Matsuoka Gaku

Born in Toyama in 1988; completed the Musashino Art University Graduate School Japanese Painting Course in 2014

Solo exhibition

2026 〒ZIP code (Pragmata/Hatchobori)

2025 Memories of Tana (Iwao Gallery/Kuramae)

2023 DO NOT ENTER (Pragmata/Hatchobori)

Matsuoka Manabu Solo Exhibition (Dai-ichi Life Gallery/Yurakucho)

2022 Matsuoka Manabu Solo Exhibition (Art Space 88/National)

Matsuoka Manabu Solo Exhibition (Art Space Rashinban/Kyobashi)

2021 Matsuoka Gaku Exhibition (Art Space Rashinban/Kyobashi)

2020 Lyrical Songs (Pragmata/Hatchobori)

2017 Echoes (Pragmata/Hatchobori)

Matsuoka Manabu Solo Exhibition (GFAL/Musashino Art University)

2016 Recurring Marks (Gallery Hirooka Art/Ochanomizu)

Matsuoka Manabu Solo Exhibition (Galleria Blue Cat/Nishiogikubo)

2015 Keeping the Light (Galleria Blue Cat/Nishiogikubo)

2013 Matsuoka Manabu Japanese Art Exhibition (Face to Face/Kichijoji)

Major Group Exhibitions

2024 Watanabe Makihiko and Matsuoka Manabu Joint Exhibition (Art Space Rashinban/Kyobashi)

2023 Uchirō Mono and Things That Remain Unchanged (Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property, Uchiyama House of Wealthy Farmers, Kanaoka Residence/Toyama)

2020 Will+ S Exhibition 2020 (Ikebukuro Seibu) ['19]

2017 Abe Kansui and Matsuoka Manabu Joint Exhibition (Art Space Rashinban/Kyobashi)

Hayata-kai (Tonami Art Museum/Toyama)

2014 GRAFFITI | Graffiti Sugita Akihiko /Matsuoka Manabu (Pragmata/Hatchobori)

Main awards and selections

Selected for the 52nd Tokyo Spring Art Exhibition 2026 ['11, '12, '13, '16~'24]

2025 43rd Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition Award Nominees ['24 Award Nominees]

Selected for the 52nd Art Exhibition ['12, '15~]

2024 Art Olympia 2024 Selected

2022 48th Tokyo Spring Art Exhibition Spring Exhibition Award ['15 same prize]

2021 Let's Go to the Gallery 2021 Selected ['16]

2016 World Painting Awards Exhibition 2016 Iken Award

2015 VOCA2015 Perspectives on Contemporary Art - Artists with New Dimensions Honorable Mention Award

2014 Waryu-zakura Japanese Painting Awards Exhibition Encouragement Award ['12 same prize]

Others

2025 Japan Artists Federation “Support Project for Artists” adopted

2021 Yoshino Gypsum Art Promotion Foundation selected “Exhibition Grants by Young Japanese Painters”

Commissioned exhibition at the 2015 Jinzukyo Art Exhibition (Osawano Cultural Hall/Toyama City)

2013 BANG BANG! Exhibited and held a workshop as an invited artist at Miyo x Tsukurō 2014 (Toyama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art)

Friends of the Sogakai