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土取郁香
Fumika TSUCHITORI
1995 Born in Hyogo, Japan
Currently lives and works in Kyoto
WORKS EXHIBITIONS NEWS STATEMENT CV

WORKS

  • Solo Exhibition "Swaying Outlines"
    2025
    installation view
    Venue: Gallery & Restaurant Butaiura (Tokyo)
  • I and You (Spring fever)
    2025
    oil and spray on canvas, 1940 × 1620 mm
  • I and You (輪郭は揺れている)
    2025
    oil and spray on canvas, 1167 × 910 mm
  • I and You (chirp chirp)
    2024
    oil on canvas panel, 410 × 318 mm
  • a scene (swaying)
    2025
    oil on canvas panel, 273 × 220 mm
  • I and You
    2025
    oil and spray on canvas, 1167 × 910 mm
  • I and You (shape of heart)
    2024
    oil, acrylic, and spray on canvas, 1167 × 910 mm
  • I and You
    2023
    oil and spray on canvas panel, 652 × 455 mm
  • Solo Exhibition "Frames and Breath"
    2024
    installation view
    Venue: Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Honten, MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY (Tokyo) / Photo by Taku Shindoh
  • I and You (炎のような夜)
    2024
    oil and spray on canvas, 1455 × 2240 mm
  • I and You
    2024
    oil and spray on canvas, 1620 × 1303 mm
  • I and You (You gaze at me)
    2024
    oil and spray on canvas, 1620 × 1300 mm
  • I and You (だれが線を引いている？)
    2024
    oil, acrylic, and spray on canvas, 910 × 1167 mm
  • I and You (ばれたらどうしようかな？)
    2023
    oil and spray on canvas, 652 × 455 mm
  • I and You
    2022
    oil on canvas, 530 × 455 mm
  • My orange / Grass and trees are sleeping
    2024
    oil acrylic spray on canvas, 652 × 455 mm
    set of 2
  • I and You knock knock knock
    2020
    oil, acrylic, and spray on canvas, 1280 × 2300 mm
  • Solo Exhibition "Drawings"
    2024
    installation view
    Venue: WAITINGROOM (Tokyo) / Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
  • 202303
    2023
    acrylic and spray on paper, 1390 × 1020 mm
  • 202307
    2023
    acrylic and spray on paper, 1218 × 895 mm
  • 202006
    2020
    acrylic and spray on paper, 1195 × 890 mm
  • 202206
    2022
    oil, spray, color pencil, and pastel on canvas, 959 × 597 mm
  • 20201030
    2020
    oil and color pencil on paper, 547 × 378 mm
  • 20210901
    20221
    oil, spray, and color pencil on paper, 546 × 395 mm
  • 20220907
    2022
    acrylic and pastel on canvas, 438 × 375 mm
  • 202007
    2020
    oil, spray, and color pencil on paper, 380 × 537 mm
  • 20210831
    2021
    oil and color pencil on paper, 408 × 319 mm
  • 20210901
    2021
    oil and color pencil on canvas, 234 × 176 mm
  • Solo Exhibition "Drawings"
    2024
    installation view
    Venue: NADiff a/p/a/r/t (Tokyo) / Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
  • Solo Exhibition "Drawings"
    2024
    installation view
    Venue: NADiff a/p/a/r/t (Tokyo) / Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
  • 202306
    2023
    acrylic and spray pencil on paper, 1388 × 1025 mm
  • 202305
    2023
    oil and spray on canvas, 1108 × 990 mm
  • 20200410
    2020
    acrylic, spray, and color pencil on paper, 1085 × 789 mm
  • 20230113
    2023
    acrylic and spray on paper, 547 × 790 mm
  • 202205
    2022
    oil and color pencil on paper, 409 × 319 mm
  • 20200716
    2020
    acrylic and color pencil on canvas, 176 × 135 mm
  • 20211019 202005
    2020-2021
    20211019: oil and color pencil on paper / 202005: oil on canvas, 20211019: 332 × 242 mm / 202005: 253 × 254 mm
    set of 2
  • 20211008 20211120
    2021
