Biography |
1990 | Born in Tokyo, Japan |
| Currently lives and works in Tokyo. |
Education |
2017 | Tama Art University, Master’s degree, Oil Painting |
2015 | Tama Art University, Bachelor’s degree, Oil Painting |
Solo Exhibitions |
2024 | softest chain, Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa |
| Paintings & Drawings - Food, Animals, Organs, Plants, Bodies, etc, everything outside me is everywhere in the air, I breathe |
| them in, I breathe them out., Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne, Germany |
| Under the sun, agnès b. galerie boutique, Tokyo, Japan |
2023 | Even the pigments in paints were once stones, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan |
| The Voice of the Soul, ERA GALLERY, Milan, Italy |
| human closely, Lurf Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| line & colors, N&A Art SITE, Tokyo, Japan |
2022 | Make yourself at home, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Honten, MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan |
| Colours in summer, GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS, GINZA ATRIUM, Tokyo, Japan |
| Lines, VAN DER GRINTEN GALERIE, Cologne, Germany |
2021 | Empty Volumes, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan |
| afterimage aftermyth, Roppongi Hills A/D Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2020 | drawings, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan |
| drawings, OIL by Bijutsu Techo, Tokyo, Japan |
| Myth & Body, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2018 | human wears human / bloom wears bloom, Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa |
| Tiger Tiger, burning bright, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo |
2017 | Something held and brushed, TOKYOMYOAN GALLERY, Tokyo |
| NEWoMan ART wall Vol.7: Rikako KAWAUCHI, NEWoMan ART wall, JR Shinjuku Station, Tokyo |
2016 | ART TAIPEI 2016, WAITINGROOM Booth, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Back is confidential space. Behind=Elevator, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo |
2015 | Collector and Artist: Rikako KAWAUCHI, T-Art Gallery, Tokyo |
| SHISEIDO ART EGG Vol.9: Go down the throat, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo |
Group Exhibitions |
2024 | A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| Nurturing Nodes in the Nook of an Odd Sock, ART GALLERY MIYAUCHI, Hiroshima |
| collection #08, rin art association, Gunma |
| Fellow Travelers of the Canvas―A Perspective on Contemporary Art of Japan from the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata |
| SPRING SHOW, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan |
| From the museum collection 2023: fourth period, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan |
2023 | The Hints: 12 Perspectives from which we can discern the present and the future, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation East |
| Building Rising Square 1F Earth Garden, Tokyo, Japan |
| Body, Love, Gender, GANA ART CENTER, Seoul, Korea |
| WORLDS IN BALANCE: ART IN JAPAN FROM THE POSTWAR TO THE PRESENT, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan |
| Arts Maebashi 10th Anniversary Exhibition “New Horizon—From History to the Future”, Arts Maebashi, Gunma, Japan |
| TRANSFORMATIONS: MATERIAL AND DISSOLUTION, Van der Grinten Galerie, Germany |
| Paper Whispers, Schönfeld Gallery, Brussels, Belgium |
| Good Morning Japan, Nassima Landau Art Foundation, Tel Aviv, State of Israel |
| VOCA 30 YEARS STORY / KOBE, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art Branch Haradanomori Gallery, Hyogo, Japan |
| SPRING SHOW, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan |
| From the museum collection 2022: third period, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan |
2022 | OKETA COLLECTION: YES YOU CAN, WHAT MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan |
| OKETA COLLECTION: THE SIRIUS, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan |
| VOCA 30 Years Story / Tokyo, The fiest foor lobby of the Dai-ichi Life Group Hibiya Head Office, Tokyo, Japan |
| VOCA 2022, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| SPRING SHOW, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan |
