Tadasu TAKAMINE

updated: Oct 20,2010

Born in Kagoshima in 1968, currently lives in Shiga, and graduated from the Kyoto City University of Arts in 1991. An internationally renowned artist, he is continuously invited to hold exhibitions abroad with the reformative expression of art.

Chiharu SHIOTA

updated: Oct 20,2010

Born in Osaka in 1972, currently based in Berlin, Germany. She is widely known by a large-scale installation to exhibit such as put the string on the space, a lot of panes and beds, and the old shoes. This time, she exhibits the recent installation that uses dress and red string. In Japan, her works attracted wide-attention by the solo exhibition at Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery in 2007 and at The National Museum of Art, Osaka in 2008.

Masakazu TAKATORI

updated: Oct 20,2010

Born in Okayama in 1980, graduated from the Education dept., Okayama University in 2002, and currently lives in Kyoto. Since the student, he has experienced exhibiting a work many times such as by solo exhibitions, group exhibitions, art projects, and award competitions including VOCA 2001. Takatori is known by the overwhelming works which swallow the viewer's body and mind with the space by using variegated media and the image.

Ai CHUDA

author: Satoshi KOGANEZAWA 

updated: Jul 16,2010

Born on January 6, 1981, Osaka. Entered Department of Aesthetics and Art Theory, Faculty of Letters, Doshisha University in April 1999. She aspired to be a painter, inspired by a painting by the oil painter, Yasuo Kagawa (1911 - 1974) which she saw while at university.

Makoto AZUMA

author: Satoshi KOGANEZAWA 

updated: Jul 16,2010

Born on July 24, 1976 in Fukuma, Fukuoka. Flower shop owner.He came to Tokyo in 1997 to make his debut in a rock band with four members. While engaged in the band activities, he started to work as a trader in Ota Market, one of the biggest markets of flowers and ornamental plants in Japan.

Natsunosuke MISE

author: Satoshi KOGANEZAWA 

updated: Jul 16,2010

Born in  1973 in Nara prefecture. The participation in a group exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Tokyo, "MOT Annual 2006 -No Border-" in January 2006, his name and artworks became widely known in the Kanto district as well as the Kansai district.

Junji YAMADA

author: You GOSHIKI 

updated: Jul 16,2010

Born in 1974 in Iida-city, Nagano-prefecture. He graduated from Graduate School of Art, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, majoring in oil painting, in 1999. Exploring new expression to melt painting, printing and photo using his original technique called "Intaglio on Photo".