井原 信次   -   I H A R A   S h i n j i

Biography
1987   Born in Fukuoka, Japan
2010   B.F.A in Oil Painting of Hiroshima City University
2012   M.F.A in Oil Painting Materials and Techniques of Tokyo University of  the Arts


Solo Exhibition
2024   Shinji Ihara ″Abstract Concept″, KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo
2023   Shinji Ihara ″1111″, KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo
2021   Love Your Neighbor 2021, KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo
2020   Love Your Neighbor, Hiroshima Drawing Lab, Hiroshima
2018   MEYOU, KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo
2016   Hakata Gion Yamakasa Otoko E-zu, matchbaco, Tokyo
2015   RENDEZVOUS, matchbaco, Tokyo
2013   SINCE NOBODY SEES, Gallery Art Morimoto, Tokyo


Group Exhibition
2024  Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award 2024,  National Portrait Gallery, London
           KAIKA AWARD TOKYO 2024, KAIKA TOKYO by THE SHARE HOTELS, Tokyo
2023  Art in Book, Hiroshima Drawing Lab, Hiroshima
     Hiroshima Contemporary Art Salon 2023 with HAGW, Mitsukoshi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima
     Fusetsu Nakamura and Portraits Exhibition, Takanawa Gallery, Tokyo
     Secret Door, Hiroshima Drawing Lab, Hiroshima
     Lenz, SASAI FINE ARTS, Tokyo
2022  Perpetual Shadow, Gallery Suchi, Tokyo (Also held in 2021,2019,2018,2017)
     ART OLYMPIA 2022 (Selected works), Kiun-Kaku, Shizuoka
     Pencil drawing Exhibition, Gallery Art Morimoto, Tokyo
2021   Handsome Men They Are, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama; Iwami Art Museum, Shimane (Touring exhibition)
     Pencil drawing Exhibition, Mitsukoshi-Nihonbashi, Tokyo
     one's signal, KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo
     Urge, Hiroshima Drawing Lab, Hiroshima
2020  SILVER LINING, Hiroshima Drawing Lab, Hiroshima
     Premonition of beauty 2020, Takashimaya-Nihonbashi / Yokohama / Kyoto (Touring exhibition)
     one's behavior, KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo
2019   Soft Mirrors, KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo
     Horns of Rhinoceros, Gallery Art Morimoto, Tokyo
     The portrait within 1km, Atmosphere, Tokyo
2018   FAUSS, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
     In Between the Classic and the Contemporary, Hiroshima City University Art Museum, Hiroshima
2017   My Cat, Sato Museum, Tokyo
     Star Tale, KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo   
     The Cat is the Greatest masterpiece, Gallery Art Morimoto, Tokyo
2016   IMAGO MUNDI”Benetton collection’s exhibition, PRATT INSTITUTE THE RUBELLE AND NORMAN SCHFLER GALLERY, NY (Fondazione Querini Stampalia / Venice / 2013)
     LOIVE, matchbaco, Tokyo
     Ichiro Sato and his comrades exhibition, NAGAI Art Gallery, Mitsukoshi-Nihonbashi, Tokyo
2015   Place We Seek, Former Hiroshima Branch of the Bank of Japan, Hiroshima
     THE LITE - PORTRAITS OF THE HIBAKUSHA , JMS Aster Plaza, Hiroshima
2014   9th Kanji Maeda Grand-Prix Exhibition, Takashimaya-Nihonbashi, Tokyo / Kurayoshi Museum, Tottori (Touring exhibition)
     Seeing / Drawing, Tokyo University of the Arts University Art Museum, Tokyo
2013   IMAGO MUNDI, Benetton collection’s exhibition Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice
     THE LITE - PORTRAITS OF THE HIBAKUSHA , International Conference Center Hiroshima, Hiroshima
     Next Art exhibition, The Asahi Shimbun Company and Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo


Art Fair
2019   Art Taipei, Booth: YIRI ARTS, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei
2018   Art Fair Asia, Booth: Gallery Suchi, Hotel Okura Fukuoka, Fukuoka
2016   Art Taipei, Booth: Wada Fine Arts + KEN NAKAHASHI, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei
2014   Kyoto Art Fair, Booth: Gallery Art Morimoto, Kyoto Exhibition Hall, Kyoto


Public Collections
Hiroshima City University Museum
Luciano Benetton Imago Mundi Collection


Awards
2024   Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award 2024 “Selected works”,  National Portrait Gallery, London
2024    KAIKA AWARD TOKYO 2024 “Selected works”, KAIKA TOKYO by THE SHARE HOTELS, Tokyo
2022    ART OLYMPIA “Selected works", Kiun-Kaku, Shizuoka
2017    FINE ART / UNIVERSITY SELECTION 2016-2017 “Excellence award”, Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki
2013    13th Hiroshima City University Graduation works “Noda award”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.


Book
RENDEZVOUS, published by matchbaco, 2015


Column
Since Nobody Sees, published by Shukan Dokushojin, 2016


Media Coverage
i-D Vice|“MEYOU” Shinji IHARA Solo Exhibition, 2018, Tokyo
NEOQUE|ART & PHOTOGRAPHY|Shinji Ihara, 2023, Italy