Sekine Naoko

Born in Tokyo. 2001 Musashino Art University of Fine Arts, Painting Course, Ma

A large, expansive world launched by small units, and that drawing world is abstract, physical, and materialically unfolding. Furthermore, a complex way of existence is presented by a painting structure that is a structure to store it. It develops a unique abstract world within the larger theme of division and integration. Inspired by consciousness structures left in ancient paintings in French cave paintings, architecture, stage structures seen in Bunraku and Noh, and music such as Steve Reich.

Major exhibitions: 2006 “Chaosmos '05 - Unreal Reality” Sakura City Museum of Art (Chiba); 2007 “Lines Labyrinthine 2:Graphite on Paper "Meguro Museum of Art (Tokyo); 2008 “VOCA 2008 - VOCA 2008"The Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo); 2009 “I Believe Japanese Contemporary Art” The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, the same year “Double Lumière” Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, (Paris, France), 2011 “MOT Annual 2011 Nearest Faraway” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2015 “"Opening Exhibition vol.1"Modern : Blossoming Garden-Oita World Museum-Oita & World 200 Masterpieces” Oita Encounters the World, “200 Masterpieces and Masterpieces”, Oita Prefectural Museum of Art, 2019 “MOT Collection, New aquisition in recent years ,Pleased to meet you" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2022 “Two Transformations - “Takesada Matsutani and Naoko Sekine” MA2Gallery (Tokyo), etc.

Awards: including the “Luxembourg Art Prize 2023” Grand Prix.

Collections: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Taketa City Library, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, Fuchu Art Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama