EXHIBITION

We are pleased to announce that we will exhibit at the art market "ART MARKET TENNOZ 2023" to be held in Tennoz.
From DMOARTS, works by Aya Kurashiki, HAYATO MACHIDA, Saki Matsumura, Saneyuki Matsumoto, and Rei Kizumoto will be exhibited.

[Artist]
Aya Kurashiki
Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1993. Currently based in Tokyo.
Major awards include "SPART 2017" (Akira Asada Award, 2017), "Shell Art Award 2020" (The National Art Center, Tokyo), "VIVA AWARD 2021" (Associate Artist, 2021), "WATOWA ART AWARD" (Grand Prix Award, 2021), "elephant STUDIO (Tokyo), etc.
Recent exhibitions include "(((((," Komagome Warehouse, Tokyo (2022); solo exhibition, "Asakanari, Shizen ni naka shizen ni ka. Wada Gallery, Tokyo; "Idemitsu Art Award Artist Selection" (recommended by Eriko Kimura, chief curator of Yokohama Museum of Art) at The National Art Center, Tokyo in 2022; "3331 transformed art into ''" at 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo in 2023, and others.
Completed graduate studies at Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2018, and Tokyo University of the Arts in 2020.
He is a student of the 26th term of the Sato International Cultural Scholarship Foundation. Third term student of the Kuma Foundation.
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■ Artist Statement
Kurashiki has consistently considered the distance between himself and others in the solitary existence of human beings absolutely cut off by the material wall of the body, or the categorization attached to it. In his works, Kurashiki deals with multiple media such as performance and installation, mainly two-dimensional works using transfer techniques, and attempts to communicate closely with others, seek coexistence, or fuse with others. For example, he creates works in order to even out the divide created by the fact that we have separate bodies, and to coexist with others in the real world. Or, as the ultimate form of such an act, production as an act of aiming for nirvana, in which each being is freed from its body, and while existing as an individual, blends into the whole and becomes one with the whole. Or, as a countermeasure to loneliness, the act of weaving a temporary (assumed) close relationship between the viewer and oneself by somehow inserting the work between them.
instagram：@ayakurashiki


HAYATO MACHIDA
Born in 1995 in Okinawa, Japan.
He began painting on his own, and when he was 21 years old, he met Yuken Teruya in New York, where he was studying abroad, and began working as an artist after returning to Japan. He has provided HY tour goods and adidas event logos.
Major exhibitions include "ART WONDERLAND" at Sogo Yokohama (Kanagawa/2023), "INDEPENDENT TOKYO 2022 SELECTION" at Hankyu MEN 'S TOKYO Tugboat Gallery (Tokyo/2023), "SHIBUYA STYLE VOL,16" Seibu Shibuya (Tokyo/2022), "UNKNOWN ASIA 2022 " Grand Front Osaka (Osaka/2022), "Okinawans" GALLERY ROUGHERYET (Okinawa/2022), "GEISAI #21" TOKYO BIG SITE (Tokyo/2022), "INDEPENDENT TOKYO 2022" at Tokyo Port City Takeshiba (Tokyo/2022).
Awards include the "INDEPENDENT TOKYO 2022" Tugboat Special Award (2022) and the "Turner Award 2018" Future Award (2018).

■ Artist Statement
His paintings are composed of elements inherited from Japanese and American pop culture, subculture, and local culture, which deeply influenced him while growing up. The ambivalent feelings that form the concept of his work are born from his doubts about his own sense of "being alive" and his thoughts on the social and political situation at times. The white color sprinkled in his works is a presence that appears when he reaches a point of feeling as if he wants to disappear, and it represents the confusion or neutralization of psychological thoughts and biological instincts.
instagram：@hayato_machida_


Saki Matsumura
Born in Nagano, Japan in 1993.
Graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design, Department of Arts and Crafts, Oil Painting Course, 2015.
Completed the graduate course in painting at Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2017.
Currently based in Kyoto.
Major solo exhibitions to date include "The eyes : They see" (DMOARTS/2019), "- see sew scene -ARTISTS' FAIR KYOTO SATELLITE" (ygion/ 2021).
Major group exhibitions and art fairs include ART AWARD TOKYO MARUNOUCHI (2017), ARTISTS' FAIR KYOTO (2018), UNKNOWN ASIA Art Exchange Osaka 2019 (2019), ART TAIPEI 2020 (2020), ART OSAKA WALL (2020), DELTA Exhibition (2021).