2021 | TERRADA ART AWARD 2021 Finalists Exhibition, Warehouse TERRADA G3-6F, Tokyo, Japan |
| Abstraction by CADAN, Isetan Shinjuku Store Main Building 6F art gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| Viewing Room Exhibition, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan |
2020 | -Inside the Collector’s Vault, vol.1-, WHAT MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan |
| 10TH, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan |
| Input / Output, GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS GINZA ATRIUM, Tokyo, Japan |
| Blossoming of individuality Post-Isaku generation, people who left the Bunka Gakuin from Showa to Heisei, Musee Le Vent, |
| Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan |
| Spinner Markt, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan |
| Viewing Room Exhibition, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan |
2019 | Photo, 3F/3kai, Tokyo, Japan |
| drawings, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan |
2018 | Museum of Together - Circus, Shibuya Hikarie 8/COURT, Tokyo |
2017 | spiral take art collection 2017 “SHU SHU SHU SHO”, SPIRAL, Tokyo |
| NEWSPACE, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo |
| Museum of Together, SPIRAL, Tokyo |
| The 40th 5 Art Universities Exhibition, The National Art Center Tokyo, Tokyo |
2016 | Stereotypical, GALLERY PARC, Kyoto |
2015 | Dead Henge / Aesthetic, HIGURE 17-15 cas, Tokyo |
2014 | The 1st CAF Award - Winning Award Exhibition, TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo |
| That I shall say goodnight till it be morrow, Shinjuku Ganka Gallery, Tokyo |
2013 | 凸Exhibition, TKP Theater Kashiwa, Art Line Kashiwa 2013, Chiba |
| Home Made Family, CASHI Refregilater, Tokyo |
| Sleep No More, Tama Art University Art Festival, Tokyo |
2012 | OTHER PAINTING XI, Pepper’s Gallery, Tokyo |
| 凸Exhibition, Sogo Kashiwa, Art Line Kashiwa 2012, Chiba |
| Donuts k, Geisai, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo |
Art Fairs |
2023 | NADA Miami 2023, Ice Palace Studios, Miami, USA [Group] |
2021 | ART FAIR TOKYO 2021, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan [Group] |
2019 | ART FAIR TOKYO 2019, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan [Group] |
2018 | VOLTA14, Elsässerstrasse 215, Basel, Switzerland [Group] |
2016 | ART TAIPEI 2016, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan [Solo] |
Awards |
2022 | VOCA AWARD 2022 |
2021 | TERRADA ART AWARD Finalist, Yuki Terase Award |
2015 | Shiseido Art Egg |
2014 | The 1st CAF Award, Kenjiro Hosaka Award |
| ART IN THE OFFICE 2014 |
Publications |
Rikako Kawauchi, Lurf MUSEUM, 26 Mar. 2023 |
Rikako Kawauchi: Works 2014–2022, Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd, 14 July 2022 |
Rikako Kawauchi drawings 2012–2020, WAITINGROOM, November 2020 [privately publication] |
Catalogues and Brochures |
Arts Maebashi 10th Anniversary Exhibition “New Horizon - From History to the Future”, Arts Maebashi, 31 January, 2024 |
AWT FOCUS WORDS IN BALANCE: ART IN JAPAN FROM THE POSTWAR TO THE PRESENT, Catalogue, Nov. 2023, |
Art Week Tokyo |
VOCA 30 YEARS STORY, 2023, VOCA Exhibition Executive Committee, Ueno Royal Museum |
Rikako Kawauchi line & colors, Catalogue, Apr. 2023, N&A Art SITE |
Museum of Together - Circus, Document, Feb. 18, 2019, The Nippon Foundation DIVERSITY IN THE ARTS |
Museum of Together, Document, Feb. 1, 2019, The Nippon Foundation DIVERSITY IN THE ARTS |
Museum of Together, Handbook, Oct. 2017, The Nippon Foundation DIVERSITY IN THE ARTS |
ART TAIPEI 2016, Catalogue, Nov. 2016, Taiwan Art Gallery Association, AMAZING PAPER INTERNATIONAL, LTD. |
Stereotypical – Minako NISHIYAMA & Rikako KAWAUCHI, March 15th 2016, Kyoto Seika University Contemporary Art Project Executive Committee |
The 9th shiseido art egg exhibition catalogue, May 29th 2015, Shiseido Inc. |
Public Collection |
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Tokyo |
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi |
Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Tokyo |
Ryutaro Takahashi Collection, Tokyo |
Monex, Inc., Tokyo |
Artist Website |
Rikako Kawauchi / 川内 理香子 |