WAITINGROOM will participate in Art Collaboration Kyoto (ACK) 2025 at the Kyoto International Conference Center from Friday, November 14 to Sunday, November 16, 2025.
We are delighted to welcome MANGROVEGALLERY from Shenzhen, China as our guest gallery. WAITINGROOM will present paintings and stone sculptures by Rikako Kawauchi, alongside paintings and drawings by Fumika Tsuchitori.

Rikako Kawauchi

Left: Rikako Kawauchi, Raspberry tart, 2025, oil on canvas, 910 × 727 mm
Right: Rikako Kawauchi, The Story About Fire, 2025, stone, d165 × w390 × h290 mm

Born in Tokyo in 1990, Rikako Kawauchi completed her M.F.A. in Oil Painting at the Graduate School of Art, Tama Art University in 2017. She is currently based in Tokyo.
Based on her interest in food, Kawauchi explores the ambiguities in the interrelationship between body and mind, and between self and other. She takes as motifs the presence and absence of the self and others that emerge in various forms of communication such as eating, conversation, and sex. Her practice spans a wide range of media—including drawing, painting, wire, resin, neon, and marble—while consistently placing “line” at the core of expression. Through her practice, she describes her attempt as “capturing elusive bodies and invisible movements of thought within lines.”
Recent major exhibitions include the solo exhibition “The shape of water hardens into stone.” (2025, Kurobe City Art Museum, Toyama), “INNER VECTOR: 11, 72, 2154” (2025, Beyond Gallery, Taipei), the group exhibition “5th Anniversary Exhibition Plastic Utopia: Our New Ecosystem” (2025, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Aomori), the solo exhibition “Paintings & Drawings – Food, Animals, Organs, Plants, Bodies, etc, everything outside me is everywhere in the air, I breathe them in, I breathe them out.” (2024, Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne), “Under the sun” (2024, agnès b. Galerie Boutique, Tokyo), the group exhibition “A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection” (2024, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo), the solo exhibition “Even the pigments in paints were once stones” (2023, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo), “The Voice of the Soul” (2023, ERA GALLERY, Milan), the group exhibitions “Body, Love, Gender” (2023, Gana Art Center, Seoul), “WORLDS IN BALANCE: ART IN JAPAN FROM THE POSTWAR TO THE PRESENT” (2023, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo), and “10th Anniversary Exhibition: New Horizon—From History to the Future” (2023, Arts Maebashi, Gunma). She also received the Kenjiro Hosaka Prize at the 1st CAF Award (2014), the SHISEIDO ART EGG Prize at SHISEIDO ART EGG (2015), the Yuki Terase Prize at the TERRADA ART AWARD 2021, and the Grand Prize (VOCA Prize) at VOCA 2022: The Vision of Contemporary Art—New Perspectives in Painting (2022).

Fumika Tsuchitori

Left: Fumika Tsuchitori, I and You (On the Other Side), 2025, oil and spray on canvas, 1455 × 1120 mm
Right: Fumika Tsuchitori, I and You (Embrace), 2025, oil and spray on canvas panel, 530 × 455 mm

Born in Hyogo in 1995, currently lives and works in Kyoto. Graduated from the department of art and craft at Kyoto University of Art and Design (currently Kyoto University of the Arts) in 2020.
Through her two series of works, “I and You,” which depicts two people, and “a scene,” where elements such as colors and shapes are extracted from landscapes, Tsuchitori has created paintings and drawings by thinking about the irreplaceability of specific objects, as well as the relationship between people and individuals.
Her recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition “Swaying Outlines” (2025, Gallery & Restaurant Butaiura, Tokyo), a group exhibition “To Sway and Surround : Japanese Female Abstraction” (2025, Each Modern, Taipei), a solo exhibition “Frames and Breath” (2024, MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo), a solo exhibition “Drawings” (2024, WAITINGROOM、NADiff a/p/a/r/t、Gallery Room of BABY The Coffee Brew Club, Tokyo), a group exhibition “Collectors III -Turning the World” (2024, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka), a group exhibition “A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection” (2024, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo), a solo exhibition “Sleeping with me holding in my arms, Silence” (2023, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo).