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川内理香子
Rikako KAWAUCHI
1990 Born in Tokyo, Japan
Currently lives and works in Tokyo.
profile photo by Mie Morimoto
WORKS EXHIBITIONS NEWS STATEMENT CV

WORKS

  • Cook
    2022
    oil on canvas, 1940 x 2590 mm
  • Make yourself at home
    2021
    oil on canvas, 1940 x 2590 mm
  • children
    2021
    oil on canvas, 1303 x 970 mm
  • all same brain
    2022
    oil on canvas, 1303 x 970 mm
  • connect
    2021
    oil on canvas, 455 x 530 mm
  • life
    2021
    oil on canvas, 410 x 318 mm
  • Solo Exhibition "Colours in Summer"
    2022
    installation view
    Venue: GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS, GINZA ATRIUM (Tokyo) / Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
  • Sun's trip
    2019
    oil on canvas, 2590 x 1940 mm
  • making rainbow
    2022
    oil on canvas, 1940 x 1620 mm
  • I have the ball
    2022
    oil on canvas, 1620 x 1303 mm
  • Ruby Sapphire Emerald, it has all
    2022
    oil on canvas, 1620 x 1303 mm
  • VASE, BREAKFAST, LUNCH, DINNER, STOMACH, UTERUS, HUMAN, GROUND, LINE
    2022
    oil on canvas, 1620 x 1303 mm
  • OVER THE MOUNTAIN
    2022
    oil on canvas, 1303 x 970 mm
  • Moon palace Ⅱ
    2022
    oil on canvas, 727 x 910 mm
  • banana boat
    2021
    oil on canvas, 455 x 380 mm
  • smack
    2021
    oil on canvas, 410 x 318 mm
  • BIRD
    2022
    oil on canvas, 318 x 410 mm
  • tits
    2020
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 363 x 257 mm
  • Hello, this is me speaking
    2020
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 242 x 333 mm
  • Solo Exhibition "Lines"
    2022
    installation view
    Venue : VAN DER GRINTEN GALERIE (Germany)
  • Red Plant
    2021
    wire, FRP, paint, 350 x 290 x 235 mm
  • snake
    2019
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 3204 x 1414 mm
  • mirror mirror
    2019
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 242 x 333 mm
  • hold
    2020
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 455 x 380 mm
  • nipple
    2019
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 410 x 318 mm
  • Group Exhibition "TERRADA ART AWARD 2021 Finalist Exhibition"
    2021
    installation view
    Venue: TERRADA Warehouse G3-6F (Tokyo) / Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
  • mother
    2021
    oil on canvas, 1303 x 3880 mm
  • rabbit’s play
    2021
    oil on canvas, 2273 x 1818 mm
  • touch of volume
    2021
    neon light, iron frame, 780 x 340 x 290 mm
  • uterus
    2021
    neon light, 250 x 250 x 1440 mm
  • bloom
    2021
    neon light, 330 x 250 x 350 mm
  • walking
    2020
    wire and pin on panel, 1200 x 800 mm
  • Solo Exhibition "Empty Volumes"
    2021
    installation view
    Venue: WAITINGROOM (Tokyo) / Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
  • Lovers
    2021
    wire and pin on panel, 1620 x 1250 × 220 mm
  • One
    2021
    wire and pin on panel, 615 x 620 x 165 mm
  • face washing
    2021
    wire, pin on panel, 380×455×75mm
  • swelling
    2021
    wire and pin on 460 x 530 x 130 mm
  • bloom
    2021
    wire and pin on panel, 500 x 415 x 155 mm
  • Face
    2021
    clay and metal, 95 x 80 x 90 mm
  • Flower pond
    2021
    clay and metal, 145 x 170 x 90 mm
  • tumbleweed
    2021
    neon light, 270 x 330 x 400 mm
  • Solo Exhibition "afterimage aftermyth"
    2021
    installation view
    Venue: Roppongi Hills A/D gallery (Tokyo) / Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
  • POOPER
    2021
    oil on canvas, 1620 x 1303 mm
  • EACH HOLE HAS A STORY
    2021
    oil on canvas, 1303 x 970 mm
  • SKY things
    2021
    oil on canvas, 1303 x 970 mm
  • Night stroll
    2021
    oil on canvas, 910 x 727 mm
  • prophet
    2021
    oil on canvas, 318 x 410 mm
  • tower
    2021
    oil on canvas, 530 x 455 mm
  • like a pottery
    2021
    oil on canvas, 455 x 380 mm
  • Solo Exhibition "drawings"
    2020
    installation view

