture course] Grand Prize Montreal international Art Festival : Quebec Japan culture promotion prize |
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2007 | ART MEETS ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION winners Tochigi Prefectural Art Festival Grand Prize |
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2010 | 3rd art-icle Award Selected | |
2011 | Genius of Frank Muller creation Winning a prize | |
SOLO EXHIBITION | ||
2006 | Under the same sky(Kilala Art Gallery, Tochigi Japan) | |
2008 | Solo show(Gallery in the Blue, Tochigi Japan) | |
2011 | Solo show(Bunsei University of Art, Tochigi) | |
2015 | Stories That You See(FUMA Contemporary Tokyo|Bunkyo Art, Tokyo) Stories That You See vol.2(Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo) |
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2016 | Stories That You See vol.3(Gallery Art Composition, Tokyo) | |
2019 | Stories That You See vol.4(FUMA Contemporary Tokyo|Bunkyo Art, Tokyo) | |
GROUP EXHIBITION | ||
2003 | Group Exhibition(Utsunomiya Welfare Center, Tochigi) Group Exhibition(Hotel Jeseremo, Tochigi) |
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2004 | Group Exhibition(Kyobashi Gallery, Tokyo) Group Exhibition(TEPCO La Fonte, Tokyo) |
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2005 | Group Exhibition(Hotel New Itaya, Tochigi) | |
2006 | Group Exhibition(Hotel New Itaya, Tochigi) The palm(Uniglobus Gallery, Tokyo) Group Exhibition(Kyobashi Gallery, Tokyo) Group Exhibition(Gallery KATOU, Tochigi) Ato(Uniglobus Gallery, Tokyo) Seventh sense -vol.1(Gallery in the Blue, Tochigi) |
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2007 | Group Exhibition(Hotel New Itaya, Tochigi) Group Exhibition(Gallery Sho, Kyoto) Duo Exhibition(Gallery KATOU, Tochigi) Group Exhibition(Gallery Kyobashi, Tokyo) Music event [SPACE](Tokyo) |
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2008 | Group show(Hotel New Itaya, Tochigi) Group show(Gallery Kyobashi, Tokyo) Wonder Festival 2008(Tokyo) |
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2009 | Seventh sense Exhibition-vol.2(Gallery in the Blue, Tochigi) Red Bull Box Cart Race 2009(Tokyo) Group show(Gallery KATOU, Tochigi) |
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2010 | NewYear-general-invitation-plan Exhibition(Azabujyuban Gallery, Tokyo) Utsunomiya Museum of Art Children's Festa 2010 Animal Crossing(Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi) 100 degrees Fahrenheit vol.2(CASHI°, Tokyo)v ACT Art Fair 2010(The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Shinanomachi) art-icle Award Exibition 3rd(Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo) |
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2011 | Duo Exhibition matter(CASHI°, Tokyo) Seventh sense -vol.3(Gallery in the Blue, Utsunomiya, Japan) Night Gallery Projects-Vol.7(Night Gallery, Utsunomiya) |
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2012 | sogno- dream Eiji Futahara The artists from the next generation(Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo) Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale 2012(Tsumari, Niigata) To the forest(Daikanyama-Tsutaya, Tokyo) Gallerist Meeting×SOMEWHERE. Extraordinary Lifestyle(Shibuya-Hikarie, Tokyo) Animal art collaboration(Yokohama Municipal Kanazawa Zoo, Kanagawa) |
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2013 | R293 Art Exhibition vol.3(Sano Municipal Cultural Center, Tochigi) Ikebukuro Montparnasse 2013(Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Tokyo) Sukima no kanshyoku(Gallery in the Blue, Tochigi) Night-Gallery Projects-Vol.9(Night Gallery, Utsunomiya) |
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2014 | R293 Art Exhibition vol.4(Sano Municipal Cultural Center, Tochigi) Current art in Utsunomiya Vol.4(Utsunomiya Art Museum, Tochigi) TOKYO DESINERS WEEK 2014 in Milano -Tokyo Imagine-(Milano, Italy) Shitamachi Art Zoo(FUMA Contemporary Tokyo/BUNKYO ART, Tokyo) Shibuya Style vol.8(Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo) |
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2015 | LOST ANIMALS II(Gallery Art Composition, Tokyo) SHINJUKU CREATORS FESTA 2015(SHINJUKU SUMITOMO Building, Tokyo) Ginza Art Zoo(Yu Gallery, Tokyo) |
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ART FAIR | ||
2015 | Kyoto Art Fair by Gallery Art Composition(The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto) Young Art Taipei2015 by FUMA Contemporary(Sheraton Grande, Taipei) ART OSAKA 2015 by Gallery Art Composition(by Gallery Art Composition / Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka) |
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2016 | ART FAIR TOKYO 2016(by Gallery Art Composition / Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo) ART OSAKA 2016(by Gallery Art Composition / Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka) |
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2017 | ART in PARK HOTEL TOKYO 2017(PARK HOTEL TOKYO, Toyko) ART FAIR TOKYO 2017(by Gallery Art Composition / Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo) KIAF 2017(by Callery Art Composition / COEX, Korea) |
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2018 | ART FAIR TOKYO 2018(by Gallery Art Composition / Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo) KIAF 2018(by Callery Art Composition / COEX, Korea) |
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2019 | ART FAIR TOKYO 2019(by Gallery Art Composition / Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo) Plan B(by Callery Art Composition / Paula Cooper Gallery, New York) |
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PUBLIC COLLECTION | ||
2011 | Visible Tales Nouman Temple Kindergarten(Tochigi, Japan) | |
2015 | "To live" KASO ART Village (Tochigi, Japan) | |
2016 | "The Stars Journey" Double Cove (Hong Kong) | |
2019 | "A PLACE FOR STARS" at the Lodz central bus terminal (Lodz, Poland) | |
LATEST
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2019.03.07(Thu)-10(Sun)
@Tokyo International forum -
2018.10.03(Thu)-10.07(Sun)
@COEX 1F HALL A,B in Seoul -
2018.03.08(Thu) - 11(Sun)
@Tokyo International Forum B2F Exhibition Hall -
2017.09.21(Thu) - 09.24.(Sun)
@COEX 1F HALL A,B in Seoul