Artists
Chihiro Kabata1978-
![Unknown Planet, Nibiru](/artists/upload/e2f6765406ae47b7caed2ff61b907b3d49062a7e.jpg)
size: 900 x 900 mm
medium: ballpoint pen on inkjet paper, acrylic mount / 2017 / sold
![Unknown Planet, Orpheus](/artists/upload/41492fa7a2025c0755689ac005e1d5e7d19ab786.jpg)
size: 900 x 900 mm
medium: ballpoint pen on inkjet paper, acrylic mount / 2017 / sold
![Dark river - Ob river](/artists/upload/%E6%A4%9B%E7%94%B0%E3%81%A1%E3%81%B2%E3%82%8D_Dark%20River%2C%20Ob%20River%202014_%20900x900mm.jpg)
size: 900 x 900 mm
medium: Ball pointed pen, Inkjet paper / 2014
![Dark Ocean, Arctic Ocean](/artists/upload/d51aa58b68fb8b82af6339f8ba0bca9f1a9bf9ea.jpg)
size: 900 x 937 mm
medium: ball pointed pen on Inkjet paper, acrylic mount
date: 2013
price: ask
![Installation view of solo exhibition](/artists/upload/2edfbd87ce02d4cdd92fc7e34fd08d0895c5ea61.jpg)
date: 2015
![Installation view of solo exhibition](/artists/upload/b614ef08a36b47e40b103ca37ee6a46034f0770e.jpg)
date: 2015
![Installation view of exhibition](/artists/upload/416e675055f3b70cce99bc01250148e2d6618ae1.jpg)
date: 2011
![Metric 4](/artists/upload/402b32d34d43a911dd437ecb0cec60527814ad89.jpg)
size: 500 x 500 mm
medium: ball pointed pen on Inkjet paper, acrylic mount
date: 2013
![words in our Mind_20140917](/artists/upload/words%20in%20our%20Mind_20140917%2C%20900x900%2C%202014.jpg)
size: 900 x 900 mm
medium: ballpoint pen on inkjet paper, acrylic mount / 2014
![words in our Mind_20140930](/artists/upload/words%20in%20our%20Mind_20140930%2C%20900x900%2C%202014.jpg)
size: 900 x 900 mm
medium: ballpoint pen on inkjet paper / 2014 / sold
![Dark River 20140719](/artists/upload/Dark%20River%2020140719%2C%20900x900%2C%202014.jpg)
size: 900 x 900 mm
medium: Ball pointed pen on inkjet paper, Acrylic mounted
![Observation Jul. 29, 2014](/artists/upload/f89c036ffe067bd1e58083cc4014f5f827354932.jpg)
size: 915 x 900
medium: ballpoint pen on inkjet paper
![Installation view of solo exhibition](/artists/upload/a9de282645755253d70d431b05411f43d1ceec3d.jpg)
date: 2017
![Words in Our Mind, R. Bradbury](/artists/upload/b38faf3d6bbf01cd1f881ea5b1282690de645d5d.jpg)
size: 900 x 900 mm
medium: ball pointed pen, Inkjet paper, acrylic mount / 2013
![Closed Your Eyes Open (water droplet)](/artists/upload/8cd9f4fc1ca9810f634d0edd1eddba646cf6e8c0.jpg)
size: 400 × 400 ㎜
medium: mirror, resin / 2012 /sold
![Sleepless Night Under the Noisy Stars 2](/artists/upload/60f1e8e025b91153473934a086634e7a46d91416.jpg)
size: 400 x 400 mm
medium: ball pointed pen on Inkjet paper
date: 2013
price: ask
![Following the Shadow Shimomura 1](/artists/upload/bdd854401a660034d1e8cc8d10b43e65bc525f41.jpg)
size: 900 x 900 mm
medium: ball pointed pen on Inkjet paper
date: 2015
price: ask
![Installation view of solo exhibition “the World Crosses Over the Mirror”](/artists/upload/ea36f24e9027664b31785c83398f65303aeb8bc6.jpg)
date: 2012
![Entanglement](/artists/upload/kabata_acryl_sc_new.jpg)
size: 170×120×120 mm
medium: boll point pen on acrylic / 2010 /sold
![Installation view of solo exhibition](/artists/upload/_DSC0194.jpg)
date: 2013
Chihiro Kabata1978-
In Kabata's drawings accumulated delicate ink lines are transformed into powerful vision. She only uses ball-point pen and works on inkjet paper or acrylic board day after day creating deep and strong images. Through her constant movement and extraordinary patience, unexpectedly large works will fill the space, as was the case in MOT Annual 2011. While keeping her credited works by ball-point pen, she challenges some other media such as resinous drawing on mirror or hand-painting of oil, or further, installation with water-pool or tapes, all echoing with her question on the grasping of the invisibles.
