Working primarily with iron, I create abstract sculptures that evoke drawings in space through original techniques based on gas welding and cutting. By melting iron at temperatures of around 1500\u00b0C, I engage with the material’s transformation process, seeking what I call its “formless beauty”\u2014a beauty that emerges not from defined contours, but from the raw, shifting essence of the metal itself.
Since 2015, alongside my sculptural practice, I have also been producing two-dimensional works using Mino washi, a traditional handmade paper from Gifu Prefecture, as a support. These pieces incorporate materials such as iron powder, rust, and pure gold leaf\u2014elements that, like iron, are subject to change over time.
Through my work, I aim to create a space of quiet transience\u2014a realm where opposing qualities such as brilliance and decay, elegance and austerity, coexist and gently dissolve into one another. I am drawn to the subtle beauty of impermanence, and to the poetic tension between what is seen and what is left unseen.<\/p>\n
\u25fe\ufe0f Solo Exhibitions
2021\u3000 yo ha ku, GALLERY IRIYA (Tokyo, Japan)
2021\u3000 Iron Memory, Lexus Nagara (Gifu, Japan)
2021\u3000 The Iron Drawing, Lights Gallery (Aichi, Japan)
2019\u3000 Toki no Katachi, Tama Art University (Tokyo, Japan)
2018\u3000 Tetsu wo Tokasu, GALLERY IRIYA (Tokyo, Japan)<\/p>\n
\u25fe\ufe0f Group Exhibitions
2025\u3000\u300cArt Port Takamatsu\u300dTakamatsu Symbol Tower (Kagawa)
2024\u3000\u300cStudent Salons 2024\u300dPhyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, The Art Students League of New York\uff08New York, U.S.A.\uff09
2024\u3000\u300cART OSAKA 2024\u300dMARUEIDO JAPAN\uff08Osaka\uff09
2024\t\u300cInori no Katachi – Yoshio Ogawa, Yasuko Hirano, Nobuaki Maeda, Mai Kato\u300dAntique Nagano (Tokyo)
2023\u3000 Being – Mom is a Woman -, \u221aK Contemporary (Tokyo, Japan)
2022\u3000 KAI Design Exhibition, FOAM CONTEMPORARY, Ginza Tsutaya Books (Tokyo, Japan)
2022\u3000 Amabiki Village and Sculpture 2022, Hachimangu Shrine (Ibaraki, Japan)
2020\u3000 Spring Art Exhibtion, GINZA ATRIUM, Ginza Tsutaya Books (Tokyo, Japan)
2019\u3000 HAIKU-Sculpture 2019, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts (Okinawa, Japan)
2018\u3000 JAA New Members Exhibition, JAA Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2018 \u3000 The 9th Shoes Box Sculpture Exhibition, National Taiwan University of Arts (Taiwan, Taipei)<\/p>\n
\u25fe\ufe0f Commission Work
2019\u3000 Lexus Nagara, L.Lounge (Gifu, Japan)<\/p>\n
\u25fe\ufe0f Commissions
AICHI METAL Co. (Aichi, Japan) \/ Kai Corporation (Gifu, Japan)\/ Lexus Nagara (Gifu, Japan\uff09<\/p>\n
\u25fe\ufe0fOthers
2017\u3000Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, Next-Generation Culture Up-and-Coming Artist Development, “Up-and-Coming Artist Development Project in Support of the Artistic Pursuits of People with Disabilities”<\/p>\n","solo_history":"","group_history":"","award_history":"","alpha_link_artist_id":"13254","artist_sort_order":"1"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artfair.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists\/15743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artfair.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artfair.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artists"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artfair.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}