ARTIST

RYOKO KUMAKURA

Ryoko Kumakura was born in 1991, in Tokyo and currently lives and works in Tokyo. Kumakura graduated from Tama Art University with a major in oil painting in 2014. She creates paintings based on the images that people have created throughout history. She is interested in the history of trial and error that led to the construction of people's worldview, and focuses on themes such as unconscious bias, what lies outside of cognition, and what the visible world is today. By crafting her own motifs and then going through the process of painting, she incorporates her own biases towards the original image, as well as the hand habits and distortions that occur during the manual process.
Major exhibitions include "coniunctio," a solo exhibition at The Imperial Hotel Plaza MEDEL GALLERY SHU, Tokyo (2019), "Pseudomer," a solo exhibition at RED AND BLUE GALLERY, Tokyo (2018), and "DI-VISION/0," a two-person exhibition by Ryoko Kumakura and Tenyo Nagai at TAV GALLERY, Tokyo (2018). Kumakura was selected for the 2019 Gunma Biennale for Young Artists.

https://www.kumakuraryoko.com/

BIOGRAPHY

1991: Born in Tokyo, Japan
2014: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Department of Painting, Oil Painting Course of Tama Art University, Tokyo
　: Currently, based in Tokyo, Japan

CV

2019: Accepted at “The 14th Gunma Biennale for Young Artists 2019”
2017: Accepted at “FACE 2016” Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Award Exhibition
2014: Ichiro Fukuzawa Prize, Tama Art University Graduation Exhibition
2011: Silver Prize, “Art Award of Kanagawa pref”.

EXHIBITIONS

2019: Solo Exhibition“coniunctio” MEDEL GALLERY SHU (The Imperial Hotel Plaza), Tokyo
“STATION! in PACK 2019” Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul
“MID CORE” TAV GALLERY, Tokyo
2018: Solo Exhibition“Pseudomer” RED AND BLUE GALLERY, Tokyo
2016: Solo Exhibition“PICTOMANCY” RED AND BLUE GALLERY, Tokyo
2013: Solo Exhibition“Frame In-out” GALLERY KINGYO, Tokyo