KAORU USUKUBO

   

1981

Born in Tochigi, Japan

2004

BFA, Painting, Tokyo Zokei University

2007

MFA, Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts

2010

Doctoral Degree (PHD) in Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts

   
 

Kaoru Usukubo lives and works in Tokyo, Japan

   
   
 

SOLO SHOWS (SELECTION)

   

2020

Enlil and Enki, LOOCK, Berlin, Germany (with Daisuke Ohba)

2018

An experiment based on an accidental, taimatz, Tokyo, Japan

2017

the Constellations, taimatz, Tokyo, Japan

2012

Crystal Voyage, Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, Germany

2011

Crystal Moments, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2010

Part and the whole, Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany

2008

NEXT 2008, Art Fair/Solo Exhibition at TARO NASU booth, Chicago, USA

 

UP logist, Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany

2007

Wandering Season, Taro Nasu, Tokyo, Japan

   
 

GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION)

   

2019

WOMAN – Copper and willow, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

 

U40, Obayashi collection, Tokyo, Japan

2017

KAKEGAWA CHAENNALE, Kakegawa Castle, Kakegawa, Japan

 

Portrait expression, The Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo

2016

Kaoru Usukubo Hannes Beckmann (1909 - 1977),LOOCK Galerie, Berlin

2015

CSP3, Kuwasawa art and desing in Tokyo

2013

MINIMAL/POSTO MINIMAL The contemporary Japanese Art from 1970s, Utsunomiya Museum of Art,Utsunomiya

2012

The 21th Annual Scholarship Recipients Art Exhibition, Special participant, The Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo

 

The 9th formative artist exhibition,Tokyo ZOKEI University Museum, Tokyo

2011

Tokyo FRONTLINE, Arts Chiyoda 3331,Tokyo

 

Yokohama Triennale 2011, OUR MAGIC HOUR, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama

 

The 20th Annual Scholarship Recipients Art Exhibition, Special participant,The Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo

2010

The Vision of Contemporary Art 2010, The Ueno no mori Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

 

camaboko, Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo, Japan

2009

only one, Mot/Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Giovane Seta ’09, Onward Gallery Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan

2008

Opening Exhibition, Taro Nasu, Tokyo, Japan

 

Network Project Japan, Inter Alia Art Company, Seoul, South Korea

 

The 17th Annual Scholarship Recipients Art Exhibition, The Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

2007

Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2007, Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2005

Japan and South Korea Contemporary Painting Exhibition: Nature and I, Gallery Ho, Seoul/ Art Center MAHNO, Anseong, South Korea

 

Hope: South Korea-Japan Art Exchange Exhibition, South Korea to Japan Embassy South Korea Cultural Exchange Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

   
 

AWARDS

   

2007

Teikyo University Purchase Prize at "Completion Exhibition of M.A. Course of Tokyo University of the Arts", The University Art Museum - Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan

2004

ZOKEI Prize at "Graduation Exhibition of Tokyo Zokei University: ZOKEI-ten", Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo

   
 

COLLECTION

   
 

The nursing home GREEN, Akita

 

The Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo