EXHIBITION

2017.7.7 fri. - 7.20 thu.

DMO ARTS is pleased to present “Floating Reality” the 1st solo exhibition by Chikako Toya. Toya’s inspiration comes from a moment of ordinal people’s life, animals, flowers and nature. She draws these adding pattern like motives colorfully. In this exhibition, she will introduce “arcadia” like vision of harmony with nature alternating between reality and unreality.

Chikako Toya
Illustrator based in Tokyo, born in Kyoto. Mainly working for illustrations of adverts and editorials. She has expanded her works as an artist since this year.
Winner of Yoshihiro Taniguchi Award at UNKNOWN ASIA ART EXCHANGE OSAKA 2016

Friday, July 7 – Thursday, July 20 at DMOARTS
10:00 – 21:00 (closing at 18:00 at the final day)
** Reception party on Saturday, July 8, 18:00- (no reservation)

DMOARTS will exhibit at ART OSAKA 2017

Friday, July 7, 2017 - Sunday, July 9, 2017
Hotel Granvia Osaka, 26th floor

DMOARTS will exhibit at ART OSAKA 2017, the 15th annual contemporary art fair.
ART OSAKA is Japan's largest art fair specializing in contemporary art, and is the longest-established and most supported art fair in Japan. 54 galleries from Japan and abroad (21 from Kansai, 27 from outside Kansai, 3 from Taiwan, 2 from Korea, and 1 from Macau) will participate.
The exhibited works range from affordable pieces by new artists to masterpieces by internationally renowned artists, with a total of over 150 artists. The genres of art on view are not limited to painting, sculpture, printmaking, and photography, but also include installations that use the entire space, offering an opportunity to view high-quality contemporary art all in one place.
ART OSAKA, a hotel-style art fair, will be held in a hotel room, close to the living space, where gallerists with their unique aesthetic sense will recommend high-quality artworks for comparison, and visitors will be able to purchase their favorite works on the spot. We hope that not only art lovers but also all those who are interested in art in their daily lives will enjoy a new way to interact with the world of art, which will expand through the purchase of artworks.

We have selected artists from DMOARTS who are exhibiting for the first time. We hope you will enjoy this exhibition at the hotel, which is different from the usual gallery setting.

[Exhibiting Artists] Murayama、Maria、Matsumura Saki、okoimatsu、Uchida Fumitake、Miyahara Nonomi、Yen Tzu-Sung

[ROOM] 6306

【Artists】
Murayama Maria
2010 Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Sculpture
2012 M.F.A. in Sculpture, Tokyo University of the Arts
After completing his master's program, he has participated in residencies in Japan, China, and the Netherlands, and is currently based in the Kanto region of Japan.
He became interested in the fact that taxidermy, the placement of animal carcasses as a part of decorations in everyday spaces, weakens resistance to corpses, and began creating ceramic works with stuffed animals as a motif. Through his works, he expresses the ambiguity between ornaments and carcasses, life and death.

Saki Matsumura
1993 Born in Nagano Prefecture
2017 MFA in Painting, Kyoto University of Art and Design
Using acrylic paint as her main painting medium, this artist incorporates silkscreening techniques and other techniques to create graphically expressive works. She creates sharp paintings by combining geometric motifs, lines, and universal shapes in her compositions. This is his first exhibition at an art fair since graduating from university. He is one of the young artists whose future activities are highly anticipated.

okoimatsu
Born in Nagano Prefecture. Moved to Tokyo as a child. After studying abroad in London, currently based in Sapporo.
The casual changes in ordinary things and big changes in unimportant things that make up the daily street corner. He creates works with motifs of small things that are constantly changing next to everyday life. He globally explores the traces of "dynamics" that shape cities. His current motif is a test pen in the pen section of a stationery store. He reproduces the lines and scribbles of the trial scribbles in the form of reproductions and composes them on the canvas. After graduating from an art college in England, he spent several years in London before returning to Japan five years ago and settling in Hokkaido.

Fumitake Uchida
Born in Kyoto in 1981, graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design.
Major solo exhibitions include "Skin Mirror" (2010, GALLERY SPEAK FOR). In 2008, four of his works were selected for MoMA's "DESTINATION JAPAN," and he was in charge of illustrations for the New York, Paris, and London editions of LE BOOK, a world-renowned creator's yearbook. He has also created jackets for music DVDs and CDs, including "HOSHIZORA NO LIVE V Just Ballae" in 2010, and his painting projected on the entire stage of the musical "Take Flight," directed by Amon Miyamoto, has attracted much attention. He is also developing expression using sound, releasing his first album "Sleeping Forest" in April 2013. He exhibited at UNKNOWN ASIA 2016.

