“Linescape, Formgraph”
Kyoko Tsutsui is a painter who explores the possibilities of oil painting through lines and forms. Her ongoing “Lines and Forms” series, first presented around 1995, has remained a central theme since she began pursuing abstraction. In her studio, she arranges around thirty canvases prepared with underpainting and color, then responds to the rising impulses within her, inscribing them onto the surface with unconventional tools such as forks and nails. The artist explains that lines are the skeletal framework of her works, while forms are the minimal elements needed to support that framework. Energetic, continuous lines convey both dynamism and speed, while the placement of red circles, black squares, and other forms punctuate the canvas, heightening the sense of flow and movement. Her works combine the refined and technical with the primordial and elemental, a coexistence that, she believes, mirrors the balance inherent in nature itself. For Tsutsui, holding opposites within a single painting leads toward her ultimate aim: to create works that exist within the natural world without discord.

【 SOLO Exhibition 】

Solo Exhibition
2024　Solo Exhibition（Koushin Gallery / Tokyo）
2022　Solo Exhibition（Gallery KITAI / Tokyo）
2018　Solo Exhibition（Koushin Gallery / Tokyo）
2014　Solo Exhibition（Koushin Gallery / Tokyo）
2013　Solo Exhibition（Bungeishunju Gallery / Tokyo）
1995　Solo Exhibition（Kumamoto Prefectual Museum of Art Chibajo Branch / Kumamoto）
Solo Exhibition （Gallery Tamaya / Tokyo )
1991　Solo Exhibition （Gallery Tamaya / Tokyo )
Solo Exhibition （Gallery Onuki / Tokyo )
1990　Solo Exhibition （Gallery Tamaya / Tokyo )
1978　Solo Exhibition （Gallery Atsusaka / Fukuoka )
1977　Solo Exhibition （Echigoya Bijutsu Salon / Tokyo )
　　　 Solo Exhibition （Gallery Atsusaka / Fukuoka )
1976　Solo Exhibition （Gallery Atsusaka / Fukuoka )
1975　Solo Exhibition （Gallery Atsusaka / Fukuoka )

【 Group Exhibition 】

Group Exhibition
1996　International Impact Art Festival （Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art / Kyoto）
1995　International Exchange Exhibition of Fine Arts and Crafts (Goethe-Institut / Tokyo)
1978　Exhibition of the Société des Artistes Français (France) *since 1975