Toru KUWAKUBO

Japanese　1978

Toru Kuwakubo was born in Kanagawa, Japan in 1978. His activities is now based in Kanagawa. Toru Kuwakubo obtained the Bachler degree of arts from the Tama Art University oil painting department in 2002. In the same year, he won the Tokyo Wonder Wall Award sponsored by Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. Other awards that he received includes “The 3rd Koji Kinutani Prize” held by the Mainichi Newspapers in 2011; the “VOCA Encouragement Prize” to focus on new artists of 2-dementional art in 2012; and also the First Prize of the third D-art Biennale in 2013. Toru Kuwakubo have held many solo exhibitions in Japan and abroad.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2014"One Wonderful Day Which Cannot Be Forgotten" Tomio Koyama Gallery Singapore
2012 “The Sea by Night and Day” The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, England
2012 “Toru Kuwakubo exhibition” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2010 “Out of Noise” Gallery Hyundai Gangnam Space, Seoul, Korea
2010 “Telling of Sea, Telling of Painter” Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
2008 “World Citizens with the White Boxes: Toru Kuwakubo Solo Exhibition” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007 “Women Living by the Sea” doART Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2007 “SCENERY OF TOMORROW” bendixen contemporary art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006 “Illusion of the Sea Ebbing Away” Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin, Germany
2006"sleepless women" Gallery Stump Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
2005 “The Flower of Hole in the Sand” Project Room / Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2005 “Drawings” TKGY at lammfromm, Tokyo
2005 “BLOOMFIELD” Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, 2005

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2016 “Controlled Coincidence” NUNU FINE ART, Taipei
2013 “Tokyo Painting II | Mindscape between interior and exterior” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2013 “Site: Place of Memories, Spaces with Potential” Hiroshima MOCA, Hiroshima, Japan
2012 “VOCA 2012” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2011 “Reflections in collaboration with Tomio Koyama Gallery: ford PROJECT”, New York, USA
2010 “TOKYO WONDER WALL 2000-2009 10 years!” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2009 “Happy New Year(s), bendixen Contemporary Art” Copenhagen, Denmark