Aru Sunaga

Born in Gumma

: Tokyo University of the Arts, Painting (B.F.A.)

2017: Tokyo University of the Arts, Painting (M.F.A.)

Selected Solo Exhibition

2020: "Light up with a paintbrush", un petit GARAGE (Tokyo)

2016: "I can see you very well", un petit GARAGE (Tokyo)

2015: “Aru Sunaga Solo Exhibition”, T-Art Gallery (Tokyo)

2013: “PASSAGE”, Bambinart Gallery (Tokyo)

Selected Group Exhibition

2020: ”3331ART FAIR 2020”,3331ART (Tokyo)

2020: Meji jingu Forest Festival of Art, "Shikansuiyo-Art of the One Hundred Year Forest", Meiji jingu Museum (Tokyo)

2019: “KODAI vol.1 /CAPSULE” (Tokyo)

2017: “Exhibition of Books and Art vol. 1 Interaction between a Painting and a Word is the Beginning of a Story”, Art museum&Librar, Ota-city (Gunma)

2016: “CAF ART AWARD Selected Group Exhibition”, HOTEL ANTEROOM (Kyoto)

Selected Awards

2019: "The 14th Gunma Biennale for Young Artist 2019"

2014: "TERRADA ART AWARD 2014” FirstPrize

2014: "CAF ART AWARD 2014” YAMAGUCHI Yumi Prize

Artist Statement

I have been creating paintings with oil paints. From the time of cave paintings, art has been deeply connected with society and has created values and hierarchies of beauty. I am a woman in my thirties living in the modern age who is confused by the values and norms that society unconsciously imposes on me. Painting materials such as paintbrushes and canvases often appear in my work. The paintbrush is myself, in search of true painting. Delving into the depths of darkness with the paintbrush, a tiny pickaxe, is my small challenge to the preconceived notions.

WORKS

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