One-day special feature exhibition／Somaki Koichi

Schedule: November. 16 [Sat.] 2024 11:00 - 19:00

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We proudly present you the one-day only “Somaki Koichi Exhibition” .
A gallery talk will be held from p.m. 3:00 to p.m. 4:30 on the exhibition day (reservation required).
Please note that those without reservations are not be able to enter our gallery during the gallery talk.

■SOMAKI Koichi
He was born in 1952 in Niigata prefecture. Later, he attended Tokyo Zokei University, in which he graduated in 1979 with a major in painting. He studied with Katsuhiko Narita as an auditing student at Tokyo Zokei University in 1981, and assisted Miyawaki Aiko in her production at Miyawaki Aiko’s Atelier from 1981 to 2014. From 2002 till 2006, he was a part-time lecturer at Tokyo Zokei University. Since his first solo exhibition at Shinwa Gallery (Tokyo) in 1979, he has had more than 20 solo exhibitions, including in the Gallery aM (Tokyo) in 1993, Kawasaki IBM Civic Culture Gallery (Kanagawa) in 2000, and Base Gallery (Tokyo) in 2015.

Other major group exhibitions include the "ABST" exhibition, which has been held regularly since 2001 to the present; "The 3rd Busan Biennale" (Korea) in 1985; "Poetics of Hue" at Kawasaki City Museum (Kanagawa) in 1991; "Aiko Miyawaki and Young Artists" at Museum Haus Kasuya (Kanagawa) in 2003; "Art in the Forest of Eight Colors" exhibition at Ikeda Memorial Museum of Art (Niigata) in 2018, etc. His commissions and collections include Glass Art Akasaka (1984), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (1986), Grand Boa Chiba Wing Arena (2002), B-tech Japan Bösendorfer (2013), and many others...

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