SOMAKI Koichi |
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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. |
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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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 "Untitled" 2024 Urethane on plywood 25.0×21.0×H241.0cm Signed |
 "Untitled" 2021 Urethane on plywood 25.0×21.5×H241.0cm Signed |
 "Untitled" 1996 Urethane on plywood 73.0×76.0×H84.0cm Signed |
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 "Untitled" 2024 Urethane on plywood 10.0×74.8×6.0cm～10.0×89.0×6.0cm Signed |
 "Untitled" 2003 Urethane on plywood 36.2×36.2×6.0cm Signed |
 "Untitled" 2006 Urethane on plywood 16.6×16.6×93.0cm Signed |
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 "Untitled" 1994 Urethane on plywood 21.0×21.0×83.0cm Signed |
 "Untitled" 1990 Cashew on plywood 30.5×200.8×13.5cm Signed |
 "Untitled" 1998 Urethane on plywood 21.6×21.6×8.3cm Signed |
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 "Untitled" 1998 Urethane on plywood 21.6×21.6×8.3cm Signed |
 "Untitled" 2021 Urethane on plywood 8.5×20.5×H10.5cm Signed |
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 "Untitled" 2014 pencil on paper Image size：18.5×5.2cm Mount size：36.6×25.7cm Signed |
 "Untitled" 2014 pencil on paper Image size：21.2×8.0cm Mount size：36.6×25.7cm Signed |
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 Exhibitions 2024 One-day special feature exhibition／Somaki Koichi 11/16  Koichi Somaki and Aiko Miyawaki 8/20 - 8/31  | ||||