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Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
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2017
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"Mu: Beyond Duality", New Sculpture
Exhibition, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
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2013
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"APT 402", Site-specific installation +
Happening, Red Gate Residency, Beijing, China
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"Double Zero: The Point Between Future Past",
Two Person Exhibition, Nikkei National Museum &
Cultural Centre, Burnaby, Canada
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2007
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"Cracked Up!", Art
Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
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2006
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Konrin Gallery,
Tokyo, Japan
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| 2003 |
"Sick in Japan
Paintings - Focusing on a New Generation in Tokyo: The
Ten Elements", Gallery 21+Yo, Tokyo, Japan
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| 2002 |
"Sick in Japan: Miso
Soup Diary, New Painting Series", Gallery 21+Yo, Tokyo,
Japan
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| 1999 |
“Under the Sun”,
Red Series Paintings, Gallery 21+Yo, Tokyo, Japan
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1998
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"Red Series Paintings, Hybrid Asia - Ginza
Gallery Net", Gallery 21+Yo, Tokyo, Japan |
Selected Group Exhibitions |
2016
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"The Winter Show", Art Beatus Gallery,
Vancouver, Canada
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"My Living Room, Brian Wallace Collection",
Red Gate Gallery, Dongbianmen Watchtower, Beijing, China
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2015
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"Colours and Forms", Art Beatus Gallery,
Vancouver, Canada
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"Everywhere All At Once...Here", 10th
Mildura Palimpsest Biennale, Victoria, Australia
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2014
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"Connect", 12th Bellwether
Sculpture Biennale, Bellevue City Hall, Bellevue,
Washington, USA
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Peace Mechanismis, Santorini Biennale,
Mesaria, Greece
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2013
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"Winterlude", Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver,
Canada
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2012
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"Bloom", Japanese Canadian Artist Showcase
and Auction, NNM&CC, Burnaby, Canada
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"Sick in Japan: Pink Series", Spoon Art Fair
Hong Kong 12 Invitation, Grand Hyatt, Hong Kong
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2011
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"Love Letters to Vancouver", digital image,
Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
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2010
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"With These Walls We are Shaped",
Wolstenholme Creative Space, Site-specific Installation,
6th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
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2009
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"Upon First Refraction, Moon", Site-specific
installation, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada
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"Bust", Site-specific installation,
ContainerArt, Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver,
Canada
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"Sick in Japan Print", Qijiang International
Invitational Print Festival, Chongquing, China
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"Drawn Together", In Conjunction with
Drawn Festival, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada |
2007
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"Egg Eye Paintings", Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo
International Forum, Tokyo, Japan
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2006
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New Prints with Akiko Ikeuchi, Gallery
21+Yo, Tokyo, Japan
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"Sick in Japan Painting and Drawings", KIAF,
Korea International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
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2005
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"Sick in Japan: Pink Paintings", 1st
Pocheon Asian Art Festival, Pocheon, Korea |
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"Sick in Japan Prints", SIPA, Seoul
International Print Art Fair, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul,
Korea
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"Sick Bather", Gallery 21+Yo, KIAF, COEX
Center, Seoul, Korea
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| 2004 |
"Sick Tree", New Expression of Asian
Art Exhibition, Taiwan |
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"Sick in Japan Paintings", Shanghai
Art Fair, Shanghai, China
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| 2003 |
"Sick in Japan Series, Sick Bather",
KIAF, COEX Center, Seou, Korea |
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"Ten Elements, Sick in Japan Series:
Sick Robot", Gallery Natsuka, Tokyo, Japan
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| 1998 |
"Red Series Paintings, Attack/Damage:
Art in Tokyo", Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
Selected Public Work / Commissions |
2016
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"Egg Forest", Moriumius, Ishinomaki, Japana
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2015
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"Lunette 'ki'", 10th Mildura
Palimpsest Biennale, Victoria, Australia
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2014
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"Moonwalkers", City of Bellevue, Public Art
Program, Washington, USA
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2013
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"Double Zero", Nikkei National Museum,
Burnaby, Canada
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2011
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"E-clipse", Digital Image Projection,
Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
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2010
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"Orb", 6th Liverpool Biennale,
Liverpool, United Kingdom
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"Moon", Drake Hotel Main Lobby, Toronto,
Canada
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2009
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"Bust", Site-Specific Installation, Pacific
National Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada
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2002
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"Wind", Japanese-Canadian Fishermen's
Memorial, Steveston Waterfront, Richmond, Canada
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| 1997 |
"Kannon", Buddhist Sculpture at
Hosenji Temple, Shizuoka, Japan |
Artist
in Residences
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2016
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Moriumius, Children's Workshop, Ishinomaki,
Japan
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2015
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Mildura Palimpests Inland Residency, Victoria,
Australia
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2013
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Red Gate International Residency Program,
Beijing, China
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2005-2007
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Self-directed residence, Shizuoka, Japan
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1997-1999
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Self-directed residence, Tokyo, Japan
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Publications/Exhibition Catalogues |
2016
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Gallery Monthly Magazine, Tokyo, October
Issue, Volume 10
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Sculpture Magazine, International Sculpture
Center, Jan/Feb Issue
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2015
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Everywhere all at once...here. Mildura
Palimpsest Biennale, 10th Edition
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2014
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City of Bellevue, Connect: Bellwether
Sculpture Biennial, 12th Edition
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Kikos Papdopoulos, Santorini Biennale, 2nd
Edition, Santorini, Greece
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2013
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Robin Lawrence, "The present is never
separate in Double Zero at the Nikkei National Museum
and Cultural Centre", The Georgia Straight
(online), 30 July 2013
|
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Kevin Griffin, "Blurring Past and Present",
Vancouver Sun (online), 12 July 2013
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Genevieve Depelteau, "An artistic
collaboration about Japan", La Source, 8 July
2013
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2010
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Ian Jackson, "With These Walls We are
Shaped", Art in Liverpool (online), 24 November
2010
|
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Tom Hawthorn, "Art Inside the Box", Globe
and Mail, 3 September 2010
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2009
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Kanna Kitakaze, Artist Focus, interview, Vancouver
Shimpo, 3 December 2009
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Anchin Tsai, "Artist use eggshells to depict
sickness", World Journal, 15 July 2009
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2007
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Bronwyn Kent, "Cracked Up!", Vol. 2, Issue
9, Pacific Rim Magazine
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| 2006 |
Takahiko Honda, "New
Work in Japan", Vol. 2, Gallery Monthly Magazine |
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Hemmi Kai, "New
Expression in Prints", No. 131, Hanga Geijitsu
Quarterly Journal |
| 2005 |
Takahiko Honda, "Asian
Artist Crossing Borders", Vol. 1, AAC, Asian Art City
Magazine
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|
Gallery Monthly
Magazine – exhibition review |
|
Asahi
Newspaper – exhibition review |
| 2003 |
W. Chow, "Reflected New
and Old Vancouver", Vancouver Sun, 27 September
2003
|
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Mainichi
Newspaper - exhibition review on “Ten Elements” |
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Gallery Monthly
Magazine - KIAF review |
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Catalogue for exhibition
“Ten Elements” |
| 2002 |
Chris Bryan, "Monument
to Forefathers", Richmond News - 29 September
2002
|
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Vancouver Shinpo -
article related to monument |
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The Bulletin, Journal
of Japanese-Canadian Community, History & Culture |
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Asahi Newspaper
– exhibition review |
| 1998 |
Museum Catalogue for
exhibition “Attack/Damage” at Itabashi Art Museum |
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Catalogue for exhibition
“Hybrid Asia” |
| 1995 |
Renee Philips, "Spacial
Relations", Manhattan Arts International –
Fall/Winter Issue
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Collections
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Byron Aceman
Collection
David Suzuki Foundation
City of Richmond, Public Art Collection
Brian Wallace Collection, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
Private Estates: New York, Vancouver, Toronto, Tokyo,
Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing, Milan, Genoa, Santorini,
Bellevue, Victoria (Australia)
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Artist Statement
Mu: Beyond Duality, 2017
In the contemporary era of divisive
politics and fake news, going beyond binary positions
is more important than ever. The Buddhist concept of
'mu' is a useful reminder here. Mu recognizes that
there is no definitive right or wrong, true or false,
or good or bad. These are positions of polarity
dependent on both time and space, history and
contexts. These sculptures can be tools for meditation
to strive for what Zen Buddhists call, nothingness--
arriving at a point of transcendence.
--- Junichiro Iwase, written in
collaboration with Maki Iwase, the artist's twin
sister.
For further
information, please contact:
Canada: tel: (1) 604.688.2633,
fax: (1) 604.688.2685
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