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Public Collection 　Rikako KAWAUCHI

Rikako KAWAUCHI's work is now in the collection of Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, and the works in the collection will be exhibited in the collection exhibition.
TV Show 　Rikako KAWAUCHI

Rikako Kawauchi will be featured in BS Fuji's program "Artful World" #40 / Special Program "Artful Section 2022" Part 2.

12/31, Sat. 2022, 12:30-12:55 pm
Exhibition 　Rikako KAWAUCHI

Solo Exhibition "Make yourself at home"

12/7 - 19, 2022

Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Honten, MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY (Tokyo)
Press Release 　Rikako KAWAUCHI

Rikako Kawauchi was featured in the January/February 2023 issue of "Harper's BAZAAR" magazine in the feature article "Six Women on the Frontier".
Review 　Rikako KAWAUCHI

ART iT published a review by Noi Sawaragi of the solo exhibition "Colours in summer" at Ginza Tsutaya
Press Release 　Rikako KAWAUCHI

An interview with Rikako Kawauchi featured in the Oct. 2022 issue of "Pen" magazine.
Exhibition 　Rikako KAWAUCHI

Group Exhibition "OKETA COLLECTION : YES YOU CAN"

8/6 - 10/16, 2022

WHAT MUSEUM (Tokyo)
Exhibition 　Rikako KAWAUCHI

Solo Exhibition "Colours in summer"

7/2 - 13, 2022

GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS GINZA ATRIUM (event space)(Tokyo)
Books 　Rikako KAWAUCHI

Rikako KAWAUCHI's second book "Rikako Kawauchi: Works 2014-2022" will be released.
Press Release

A Japanese magazine "Art Collectors" May 2022 issue features the article of Rikako KAWAUCHI and Saori MIYAKE.
Exhibition 　Rikako KAWAUCHI

Group Exhibition "OKETA COLLECTION: THE SIRIUS"

4/9 - 24, 2022

Spiral Garden (Tokyo)
Press Release

Rikako Kawauchi and Yuki Iiyama are featured in "Casa BRUTUS Extra Issue" magazine, "Looking for New Japanese Contemporary Art".
Press Release 　Rikako KAWAUCHI

An interview with Rikako Kawauchi was featured in the magazine "T Japan" vol. 33 on sale on March 27, 2022.
Press Release 　Rikako KAWAUCHI

Rikako Kawauchi's works were featured on GINZA TSUTAYA's website.

(日本語)

(日本語)
Exhibition

Group Exhibition "VOCA 30 Years Story / Tokyo"

3/11 - 11/30, 2022

Dai-ichi Life Group lobby (Tokyo)
Exhibition 　Rikako KAWAUCHI

Group Exhibition "VOCA 2022 - The Vision of Contemporary Art"

3/11 - 30, 2022

The Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo)
Press Release 　Rikako KAWAUCHI

Interview with Rikako Kawauchi was published in the Minami-Nihon Shimbun.
Press Release 　Rikako KAWAUCHI

Interview with Rikako Kawauchi about VOCA Award, appeared in the March 2022 issue of the magazine The Window of Arts.
Exhibition 　Rikako KAWAUCHI

Solo Exhibition "Lines"

2/12 - 4/24, 2022

VAN DER GRINTEN GALERIE (Germany)
Press Release 　Rikako KAWAUCHI

An interview with Rikako Kawauchi was featured in "ARTnews JAPAN", "30 ARTISTS U35".

STATEMENT

For me, art offers a tantalizing encounter with a subject that is willing to spar with you. A painting is a space that pushes back against you with a kind of gentle resistance, but which can be oppressive nonetheless. In all the works that I consider to have been well crafted, I feel my body and thoughts churn, rise up, and expand along with this space, like a balloon inflating: I nudge the volume as it swells, tenuously, while the work gradually grows and takes on a tangible shape. Sometimes I can feel myself being repulsed. As my body and thoughts come up and press against this swollen, balloon-like volume, I begin to sense my physicality for the first time, as if I had struck or bumped into something.

Making a work is akin to walking across a tightrope with an abyss gaping beneath you. I have to make an extremely strenuous effort to not fall off the rope: it is only through a supreme act of will that I manage to finish the piece without losing my balance.

Just like how the reflection in the mirror is both myself and something removed from me, I feel that a finished painting is both a reflection of myself, as well as a foreign other detached from me. Through these reflections, I sense my own bodily contours taking on a sharper definition.

