I and You(chirp chirp)

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• WAITINGROOM

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

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