Born in Beijing / China in 1989.
Tama Art University, Graduate School of Art and Design, MFA, Painting in 2017.
Held numerous solo exhibitions including "Trip to The Chinese Garden" at Imavision Gallery / Taipei in 2018; "Paradise Fiction" at Kiyoshi Art Space / Tokyo in 2020.
Participated in various art fairs including "Art Taipei" in Taiwan from 2019 - 2020; "Art Beijing" "Art Fair Tokyo" in 2019.
Accepted to the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art in 2016.
Won many prizes including French Embessy Prize & Imamura Yusaku Prize & Audience Prize at Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi in 2017, The Great prize at The Adachi Contemporary Ukiyo-e Award 2018.

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Works

When you visit Chinese garden as call Yuanlin, you will realize that there are many Penjing and Taihu stone interspersed around.
Those are microcosm has been contained in the Yuanlin as a universe.
However, Yuanlin also can be said a microcosm has been contained in the real universe as long as it is a garden which shrieked the environment in the real world.
I use the method of those nested structures mixed up with the tropicals as an imitation in a shopping mall and some relics from 80-90s to express the euphoric fictional utopia with using fictional method of Japanese painting.

ー Shoichi OKUMURA

PROFILE

1989　Born in Beijing / China
2017　Tama Art University, Graduate School of Art and Design, MFA, Painting

Solo Exhibition
2014　Feel of Chinese Landscape (Gallery b. Tokyo)
2015　Feel of Chinese Landscape Vol.2 (Gallery b. Tokyo)
2016　Tao Yuan Short Trip (Shonandai MY Gallery / Tokyo)
2017　Flavor of Chinese Utopia in Grotto (The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo)
2018　Trip to The Chinese Garden (Imavision Gallery / Taipei)
2018　Vibe of The Hermit world (Institut français du Japon -Tokyo-)
2019　Strolling The Chinese Garden (Kiyoshi Art Space / Tokyo)
2020　Paradise Fiction (Kiyoshi Art Space / Tokyo)

Art Fair
2018　Art Taipei (Taiwan)
2018　Art Fair Tokyo
2019　Art Taipei (Taiwan)
2019　Art Beijing
2019　Art Fair Tokyo
2020　Art Taipei (Taiwan)

Award
2015　Accept for FACE Art Award 2016
2015　Accept for Shell Art Award 2015
2015　"Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2015" shu uemura Prize
2016　Accepted to the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art
2016　"Tokyo Wounder Wall 2016" Shintaro Ishihara Prize
2017　"Award Tokyo Marunouchi" French Embessy Prize & Imamura Yusaku Prize & Audience Prize
2018　"The Adachi Contemporary Ukiyo-e Award 2018" Great prize

ONBEAT vol.14 features Shoichi Okumura