For me, to draw is neither to impress an image onto a surface, nor a matter of giving oneself over to the contingencies associated with my materials as they unravel on the canvas. For me, to accept the contingency of others is also to grapple with and learn to accept one’s own physicality. My body reacts instantly to what happens in the real world at the moment that the image in my mind takes shape on the canvas. This process is as much a dialogue as it is a struggle, or a game, or a collaborative endeavor.

I try to draw, reflexively, so that my consciousness doesn’t catch up with my hand. I don’t make an attempt to chase after some finished image, nor do I look back to ponder the lines that I have already drawn. I always approach the canvas or paper as if I were furtively pushing my body against a tensely stretched membrane.

When I work with wire, resin, or neon, this tension is abruptly manifested in my own body. This is also the moment when the form of the work becomes complete. At first, all I do is to poke roughly at the material, and try to bend it, sometimes violently: it doesn’t always bend to my will, so to speak. (Imagination and expectation travel on a trajectory parallel to reality.) Then, all at once, a form that cleaves perfectly to my own space emerges, and my body senses a pushing back similar to what I feel with my paintings and drawings. As soon as I meet this resistance, the material and the space it occupies that used to be soft and supple seems to congeal and harden, and I am no longer able to intervene.

It is almost as if the work has now forsaken me: there is now a membrane-like barrier in between us. I remove my hands, and step back, so that this membrane can remain tense and inflated — and so that I may continue to feel the work pushing back against me.

CV

EDUCATION

2017

Tama Art University, Master’s degree, Oil Painting

2015

Tama Art University, Bachelor’s degree, Oil Painting

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

Make yourself at home, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Honten, MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo
Colours in summer, GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS, GINZA ATRIUM, Tokyo
Lines, VAN DER GRINTEN GALERIE, Germany

2021

Empty Volumes, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo
afterimage aftermyth, Roppongi Hills A/D Gallery, Tokyo

2020

drawings, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo
drawings, OIL by Bijutsu Techo, Tokyo
Myth & Body, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo

2018

human wears human / bloom wears bloom, Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa
Tiger Tiger, burning bright, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo

2017

Something held and brushed, Tokyo Myoan Gallery, Tokyo
NEWoMan ART wall Vol.7 “Easy Chic Pastels”, NEWoMan ART wall, JR Shinjuku Station, Tokyo

2016

Back is confidential space. Behind=Elevator, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo
Rikako Kawauchi Solo Exhibition, ART TAIPEI 2016, Taipei World Trade Center, Taiwan

2015

Collector and Artist vol.1, T-Art Gallery, Tokyo
shiseido art egg 9: Rikako Kawauchi, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

From the museum collection 2022: third period, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi

2022

OKETA COLLECTION: YES YOU CAN, WHAT MUSEUM, Tokyo
OKETA COLLECTION: THE SIRIUS, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
VOCA 30 Years Story / Tokyo, The fiest foor lobby of the Dai-ichi Life Group Hibiya Head Office, Tokyo
VOCA 2022, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
SPRING SHOW, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo

2021

TERRADA ART AWARD 2021 Finalists Exhibition, TERRADA Warehouse G3-6F, Tokyo
Abstraction by CADAN, Isetan Shinjuku Store Main Building 6F art gallery, Tokyo
Viewing Room Exhibition, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo

2020

-Inside the Collector’s Vault, vol.1-, WHAT MUSEUM, Tokyo
10TH, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo
Input / Output, GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS GINZA ATRIUM, Tokyo
Blossoming of individuality Post-Isaku generation, people who left the Bunka Gakuin from Showa to Heisei, Musee Le Vent, Karuizawa, Nagano
Spinner Markt, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
Viewing Room Exhibition, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo

2019

Photo, 3F/3kai, Tokyo

drawings, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo

2018

Museum of Together - Circus, Shibuya Hikarie 8/COURT, Tokyo

2017

spiral take art collection 2017 "SHU SHU SHU SHO", Spiral Garden, Tokyo
NEWSPACE, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo
Museum of Together, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
Joint Graduation Exhibition of 5 Art Universities in Tokyo, The National Art Center Tokyo, Tokyo

2016

Stereotypical, Gallery PARC, Kyoto

2015

Dead Henge / Aesthetic, HIGURE 17-15 cas, Tokyo

2014

The 1st CAF Award - Winning Award Exhibition, TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo
That I shall say goodnight till it be morrow, Shinjuku Ophthalmologist（Ganka） Gallery, Tokyo

