HOLBEIN ART FAIR 2022 3rd — Featured Artist: 福田 絵里
福田 絵里
What I depict in my paintings is not reality but an unseen world.
Reality can at times become an object of fear. To take refuge from it, I began to create a world that does not exist in reality.
The world is not entirely something the eye can grasp. The human heart, the spirit or a divine presence, vapor and air—I believe that striving to see the unseen, and giving it a form that can be seen and felt, is a way to perceive this world more deeply.
For me, society is at times a difficult place to live in, yet to survive I must engage with it. My works are forged out of the friction that arises from coexisting with society.
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[Biography]
● Solo Exhibitions
２０１８ “When You Touch That World, Therefore,” (TOKAS Hongo, Tokyo)
２０１６ “There,” (Sakuragi Gallery, Tokyo)
２０１４ “A World as if Seen” (Sakuragi Gallery, Tokyo)
● Group Exhibitions
２０２２ “FACE 2022 Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Award Exhibition” (Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art, Tokyo) (also '16)
２０２１ “Room, Forest” (Viento Arts Gallery, Gunma) “HOLBEIN ART FAIR 2021” (+ART Gallery, Tokyo)
２０２０ “Stones Sink, Leaves Swim” (gFAL, Musashino Art University, Tokyo) “ART PROJECT TAKASAKI” (Jiko-dori, former Maruzen Daiichi Building / Daily Yamazaki site, Gunma)
２０１９ “Find Your ART for Christmas” (MARUEIDO JAPAN, Tokyo) “Shell Art Award 2019” (The National Art Center, Tokyo) (also '13) “3331 ART FAIR 2019” (3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo) “The Hush of Night” (Sakuragi Gallery, Tokyo)
２０１８ “A Dream in August” (Atelier Drop, Saitama) “Wonder Seeds 2018” (TOKAS Hongo, Tokyo)
２０１７ “BankART Life V: Tourism” (BankART Studio NYK, Kanagawa) “Gunma Youth Biennale 2017” (The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma)
２０１６ “Wonder Seeds 2016” (Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo)
２０１５ “Tokyo Wonder Wall 2015 Open Call Selected Works Exhibition” (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo)
２０１４ “Sato Foundation for Arts & Culture 23rd Scholars' Art Exhibition” (Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo)
２０１３ “Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2013” (Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery, Tokyo)
2012 “Signs of Landscape” (Shinjuku Ganka Gallery, Tokyo)
２０１０ “Peek-a-Boo GO!” (Sagamihara Citizens' Gallery, Kanagawa)
Awards
２０１７ 32nd Holbein Scholarship (Holbein)
２０１５ Musashino Art University Graduation/Completion Works Exhibition 2015, Studio Prize (Musashino Art University)
２０１４ Kamiyama Foundation Art Support Program (Kamiyama Foundation) Sato Foundation for Arts & Culture 23rd Scholarship (Sato Foundation for Arts & Culture)
[Works]
Lump, a series of
Oil on canvas
H273×W455×D20(mm)
2019
Holed
Oil on canvas
H333×W242×D17(mm)
2019
Holed
Oil on canvas
H333×W242×D17(mm)
2019
Perforated wall made of clay
Oil on canvas
H318×W410×D20(mm)
2019
Miniature garden, night, small holes
Oil on canvas
H328×W410×D18(mm)
2018
A separate lump
Oil on canvas
H227×W158×D18(mm)
2020
A separate lump
Oil on canvas
H227×W158×D18(mm)
2020
The window at night
Oil on canvas
H227×W158×D18(mm)
2022
Four glimmers
Oil on canvas
H220×W273×W15(mm)
2017
福田 絵里 — View All Works ▽
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[Installation Views]
[Staff Comment]
Looking at Fukuda's works gives a feeling of being gently enveloped. All sorts of thoughts and reveries unfold in your mind—where within the work you yourself exist, how you came to slip into this world. Please come and behold for yourself the delicate expressions that spread across her canvases ✨(Neda)
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