Art gallery ART FOR THOUGHT will be holding a group exhibition "!!!!" by Riki Ohno, Kai Ono, Yuki Shimizu, and Aoi Motoba from Wednesday, January 22nd to Saturday, February 8th, 2025.
■Exhibition Overview
Exhibition title: "!!!!"
Participating artists: Chikara Ohno, Kai Ono, Yuki Shimizu, Aoi Motoba Period: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 – Saturday, February 8, 2025
*An opening reception will be held on Saturday, January 25th from 3pm to 5pm with the artist present.
(There will be an artist talk in the first 30 minutes)
We look forward to seeing you all.
Opening hours: 11:00-19:00 (until 17:00 on Saturdays)
Closed: Sundays and Mondays Venue: ART FOR THOUGHT
Location: 1F, Wako Ginza 8-chome Building, 8-10-4 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
access:
Ginza Station: 6 minutes walk from A3 exit on the Ginza and Hibiya lines.
Shinbashi Station: 6 minutes walk from Ginza Line Exit 1,
Higashi-Ginza Station: 6 minutes walk from A1 exit on the Hibiya Line and Toei Asakusa Line
URL: https://artforthought.jp
Exhibition details: https://shorturl.at/E14US
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■Exhibition Contents
ART FOR THOUGHT is pleased to present "!!!!", a group exhibition by Riki Ohno, Kai Ono, Yuki Shimizu, and Aoi Motoba. After studying at the Toride campus of Tokyo University of the Arts and graduating, the four artists stayed in the area and continued to create, engaging in close contact and inspiring one another while working on ceramics and sculpture. For this exhibition, the four will each take photographs of a subject of their own choosing, and use that inspiration to create new works. As the title suggests, when the four artists radiate their individuality (I, i) and become entangled with excitement (!), how will the world be woven?
(Curation: Keiichiro Tao)
■Artist Profile
Chikara Ono
[Brief biography]
2020 Graduated from the Department of Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
2022 Completed master's program at Tokyo University of the Arts
[Exhibition history]
2020 Solo exhibition "wating man" (RISE GALLERY Creativity Continues, 9th period 2020-2021)
2021 Solo exhibition "boring room" (RISE GALLERY)
Two-person exhibition (RISE GALLERY)
Group Exhibition (RISE GALLERY)
Solo exhibition “still life” (RISE GALLERY)
2022 Group exhibition "POND 2022" (Shibuya Parco)
Group exhibition "PXXX?"
2023 2022 National Taiwan University of Arts, College of Fine Arts, Sculpture Department, 13th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition Group Exhibition "identified" (Courtyard HIROO)
Solo exhibition "Hole and Others" (Rise Gallery)
2024 Participation in the exhibition "Living with Trees" (Tokyo Midtown Hibiya)
Group exhibition "Traditional Techniques x Casting, Everything" (Gallery Yoho)
Kai Ono
[Brief biography]
Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1995
2020 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture
2022 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Sculpture
[Exhibition history etc.]
2022 “CORE Part8” tagboat
Solo Exhibition "Prism-Reimport" Courtyard Hiroo Group Exhibition "GALLERY SCENA Pre OPEN Exhibition" GALLERY SCENA
Group exhibition "Matsusaka Culture Street" Matsusaka City, Mie Prefecture Group exhibition "POND2022" Shibuya Parco
2023 Group exhibition "CURVE" tugboat New Gallery Kakiotoshi Exhibition Appearance in Fuji TV's "Core" Choreography Montage Stage "Titus Andronicus" Stage Design & Appearance Appearance in Nippon TV's "Art House" Solo exhibition "Tom Boy" tugboat
"SHIBUYA STYLE Vol.17" Seibu Shibuya
2024 Suidobata Sculpture Department Staff Exhibition "momentum" B-gallery
Solo exhibition "FELT SENSE" (ART FOR THOUGHT)
Yuki Shimizu
[Brief biography]
Born in Mitaka, Tokyo in 1993
2022 Graduated from the Graduate School of Crafts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Ceramics
[Exhibition history]
2022 Solo Exhibition "Signs and Signs" (apartment hotel shinjuku)
2023 Solo Exhibition "The Room of Desire" (ART FOR THOUGHT)
2024 Solo Exhibition "Aisofu" (K ART GALLERY)
Many other group exhibitions
Aoi Motoba
[Brief biography]
Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1995
2020 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Crafts, Majoring in Ceramics
2022 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Crafts, Ceramic Arts
2025: Lives in Toride and creates pottery in Tokyo
[Exhibition history]
2021 "Tokyo University of the Arts Ceramic Exhibition" (Tennozu Isle)
"Moriyokai Ceramics Exhibition" (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store)
"Ginchakai" (Ginza Ito-ya)
2022 "Seven Ceramics" (Aoyama Torindo)
2023 Four-person exhibition (Ginza Uogashi Meicha)
"Koguregama Pottery Exhibition" (Seibu Ikebukuro Main Store Art Gallery)
"Ceramic Synergy" Exhibition (Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art, Kyoto)
2024 "Ceramics Group Show" (GO-JO-G, Kyoto)
Three Person Exhibition (Zuidama Gallery)
Solo exhibition "Aoi Motoba Ceramics Exhibition -birth-" (GO-JO-G, Kyoto)
"Re: Crafts" (Mashiko, Gallery Midoritori)
[Awards]
2018 Ataka Award
2019 Selected for the Seto Toshiro Triennale (Seto City Museum of Art, Aichi)
■ART FOR THOUGHT
Location: 1F, Wako Ginza 8-chome Building, 8-10-4 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Access: 6 minutes walk from Ginza Station (Ginza Line, Hibiya Line) A3 exit,
6 minutes walk from Shinbashi Station, Ginza Line, Exit 1,
6 minutes walk from Higashi-Ginza Station, Hibiya Line, Toei Asakusa Line, A1 exit
TEL/FAX: 03-6228-5922
URL: https://artforthought.jp
E-mail: info@artforthought.jp
[ART FOR THOUGHT] Press release
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