2013

TOTSU Exhibition, TKP Theater Kashiwa, Art Line Kashiwa 2013, Chiba
Home Made Family, CASHI Refregilater, Tokyo
Sleep No More, Tama Art University Art Festival, Tokyo

2012

OTHER PAINTING XI, Pepper’s Gallery, Tokyo
TOTSU Exhibition, Sogo Kashiwa, Art Line Kashiwa 2012, Chiba
Donuts k, Tama Art University Art Festival, Tokyo

AWARDS

2022

VOCA AWARD 2022

2021

TERRADA ART AWARD Finalist, Yuki Terase Award

2015

shiseido art egg AWARD

2014

The 1st CAF Award, Kenjiro Hosaka Award
Monex, Inc. ART IN THE OFFICE 2014

PUBLICATIONS

Rikako Kawauchi: Works 2014-2022, Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd, 14 July 2022
Rikako Kawauchi drawings 2012-2020, WAITINGROOM, November 2020 [privately publication]

CATALOGUES AND BROCHURES

Museum of Together - Circus, Document, Feb. 18 2019, The Nippon Foundation DIVERSITY IN THE ARTS
Museum of Together, Document, Feb. 1 2019, The Nippon Foundation DIVERSITY IN THE ARTS
Museum of Together, Handbook, Oct. 2017, The Nippon Foundation DIVERSITY IN THE ARTS
ART TAIPEI 2016, Catalogue, Nov. 2016, Taiwan Art Gallery Association, AMAZING PAPER INTERNATIONAL, LTD.
Stereotypical – Minako NISHIYAMA & Rikako KAWAUCHI, Mar. 15 2016, Kyoto Seika University Contemporary Art Project Executive Committee
The 9th shiseido art egg exhibition catalogue, May 29 2015, Shiseido Inc.

