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