    20211008: oil on canvas / 20211120: acrylic, felt-tip pen, and spray on paper, 20211008: 126 × 105 mm / 20211120: 269 × 380 mm
    set of 2
  • 20210520 20191015
    2019-2021
    20210520: acrylic and pastel on paper / 20191015: acrylic on paper, 20210520: 174 × 123 mm / 20191015: 178 × 240 mm
    set of 2
  • Solo Exhibition "Drawings(＋)"
    2024
    installation view
    Venue: Gallery Room of BABY The Coffee Brew Club (Tokyo) / Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
  • I and You (like wings like butterflies)
    2023
    oil and spray on canavs, 1620 × 1303 mm
  • I and You (illumination)
    2023
    oil and spray on canvas, 1455 × 894 mm
  • I and You
    2023
    oil and spray on canvas, 910 × 727 mm
  • I and You (young tree) a scene (young tree)
    2024
    oil and spray on canvas, 530 × 333 mm
    set of 2
  • 202207
    2022
    oil and spray on paper, 790 × 547 mm
  • 20210909
    2021
    oil and spray on paper, 545 × 395 mm
  • 20230113
    2023
    acrylic, spray, and color pencil on paper, 541 × 381 mm
  • 20220825
    2022
    oil on canvas, 483 × 390 mm
  • 20221228
    2022
    oil on canvas, 481 × 392 mm
  • Solo Exhibition “Sleeping with me holding in my arms, Silence“
    2023
    installation view
    WAITINGROOM (Tokyo) / photo by Keita Otsuka
  • I and You (Sleeping with me holding in my arms, Silence)
    2023
    oil and spray on canvas, 1940 x 1303 mm
  • I and You (overlap)
    2022
    oil and spray on canvas, 1620 × 1120 mm
  • I and You (Her devotion)
    2023
    oil, acrylic and spray on canvas, 1455 x 2063 mm (set of 3)
  • I and You (“Am I looking at the lake or at the eyes?”)
    2022
    oil and spray on canvas, 910 × 727 mm
  • I and You (“Face, I know at last from whence you came!”)
    2022
    oil on canvas, 410 × 318 mm
  • I and You (from shadow, or mirror)
    2023
    oil on canvas, 410 × 318 mm
  • a scene (pillow)
    2023
    oil on canvas, 180 × 140 mm
  • untitled20220911
    2022
    watercolor, spray and pencil on paper, 790 x 545 mm
  • untitled20211125
    2022
    watercolor, spray and color pencil on paper, 790 x 545 mm
  • untitled20220920
    2022
    oil on canvas, 477 x 392 mm
  • Solo Exhibition "Blind Spot"
    2022
    installation view
    Venue: COHJU contemporary art (Kyoto)
  • I and You; A Mark for the Breakthrough
    2022
    oil and spray on canvas, 1455 x 894 mm
  • I and You (Blind Spot)
    2021
    oil, acrylic and spray on canvas, 455 x 380 mm
  • I and You; One's Territory
    2022
    oil, acrylic, spray on canvas, 1940 x 1303 mm
  • left: I and You; If you speak out more, right: I and You; You never listen
    2022
    left: oil, acrylic and spray on canvas, right: oil and spray on canvas, 1455 x 894mm
  • mirror/hole; Finger Play
    2022
    oil on wood panel, φ210 mm
  • my orange, when even the trees and plants sleep
    2022
    oil on canvas, 273 x 220 mm (set of 3)
  • Group Exhibition "Neko and Matière"
    2022
    installation view
    Venue: MtK Contemporary Art (Kyoto) / photo by Mikoto Yamagami
  • I and You (The rose stands in two)
    2021
    oil, acrylic and spray on canvas, 1455 x 1240 mm
  • my orange,when even the trees and plants sleep
    2021
    oil and spray on canvas 530 x 333 x 40 mm of each
  • my orange,when even the trees and plants sleep
    2021
    oil and spray on canvas, 530 x 333 x 40 mm of each
  • I and You (doppel)
    2021
    oil and spray on canvas, 652 x 530 mm
  • I and You (close・cross)
    2021
    oil and spray on canvas, 1620 x 1120 mm
  • I and You (dry cheek)
    2021