    Venue: WAITINGROOM (Tokyo) / Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
  • shell
    2020
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 3097 × 1414 mm
  • hold
    2020
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 515 x 364 mm
  • Head and tail
    2019
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 242 x 334 mm
  • ginger
    2019
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 333 x 242 mm
  • enclose
    2019
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 242 x 332 mm
  • animal
    2019
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 515 x 364 mm
  • stomach
    2019
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 454 x 380 mm
  • Left and Right
    2019
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 455 x 380 mm
  • kissing
    2020
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 332 x 242 mm
  • speaking
    2020
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 454 x 380 mm
  • balls
    2020
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 410 x 318 mm
  • portrait (series)
    2018
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 257 x 182 mm
  • Solo Exhibition "drawings"
    2021
    Installation view

    Venue: OIL by Bijutsu Techo (Shibuya Parco, 2F) (Tokyo)
  • jump out
    2016
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 840 x 550 mm
  • Sea turtle
    2019
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 380 x 455 mm
  • Body complex family DNA children memory past
    2019
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 409 x 317 mm
  • pillow
    2020
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 363 x 257 mm
  • going out for a bit
    2020
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 257 x 363 mm
  • hands
    2020
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 242 x 332 mm
  • bloom
    2018
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 410 x 318 mm
  • Solo Exhibition “Myth & Body”
    2020
    installation view
    Venue: Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery (Tokyo) / Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
  • Forest of the night
    2019
    oil on canvas, 1818 x 2273 mm
  • snake
    2019
    oil on canvas, 1303 x 1620 mm
  • pond
    2019
    oil on canvas, 1303 x 1620 mm
  • vase
    2019
    oil on canvas, 1167 x 910 mm
  • stars
    2019
    oil on canvas, 970 x 1303 mm
  • HONEY, WATER, and BLOOD
    2019
    oil on canvas, 910 x 727 mm
  • rainbow
    2020
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 1100 × 840 mm
  • He eats me
    2020
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 1100 × 840 mm
  • TALKING
    2020
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 1100 × 840 mm
  • on the beach
    2020
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 364 × 488 mm
  • top of the palm tree
    2017
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 410 × 318 mm
  • laying
    2020
    wire and pin on panel, acrylic box, 500 x 370 mm
  • denotation
    2019
    oil on canvas, 1620 × 1300 mm
  • classmates
    2019
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 410 x 318 mm
  • Banana Hand
    2019
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 363 x 514 mm
  • Condor
    2018
    oil on canvas, 410 x 318 mm
  • balloon
    2019
    Neon light, transformer, iron frame, 380 x 510 x 250 mm
  • organ
    2019
    Neon light, transformer, 160 x 260 x 135 mm
  • Solo Exhibition “human wears human/bloom wears bloom”,
    2018
    installation view
    Venue: Kamakura Gallery (Kanagawa) / Photo by Kei Okano
  • loop
    2017
    Oil on canvas, 1620 x 1300 mm
  • all same brain
    2018
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 2000 x 1410 mm
  • red plant (1)
    2018
    FRP, lacquer paint, wire, 1580 x 270 x 400 mm
  • limb
    2018
    wire and pin on panel, acrylic box, 1400 x 1100 x 150 mm
  • sun and fire
    2018
    wire and pin on panel in acrylic box, 740 x 600 x 150 mm
  • seventh people
    2018
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 333 x 242 mm
  • flower
    2018
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 268 x 260 mm
  • Red plant (2)
    2018
    FRP, lacquer paint, wire, 950 x 70 x 530 mm
  • Solo Exhibition “Tiger Tiger, burning bright”
    2018
    installation view
    Venue: WAITINGROOM (Tokyo) / Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
  • WOMAN
    2018
    oil on canvas, 1620 x 1300 mm
  • excretion
    2017
    oil on canvas, 910 x 727 mm
  • Everything will be star
    2018
    Wire and pin on panel, acrylic box, 1200 x 940 x 195 mm
  • safe and quite
    2018
    Wire and pin on panel, acrylic box, 510 x 630 x 175 mm
  • Ground
    2018
    oil on canvas, 455 x 530 mm
  • unconsciously
    2018
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 453 x 380 mm
  • from sun to moon
    2018
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 410 x 318 mm
  • The chest
    2017
    Neon light, transformer, iron frame, 350 x 1040 x 210 mm
  • Solo Exhibition “NEWoMan ART wall Vol.7: Rikako KAWAUCHI”
    2017
    installation view
    Venue: NEWoMan ART wall, JR Shinjuku Station (Tokyo) / Photo by Ujin Matsuo
  • bodies
    2016
    oil on canvas, 410 x 318 mm
  • Species look like flower
    2016
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 410 x 316 mm
  • Solo Exhibition “Back is confidential space. Behind=Elevator”
    2015
    installation view
    Venue: WAITINGROOM (Tokyo) / Photo by Ujin Matsuo
  • I saw him at the station
    2015
    oil on canvas, 1300 x 1620 mm
  • Folklore
    2015
    Neon light, transformer, 1700 x 200 x 200 mm
  • Solo Exhibition “Collector and Artist: Rikako Kawauchi”
    2015
    installation view
    Venue: T-Art Gallery (Tokyo) / Photo by Ujin Matsuo
  • mirror
    2015
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 455 x 380 mm
  • Solo Exhibition “SHISEIDO ART EGG vol.9 : Go down the throat”
    2015
    installation view
    Venue: Shiseido Gallery (Tokyo) / Photo by Ken Kato
  • pretzel
    2014
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 1400 x 2700 mm
  • Hi. long time no see
    2014
    watercolor and pencil on paper, 515 x 365 mm
  • it’s me
    2014
    pencil on paper, 515 x 363 mm
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EXHIBITIONS