- Biography
- 1978 born in Tokyo
2004 MFA at Musashino Art University
- More
- Solo Exhibitions
- 2021 Open Studio 81 - Display of a completion works, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo
2017 Unknown Planet, Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2015 Following the Shadows, Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2013 Folding shadows, Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
A drift in the dark, Kashya Hildebrand / Switzerland
2012 Time dilation, hpgrp window gallery Marunouchi / Tokyo
World crosses over the mirror, Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2011 Close with Eyes Open, Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
fear / flight/ fleeting, LASALLE Colloge of Arts / Singapore
Stratosphere Tracing the “self”, Gallery αM / Tokyo
2010 Event horizon-innerscape-, youkobo art space / Tokyo
Event horizon, Shinjuku Ophthalmologist Gallery / Tokyo
Paradigm crossing-entanglement-, Nroom artspace / Tokyo
2009 Ununity, youkobo art space / Tokyo
Schwarzwaldmetric, artlantico gallery / Tokyo
2008 FLAME WORK, Gallery Grand Caf? / Tokyo
SUPER POSITION ?Triptych, youkobo art space / Tokyo
SUPER POSITION , Art Trace Gallery / Tokyo
2006 Kabata Chihiro solo exhibition, Art Trace Gallery / Tokyo - More
- Group Exhibitions
- 2022 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2022 (Niigata)
2020 Breakzenya in HILLSIDE TERRACE (HILLSIDE FORUM / Tokyo)
2020 Artspace@Helutrans DE:VOTED (Artspace@Helutrans/Singapore)
2020 The exhibition of "The Flame Brush Line through Japanese Art" (Fuchu Art Museum/Tokyo)
2019 Face 2019 (Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art / Tokyo)
2019 1st Tagawa Art Biennale (Tagawa Art Museum / Fukuoka)
2018 Clarke Quay Alternative (INSTINC / Singapore)
2015 Unite (21_21 design museum / Tokyo)
2014 Japan Art Exhibition (ISETAN / Singapore)
2014 Parallel Perception & Counter Connection (Japan Creative Centre : Embassy Of Japan / Singapore)
2014 Zone Eclipse (INSTINC / Singapore)
2013 P.O.V.(Galerie Steph / Singapore)
2012 Encounter ?the Royal Academy in Asia (ICAS/Singapore)
2012 Unknown Landscape (G-WING'S gallery / KANAZAWA, JAPAN)
2012 Observer of Celestial Sphere(Gallery Valeur/ NAGOYA, JAPAN)
2012 VOCA2012 (The Ueno Royal Museum / Tokyo,Japan)
2012 Azamino Contemporary vol.2 Viewpoints: Drawing and Painting (Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino / Kanagawa, Japan)
2011 MOT Annual 2011, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / Tokyo
2010 Chiyoda Art Festival “3331 Arts Chiyoda”, Arts Chiyoda 3331 / Tokyo
Art Trace Gallery group exhibition 7, Art Trace Gallery / Tokyo
Art Trace Gallery group exhibition 4, Art Trace Gallery / Tokyo
Simulacra and Blind Illusion, Art Front Gallery / Tokyo,
ULTRA 2003, Spiral / Tokyo
2009 DYNAMITE0000, Kitano Studio / Tokyo
New Abstractionb Paintings, Nroom artspace / Tokyo
Presentation & Exhibition 2009, artcourt gallery / Osaka
ART & PHOTO BOOK EXHIBITION 2009, Shinjuku Ophthalmologist Gallery / Tokyo
MARKET TRACE 2009, Art Trace Gallery / Tokyo
The Zibo international exhibition, Zibo Museum / China
art_icle AWARD 2009 Winning Exhibition, atlantico gallery / Tokyo