    キャンバスに油彩とスプレー, 652 x 530 mm
  • Art Fair “Art Collaboration Kyoto“
    2021
    installation view
    Kyoto International Conference Center Event Hall (Kyoto) / Courtesy of ACK, 2021, photo by Nobutada Omote
  • I and You (The flowers wither, but we)
    2021
    oil and spray on canvas, 1620 x 1303 mm
  • I and You（do(t)cking）
    2021
    oil and spray on canvas, 530 x 455 mm
  • a scene（continue）
    2021
    oil on canvas, 410 x 318 mm
  • I and You (either, both, or more/none)
    2021
    oil and spray on canvas, 1940 x 1303 mm
  • I and You(finger)
    2021
    oil and spray on canvas, 530 x 455 mm
  • Art Fair “Art Fair Tokyo 2021“
    2021
    installation view
    Tokyo International Forum (Tokyo) / photo by: Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
  • I and You (shroud of night came down)
    2021
    oil and spray on canvas, 1620 x 1303 mm
  • Group Exhibition “Viewing Room Exhibition“
    2021
    installation view
    WAITINGROOM (Tokyo) / photo by: Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
  • I and You
    2021
    oil and spray on canvas, 530 x 455 mm
  • I and You
    2020
    acrylic on paper, 268 x 378 mm
  • I and You
    2020
    acrylic and pastel on paper, 250 x 328 mm
  • I and You
    2019
    oil on canvas, 314x243 mm
  • I and You
    2020
    oil and acrylic on canvas, 220 x 162 mm
  • Solo Exhibition “Bones and Skin (light a fire, have to go find the roses)”
    2020
    installation view
    WAITINGROOM(Tokyo) / photo by: Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
  • I and You（what color of heart do I touch in my dream）
    2020
    oil and spray on canvas, 1280 x 2300 mm
  • I and You（Try to set the night on fire）
    2020
    oil on canvas, spray, 1303 x 970 mm
  • I and You
    2020
    oil and spray on canvas, 1455 x 1120 mm
  • a scene (Love is like a glass)
    2020
    oil and acrylic on canvas, spray, 530 x 455 mm
  • a scene（lily）
    2020
    oil and acrylic on canvas, spray, 530 x 455 mm
  • a scene（rose）
    2020
    acrylic on canvas, 530 x 455 mm
  • I and You（blue in my dream）
    2020
    oil and spray on canvas, 410 x 318 mm
  • I and You（red in my dream）
    2020
    oil and spray on canvas, 410 x 318 mm
  • Kyoto University of the Arts Degree Show
    2020
    installation view
    Kyoto University of the Arts (Kyoto)
  • Image of Love (It's much brighter here than there,It's much darker here than there)
    2020
    oil, acrylic and spray on canvas, left: 2273 x 1940 mm, right: 2273 x 1818 mm
  • I and You (tell me spring is coming, quickly)
    2020
    oil and acrylic on canvas, 1620 x 1620 mm
  • I and You (“Apparently there’s this kind of songbird that thinks it dies every time the sun goes down. In the morning, when it wakes up, it’s totally shocked to still be alive ̶so it sings this really beautiful song.”)
    2020
    oil and spray on canvas, 1455 x 2450 mm
  • I and You (The Castle that Eternity is)
    2019
    oil and spray on canvas, 841 x 1189 mm
  • I and You (catch a bird)
    2019
    oil, acrylic and lacquer spray on canvas, 1167 x 910 mm
  • I and You
    2019
    il and lacquer spray on canvas, 1167 x 910 mm
  • I and You（Why don't the birds sing?）
    2019
    oil and spray on canvas, 1167 x 910 mm
  • I and You
    2019
    oil on canvas, 910 x 727 mm
  • a scene (That’s not the shape of my heart)
    2019
    oil, spray and acrylic on canvas, 910 × 727mm
  • a scene
    2019
    oil and acrylic on canvas, 180 x 140 mm
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EXHIBITIONS

