Profile
Kumi Machida, born in Takasaki, Gunma in 1970, graduated from Tama University of Arts, majored in Japanese style painting. She won the grand-prix at Maebashi Art Live Cometition '99 in 999, The 4th Jomo Art Award in 2007, and The Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2007. She stayed in Denmark as an overseas art trainee of Agency for Cultural Affair. Kumi Machida represents a new generation of the Japanese art following Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara. Some remarkable characteristics of her work include clear-lined draftsmanship in sumi ink on Kumohada linen paper, and a minimal sense of color fleshed out with mineral pigments.
Recent solo exhibitions
2013 "New Works" Nishimura Gallery
2011 MACHIDA Kumi "VISIONS" Ha° gamle prestegard, Norway
2010-11 "Stories from a Cold Country" Nishimura Gallery
2008
"Kumi Machida ",die kunst japans | past - present - future | araki meets hokusai & kumi machida" kestnergesellshaft, hannover
"Kumi Machida ", Takasaki Tower Museum of Art, Gunma
"Snow Day", Nishimura Gallery
2006
"Machida Kumi", Nishimura Gallery
2005
"Machida Kumi <à Sade>", Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
2003
Gallery Brocken, Tokyo