Painter. Current graduate student at Tokyo University of the Arts.
She paints thick, heavy paintings by boldly grabbing oil paints from Ittokan (a cuboid tin can of 18-20 liters) with her hands. She has been painting portraits of public figures as motifs for several years, and a residency in the United States in 2014 led to her DEPTH series of anonymous faces, which was exhibited at the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art in 2016. I am a yellow from the series was acquired by the same museum in 2020. In recent years, she received the VOCA Encouragement Award from the Ueno Royal Museum in 2020 and held a solo exhibition at the Tokyo Opera City project N in 2022. She has produced the cover art for Masaki Sugata's CD album Last Scene, and appeared in the PR campaign for CASIO's G-SHOCK 2100 Series. Her representative works include STAR Series featuring pop icons such as Michael Jackson and David Bowie, and Picture Diary depicting current global events that appear on the SNS platforms.
Major exhibitions include war is not over at void+ (2022), OKETA COLLECTION: THE SIRIUS at Spiral Garden (2022), project N 85 Nanae Mitobe / I am not an Object at Tokyo Opera City (2022), VOCA Exhibition 2021 at Ueno Royal Museum (2021), Rock is Dead at biscuit gallery (2021), -Inside the Collectorʼs Vault, vol.1-Unleashed Collection Exhibition at WHAT (2020), I am yellow at Maki Fine Arts (2019), APMoA, ARCH vol.18 DEPTH - Dynamite Pigment - at Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art (2016).
http://nanaemitobe.com
PROFILE
| 2011 | Graduated from Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design Currently, based in Chiba, Japan |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2022 | “war is not over” void+, Tokyo “project N 85 MITOBE Nanae｜I am not an Object” Tokyo Opera City Tower, Tokyo “I am not an Object” gallery 5, Tokyo |
| 2021 | “I can’t speak English!” NADiff A/P/A/R/T, Tokyo “Rock is Dead” biscuit gallery, Tokyo |
| 2019 | “I am yellow” Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo |
| 2018 | “DEPTH ? Tranquil Pigment” florist gallery N, Aichi |
| 2016 | “MITOBE Nanae Exhibition” gallery21yo-j, Tokyo “DEPTH ? Tranquil Pigment” gallery N, Aichi “APMoA project, ARCH vol.18: DEPTH – Dynamite Pigment” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi |
| 2014 | “ABRAHAM” LOOP HOLE, Tokyo “Mitobe Nanae Solo Show” Gendai Heights Gallery Den .st, Tokyo |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2022 | “OKETA COLLECTION: THE SIRIUS” SPIRAL, Tokyo “Y.N.W.P. – How to turn capital into garbage – sonoaida｜#03 yang02 / Nanae MITOBE” sonoaida #Shinyurakucho, Tokyo |
| 2021 | “The Vision of Contemporary Art 2021” Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo “Born New Art” SHIBUYA SCRAMBLE SQUARE, Tokyo “HUMANITY” Rikka gallery, Tokyo “Polyphonic process + pressure“ Hashikko（Musashino Art University）, Tokyo “COMBINE! by rin art association” CADAN Yurakucho, Tokyo |
| 2020 | “-Inside the Collector’s Vault, vol.1” WHAT, Tokyo “LOOPHOLE 15th Anniversary Cicciaino Exhibition” LOOP HOLE,Tokyo “From the museum collection 2020: third period I am reborn.” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi “HCN”, Tokyo International Gallery, Tokyo ‘’Holbein Scholarship Exhibition’’ Sato Museum, Tokyo |
| 2019 | “Nanae Mitobe x Yosuke Takayama Exhibition ? Depth of Face” Kannai Bunko, Kanagawa “Takahashi Collection | Art’s Home” Tsuruoka Art Forum, Yamagata |
| 2018 | “Takahashi Collection ─ Face and Abstraction” Kiyoharu Art Colony, Yamanashi |
| 2017 | “Artists’ Book Exhibition SENDAI ?? TOKYO” NADiff A/P/A/R/T, Tokyo; void+, Tokyo; Gallery TURNAROUND, Sendai “ABraCaDabra” Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba “100100000000 Light Year Tunnel” Musee Hamaguchi Yozo: Yamasa Collection, Tokyo “Museum Wonder Land 2017” Toyoshina Modern Art Museum, Nagano “ART in PARK HOTEL TOKYO 2017” Park Hotel Tokyo, Tokyo |
| 2015 | “The first decade of LOOP HOLE” Fuchu Green Plaza gallery, Tokyo “Red body” T&S GALLERY / TIME & STYLE MIDTOWN |
| 2014 | “Clever Hans” TALION \ GALLERY, Tokyo Open space exhibition, Alternative Space Gell, Tokyo “Desert Sketches” Burning Man exhibition tent, Black Rock City, Nevada “FUCHU OF MADNESS” LOOP HOLE, Tokyo |
| 2013 | “Bulletin” Nihon University College of Art, Ekoda campus, Tokyo “since” T&S GALLERY / TIME & STYLE MIDTOWN, Tokyo |
| 2012 | “16 Young Artists” Keiyudoh Gallery, Tokyo “460 Exhibition” Yada Gallery, Aichi “3331 Independents Scholarship Exhibition” 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo “Chocolats des Fuchu 2012” LOOP HOLE, Tokyo |
| 2011 | “Density II” Art Lab, Aichi “Iconophobia ? Fascination and Fear of Images” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and florist・gallery N, Aichi “BLUMEN GARTEN” LOOP HOLE, Tokyo |
ACCOLADES
| 2020 | The Vision of Contemporary Art 2021: Incentive award |
| 2019 | Holbein Scholarship |
| 2013 | Prize recipient: Morikazu Kumagawa Award |
| 2011 | Prize recipient: “2011 Chiyoda Arts Festival / 3331 Independents Scholarship Exhibition” O JUN special judge prize |
PUBLIC COLLECTION
| Aichi prefectural museum of art |
PRIVATE COLLECTION
| Takahashi Ryutaro Collection OKETA COLLECTION KAZUMA IEIRI Yusaku Maezawa |