NEWS

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
2025

The shape pf water hardens into stone., Kurobe City Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
Please Don’t Disturb, CADAN YURAKUCHO, Tokyo, Japan

2024

softest chain, Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa Japan
Paintings & Drawings - Food, Animals, Organs, Plants, Bodies, etc, everything outside me is everywhere in the air, I breathe them in, I breathe them out., Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Under the sun, agnès b. galerie boutique, Tokyo, Japan

2023

Even the pigments in paints were once stones, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan
The Voice of the Soul, ERA GALLERY, Milan, Italy
human closely, Lurf Museum, Tokyo, Japan
line & colors, N&A Art SITE, Tokyo, Japan

2022

Make yourself at home, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Honten, MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
Colours in summer, GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS, GINZA ATRIUM, Tokyo, Japan
Lines, Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2021

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

2020

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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

Back is confidential space. Behind=Elevator, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan

2015

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

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025

5th Anniversary Exhibition Plastic Utopia: Our New Ecosystem, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Aomori, Japan
Freedom!: Towards A World Filled with Diverse Happiness and Hope, Dai-chi Life Lobby, Tokyo, Japan
A Glimpse of the S.F Collection vol. 2, N&A Art SITE, Tokyo, Japan

2024

A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Nurturing Nodes in the Nook of an Odd Sock, ART GALLERY MIYAUCHI, Hiroshima
collection #08, rin art association, Gunma
Fellow Travelers of the Canvas―A Perspective on Contemporary Art of Japan from the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata
SPRING SHOW, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan
From the museum collection 2023: fourth period, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

2023

The Hints: 12 Perspectives from which we can discern the present and the future, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation East Building Rising Square 1F Earth Garden, Tokyo, Japan
Body, Love, Gender, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
WORLDS IN BALANCE: ART IN JAPAN FROM THE POSTWAR TO THE PRESENT, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Arts Maebashi 10th Anniversary Exhibition ‘New Horizon—From History to the Future”, Arts Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
TRANSFORMATIONS: MATERIAL AND DISSOLUTION, Van der Grinten Galerie, Germany
Paper Whispers, Schönfeld Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Good Morning Japan, Nassima Landau Art Foundation, Tel Aviv, Israel
VOCA 30 YEARS STORY / KOBE, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art Branch Haradanomori Gallery, Hyogo, Japan
SPRING SHOW, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan
From the museum collection 2022: third period, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

