magic
2024
acrylic and oil on canvas panel, 1620 × 1303 mm
/1
curse
2024
acrylic and oil on canvas panel, 1620 × 1303 mm
/1
They/s
2024
acrylic and oil on corrugated plastics sheeting, 505 × 410 mm
/1
They/K
2024
acrylic and oil on corrugated plastics sheeting, 425 × 355 mm
/3
hunter
2024
clay, acrylic paint, LED light, acrylic box, steel, H500 × W460 × D460 mm
/3
Mitleid
2024
clay, acrylic paint, LED light, acrylic box, steel, H500 × W460 × D460 mm
Press release
WAITINGROOM will be participating in the Art Fair Tokyo 2024 from Thursday, March 7 to Sunday, 10.
The exhibiting artist is Saya Okubo.
The gallery in Edogawabashi will also host a group exhibition of gallery artists: exonemo, Saya Okubo, Rikako Kawauchi, Fuyuhiko Takata, and Suzuka Toyoda.
From the Tokyo International Forum to the gallery, it is a 12-minute ride on the Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line to Edogawabashi Station, and a 5-minute walk from the station. We hope you will take this opportunity to visit the WAITINGROOM booth at the fair as well as the exhibition at our gallery space.
At the same time, Saya Okubo’s solo exhibition “Leitmotiv” will be held at Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Honten, MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY. Please visit this exhibition as well.
Venue : Tokyo International Forum, Hall E / Lobby Gallery
(3-5-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo-to 100-0005 JAPAN)
Ticket : Advance ticket：JPY4,000.- (tax incl.) / Same-day ticket：JPY5,000.- (tax incl.)
*Prior reservation is required online
Access : 1-minutes walk from JR/Subway Yurakucho Station, 5-minutes walk from JR Tokyo Station (Keiyo Line)
Website :https://artfairtokyo.com
Booth：S027
Exhibiting Artist
Left: “Spearing (mirror)”, 2023, oil,and,acrylic on canvas panel, 1455x1120mm
Right: “turning around and around”, 2022, clay,acrylic,paint,LED light,acrylic,box,steel, H500×W460×D460mm
*reference image
Saya Okubo
Born in Fukuoka in 1992. She completed her graduate studies at Kyoto University of Art and Design, Department of Painting in 2017. Currently based in Tokyo. She creates paintings in which two separate elements coexist: symbolic images expressed as outlines and the undulation of abstract images with a sense of substance.
Her recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition “Box of moonlight” (2022, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo), a solo exhibition “The mirror crack’d from side to side” (2022, Roppongi Hills A/D gallery, Tokyo), a solo exhibition “We are defenseless. / We are aggressive.” (2022, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Honten, MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo), a solo exhibition “They” (2020, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo), a group exhibition “Island with ONI” (2019, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo), a solo exhibition “a doubtful reply” (2018, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo). Her work attracted a lot of attention when she won the Masami Shiraishi Award at the 4th CAF Award Winning Exhibition (Daikanyama Hillside Forum, Tokyo), a group exhibition she participated in the fall of 2017.