■ Artist Statement
He creates dynamic paintings by combining hard-edged colored surfaces created by spraying and silk-screening with uneven surfaces covered with heavy layers of paint. The clash of different elements creates a strange harmony that opens up the imagination to new sensations.
instagram：@sakimatsumura_


Saneyuki Matsumoto
1988 Born in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture.
2017 Started working mainly on client work.
2021 Started working mainly in the production of art works.
2021 First solo exhibition.
Major exhibitions include "us" (Bricolage, Hyogo/2022), Kobe Art Marché 2022 (Hyogo/2022), Independent Tokyo 2022 (Tokyo/2022), Any Kobe 2022 (Hyogo/2022), UNKNOWN ASIA 2022 (Osaka/2022), A4 WALL MATSUYA GINZA (Tokyo/2022), A4 WALL TAIPEI (Tokyo/2022), A4 WALL MATSUYA GINZA (Tokyo/2022), 100 People 10 (Tokyo/2022), A4 WALL TAIPEI (Tokyo/2022), and A4 WALL MATSUYA GINZA (Tokyo/2022). 2022), A4 WALL MATSUYA GINZA (Tokyo/2022), 100 People 10 (Tokyo/2022), A4 WALL TAIPEI (Taipei/2022), A4 WALL MATSUYA GINZA (Tokyo/2023), Kobe Art Marché 2023 (Hyogo/2023).
Awards include: 74th Gen-Ten, Honorable Mention (2018); 62nd Takarazuka City Exhibition, Tessai Art Museum Prize (2019); 44th Kobe Citizen's Art Exhibition, Kobe City Workers' Welfare Council Prize (2019); 21st Hotel La Suite DKGAP, Honorable Mention (2019); 24th Art Move Competition, Honorable Mention (2019); 69th Nishinomiya City Exhibition, Honorable Mention (2019); 2nd 69th Nishinomiya City Exhibition, Honorable Mention, (2019), The 6th Tokyo Costume Design Award, Honorable Mention, (2019), The 2nd Grammatology Award, Honorable Mention, (2020).

■ Artist Statement
His works are mainly based on subcultures and Japanese illustration expressions of the 80s and 90s.
The theme of his work is to preserve pop culture, such as character expression, which is not often discussed in Western art history, in the form of art rather than illustration.
Each portrait depicts the same face. This is based on the artist's will to preserve the illustrative expression of the period in which the work was created, and the idea that by depicting the same, unifying face, the work can be viewed as if it were the viewer or a closely related person.
He works mainly with acrylics on canvas.
instagram：@m.saneyuki


Rei Kizumoto
1998 Born in Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
2021 Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts, majoring in oil painting.
2023 Scheduled to graduate from Kyoto University of Arts with a Master's degree in Oil Painting in the field of Arts and Crafts. (Final education)
Major exhibitions include "ARTISTS' FAIR KYOTO 2022" (Kyoto, March 2022), group exhibition "grid" at biscuit gallery (Tokyo, March 2022), group exhibition "awkward sensation" at YOD TOKYO (Tokyo, October 2022), "3331ART FAIR" at DMOARTS Gallery (Tokyo, October 2022), and "Fiction and Feeling 3331ART FAIR," DMOARTS Gallery (Tokyo, October 2022), "Fiction and Feeling," Seibu Ikebukuro main store (Tokyo, November 2022).

■ Artist Statement
Colored or cut felt is placed on the floor.
Felt absorbs and reflects light, and the danger of color lurks.
It follows the light while pushing it onto the screen along with time and space.
He creates his works by interacting with materials, colors, and himself.
instagram：@rei2painting


[Overview]
『ART MARKET TENNOZ 2023』
・Date and Time
3/3(Fri.)～5(Sun.)11:00～18:00
*Close at 17:00 on the last day only
・Location
WHAT CAFE
(1-11, Higashi-Shinagawa 2-chome, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002, Japan)