2022

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

2021

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

2020

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

2019

Photo, 3F/3kai, Tokyo, Japan
drawings, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan

2018

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

2017

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

2016

Stereotypical, Gallery PARC, Kyoto, Japan

2015

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

2014

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

2013

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

2012

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

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, Lurf MUSEUM, 26 Mar. 2023
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
Unikat XVIII, PArt Foundation, November 2024
“A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 10 September, 2024
Arts Maebashi 10th Anniversary Exhibition "New Horizon—From History to the Future”, Arts Maebashi, 31 January, 2024
AWT FOCUS WORDS　IN BALANCE：ART　IN JAPAN FROM THE　POSTWAR TO THE　PRESENT, Catalogue, Nov. 2023, Art Week Tokyo
VOCA 30 YEARS STORY, 2023, VOCA Exhibition Executive Committee, Ueno Royal Museum
Rikako Kawauchi line& colors, Catalogue, Apr 2023, N&A Art SITE
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
“I Want to Bridge the Gap with Art!” VERY NaVY, April 2025, Kobun Sha, pp. 121-123
"Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art Newsletter - Special Edition" metromin. LOCALRHYTHM No. 267, March 2025 Issue, Starts Publishing Co., Ltd., pp. 26-27
Taro Amano “Young Artists You Can’t Miss, According to Art Experts”, pen: with New Attitude, No. 562, Mar. 2025, pp.64-65, CCC Media House
Tsutomu Mizusawa “Color and Form in Dialogue”, Art Collectors, No.191, Feb. 2025, pp.96-97, Seikatsu no Tomo Sha
“What do people who become artists focus on in their childhood? Rikako Kawauchi talks about how she “felt strongly”.”, J-WAVE News, Jan. 27, 2025 / https://news.line.me/detail/oa-jwavenews/8r9kag1xyc2l?mediadetail=1&utm_source=line&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=none
“Artist Rikako Kawauchi meets ‘Kanazawa-rimmed gold leaf production’ supported by Tiffany & Co.”, 25ans, No. 545, February, 2025, HEARST fujingaho, pp. 134-139 / https://www.25ans.jp/promotion/a63152497/tiffany-2402-vcpr/
[radio] ‘BMW FREUDE FOR LIFE’, vol. 46, “J-WAVE”, 9/21, 2024 11:00-11:30 / 9/28, 2024 11:00-11:30 / https://open.spotify.com/episode/39jqbktzgDG8wG0aGKYQ9X?si=19b98406289a4b57&nd=1&dlsi=b03ddc9bbb874678
’18 Notable Newcomers as Selected by Critics and Curators,’ “Bijyutsu no Mado” No. 188, May 2024, Seikatsu no tomo sya, p. 75
“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
“The moment when fashion and art are linked", VOGUE JAPAN, No.293, Condé Nast Japan, January 1, 2024, pp. 192-195, https://www.vogue.co.jp/article/emi-funayama-rikako-kawauchi
Emi Sato [Interview & Text] “ Art and Design School Guide¬—Tama Art University Interviews with Graduates: Rikako Kawauchi”, Bijutsu Techo, No. 1100, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, pp.152-153
“CREATOR AWARD 2023: 10 up-and-coming creators recommended by professionals in various fields, Rikako Kawauchi, selected by Fumio Nanjo, artist", Pen, No. 548, January 2024 issue, CCC Media House, Co., Ltd. pp. 88-89
Masanobu Matsumoto "Olafur Eliasson, Tomoo Gokita, Mika Ninagawa.... The “New Horizon” exhibition commemorates the 10th anniversary of Arts Maebashi” Casa BRUTUS, Magazine House, November 26, 2023, https://casabrutus.com/categories/art/384369
Kim Geum-Young "Body, Emotion, and Gender in the Works of Seven Japanese Women Contemporary Artists”, Cultural Economy by CNB Journal, CNB Journal, November 23rd, 2023, https://m.weekly.cnbnews.com/m/m_article.html?no=155800#_DYAD
