Haruomi Izumi is a successor of “Nihonga,” the Japanese-style painting which has been practiced over centuries. The word Nihonga was developed as the opposite or counter word, to the word Yo-ga, or Western painting, and is often characterized by the use of traditional materials such as mineral pigments, a binder made of animal glue, washi paper, as well as the choice of subject matter such as nature and animals. Izumi studied Nihonga at Tokyo University of the Arts. Izumi’s signature works, including Yukoku (The Scarlet Hour) and Sokoku (The Blue Hour), depart from traditional Nihonga and combine surreal color with obsessively repetitive patterns of trees. In this way, Izumi creates deeply textured scenes that encompass their surroundings and engulf the viewer with their rich aura.
“Nature has a perfect beauty and I don’t find it interesting to only copy it in my painting,” says Izumi. “I pursue new beauty by eliminating randomness and creating patterns from a single motif and then simplifying elements I find in nature.” Izumi’s works are included in the collections of The Sato Sakura Art Museum, Chiba Bank, Keiyo Bank, Hulic Co., Ltd., and i-com’s Co., Ltd.
Profile
| Born in Chiba, Japan in 1979 Lives and works in Chiba, Japan |
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| Worked as part time instructor at Tokyo University of the Arts between 2010 to 2012 Presently a member of the Japan Artists Association |
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| 【Education】 | |
| 2004 | Received Master’s degree at Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Design, Painting and Decoration Studio |
| 2003 | Graduated Tokyo University of the Arts, School of Fine Art, Major in Nihonga |
| 【Selected Solo Exhibitions】 | |
| 2020 | Haruomi Izumi: Blue Hour (SEIZAN Gallery, New York) |
| 2019 | Haruomi Izumi NIhonga-ten: Kankaku no Senren (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo) |
| 2016 | Solo Exhibition (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo) |
| 2014 | Solo Exhibition (Chiba Bank Art Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 2013 | Solo Exhibition (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 2011 | Solo Exhibition (Keiyo Bank, Chiba, until 2014) |
| 2010 | Solo Exhibition (Sendai Mitsukoshi, Miyagi) |
| 2009 | Solo Exhibition (Chiba Bank Art Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 【Selected Group Exhibitions】 | |
| 2021 | Fresh Air (SEIZAN Gallery, New York) |
| 2020 | A Single Ant Bite (SEIZAN GALLERY TOKYO凸, Tokyo) Online Exhibition “Jo Sai Sho Fuku (Ward off Calamities, Invite Good Luck) : Gods and Yokai in the Time of Pandemic” (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo; SEIZAN Gallery, New York) |
| 2019 | Reimagined: Contemporary Artists Take on The Tale of Genji (SEIZAN Gallery, New York) |
| 2018 | NIHONGA: CONTEMPORARY ART OF JAPAN (SEIZAN Gallery, New York) The 45th“Soga-ten” (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo) DELTA (Sendai Mitsukoshi, Miyagi; Sapporo Mitsukoshi, Hokkaido; Fukuoka Mitsukoshi, Fukuoka) Nikitama” (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) Shunki Soga-ten” (Seibu Ikebukuro, Tokyo) |
| 2017 | The Red: Men (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) DELTA: Nihonga Sannin-ten (Niigata Mitsukoshi, Niigata) |
| 2016 | Asahi Charity Bijutsuten (Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo until 2019) 20th Anniversary Special Exhibition (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) DELTA (Sendai Mitsukoshi, Miyagi) |
| 2015 | ShinPA in Suwa (Kitazawa Art Museum, Nagano) Art Wonderland (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo) |
| 2014 | Haon no Kai (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, continued every year afterward) Mitsukoshi x Geidai Art Fair Tokyo 2014 (Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo) |
| 2013 | Ouka Prize Exhibition (Sato Sakura Art Museum Tokyo, continued in 2017) Venice Biennale “Imago Mundi: Collection of Luciano Benneton” (Venice) SENSU-ten (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 2012 | Wakate Sakka Nihonga-ten: Kore Kara (Hiroshima) Wakate Sakka Nihonga-ten: Kaleidoscope (Shinsaibashi, Osaka, continued every year afterward) Mitsukoshi x Geidai, Natsu no Geijutsusai 2012 (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo) |
| 2011 | Higashi Nihon Daishinsai Fukkou Charity Auction (Tokyo Art Club, Tokyo) |
| 2010 | Haru wo Mederu Kaiga-ten (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) Something Precious (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, continued until 2019) |
| 2008 | Wave 2008: Hana no Kai (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, until 2012) |
| 2006 | Sakka no Tamago-ten (Obuse Museum, Nagano, name later changed to ShinPA! and continued yearly) L’Espoir-ten (Tokyo) |
| 2005 | Hato no Kai (Travelled through Japan, held every year since) |
| 【Public Collections】 | |
| Sato Sakura Art Museum, Chiba Bank, Keiyo Bank, Hulic Co., Ltd., i-com’s Co., Ltd. | |
| 【Publications】 | |
| 2012 | Regular column in Technical Seminar material “Bijutsu no Mado” March, April, and May |
| 【Awards】 | |
| 2006 | Design award for Graduate Thesis Work (Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo) |
| 2005 | Honorable Mention for the 15th Garyu Sakura Nihonga Taisho-ten (Gifu) |
Exhibitions
SEIZAN GALLERY & SEIZAN GALLERY TOKYO凸 A SINGLE ANT BITE
11/12/2020(fri) - 22/12/2020(tue)
Hiroyuki Aoyama, Yasushi Ikejiri, Sayaka Imai, Haruomi Yukiko Hata, Izumi, Emi Katsuta, Mao Kawasaki, Yoji Kumagai, Shunsuke Ochi, Akifumi Okuyama, Tomoaki Shimohira, Asako Tabata, Motohide Takami, Keitoku Toizumi, Koki Tsujimoto, Kaz Watabe, Yohei Yashima, Yuki Yatsu
Online Exhibition “除災招福 Jo Sai Sho Fuku (Ward off Calamities, Invite Good Luck) :Gods and Yokai in Time of Pandemic”
10/04/2020(fri) - 07/02/2023(tue)
Ruiji Aiba, Akie, Toshiyuki Enoki, Aki Fukui, Yukiko Hata, Yasushi Ikejiri, Eri Iwasaki, Haruomi Izumi, Takashi Kanazawa, Hiroshi Kanzaki, Emi Katsuta, Ryu Kitazawa, Yoji Kumagai, machumaYu, Yuko Murakoshi, Ayako Nakamura, Shunsuke Ochi, Akifumi Okumura, Ken Shiozaki, Kei Sugiyama, Asako Tabata, Shinya Tamai, Taro Tasaki, Kenki Tsujimoto, Koki Tsujimoto, Haruki Yamaba, Ami Yamashiro, Yuki Yatsu
Nikitama
16/05/2018(wed) - 22/05/2018(tue)
Kotaro Fukui, Ayumu Matsuoka, Haruomi Izumi, Takashi Kanazawa, Ryu Kitazawa, Noriyuki Kobayashi, Yuki Sori, Ryo Fujimaki, Syo Honda, Ryota Yuki,
The RED -Men-
26/05/2017(fri) - 07/06/2017(wed)
Kotaro FUKUI, Ken SHIOZAKI, Haruomi IZUMI, Yoji KUMAGAI, Takashi KANAZAWA