Fumika Tsuchitori

1995 Born in Hyogo, Japan

Currently lives and works in Kyoto

Two people kissing and embracing, two people who love each other. Many works that use the motif of two human figures can be found in the history of painting and art. I consider this to be a universal theme, one that has been continuously handed down from one generation to the next. It is still alive and well today. I have been working mainly with motifs of this image of the “intimate couple,” which I have taken from art history, film, and shojo manga (girls’ manga) as my background.

The intimate couple is a reference to affection and relief, and on the other hand, death, fear, hatred, and one-sided violence. This observation comes from my experience of realizing that images of intimate couples that stem from affection and those that arise out of violence, which one would expect to be polar opposites of the other, are in fact completely similar and indistinguishable from one another. (They can embrace each other because they are separate bodies, but what about the violence?) In terms of this contradiction, what is shown or hidden in these paintings? What is presumed to be present, and what is presumed to be absent? This is something in the paintings that gives me hesitation.

EDUCATION

2020

Kyoto University of Art and Design (currently Kyoto University of the Arts), Master’s degree, Oil Painting

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025

Swaying Outlines, Gallery & Restaurant Butaiura, Tokyo, Japan

2024

Frames and Breath, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi, Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Drawings, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan

Drawings, NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo, Japan

Drawings(＋), Gallery Room of BABY The Coffee Brew Club, Tokyo, Japan

2023

Sleeping with me holding in my arms, Silence, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan

2022

Blind Spot, COHJU contemporary art, Kyoto, Japan

2020

Bones and Skin (light a fire, have to go find the roses), WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026

I Recognized Myself Through You, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzen, China

Micro Salon, CADAN OTEMACHI, Tokyo, Japan

2025

SPRING SHOW – Drawings –, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan

To Sway and Surround : Japanese Female Abstraction, Each Modern, Taipei, Taiwan

2024

Collectors III -Turning the World-, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

collection #08, rin art association, Gunma

Kyoto Art for Tomorrow, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

2023

CADAN × ISETAN ART GALLERY　The Painter, Isetan Shinjuku Store Main Building 6F art gallery, Tokyo, Japan

MtK satellite Vol.2, MtK satellite, Aichi, Japan

SPRING SHOW, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan

2022

A painting surface: matière that narrates, Nihombashi Mistukoshi Honten, Main building 6F, Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

天人花展, Seibu Shibuya Alternative Space, Tokyo, Japan

2021

Up_02, GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS, GINZA ATRIUM, Tokyo, Japan

Neko and Matière, MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan

Light Brain Vol.1, ITOKI TOKYO XORK, Tokyo, Japan

Kyoto Perspective, ANB Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2021, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

2020

UNTAMED VOL.2 YOUNG ARTISTS GROUP, COHJU contemporary art, Kyoto, Japan

-Inside the Collector’s Vault, vol.1-, WHAT MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan

10th, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan

ART AWARD TOKYO MARUNOUCHI 2021, Gyoko Chika Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

SUBJECT, ANTEROOM KYOTO, Kyoto, Japan

A-Lab Artist Gate 2020, A-Lab, Hyogo, Japan

Kyoto University of the Arts Degree Show, Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto, Japan

2019

Kyoto Art Lounge, Starbucks Coffee Sanjo Ohashi, Kyoto, Japan

Shibuya STYLE Vol.13, Seibu Shibuya Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Innocent -P-, Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan

Artist’s Tiedeland KYOTO, Isetan Shinjuku Men's Building Art Lounge, Tokyo, Japan

SPURT, Galerie Aube, Kyoto, Japan

2018

Read the Wachuan, Notre Dame Jogakuin Junior and Senior High School Wachuan, Kyoto, Japan

HOP, Galerie Aube, Kyoto, Japan

Kyoto University of Art and Design Degree Show, Kyoto University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan

2017

Now, That Paintings, Painting Laboratory303, Kyoto, Japan

AWARD

2020

Kyoto University of Art and Design, Graduate Show Award

2017

Japan Traffic Culture Association, The 38th International TAKIFUJI Art Award, Prize for Excellence

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Obayashi Corporation Osaka Main Office O-Café, Osaka, Japan

Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Tokyo, Japan

Hotel Anteroom Seoul, Seoul, Korea

Kyoto Art Stay Nishijin Sutematsu, stairway decoration, Kyoto, Japan