井上拓哉 Takuya lnoue

Takuya Inoue (b.1993) is a Japanese painter exploring the 'universality' of all phenomena. As part of hisobservations, he spends his daily life traveling to different places. He immerses himself in the changinglandscapes, climates, people and cultures of everyday life and uses this as a motivation to paint his feelings,thoughts and values, which are also changing.

 Inoue completed his MFA at Tokyo University of Art in 2021. His activities are supported by culturalgrants such as the Ishibashi Foundation (2019), Nomura Foundation (2022) and other activities and  residenciesin various parts of Japan, Finland and China, and is realized in connection with the people he meets in thoseplaces. Previous exhibition includes installations using natural light changing from morning to night as the axis,such as "STRIKE ME PINK!" (Japan, 2018) and "Me?" (Japan, 2021), and "Children   in Mother" (Japan, 2021),a group of works drawn during a year's journey, in which the work continues to change in time. The work is anattempt to expose the existence of things that continue to change in time  and things that remain unchanged inthe repetition of that change.

Activities

2023 Taohuatan 6th International Artist Retreat and Residency The Peach Blossom Pool Arts and Holiday   Riverside Resort, Taohuatan, Anhui Province, China

2022- Independent Residence Project “Making⇄Living” various parts of Japan, mainly in Fukushima, Hiroshima and Kyoto, Japan

2021-22 Residence and Exhibition Program “Artists in FAS 2021” Fujisawa City Art Space, Kanagawa,  Japan

2021  Solo Exhibition “Me?” HIGURE 17-15 cas, Tokyo

2021  69th Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation Works Exhibitions 2021 Tokyo University of the Arts,Tokyo, Japan

2019  Exhibition of a collaborative workshop by Faculty of Art and Design of University of Lapland and       Tokyo University of the Arts “VALO HIKARI” Gallery Valo, Arctic Centre Arktikum, Rovaniemi,                     Finland

2019-20 Independent Traveling and Residence Project “Children in Mother” various parts of Europe, mainly in Finland, Bulgaria, Norway and Switzerland

2018 Independent Solo Exhibition “STRIKE ME PINK!” Tokyo University of the Arts (Toride), Ibaraki, Japan

2018 University of Tsukuba School of Art & Design Degree Show 2018 Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki,Japan