ARTICLES

Kuniko Nakajo, "The Way to Become an Art Collector｜Collector's File 02 Ryutaro Takahashi”, Nikkei OTONA no OFF, Nikkei TRENDY No.501, Jan. 2023, p.122-123, Nikkei Business Publishing, inc.
.“Women on the Frontier”, Harper’s BAZAAR, No.87, Hearst Fujingaho Co., Ltd., 18 Nov.2022, p66
"Ask a Contemporary Art Connoisseur--How to Find Future Masters and Up-and-Coming Artists", Katei Gaho, Dec. 2022, Vol. 65, No. 12, p. 107, Sekai Bunka Sha
Noi Sawaragi "Notes on Art and Current Events 102: Speed and Eros - Rikako Kawauchi and "Phaedrus" ", ART iT, Sep. 21, 2022, https://www.art-it.asia/top/contributertop/228900
Naoko Aono, "Creator's Voice #69 Rikako Kawauchi Artist: Expressing the boundary between the outside and inside of the body with 'lines'" Pen, October 2022, No. 533, pp. 162-165, CCC Media House
"Introducing 15 female artists. "The Power of Life" to be savored in the second half of the "OKETA COLLECTION" exhibition.", web Bijutsu Techo, Aug. 8, 2022, https://bijutsutecho.com/magazine/news/report/25885
“Let me see your Collection, Vol. 87: Satomaki (Makiko Sato) – Close Artists≒Collection”, p. 79, Art Collectors, No. 158, May 2022, Seikatsu no Tomo Sha
“Looking for New Japanese contemporary art – 070 UPCOMING③ RIKAKO KAWAUCHI” p.166, “RECOMMEND-070 RIKAKO KAWAUCHI", p. 178 Casa BRUTUS extra issue, May. 2022, Magazine House
“IN THE MAKING -- Why they keep making”, T Japan, vol.33, p. 37, Shuei sha
"Rich stories beginning with the line -- Rikako Kawauchi won the VOCA Award.”, iza, Mar. 25, 2022, https://www.iza.ne.jp/article/20220325-4AHEJ7D55VMQZAFKPVAH34V3NU/
" [5th Anniversary Special Project] Interview Project Life with Art”, Ginza Tsutaya Books, Mar. 25, 2022, https://store.tsite.jp/ginza/blog/art/25187-1138350303.html
Takumi Ohno, “Painting mythical Nature's Cycle —Rikako Kawauchi won the VOCA Award”, Asahi Shinbun Digital, Mar.22, 2022, https://www.asahi.com/articles/DA3S15241455.html?iref=eve_articlelink03
“Painter Rikako Kawauchi: I want to pursue my own line.”, Sanin Chuo Shinpo Digital, Mar. 17, 2022, https://www.sanin-chuo.co.jp/articles/-/179369
"'VOCA 2022' started at the Ueno Royal Museum. Up-and-coming artists look at the current state of two-dimensional art", web Bijutsu Techo, Mar. 11th, https://bijutsutecho.com/magazine/news/report/25322
"The grand prize winner of the VOCA Exhibition 2022 is Rikako Kawauchi.", Internet Museum, Mar. 10, 2022, https://www.museum.or.jp/news/106388
Yu Nishi “Rikako Kawauchi --Painter who received the highest award at the art award for young Artists.”, Minami Nihon Shinbun, Mar. 4, 2022
"Interview with Award-winning Artist Rikako Kawauchi, Winner of the VOVA Exhibition 2022 VOCA Prize", The Window of Arts, No. 462, Mar. 2022, p. 78-79, Seikatsu no Tomo sha
Mirai Matsuzaki “30 ARTISTS U35 Rikako Kawauchi”, ARTnews JAPAN, Feb. 4, 2022, https://artnewsjapan.com/30artists_u35/article/13
“All date of sold-out artist”, Art Collectors, No.155, Feb. 2022, p.74, Seikatsu no Tomo Sha
Yu Nishi “Rikako Kawauchi (raised in Kagoshima City) won the VOCA Award 2022.”, Minami Nihon Shinbun, Jan. 15, 2022
“VOCA Award 2022 goes to Rikako Kawauchi”, web Bijutsu Techo, Dec. 24th, https://bijutsutecho.com/magazine/news/headline/25032
“TERRADA ART AWARD 2021: Five Emerging Artists' Works on Display”, Numero, Dec. 16th, https://numero.jp/news-20211216-terradaartaward/
“TERRADA ART AWARD 2021" Jury Awards Announced. Exhibition of 5 finalists' works starts.”, web Bijutsu Techo, Dec. 10th, https://bijutsutecho.com/magazine/news/report/24974
Chiaki Noji “The current state of five artists who are spreading their wings around the world. “TERRADA ART AWARD 2021 Finalists Exhibition" opens at the Terada Warehouse”, TOKYO ART BEAT, Dec.10th, https://www.tokyoartbeat.com/articles/-/terrada-art-award-2021-finalists
“Five Up-and-Coming Artists to Compete - "TERRADA ART AWARD 2021 Finalists Exhibition"”, IM internet museum, Dec.10th, https://www.museum.or.jp/news/105247
TERRADA ART AWARD 2021 Finalist Exhibition”, THE WINDOW OF ARTS, No.459, Dec. 2021 issue, p.243, Seikatsu no Tomo Sha
“The future and now expressed by new generation artists”, MEN’S Precious, 2021 autumn-winter issue, Shogakukan
“A New Generation Arrives: Behold Young Talent!”, p.26 / “Collector’s Interview: Young Artists of the Moment.”, p.48, Art Collectors, No.149, Aug. 2021, Seikatsu no Tomo Sha
Gendaishi Techo, Jul. 2021, Shicho Sha, front cover
Yoshinao Yamada, “Draw a body that cannot be controlled”, I’m home., No.112, Jul. 2021 issue, p.254, Shoten Kenchiku Sha
“In 2020, I bought this!” Masashi Funayama’s collection, p.9 / “A Look at the Collection, Vol. 77: Takafumi Kumano – A collection selected with an ever-changing sensibility.”, p.78-79, Art Collectors, No.143, Feb 2021, Seikatsu no Tomo Sha