Lee Sun-ah "In an Age When Bodies Are No Longer Necessary, 7 Japanese Women Artists Create 'Bodies’”, Hankyung.com, Hankyung.com, November 20th, https://www.hankyung.com/article/202311186982i
Moon So-young "[Attention!] The sound of drying fruit, the form of love...the 'world' made by 7 Japanese women artists”, JoonAng SUNDAY, JoonAng SUNDAY、November 18th, 2023, https://v.daum.net/v/20231118004104930
Kim Ilchang "Women from 'Object' to 'Subject', Their Contemporary Art...'Body, Love, Gender' Exhibition”, News1, News1, November 15th, 2023, https://www.news1.kr/articles/5232176
Hwang Myung-yeol “Gana Art, Japanese Contemporary Art Women Artists Group Exhibition 'Body, Love, Gender' Showcases 100 Works by 7 of Japan's Most Active Women Artists, Until 10th of Next Month”, munwhamagazine, munwhamagazine, November 14th, 2023, https://www.munwhamagazine.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=2310
"Body, Love, Gender: 7 Women Artists Leading Contemporary Japanese Art" at Gana Art Center, EPOQUEHANNAM, Art Gourmet, November 14th, 2023, https://www.epoquehannam.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=1449
Lee Seung-jun "Body, Love, Gender," a group exhibition of seven Japanese women contemporary artists" Hangil Times, Hangil Times, November 14th, 2023、http://hangiltimes.com/news/view.php?idx=99354&sm=w_total&stx=kashiki&stx2=&w_section1=&sdate=&edate=
Seulgi Kim“Why the neon sign 'Love' was redrawn with a brush," Maeil Business Newspaper, Maeil Business Newspaper Co., Ltd., November 14th, 2023, https://www.mk.co.kr/news/culture/10874192
Young Kyung Lee "Fluid Gender, Exploding Bodies, and Love Whispered Only by Me—Japanese Women Artists of the Contemporary Era," The Kyunghyang Shinmun, The Kyunghyang Shinmun, November 13th, 2023, https://m.khan.co.kr/culture/art-architecture/article/202311131817001
Hanjeong Kim "Group Exhibition, 'Body, Love, Gender’”, Artkorea TV, Artkorea TV, November 13th, 2023, http://www.artkoreatv.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=89795
Kim Seok, "Body, Emotion, and Gender," a group exhibition of seven Japanese female contemporary artists.”, KBS News, KBS, November 13th, 2023https://news.kbs.co.kr/news/pc/view/view.do?ncd=7816182
[On View] “ART WEEK TOKYO”, Flash Art, Flash Art, 25 October 2023, https://flash---art.com/2023/10/art-week-tokyo/
Fabio Tallone “La voce dell’anima. Il mondo interiore di Rikako Kawauchi in mostra a Milano”, Arts Life, Jun.2023
https://artslife.com/2023/04/21/voce-anima-mondo-interiore-rikako-kawauchi-mostra-milano/
Flor Linckens “Five artists, one medium: the immediacy of work on paper”, Gallery viewer, 16 Jun.2023
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[Interview] “KAWAUCHI RIKAKO”, Lurf MUSEUM website, Apr.2023, https://lurfmuseum.art/pages/rikakokawauchi-mag
“The Power to Break Through Interview with Corporate HR and Alumni Artist Rikako Kawauchi”, TAMABI NEWS, Tama Art University PR Division PR Department, 27, Mar.2023 (vol.93), p.4
Masato Nishida “In the midst of competing colors and lines: Rikako Kawauchi's solo exhibition”, Asahi Shimbun, Apr.11th, p.3, https://digital.asahi.com/articles/DA3S15608351.html?ptoken=01GXQPSB050MNT7XWAGB5BMKH
Joji Inoue “Spirited galleries focus on women artists at the forefront of the art world”, Harper's Bazaar, Mar. 17, 2023,https://www.harpersbazaar.com/jp/culture/arts/a43257836/women-artists-to-know-230317-hns/
“43 editorial recommendations for writers who stand out for their charm of dots, lines, and surfaces”, Art Collectors, No.168, Mar. 2023, p.50, Seikatsu no Tomo Sha
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
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