art_icle AWARD 2009, Keumsan Gallery / Seoul, Tokyo Gallery / Beijing
2007 Art Trace Gallery × youkobo, youkobo art space / Tokyo
2006 Light`n Heavy vol.3, Gallery GOTO / Tokyo - More
- Awards
- 2009 art_icle AWARD 2009 Sponsor prize
- More
- Collection / Public Art
- Zibo Museum, Shandong / China
- More
![見知らぬ惑星, ニビル](/artists/upload/e2f6765406ae47b7caed2ff61b907b3d49062a7e.jpg)
size: 900 x 900 mm
medium: ballpoint pen on inkjet paper, acrylic mount / 2017 / sold
![見知らぬ惑星, オルフェウス](/artists/upload/41492fa7a2025c0755689ac005e1d5e7d19ab786.jpg)
size: 900 x 900 mm
medium: ballpoint pen on inkjet paper, acrylic mount / 2017 / sold
![Dark river - オビ川](/artists/upload/%E6%A4%9B%E7%94%B0%E3%81%A1%E3%81%B2%E3%82%8D_Dark%20River%2C%20Ob%20River%202014_%20900x900mm.jpg)
size: 900 x 900 mm
medium: Ball pointed pen, Inkjet paper / 2014
![Dark Ocean, Arctic Ocean](/artists/upload/d51aa58b68fb8b82af6339f8ba0bca9f1a9bf9ea.jpg)
size: 900 x 937 mm
medium: ball pointed pen on Inkjet paper, acrylic mount
date: 2013
price: ask
![個展](/artists/upload/2edfbd87ce02d4cdd92fc7e34fd08d0895c5ea61.jpg)
date: 2015
![個展](/artists/upload/b614ef08a36b47e40b103ca37ee6a46034f0770e.jpg)
date: 2015
![現代美術館MOTアニュアル展覧会「Nearest Faraway 世界の深さのはかり方」展示風景](/artists/upload/416e675055f3b70cce99bc01250148e2d6618ae1.jpg)
date: 2011
![メトリック4](/artists/upload/402b32d34d43a911dd437ecb0cec60527814ad89.jpg)
size: 500 x 500 mm
medium: ball pointed pen on Inkjet paper, acrylic mount
date: 2013
![words in our Mind_20140917](/artists/upload/words%20in%20our%20Mind_20140917%2C%20900x900%2C%202014.jpg)
size: 900 x 900 mm
medium: ballpoint pen on inkjet paper, acrylic mount / 2014
![words in our Mind_20140930](/artists/upload/words%20in%20our%20Mind_20140930%2C%20900x900%2C%202014.jpg)
size: 900 x 900 mm
medium: ballpoint pen on inkjet paper / 2014 / sold
![Dark River 20140719](/artists/upload/Dark%20River%2020140719%2C%20900x900%2C%202014.jpg)
size: 900 x 900 mm
medium: Ball pointed pen on inkjet paper, Acrylic mounted
![観測 2014年7月29日](/artists/upload/f89c036ffe067bd1e58083cc4014f5f827354932.jpg)
size: 915 x 900
medium: ballpoint pen on inkjet paper
![個展](/artists/upload/a9de282645755253d70d431b05411f43d1ceec3d.jpg)
date: 2017
![記憶にとめられた語り R. Bradbury](/artists/upload/b38faf3d6bbf01cd1f881ea5b1282690de645d5d.jpg)
size: 900 x 900 mm
medium: ball pointed pen, Inkjet paper, acrylic mount / 2013
![目をあけたまま閉じる(水滴)](/artists/upload/8cd9f4fc1ca9810f634d0edd1eddba646cf6e8c0.jpg)
size: 400 × 400 ㎜
medium: mirror, resin / 2012 /sold
![Sleepless Night Under the Noisy Stars 2](/artists/upload/60f1e8e025b91153473934a086634e7a46d91416.jpg)
size: 400 x 400 mm
medium: ball pointed pen on Inkjet paper
date: 2013
price: ask
![Following the Shadow下村1](/artists/upload/bdd854401a660034d1e8cc8d10b43e65bc525f41.jpg)
size: 900 x 900 mm
medium: ball pointed pen on Inkjet paper
date: 2015
price: ask
![個展](/artists/upload/ea36f24e9027664b31785c83398f65303aeb8bc6.jpg)
date: 2012
![遠距離間の不気味な作用](/artists/upload/kabata_acryl_sc_new.jpg)
size: 170×120×120 mm
medium: boll point pen on acrylic / 2010 /sold
![個展](/artists/upload/_DSC0194.jpg)
date: 2013
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