Nonomi Miyahara
1992 Born in Tokyo, Japan
He is a graduate of Kyoto University of Art and Design, Department of Fine Arts and Crafts, Integrated Arts Course, 2015
He combines various everyday objects, mainly ceramics, to create installations that evoke the past and the future. Nakajima Mugi Prize, and Shinsuke Suzuki Prize.

Yen Tzu-Sung
Photographer living in Taiwan.
My early works were shot using black and white negatives of documentaries. The imaginations evoked by the satire, social contradictions, and other black humor in these images played a large role in the images of these works.
Recently, in addition to such documentary photography, the artist has also developed a deeper commitment to abstract concepts and minimalism. In a series of works, the artist's life experiences, as well as special moments and events in his life, are illuminated and expressed.

【Overview】
ART OSAKA 2017
Friday, July 7 - Sunday, July 9, 2017

・preview
July 7, 2017(Fri)14:00 - 20:00
*Invited guests and press only

・read permission
July 8, 2017(Sat) 11:00-20:00
July 9, 2017 (Sun) 11:00-19:00
*Admission until 1 hour before the end of the fair

・venue
Hotel Granvia Osaka 26th floor
3-1-1 Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 530-0001, Japan
Tel.06-6344-1235

digmeout artist, YUGO. releases new pieces “Girls” at his solo exhibition held in Osaka, Tokyo and the first time in Fukuoka.
In this series, he draws the world of depressed and sometimes dirty daily life of youth that he was inspired from lyrics of his favorite band, San Francisco based “GIRLS” (2007-2012).
In addition to original drawings, goods especially for produced for this solo exhibition will be sold at each venue.
Each venue will present different pieces. Come and enjoy his new inspiration!

YUGO. (digmeout artist)
Illustrator, design works and art direction to rock bands, musicians, apparel companies, music events and fashion magazines. All-around artist especially for music and fashion fields.

Venues:
Osaka / DMO ARTS
6/16-7/6

Tokyo / TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS
7/28-8/16 *Opening party 6pm-8pm 7/28

Fukuoka / TAGSTA
9/2-9/30 *Opening party 6pm-8pm 9/2

2017.6.2 Fri.-6.15 Thu.

DMO ARTS is pleased present Koji Shiroshita & TACO Exhibition “_act_Draws”.

Drawing alone, and drawing together.
These two artists run brushes alone and together, and it emerges something new expression.

Drawings by Shiroshita and TACO alone and together emit a power that many contributors such as designers, translators and photographers identified with. Then, “act” was formed to connect performers from different fields. “act” keeps performing in many places since a series of exhibition held in Osaka, 2014. Now, “act” gives new world at DMO ARTS this time.
http://www.act-art.jp

Date and Venue:
Friday, June 2 – Thursday, June 15 at DMO ARTS
10:00 – 21:00 (closing at 18:00 at the final day)
** Reception party on Saturday, June 3, 18:00- (no reservation)

2017.5.19 Fri.-6.1 Thu.

DMO ARTS is pleased present the solo exhibition of Yuma Yamashiro from Friday May 19.
The Kansai based artist, Yuma Yamashiro creates composition and three dimensional works. Architectural buildings and urban plans are sources of her inspiration and she filtered these into her own creations. She sees real and unreal things from a panoramic viewpoints to portray.

Date and Location:
Friday, May 19 – Thursday, June 1
10:00 – 21:00 (closing at 18:00 at the final day)
** Reception party on Saturday, May 20, 18:00- (no reservation)


Statement:
“When I work, I look for a relation nature between a sense of panoramic ‘playful’ eye-tracking that is like when I see a map, and a sense of presence in a diagram with picturesque color configurations. The relationship I found counteract, opposing by practical visualization emerged from lives. My aim is to express this balance to something neutral trusting the state of surface.”