"50 things that make the world a happier place. - 43 Decorate drawing art.", madame FIGARO japon, No.537, Mar. 2021 issue, ccc media house, Jan. 20 2021, https://madamefigaro.jp/magazine/figaro/202103.html
“Up-and-coming artists CATALOG”, GOETHE, Feb. 2021, Gentosha
Hiroyasu Yamauchi, ”A visceral ‘Japanese Art History of Line’, Drowning in the Drawings of Rikako KAWAUCHI”, Bunshun Online, Dec. 19 2020, https://bunshun.jp/articles/-/42305
“Artist #11 Rikako KAWAUCHI”, Interview, Dec. 14 2020, Contemporary Art Foundation (CAF) https://gendai-art.org/news_single/artists_rikakokawauchi/
“A line that illuminates the darkness of the body. Interview with Rikako KAWAUCHI”, web Bijutsu Techo, Nov. 24 2020, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, https://bijutsutecho.com/magazine/interview/23078
“Japanese contemporary art summary”, Casa BRUTUS, No.243, Jun. 2020, p.100/103, Magazine House
Hiroyasu Yamauchi, "'My body may be another person.' What is the trilling moment that motivates an artist to create?" Bunshun Online, May 2 2020, https://bunshun.jp/articles/-/37597
"The beggining of the art collector", AERA STYLE MAGAZINE, vol.42, 2019 SPRING issue, Asahi Shinbun Publications
“Interest for art of global executives”, GOETHE, Jan. 2019, Gentosha
Hiroyasu Yamauchi, ”Rikako KAWAUCHI Solo Exhibition human wears human / bloom wears bloom”, Pia, Nov. 23 2018, https://www.p.pia.jp/shared/pil-s/pil-s-21-01_6a61216e-67ce-4237-8451-ef9611e830ad.html
Hiroyasu Yamauchi, ”Surrounded by naked works and thinking about "What is the body?"”, Bunshun Online, Nov. 17 2018, http://bunshun.jp/articles/-/9698
Ichiro Fukano, ”Artists of same generation are rivals. What is the party viewpoint of "outgoing" art collector, Junya Komatsu”, Muuseo Square, Nov. 2018, https://muuseo.com/square/articles/942
Chie Sumiyoshi ”Relationship between body and consciousness drawn by the artist Rikako KAWAUCHI”, madame FIGARO japon, Sep. 27 2018, https://madamefigaro.jp/culture/feature/180927-artists-rikako-kawauchi.html
Hiromi Motomura ”May be, that neighborhood”, fun okinawa, Jun. 29 2018, https://fun.okinawatimes.co.jp/column/detail/6779
Hiromi Motomura ”The place that I look for and arrive”, Okinawa times Newspaper, Jun. 29 2018
”Weekend to stimulate your inspiration - Pick up the art event of this week!”, VOGUE GIRL, Jun. 14 2018, https://voguegirl.jp/lifestyle/20180614/art-events-for-2018june2/
Hiroyasu Yamauchi ”Depicted animals are moving - Fascination of Rikako Kawauchi's depicting line”, Bunshun Online, May 26 2018, http://bunshun.jp/articles/-/7521
“Bitecho Joshi-bu. #3”, web Bijutsu Techo, Jun. 18 2017, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, https://bijutsutecho.com/series/5068/
“Report of graduation exhibiton of 15 Art Universities”, Art Collectors, No.98, May 2017, p.59, Seikatsu no Tomo Sha
“ART TAPEI 2016 report”, Art Collectors, No.94, Jan. 2017, p.97, Sheikatsu no Tomo Sha
Taisuke Shimanuki, “100 of newcomer artists”, Bijutsu Techo, No.1046, Dec. 2016, p.16, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha
“ART TAIPEI 2016”, Art Collectors in Asia, vol.8, Nov. 2016, p.14, Sheikatsu no Tomo Sha
“Look at your collection Vol.40 - Keiichi Osaka“, Art Collectors, No.89, Aug. 2016, p.78, Seikatsu no Tomo Sha
“Look at your collection Vol.37 – Takaki Torikoe”, Art Collectors, No.86, May 2016, p.131, Seikatsu no Tomo Sha
Hiroyasu Yamauchi, “ART&TRUTH (vol.3)”, GOETHE, June Issue, No.123, Jun. 1 2016, p.17, Gento Sha
“Rikako Kawauchi expresses human existence and relationship by depicting line”. Latest Solo Exhibition., NeoL, Jan.14 2016, http://www.neol.jp/culture/36639/
Chiaki Noji, “In the swaying body and relation. Rikako Kawauchi’s Solo Exhibition in Ebisu”, web Bijutsu Techo, Dec. 23 2015, https://bijutsutecho.com/magazine/interview/18256
Back is confidential space. Behind=Elevator, Bijutsu Techo, No.1032, Jan. 2016, ART NAVI p.15, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, Dec. 17 2015
Chiaki Noji, “Rikako Kawauchi Interview. In the swaying body and relation”, Bijutsu Techo, No.1032, Jan. 2016, ART NAVI p.9, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, Dec. 17 2015
“Rikako Kawauchi expresses human existence and relationship by depicting line”. Latest Solo Exhibition, CINRA.NET, Dec. 14 2015, http://www.cinra.net/news/20151214-kawauchirikako
Taisuke Shimanuki, “Rikako Kawauchi Interview. I want to shake off uncomfortable life”, CINRA.NET, Jan. 14 2015, http://www.cinra.net/interview/201501-kawauchirikako

PUBLIC COLLECTION

Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company
Ryutaro Takahashi Collection
Monex, Inc.

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