Arika SOMEYA

KENJI TAKI GALLERY

(b.1961 -)

Decolor- mirror 1,2, 2001
bleached velvet

Soak- carpet, 2001

DECOLOR Installation view at Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo (2000)

Biography

1961: Born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
1984: B.F.A. in Painting (Oil Painting), Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music
1986: M.F.A. in Painting (Oil Painting), Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music
1999: Participated in the ART/OMI Artist-in-Residence program, New York, USA
Currently: Lives and works in Mie and Aichi Prefectures.

Solo Exhibitions

1989: Stegosaurus Studio, Nagoya
1994: Nagoya City Archives, Nagoya
1996: 409, Nagoya
1998: SQUATTER, Nagoya
2000: Decolor, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2001: Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2002: Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2002: Projection, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2003: Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2004: Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2004: Subtitle / Bird’s-eye View, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2005: Subtitle, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2005: Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Mie
2007: WIPE / painting, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2008: Silhouette, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2009: Monster, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2010: Monster, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2011: Table Canon, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2015: Table Canon + Drawings, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2019: Left inside Right, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2021: Arika Someya Works The Third Turn + D.D. Only the King Wears Pants, Aichi University of the Arts Satellite Gallery SA・KURA, Nagoya

Group Exhibitions

1988: One Hundred Heads, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga (Gallery), Otsu
1992: Allegory V, Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery, Nagoya
1999: Emerging Artists from Japan, Grey Art Gallery, New York, USA
1999: 4 x 4, Alexandre de Folin, New York, USA
2000: 12 Lodgers, Nagoya Port Garden Pier Warehouse No. 8, Nagoya
2001: Philip Morris Art Award: 24 Winners Exhibition, Fuji Television Forum, Tokyo / Umeda Stella Hall, Osaka
2002: Fan de Nagoya Art Exhibition 2002: Mediators, Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery Yada, Nagoya
2002: Desire for Metamorphosis – What is Expression Now?, Fukui City Art Museum, Fukui
2002: Metamorphosis and Dislocation: Works and Installations by 4 (+1) Artists, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya
2003: Positions in Contemporary Art 2003: A New Wind Blowing Through, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya
2003: days – peaceful days, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Tokyo
2005: The 20th Parallel Art Exhibition: Notation of Collapse, Ohara-ryu Kaikan / Espace OHARA, Tokyo
2006: Where I Am: Contemporary Japanese Photography Vol. 4, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
2006: Fukutake House in Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2006, Tokamachi, Niigata
2007: Painting as Forest: Artist as Thinker, Mindscape Museum (Okazaki City Museum), Okazaki, Aichi
2009: Kei: projection / reflection, Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery Yada, Nagoya
2010: Aichi Art Forest (Horikawa Project / Mizutani Residence), Nagoya
2010: Expanding Art: An Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Mie
2011: Art in an Office: From Impressionism and Modern Japanese Painting to Contemporary Art, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi
2011: Things that walk around double (Satoshi Imamura, Arika Someya, Yuriko Yamamoto + D.D.), Aichi University of the Arts Satellite Gallery, Nagoya
2012: Light and Shadow – Hikari, Kage, Toki, Mindscape Museum (Okazaki City Museum), Okazaki, Aichi
2014: Mindfulness! Takahashi Collection 2014, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya
2016: Yukai – Resonating works – (Aichi University of the Arts 50th Anniversary Oil Painting Course Exhibition), Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery Yada, Nagoya
2021: 2021, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya

Exhibitions as D.D. (Artist Unit: Satoshi Imamura & Arika Someya)

2011: Things that walk around double (Satoshi Imamura, Arika Someya, Yuriko Yamamoto + D.D.), Aichi University of the Arts Satellite Gallery, Nagoya
2012: Aichi Triennale Regional Expansion Project – Aichi Art Program Okazaki Art & Jazz 2012, Okazaki CIBICO 6F, Okazaki, Aichi [Exhibited as D.D. (Satoshi Imamura + Arika Someya + Video: Jiro Izuhara) Structure of a Soft-boiled Egg]
2013: Humor and Leap, Mindscape Museum (Okazaki City Museum), Okazaki, Aichi
2014: A Detour Journey, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya
2014: D.D. Solo Exhibition A “surprise attack” for the audience, an “achievement” for those who walk, Aichi Arts Center B2F Forum, Nagoya
2020: Tilted Heads | P(art)Y LAB x D.D., N-mark 5G, Nagoya
2021: MAT Exhibition vol.09 Online Collaborative Production Nagoya x Penang Simultaneous Exhibition: Nagoya Culture Transmission Bureau, Minatomachi POTLUCK BUILDING 3F, Nagoya

Public Collections

Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art / Mie Prefectural Art Museum / Mindscape Museum (Okazaki City Museum)

Open Studios

Solo exhibitions at the artist’s studio: 1997 / 1998 / 2000