COLOR BLOCK 2026 #003

Iku Harada creates computerized virtual reality spaces, with houses and parks. She then depicts scenes from that world in paint. There are trees and even a gallery with paintings exhibited. Computerized scenes are not real, without depth of the atmosphere, and are deprived of ambivalent gradation of colors caused by different lights in the real world. These are classical paintings insofar as they show virtual-reality views, but they are first created by computer. Even in her virtual world, the sun rises and shadows move with the passage of time. Harada replaces her computer-generated virtual image with a painted canvas, existing in a real world.　Recently her works encompass to three-dimensional block which are then to be drawn on the canvas again, thus creating the interlocking relationship between two- and three-dimensional world. Biography - 1982 born in Yamagata - 2005　BFA, Tokyo Zokei University - 2007　MFA, Tokyo Zokei University Solo Exhibitions - 2024 "KAAT Atrium Video Effects Project"：Iku Harada」KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre / Kanagawa - 2024 "TOKYO CITY CANVAS" Komazawa Olympic Park / 東京 - 2023 "In the Window" Art Front Gallery / Tokyo - 2023 "Art Valley" Shibuya station / Tokyo - 2023 "Inner Space" MetaGallery LaLuna / Seoul - 2022 ”WHITE CUBE- WHITE CUBE- ROPPONGI 2022” Roppongi Art Night 2022 / Tokyo - 2020 "Within Witout" Galerie Bhak / Seoul - 2020 Taipei Dangdai Art Fair 2020 / Taipei - 2019 Open Studio 75 Iku Harada "Another World Map of 10th Year", Fuchu Art Museum / Tokyo - 2018 "NEW DIMENSIONS" Art Front Gallery / Tokyo - 2018 museum shop T / Tokyo - 2017 "Iku Harada -circle-" Gallery Pepin / Saitama - 2015 "My Garden” Anjin (Daikanyama T - site) / Tokyo - 2015 "This, and the Other" Art Front Gallery / Tokyo - 2013 "Iku Harada Solo Exhibition : One Window and Awaking Garden" Art Front Gallery / Tokyo - 2012 "Landscape of the Children - on unknown countries and their people" Lamp harajuku B1Gallery / Tokyo - 2011 "Iku Harada Solo Exhibition 2011" Harmas Gallery / Tokyo - 2011 "spring” Lamp harajuku B1Gallery / Tokyo - 2010 "GARDEN”＋”WHITE CUBE" node / Tokyo - 2010 "IKU HARADA SOLO EXHIBITION" Gallery TRINITY / Tokyo - 2010 "IKU HARADA EXHIBITON" Mashimo Keiji Memorial Museum of Art / Yamagata Group Exhibitions - 2025 "Setouchi Triennle" Megi-jima／Kagawa - 2025 "Iku Harada, Shinichiro Koromo – A Repository for Inner and Outer Landscapes" Art Museum & Library Ota / Gunma - 2024 “Imagining the unseen everyday”　Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery / Tokyo - 2024 "Art Ichihara”　SATOMI ART FIELD / Chiba - 2024 "Hyakunengo Art Festival- Uchiboso Art Fest"　Satomi Plant Museum / Chiba - 2023 "Kiaf SEOUL" / Korea - 2023 "Synergies, or between creation and generation" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / Tokyo - 2023 "Tokyo Gendai" Pacifico Yokohama / Kanagawa - 2023 "VOL. 40 2023 Summer-Autumn: Ametsuchi no Uta" Park Hotel Tokyo / Tokyo - 2023 "Art Front Selection : Spring 2023" Art Front Gallery / Tokyo - 2023 "ART SG" the Marina Bay Sands Convention and Exhibition Center / Singapore - 2022 "WHITE CUBE- WHITE CUBE- ROPPONGI 2022" ROPPONGI ART NIGHT / Tokyo - 2022 ”A Perfect Getaway” Galerie Bhak / Seoul - 2021 “Survival Nature” Ginza Tsutaya Books / Tokyo - 2021 ”’80s→NOW ART FAIR From the collection from the 80's to the present” Art Front Gallery / Tokyo - 2021 ”Open Space 2021: New Flatland” NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] / Tokyo - 2021 ”KIAF ART SEOUL 2021” Galerie Bhak / Seoul - 2021 ”The Night Before the Breakthrough” Ginza Tsutaya Books / Tokyo - 2021 ”Art Front Selection 2021 spring” Art Front Gallery / Tokyo - 2021 The Museum in the Multi-layered World" NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] / Tokyo - 2018 "Yoro Tenmei Hanten Augmented Reality" / Gihu - 2018 "Artful Places in the Community, Aplus x ATLIA" Kawaguchi Art Gallery ATLIA / Saitama - 2018 "Before Explosion : Artists of Next Generation" Bunkamura Gallery / Tokyo　　 - 2016 "A plus viewing 01" Kawaguchi Municipal Cultural Heritage Center Annex (Former Tanaka’s Residence) / Saitama - 2015 "This, and the Other" Art Front Gallery / Tokyo - 2014 "Summer forum 2014 / Tochigi Art Stage Singapore" the Marina Bay Sands Convention and Exhibition Center / Singapore - 2013 "BORDERS" HARMAS GALLERY / Tokyo - 2012 "ULTRA 003 Emerging Art Directors Art Fair (Directed by Hironori Yagi)" Spiral / Tokyo - 2012 "Living Places : Iku Harada and Ryota Sato" Harmas Gallery / Tokyo - 2011 "Inside the Garden : Iku Harada and Miyuki Takenaka" Art Front Gallery / Tokyo - 2010 "SICF11 (Spiral Independent Creators Festival)" Spiral / Tokyo - 2010 "ULTRA 003 Emerging Art Directors Art Fair (Directed by Hironori Yagi)" Spiral / Tokyo Another Approach to Arts ＋PLUS, spazio1 Yoga / Tokyo - 2009 "SET ON THE PLATFORM" ANNEX Gallery / Tokyo - 2008 "The Exhibition of Forest" Bunpodo / Tokyo - 2007 "a smoky room ・The sky is anonymous・The room is anonymous・The World is anonymous" MONKEY GALLERY / Tokyo Awards - 2010 awarded Liquitex Prize at GEISAI #14 /Tokyo - 10th Gunma Art Biennale of Youth 2010 Museum of Modern Art Gunma / Gunma - 2003 awarded Encouragement Prize at Yamagata Prefectural art exhibition Collection / Public Art - 2020 Fuwari art forest, Narita 2020 & "Artpool project" - 2019 Senzoku Gakuen