Art gallery ART FOR THOUGHT will hold a group exhibition by Ogata Eiha, Higuchi Miyu, buri, and Yoshizumi Ayano, titled "AFT Market 2025: Multi-World Navigation," from Friday, February 14th to Saturday, March 1st, 2025.
■Exhibition Overview <br /> Exhibition title: "AFT Market 2025 – Multi-World Navigation"
Participating artists: Eiha Ogata, Miyu Higuchi, buri, Ayano Yoshizumi Period: Friday, February 14, 2025 – Saturday, March 1, 2025
*An opening reception will be held on Friday, February 14th from 6:00pm to 7:00pm with the artist present.
(There will be an artist talk in the first 30 minutes)
Opening hours: 11:00-19:00 (until 17:00 on Saturdays)
Closed: Sundays and Mondays Venue: ART FOR THOUGHT
URL: https://artforthought.jp
Exhibition details: https://artforthought.jp/blogs/upcoming-exhibitions/aft-market-2025
■Exhibition Contents <br /> The Ars [technology, Latin origin of the word ART] required of modern people who are said to be digital natives and move freely between multiple devices, social media, the metaverse, and reality may be to perceive the world as multiple, not one, and enjoy the voyage. We will express ourselves more richly and multi-layeredly through the stimulation we receive in each of our worlds and how we behave there. We will exhibit works by young artists who are experimenting with a way of creating worlds that is different from pre-collage* and mirror worlds**.
(Curated by Keiichiro Tao)
* A concept introduced by cultural anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss in his 1962 book The Concept of Wildness. In French, it means "making something with one's own hands using available tools and materials."
※※A mirror image world that exists in a virtual space where the real world has been digitized
■Artist Profile
Akiha Ogata
<Brief biography>
Born in Tokyo in 2003
2022 Musashino Art University Correspondence Course Oil Painting Department Painting Expression Course Admission
<Exhibition history>
2024 Group Exhibition "Eyes: Intersection" (haco -art brewing gallery-)
Group exhibition "SQUARE EXHIBITION" (ART FOR THOUGHT)
Miyu Higuchi
<Brief biography>
Born in Tokyo
2023 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Oil Painting
<Exhibition history>
2023 Solo Exhibition "A Certain Disturbing Painting" (Nihonbashi N11 gallery)
Group exhibition "ART STUDENTS STERS vol.2" (+ART GALLERY)
2024 Group exhibition "OR" (HELLO GALLERY TOKYO)
Solo exhibition "Who is that?" (Nihonbashi N11 gallery)
Group exhibition "SQUARE EXHIBITION" (ART FOR THOUGHT)
＜Awards＞
Selected for the 2023 World Painting Award
Buri
<Brief biography>
Born in 2000, he began creating acrylic paintings after being invited to join the art club by his high school art teacher in 2017. He had been impressed by surrealism even before joining the club, and almost all of his work to this day is influenced by it.
In 2019, he switched to oil painting and began to focus on his own face as a motif. In 2020, he switched to watercolor painting and began to draw mainly his own hands and feet in sketchbook-sized drawings. Over the next three years, he continued to draw hands and feet, but they went beyond the scope of practice and became an essential element of his work. In 2023, he began to draw his own body as a motif on large-sized canvases in order to create something that could be called a work of art rather than a practice.
<Exhibition history etc.>
2022 Solo exhibition "buri watercolor exhibition" (Cafe Kon-ton)
2022 Group Exhibition "Water and Oil" (AAA gallery)
2023 Group exhibition "The Border Between Blue and Indigo" (Gallery IYN)
Group exhibition "MESSAGE Exhibition FINAL" (Gallery IYN)
2024 Group exhibition "Emerging" (gallery D&S)
Group exhibition "Emerging Exhibition vol.2" (gallery D&S)
Group Exhibition (Okera House)
Solo exhibition "buri Watercolor Exhibition: Shiogama Edition" (Gohanya Hare)
Solo exhibition “buri watercolor exhibition Taito Ward edition” (haco -art brewing gallery-)
Vaundy's single "Fujin" jacket illustration, original artwork, solo exhibition "buri watercolor exhibition Taito Ward 2" (gallery Minoya)
＜Awards＞
2018 Selected for Kahoku Art Exhibition
2019 Selected for Kahoku Art Exhibition
2020 Miyagi Prefectural Arts Festival Encouragement Award
2022 Tamba Art Competition Selected ABT Illustration Contest Tombow Pencil Award
Ayano Yoshizumi
<Brief biography>
2014 Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Industrial, Craft and Design, Glass Course
2016 Graduated from Toyama Glass Art Institute, Department of Modeling
2019: Travelled to Australia and started creating works in Australia (2019-2022)
2022 Assistant Professor, Toyama Glass Art Institute (2019–2025)
<Major exhibition history>
2021 Tom Malone Prize 2021 (Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia)
2022 MilanoVetro-35 the third edition (Sforzesco Castle / Milan, Italy)
2023 MAKE IT POP Ayano Yoshizumi Solo Exhibition (Toyama Glass Studio)
2024 P/OP SHIBUYA Ayano Yoshizumi Solo Exhibition (P/OP SHIBUYA)
■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
From the press release of AFT Co., Ltd.
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