Biography:
Born in Ibaraki city, Osaka in 1987.
Graduated from Kyoto Seika University, faculty of Art

Solo Exhibitions at:
2016 STREET GALLERY, Kyoto
2015 KUN ST ARZT, Kyoto
2014 GLAN FABRIQUE la galerie, Osaka

Group Exhibitions at:
2016 2kw GALLERY, Osaka
2015 KOBE ART VILLAGE CENTER, Hyogo
2015 OSAKA MUNICIPAL LIFELONG LEARNING CENTER, Osaka
2014 Gallery PARC, Osaka
2014 IBARAKI CREATE CENTER, Osaka
2013 KYOTO SEIKA UNIV., Kyoto
2013 gallery ARTISLONG, Kyoto
2012 KYOTO SEIKA UNIV., Kyoto
2012 JOKAISO, Aichi
2012 GALLERY FLEUR, Kyoto

DMO ARTS Relaunching Anniversary Exhibition
chiaki kohara SAIKORO TO KAGI (Dice and Key)

DMO ARTS is pleased to present the solo exhibition of chiaki kohara, as the 1st opening event to celebrate our relocation n April 26.
During her exhibition in 2 years at DMO ARTS this time, new aggressive and bold approach spreading works to the wall will be coming. Original drawings and goods are sold.
Date and Location:
April 26, Wednesday – May 18, Thursday
10:00 – 21:00 (closing at 18:00 on the last day)
**Reception party on April 28, 18:00 – (no reservation)

Biography:
The world Chiaki Kohara, aka “art idol” creates is beyond the canvas. She creates girls and animals with acrylic gauche, buttons, laces, package of snacks… they are full of fantasy and the world is a “wonderland” that attracts people. She received the “Yayoi Kusama Prize” at the UNIQLO creative awards in 2007. Kusama praised her as “There is a brightness of the youth in your artwork”. Born in 7th of July, 1986
Awards and Participations:
2015 3331αART HACK DAY – Best Artist Award
2015 CD jacket artwork “Music Train Haru No Majyutushi”, FM 802 “Access” Campaign song
2014 ART TOKYO, Exhibited “Kakumei Hug Chan”, a giant object created by support of a crowd-funding attracted big attention.
2013 ART TAIPEI, 4 days live painting remarkably attracted people.
2013 ART OSAKA (HOTEL GRANVIA, Osaka/Japan) 
2013 ART FAIR TOKYO (Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo/Japan)

2012 BODAIJU EXPO 2012 (NEW OSAKA HOTEL Shinsaibashi, Osaka/Japan)
 2012 THE BEST OF DMOARTS (DMO ARTS, Osaka/Japan)
2012 CANVAS@SONY 2012 – GRAND PRIZE, built 40m wall in Ginza, Tokyo.

2012 ART FAIR: ULTRA 005 (SPIRAL, Tokyo/Japan)

2012 RED BULL IGNITION - Live Painting of public streetlight (Osaka/Japan) / Redbull Ignition

2012 Solo Exhibition "Mammy!" (DMO ARTS, Osaka/Japan)

2012 ART FAIR TOKYO (Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo/Japan)

2011 GINZA Sony BUILDING Commission Work - overall length 38m large-scale mural painting

2011 DAEGU ART FAIR (Daegu/Korea)

2011 Solo Exhibition "Gimme a Hug" (DMO ARTS, Osaka/Japan)

2011 GIRLS POWER (TAG Gallery, Takamatasu/Japan)

2011 a girl spice! SHAKE ART Exhibition (e-ma, Osaka/Japan)

2010 Art Fair "Bodaiju Festa"（Ramada Hotel, Osaka/Japan)

2010 FM802 digmeout Exhibition (e-ma, Osaka/Japan)
2010 ILLUSTRAION CHOICE – Akira Uno Prize
2007 UNIQLO CREATIVE AWARD 2007 - Yayoi Kusama Prize


http://www.chiakikohara.com/

[Term 1]
1/6 fri. -1 / 17 tue.
※ Closed on the last day only at 18:00
Opening Reception 1/7 (Sat) 18: 00-21: 00
Exhibitor Author: Mami Ono, Wei Hua Lin, Nonomi Miyahara, Ayami Yokoyama, Tetsuya Yanagi

[Term 2]
1/18 wed. -1 / 29 sun.
Closing reception 1/28 (Sat) 17: 00-19: 00
Exhibitor: Terada Tomoya, Fang Yen Wen, Goto Yoshitaka

In this exhibition, DMOARTS will move from the current space to go to the next step.
Thank you for your long-term business.
We will hold a closing party whisperingly, so please come and join us.