ARTIST
ARAI Masayuki
Working from photographs collected online, Arai creates paintings by imaginatively extending beyond the frame.
The multilayered surfaces, constructed by dripping paint with a syringe, traverse the boundaries between reality and the virtual, chance and intention—establishing painting as an open site in continual transformation.
Major solo exhibitions include LIKE PAINTINGS (Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, 2025), Imaginary Accumulation (Mitsukoshi Contemporary, Tokyo, 2024), and Like a Painting (STANDING PINE, Aichi, 2021). Past participations include VOCA 2014 (The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, 2014) and the Aichi Triennale 2013 (Nayabashi Area: Toyo Warehouse, Aichi, 2013).
BIOGRAPHY
- 1984
- Born in the United States, raised in Osaka
- 2009
- BFA in Oil Painting, Aichi University of the Arts
- 2011
- MFA in Oil Painting and Printmaking, Aichi University of the Arts
- Currently based in Ryugasaki, Ibaraki Prefecture
CV
- 2022
- Selected as a recipient of the 35th Holbein Scholarship
- 2014
- Selected for VOCA 2014: The Vision of Contemporary Art
EXHIBITIONS
- 2025
- 【Solo】Visible / Invisible / Paintable / Unpaintable, Tokyo International Gallery, Tokyo
- 【Solo】LIKE PAINTINGS, Primo Marella Gallery Milano, Milan
- 【Group】The Park Before This One, Machiya Art Gallery, Ibaraki
- 2024
- 【Solo】Imaginary Accumulation, Mitsukoshi Contemporary, Tokyo
- 2023
- 【Solo】Like Paintings 005, Ginza Tsutaya Books Art Wall, Tokyo
- 【Solo】Like paintings, un petit garage, Tokyo
- 【Group】CONCERTO, Lurf Museum, Tokyo
- 2022
- 【Solo】Like paintings, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store Art Salon, Tokyo
- 【Solo】Like paintings, un petit garage, Tokyo
- 2021
- 【Solo】Like paintings, STANDING PINE, Aichi
- 【Group】STUDIO KODAI vol.2, CAPSULE, Tokyo
- 2019
- 【Solo】Distorted Horizon, STANDING PINE, Aichi
- 2017
- 【Group】Objédar: In the Midst of the Future, Kyomachiya Campus Ninigi, Kyoto
- 2016
- 【Solo】vanilla:, STANDING PINE, Aichi
- 【Group】INTERWOVEN: A Generation Interlaced, Nagoya City Art Gallery Yada, Aichi
- 2015
- 【Group】Dreaming Beyond “In the Midst of the Future”, ARTZONE, Kyoto
- 【Group】Slice Pack, Galerie16, Kyoto
- 【Group】Toward the Future in the Making, Museum and Archives, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto
- 2014
- 【Group】VOCA 2014: The Vision of Contemporary Art, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
- 【Group】Lagrangian Point, Gallery PARC, Kyoto
- 2013
- 【Group】Aichi Triennale 2013, Nayabashi Area: Toyo Warehouse, Aichi
- 【Group】Summer Drawing Show, GALLERY SIDE2, Tokyo
- 【Group】relational map, STANDING PINE, Aichi
- 2012
- 【Group】Utsusu (To Project / To Reflect), Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art Gallery, Aichi
- 【Group】Utsusu (To Project / To Reflect), florist_gallery N, Aichi
- 2011
- 【Solo】picture picture, YEBISU ART LABO, Aichi
- 【Group】dreaming the world, MEGI HOUSE, Kagawa
ARTFAIR
- 2025
- MIART 2025, MiCo, Milan (represented by Primo Marella Gallery)
- 2024
- Artissima 2024, Oval Lingotto Fiere, Turin (represented by Primo Marella Gallery)
- 2023
- Artissima 2023, Oval Lingotto Fiere, Turin (represented by Primo Marella Gallery)
- 2019
- KIAF ART SEOUL 2019, COEX Hall A&B, Seoul (represented by STANDING PINE)
ART BUSAN 2019, BEXCO, Busan (represented by STANDING PINE) - 2018
- ART021, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai (represented by STANDING PINE)
WORKS
