Profile

1982 Born in Hiroshima, Japan
2005 Bachelor of Fine Arts Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka
2013 Shinjuku Culinary Institute, Tokyo
2016-2018 Activities in Singapore
2019-2020 Activities in Los Angeles
Currently Living in the Netherlands

Solo Exhibitions
2018年 "COLOUR ME WELL" One East Asia Gallery, Singapore
2016　"Mountains of Bento meals from convenience stores-Time is money", Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo ★Nov/26/2016 - Dec/25/2016
2016　"BENTO", the palace side hotel, Kyoto ★Sept/15/2016 - Oct/13/2016
2015　"Mountains of Bento meals from convenience stores", CCC-the center for creative communications-, Shizuoka
2015　"Streams of Cup noodles", HAGISO, Tokyo
2014　"Streams of Gyudon", Sawada Mansion Gallery room38, kochi

Group exhibition
2018年　「Artmore Award Exhibition」Hiroshige Gallery, Tokyo
2016「a3 project / season 2016」MATSUO MEGUMI +VOICE GALLERY pfs/w、Kyoto ★July/19/2016 - July/30/2016
2015　 "Exhibition Entartete Kunst 2015",DESK/okumura, Tokyo
2015　 "BijutsuShokudo",ART SPACE ZERO-ONE, Osaka
2013　 "POSSIBLY TALENTED Vol.3",THE blank GALLERY,Tokyo
2013　 "Gakigura 6th Exhibition",Gallery Oishi,Fukuoka
2012　 "YOUNG ARTISTS JAPAN Vol.5",Tokyo Designers Week(TDW),Tokyo
2004　 "Exhibition ShijuBokujin",LAPIN ET HALOT,Tokyo
2000　 "Exhibition Daikaku",NHK Gallery,Fukuoka

Awards
2018 　Artmore Award
2015　TWS-Emerging 2016
2015　CCC New Creators Competition 2016
2015　Tokyo Wonder Wall 2015
2015　Wonder seed 2015
2013　The 2th Miyamoto Saburo Memorial Drawing Award
2005　the Beppu Asia Biennale of Contemporary Art 2005
2002　The 34th West Art Exhibition
2001　The 37th Fukuoka Art Exhibition Fukuoka parliamentary speaker Prize

Media
2015 ISE NY Artist Registry 2015

Others
2018 SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL ARTIST FAIR
2007　ARTDISFOR with HIguchi Shijyu　start

Solo Exhibitions
2008
"Tokyo University of the Arts Destruction",ART IN GALLERY,Tokyo
"Shopping",ART IN GALLERY,Tokyo

Group exhibition
2011
"petit GEISAI #15",Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center Museum,Tokyo
"GEISAI #14",Tokyo Big Sight,Tokyo
"Unknown possibility 03",Shinjuku Ganka Gallery,Tokyo
"Chiyoda Independent Arts Festival 3331",3331 Arts Chiyoda,Tokyo
2009
"The Artcompe X",The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo,Tokyo
"Independent Exhibition Tokyo",COEXIST,Tokyo
"ART & PHOTOBOOK EXHIBITION",Shinjuku Ganka Gallery,Tokyo
"Unexpected",Shinjuku Ganka Gallery,Tokyo

Awards
2009
The 45th Art Exhibition,Kanagawa Prefecture
Shinsei 13th Exhibition


Statement
I produce works in a motif with food.
Especially I choice fast food and junk food, in short, Gyudon, instant noodles and bento meal from convenience stores.
These foods have come into use to try to express today's situation both critically and simple but cynically.
My major works are two series ; the Streams of Gyudon/the Streams of Instant Noodles and Convenience store Bento Meals in a Heap.
The former series embodies the actual situation of the meal of modern people with falling Gyudon and noodles furiously to stomach of the public without tasting, which are painted like natural streams.
The latter is discarded convenience store bento meals piled up in large quantities every day like a heap and expresses nuance of Japanese Animism like finding god to a grain of rice.
The narrow-minded external eyes that the Japanese has are set on proportional support of the Japanese national flag. And they are modeled after various food, dishes of all the countries of the world like a circle.
This is Japanize series.
It asks redistribution of wealth that concentration of the wealth to the well off accelerating all over the world. Cutting a cake into pieces symbolizes the redistribution and express.
This is Let's eat everyone series. (May. 2, 2015)

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http://tomonishintaku.com/en/

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