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