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...

 


"Untitled"

2024
Urethane on plywood
25.0×21.0×H241.0cm
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"Untitled"

2021
Urethane on plywood
25.0×21.5×H241.0cm
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"Untitled"

1996
Urethane on plywood
73.0×76.0×H84.0cm
Signed

 


"Untitled"

2024
Urethane on plywood
10.0×74.8×6.0cm~10.0×89.0×6.0cm
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"Untitled"

2003
Urethane on plywood
36.2×36.2×6.0cm
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"Untitled"

2006
Urethane on plywood
16.6×16.6×93.0cm
Signed

 


"Untitled"

1994
Urethane on plywood
21.0×21.0×83.0cm
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"Untitled"

1990
Cashew on plywood
30.5×200.8×13.5cm
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"Untitled"

1998
Urethane on plywood
21.6×21.6×8.3cm
Signed

 


"Untitled"

1998
Urethane on plywood
21.6×21.6×8.3cm
Signed

"Untitled"

2021
Urethane on plywood
8.5×20.5×H10.5cm
Signed

 


"Untitled"

2014
pencil on paper
Image size:18.5×5.2cm
Mount size:36.6×25.7cm
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"Untitled"

2014
pencil on paper
Image size:21.2×8.0cm
Mount size:36.6×25.7cm
Signed

 

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Exhibitions
2024
Koichi Somaki and Aiko Miyawaki    8/20 - 8/31