Tokuro Sakamoto1975-

Sceneries he depicts are not taken from the real, and we may feel that they are somehow floating from the real. Strangely enough, however, the sceneries at the same time makes us feel that we already saw them somewhere, sometime. He depicts with acrylic paints sky, mountains, roads, wires, traffic lights, and playground equipments without representing mankind, leaving us non-existence. He has several series as repertory such as map series, night view or water surface, some of which remind us of wood prints of Edo period. The artist questions if he represents "nothing" while he draws these landscape. He seems to try to draw nearer by depicting the background of the object rather than depicting the object itself.

Biography

1975 born in Yamanashi
1999 graduated from Tokyo University of Arts (Department of Japanese Painting)
2001 graduated from Hayami Institute of Arts (Department of Japanese Painting)

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Solo Exhibitions

2021 Tokuro Sakamoto: gap, Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2021 Tokuro Sakamoto｜Daily Lives, Kichijoji Art Museum / Tokyo
2018 Tokuro Sakamoto Exhibition, SOGO Kobe Art Gallery / Kobe　　
Gallery Sakuranoki Ginza / Tokyo
2017 Outline, Gallery KIDO Press / Tokyo　　
Pattern, GALLERY MoMo / Tokyo
2016 Tokuro Sakamoto: Empty Vessel, Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2014 Tokuro Sakamoto Solo Exhibition: Periphery , Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
finder Tokuro Sakamoto, SETOARTS / Osaka
2013 Trace, KIDO Press, / Kiyozumi Shirakawa
Plain, gallery innocent / Kofu
Back ground, Gallery MoMo / Tokyo
2012 Long Distance View, Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
Parallax, Ginza Mitsukoshi / Tokyo
2011 Intersection, Gallery Momo / Tokyo
2010 Living a Lazy Day, Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
Tokuro Sakamoto Exhibition, Gallery Sakuranoki / Tokyo
2009 Tokuro Sakamoto Exhibition, Kido Press / Tokyo
Resonance, Gallery Momo Ryogoku / Tokyo
2008 Beautiful Drifter, Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
Endless Holiday, Shinseido-Hatanaka Art Gallery / Tokyo
2007 Breathing, Gallery MoMo / Tokyo
2001 solo exhibition, Gallery Yamaguchi / Tokyo (’02, ’03)

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Group Exhibitions

2022 Kiaf SEOUL, COEX / Korea
2021 Paintings of Electrical Wire, Nerima Art Museum / Tokyo
2020 Breakzenya in HILLSIDE TERRACE, HILLSIDE FORUM / Tokyo
2018 Selected Art Fair 2018 SHU SHU SHU SHOW, Spiral Garden / Tokyo
2018 SAKURA SAKU, Daikanyama T-SITE Anjin / Tokyo
2017 2017 Art Stage Singapore 2017 / Singapore
2014 Shinshun Manpuku New year Exhibition, FEI ART Museum Yokohama / Yokohama
2013 Print studio summit 2013 Tokyo, The Art Complex centre of Tokyo / Tokyo
2013 Un ? Natural constellations, Newman popiashvili Gallery / New York
2013 Landscape, Shinseido Tokyo berlinar box / Berlin
2012 New Collecton, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art / Yamanashi
2011 Special Exhibition, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art / Yamanashi
2008 New Collection, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art / Yamanashi
2008 VOCA2008, The Ueno Royal Museum of Art / Tokyo
2006 New Collection, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art / Yamanashi
2006 3rd Higashiyama Kaii Memorial Award for Japanese Painting, Hotel New Otani / Tokyo
2005 Tokyo Wonder Wall 2005, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo / Tokyo
2004 Shell Art Award, Hillside Forum / Tokyo
2003 Liquitex Biennale, Spiral Garden / Tokyo
2003 Gunma Biennale of Youth’03, The Museum of Modern Art / Gunma
2002 21th Outstanding Rising Artists’Exhibition, Yasuda Insurance Art Foundation / Tokyo
2002 20th Graphic Art, Hitotsubo Exhibition, Guardian Garden / Tokyo
2001 Shell Art Award, Meguro Museum of Art / Tokyo
2001 Shinsei Exhibition, Shinseido-Hatanaka Art Gallery / Tokyo

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Awards

2006 won a prize at 3rd Higashiyama Kaii Memorial Award for Japanese Painting
2005 won a prize at Tokyo Wonder Wall 2005
2004 won a prize at Shell Art Award
2001 won a prize at Shell Art Award

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