[Author introduction] Mino Watanabe
Introducing Mino Watanabe, the 3rd artist of HOLBEIN ART FAIR 2022
Mino Watanabe
painter. Completed the oil painting research area of the Tama Art University Graduate School of Painting. By depicting vivid nature such as plants and the sea in linear lines, he creates paintings that exist in the middle of polar opposite relationships such as nature and man-made, organic and inorganic, figurative and abstract. In recent years, he has been active in holding solo exhibitions at Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi and creating murals. He has received numerous awards including the Tokyo Wonder Wall Public Recruitment 2015 Shintaro Ishihara Jury Award and the Terrace Art Shonan AWARD Grand Prix.
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[Career]
Born in Tokyo
2016: Completed Master's Course, Painting, Oil Painting Research Area, Tama Art University Graduate School of Fine Arts
<Solo exhibition>
2022 “Straight in nature” (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Art Salon, Tokyo) “Watch the Sea” (Ishikawa Gallery, Tokyo)
2021 “Fluctuation” (KATSUYA SUSUKI GALLERY, Tokyo) “WAVE” (Shonan T-SITE / LIFE sea, Kanagawa) 2020 Mino Watanabe Exhibition (LIFE son, Tokyo)
2019 "FORM" (Gallery MoMo projects, Tokyo) Ichiro Fukuzawa Prize winning artist exhibition "Botanical garden" (Ichiro Fukuzawa Memorial Museum, Tokyo)
2016 Solo exhibition humanité lab vol. 56 Mino Watanabe exhibition “Horizon” (Galerie Tokyo Yuma.ni.te, Tokyo)
<Group exhibition>
2022 "Shibuya Fashion Week 2022 Spring" (Shibuya Scramble Square, Tokyo)
"IN THE LOOP" (THE LOOP GALLERY, Tokyo) "conversation" (haku kyoto, Kyoto)
2021 “SEASONAL ART Phase #8” (Hotel Metropolitan Kawasaki/Kanagawa)
2020 “My Journal” (ANA InterContinental Tokyo, Tokyo) “SEASONAL ART Phase #1” (Metropolitan Kawasaki, Kanagawa)
2019 “Make it a Painting” (Akibatamabi 21 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo) “Art Gaia @ Jonanjima” (ART FACTORY Jonanjima, Tokyo)
2017 “Special Edition 2017” (RiseGallery, Tokyo)
2016 “11th Mitsui Fudosan Management Office Exhibition” (Mitsui Fudosan Real Estate Commercial Management Co., Ltd., Tokyo)
<Award>
2022 Terrace Art Shonan AWARD Grand Prix Winner
Winner of the 19th Art Gallery Home Works Recruitment Grand Prix
2015 Tokyo Wonder Wall Public Recruitment 2015 Shintaro Ishihara Jury Award Winner TURNER AWARD 2014 Excellence Award
2014 19th Fukuzawa Ichiro Award <Selected>
2018 Selected for the 41st Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program (Mitsubishi Corporation Building, Tokyo) Selected for the 54th Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition (Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery, Kanagawa) 2017 Selected for the 37th Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program (Mitsubishi Corporation Building, Tokyo) Tokyo) Selected for Wonder Seed 2017 (Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo)
2016 Selected for Shell Art Award 2016 (The National Art Center, Tokyo)
Selected for the 52nd Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition (Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery, Kanagawa) Selected for TURNER AWARD 2015 (Turner Gallery, Tokyo)
2014 Selected for Sompo Japan Art Award FACE2014 (Sompo Japan Togo Seiji Museum, Tokyo)
Selected for Shell Art Award 2014 (The National Art Center, Tokyo)
2013 Selected for Shell Art Award 2013 (The National Art Center, Tokyo)
<Mural production>
2022 In-store mural production (MF6 Yokohama store/Kanagawa)
2021 “Mitsubishi Estate Shin Tokyo 4TH MURAL PROJECT” (Shin Tokyo Building, Tokyo)
【the work】
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Oil on canvas
H455 × W530 × D25 (mm)
2022
Papaya tree
Oil on canvas
H410×W320×D20(mm)
2022
Seaweed
Oil on canvas
H725 × W605 × D25 (mm)
2022
Tropical flower #8
Oil on canvas
H725 × W605 × D25 (mm)
2022
Tropical flower #9
Oil on canvas
H410 × W320 × D20 (mm)
2022
Watch the waves #5
Oil on canvas
H1000 × W805 × D30 (mm)
2022
List of works by Mino Watanabe▽
https://pls-art-shop.com/collections/%E6%B8%A1%E9%83%A8-%E6%9C%AA%E4%B9%83
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[Exhibition view]
[Staff comment]
The colors were so vivid that I felt like the work was smiling 😊The next thing that caught my eye after the colors was the composition of the work. Even though it is drawn with straight lines, the drawn object looks natural. Please take a look at Watanabe's works, which are filled with a mysterious charm that mixes artificial and natural elements! (Neda)
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