Yoji Kumagai has earned tremendous attention since his first solo exhibition at Seizan Gallery in 2017. This second solo show will focus mainly on seemingly narrative paintings in which humans and other living things are interwoven in a fairy tale world. Rendered with careful technique, the artist’s works unfold into a fascinating universe that asks us to consider the true essence of Nihonga.
Yoji KumagaiProfile
| Born in Aichi, Japan in 1982 Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan |
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| 【Education】 | |
| 2008 | Received Master’s degree at Aichi University of the Arts, Graduate School in Fine Arts, Major in Nihonga |
| 2006 | Graduated from Aichi University of the Arts, Faculty of Art, Major in Nihonga |
| 【Selected Solo Exhibitions】 | |
| 2024 | Yoji Kumagai: 凹 (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) Yoji Kumagai: Japanese Garden (SEIZAN GALLERY TOKYO 凸, Tokyo) |
| 2021 | Yoji Kumagai (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 2019 | Yoji Kumagai Nihonga-ten (Sendai Mitsukoshi, Miyagi) |
| 2017 | Yoji Kumagai Nihonga-ten (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, continued in 2019, 2023) |
| 2013 | Yoji Kumagai-ten (Ito Bijutsu-ten, Aichi, continued in 2018) |
| 【Selected Group Exhibitions】 | |
| 2023 | Nihonga Sannin: Tsunagu Yoji Kumagai, Hiroko Masumoto, Yumi Yamazaki (Art Salon, Kogen, Aichi) |
| 2022 | A Contemporary Pursuit of the Modern (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) Yoji Kumagaian & Takahiro Sanda: Milestone (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 2021 | JOKER (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 2020 | A Single Ant Bite (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo; SEIZAN GALLERY TOKYO凸, Tokyo) Online Group Show, “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 | Two persons exhibition “Eri Iwasaki, Yoji Kumagai” (Matsuzakaya Nagoya, Aichi) |
| 2017 | The Red: Men (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 2016 | Yokai Tea Ceremony (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) The 20th Anniversary Special Exhibition (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 2015 | Something precious (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, continued in 2017, 2023 ) |
| 2014 | TABRIS (Ito bijutsu-ten, Aichi and Saihodo Gallery, Tokyo) Shin Nihonga Kenkyu-kai (Matsuzakaya, Aichi) Two-persons exhibition “Kichitarou Kotozuka × Yoji Kumagai” (Nagoya City Archives, Aichi) |
| 2013 | Retsu-ten (Matsuzakaya, Aichi; Matsuzakaya, Tokyo, continued in 2015) |
| 2012 | Masaya Yamada × Yoji Kumagai (Ito bijutsu-ten, Aichi) |
| 2011 | Yamazato Art Meguri: Kitemin! Okumikawa in Yuya-spa (Aichi, continued until 2013) Se no kai (Matsuzakaya, Aichi) |
| 【Awards】 |
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| 2007 | Honorable mention for “Nihonga wa Uchu wo Egaku” organized by JAXA (The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) |
| 【Other】 |
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| 2012 | Replicated Ranmatennyozu (Toukouji temple, Aichi) |
18/02/2019(mon) - 01/03/2019(fri)
11:00-19:00※ Close on Sunday, February 24.
※ Close at 17:00 on Saturdays and the last day.
Artist will be in the gallery Feb 18, 19, 23 and March 3.
*During the exhibition, we sell pieces of works by lottery if more than one person wants to take the same piece. The winner will be selected from all those who applied by Monday, February 18.