NEWS

STATEMENT

Two people kissing and embracing, two people who love each other. Many works that use the motif of two human figures can be found in the history of painting and art. I consider this to be a universal theme, one that has been continuously handed down from one generation to the next. It is still alive and well today. I have been working mainly with motifs of this image of the “intimate couple,” which I have taken from art history, film, and shojo manga (girls’ manga) as my background.

The intimate couple is a reference to affection and relief, and on the other hand, death, fear, hatred, and one-sided violence. This observation comes from my experience of realizing that images of intimate couples that stem from affection and those that arise out of violence, which one would expect to be polar opposites of the other, are in fact completely similar and indistinguishable from one another. (They can embrace each other because they are separate bodies, but what about the violence?) In terms of this contradiction, what is shown or hidden in these paintings? What is presumed to be present, and what is presumed to be absent? This is something in the paintings that gives me hesitation.

CV

EDUCATION
2020

Kyoto University of Art and Design (currently Kyoto University of the Arts), Master’s degree, Oil Painting

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025

Swaying Outlines, Gallery & Restaurant Butaiura, Tokyo, Japan

2024

Frames and Breath, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Honten, MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
Drawings, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan
Drawings, NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo, Japan
Drawings(＋), Gallery Room of BABY The Coffee Brew Club, Tokyo, Japan

2023

Sleeping with me holding in my arms, Silence, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan

2022

Blind Spot, COHJU contemporary art, Kyoto, Japan

2020

Bones and Skin (light a fire, have to go find the roses), WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025

SPRING SHOW – Drawings –, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan
To Sway and Surround : Japanese Female Abstraction, Each Modern, Taipei, Taiwan

2024

Collectors III -Turning the World-, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
collection #08, rin art association, Gunma
Kyoto Art for Tomorrow, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

2023

CADAN × ISETAN ART GALLERY　The Painter, Isetan Shinjuku Store Main Building 6F art gallery, Tokyo, Japan
MtK satellite Vol.2, MtK satellite, Aichi, Japan
SPRING SHOW, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan

2022

A painting surface: matière that narrates, Nihombashi Mistukoshi Honten, Main building 6F, Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
天人花展, Seibu Shibuya Alternative Space, Tokyo, Japan

2021

Up_02, GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS, GINZA ATRIUM, Tokyo, Japan
Neko and Matière, MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan
Light Brain Vol.1, ITOKI TOKYO XORK, Tokyo, Japan
Kyoto Perspective, ANB Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2021, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

2020

UNTAMED VOL.2 YOUNG ARTISTS GROUP, COHJU contemporary art, Kyoto, Japan
-Inside the Collector’s Vault, vol.1-, WHAT MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan
10th, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan
ART AWARD TOKYO MARUNOUCHI 2021, Gyoko Chika Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
SUBJECT, ANTEROOM KYOTO, Kyoto, Japan
A-Lab Artist Gate 2020, A-Lab, Hyogo, Japan
Kyoto University of the Arts Degree Show, Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto, Japan

2019

Kyoto Art Lounge, Starbucks Coffee Sanjo Ohashi, Kyoto, Japan
Shibuya STYLE Vol.13, Seibu Shibuya Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Innocent -P-, Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan
Artist’s Tiedeland KYOTO, Isetan Shinjuku Men's Building Art Lounge, Tokyo, Japan
SPURT, Galerie Aube, Kyoto, Japan

2018

Read the Wachuan, Notre Dame Jogakuin Junior and Senior High School Wachuan, Kyoto, Japan
HOP, Galerie Aube, Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto University of Art and Design Degree Show, Kyoto University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan

2017

Now, That Paintings, Painting Laboratory303, Kyoto, Japan

ART FAIRS
2021

Art Collaboration Kyoto, Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan [Group]
ART FAIR TOKYO 2021, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan [Group]

AWARD
2020

Kyoto University of Art and Design, Graduate Show Award

2017

Japan Traffic Culture Association, The 38th International TAKIFUJI Art Award, Prize for Excellence

CATALOGUES AND BROCHURES
“A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 10 September 2024
ARTICLES
“How to Appreciate Abstract Art That Enriches Your Life”, Art Collectors, No. 195, Jun. 2025, p. 17, Seikatsu no Tomo Sha
“Second feature: 'Don't end with a sold-out!' 'GALLERY INTERVIEW Tomoko Ashikawa (WAITINGROOM) To Expand Expression'”, Art Collectors, No.179, Seikatsu no Tomo Sha, February 2024, p. 91
“Featuring ARTIST — Fumika Tsuchitori: About Emotinos and Beauty”, MITSUKOSHI ISETAN MAGAZIN, Isetan Mistukoshi Holdings, 3 March 2021, https://www.mistore.jp/shopping/feature/luxury_f2/artist2_w_lx.html
“In 2020, I bought this! Ryutaro Takahashi’s collection”, Art Collectors, No. 143, Seikatsu no Tomo Sha, February 2022, p.7
"Art Fair #3: Art Collaboration Kyoto”, Hyakube, No.56, Reijin Sha, January 2021, p. 115
Shigeyuki Maruhashi "Contemporary art opens a new ancient city", Sankei Newspaper, Sankei Shimbun Co., Ltd., 26 December 2020, p. 11
Ko Ueoka “Because you and I have different views.”, Them magazine, Righters, October 2020, p. 180
“Newcomer’s Guide 2020”, Bijutsu no Mado, No. 440, Seikatsu no Tomo Sha, May 2020, p. 59, p. 88
“NIKKEI THE STYLE”, Nikkei Inc., 15 March 2020
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Obayashi Corporation Osaka Main Office O-Café, Osaka, Japan
Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Hotel Anteroom Seoul, Seoul, Korea
Kyoto Art Stay Nishijin Sutematsu, stairway decoration, Kyoto, Japan
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