釣谷幸輝 Profile
K O U K I T S U R I T A N I
1967 Born in Tokyo, Japan
Education:
1992 Master of Fine Arts Degree KANAZAWA College of Art
1990 KANAZAWA College of Art, Oil Painting course, Japan
Awards/ Sponsorship:
2021 The 11th Trienniale Internationale de Gravures in Chamalieres, France Grand Prix
2020 02nd Art Biennial International 'ARTiJA, Mostovi Balkana, Kragujevac, Serbia
The Special Prize
2018 4th 'Enter into Art' International Installations 2017 - 2018,
“Kulturbahnhof” - Cultural center, Germany 2nd Jury Prize
The Society of Wood Engravers 81st Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
The SWE Overseas Prize
2017 International Contemporary Miniprint of Kazanlak, Art Gallery Kazanlak, Bulgaria
First Prize Classical Printmaking
ON PAPER contest 2017, Chicago Printmakers, Chicago, USA, nominated
2015 The grant of Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation for solo exhibition, Serbia
International Contemporary Miniprint of Kazanlak, Art Gallery Kazanlak, Bulgaria
Honorary Mention
3rd International Mezzotint Festival, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Russia
The short listed of Prize for full correspondence between technique and imagery
Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition, Inbe Art Space, Tokushima, Japan
The second prize
2014 The grant of Daiwa Foundation for “JAPANNED”, Gallery TEN, Edinburgh
2012 Ⅶ The Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada
THE JOHN RAMSAY PRIZE (Second Place)
2011 1st International Mezzotint Festival, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Russia
The short listed of Prize for adhering to the traditions and skills of graphical work
2010 The Society of Wood Engravers 73rd Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
The SWE Overseas Prize
Ⅵ The Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada
Honorable mention
2009 ‘The Art and the Mountain’ The 1st International Competition Exhibition Mini Print
and Ex Libris 2008, Milano, Italy
Honorable mention
2008 Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium, Artist In Residence
Intercontinental Biennial of small Graphics, Alba, Romania
Grand Prize
The 5th International Biennial of Miniature Art Częstochowa 2008, Poland
Honorable mention
International Ex libris Competition ‘Gdańsk Lions’ Gdańsk, Poland
Honorable mention Funded by the Mayor of the city of Gdańsk
Originals 08, London, U.K.
Birgit Skiold Prize
John Purcell Paper Award
University of Wales, Aberystwyth Print Collection Purchase Prize
2007-08 Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists
Edinburgh Print Makers, Scotland
2006 HANGA-TAISHO-TEN Hamamatsu Art Museum,Shizuoka, Japan
New Hamamatsu-shi birth memory prize
Intercontinental Biennial of small Graphics, Alba, Romania
Ⅰ-st Prize
1992 Master of Fine Arts Degree KANAZAWA College of Art Graduation work
Purchase prize
1990 Takifuji Art Prize
Solo Exhibitions:
Gallery TAKE TWO, Kyoto, Japan 2024
Shinobazu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2010, 19, 20, 25
Gallery ACS, Nagoya, Japan 2010, 12, 14
Gallery Art Concept, Kanazawa, Japan 2009
ASTRoPE, Fukuoka,Japan 2014
Gallery BUBULINDOU, Hyougo, Japan 2001, 02, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 14
Buburinndou-Garou, 2019, 21
Gallery SOU, Tokyo, Japan 1998, 99, 00, 01, 03, 04, 06, 12, 14, 17, 19, 21, 24
KITANIHON Gallery, Toyama, Japan 2006
Kashima-Jinjya Sansyuden, Hukushima, Japan 2006,10
Art Salon YUTAKA, Kanazawa, Japan 1998, 00, 02, 04, 05, 07
Gallery KAEDE, Niigata, Japan 2001, 03, 05, 07
Gallery ROKUTSUBO, Niigata, Japan 2005, 07, 09, 11, 13, 16, 19, 22
Gallery BALT, Toyama, Japan, 1997, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 05
Thinjyu-Hakulankai. ELF Toyama, Japan 1999
Gallery Tonan, Japan 2009
Gallery ART-G, Japan 2009
Art de Art View,Takatsuki, Japan 2010, 12, 14, 22
Shogawa Water Museum, Nanto, Japan 2010
atelier matisse, aso, Japan 2011
GALLERY KoEN, Kumamoto, Japan 2011
Galleria Ponte, Kanazawa, Japan, 2011, 12, 14, 16, 18, 21, 25
Art Zone Kaguraoka, Kyoto, Japan, 2011, 14, 18, 22
Hall of Halls Rokko, Kobe, Japan, 2011
TO OV cafe, Sapporo, Japan, 2012
Nakao Gallery, Kumamoto, 2012, 16, 24
Gallery EM, Nagasaki, Japan, 2012, 15
Gallery Shimadu, Fukuoka, Japan, 2012, 13
Gallery KoEN, Kagoshima, Japan, 2012
Gallery TURM, Akita, Japan, 2013
Gallery MORYTA, Fukuoka, Japan, 2013
Gallery Artgraph, Nagoya, 2018
ASTRoPE, Fukuoka, 2023, 25
Gallery TEN, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2014
The City Gallery The Balkan Bridges, Kragujevac, Serbia, 2015
The Gallery TRAG, Belgrad, Serbia, 2016
NARODNI MUZEJ LESKOVAC, Leskovac, Serbia, 2016
Art Gallery Kazanlak, Bulgaria, 2017
“Kulturbunker” Cultural Center Cologne Museum, Cologne, Germany, 2019
City Library Bonn, Bad Godesberg, Bonn, Germany, 2019
L Gallery, Hiroshima, Japan, 2020
Davidson Galleries, Seattle, USA, 2021
Kurobe Art Museum, Toyama, Japan, 2021
The 12th Trienniale Internationale de Gravures in Chamalieres, Chamalieres, France
Group Exhibition:
2025 “Kami to Tawamuru”, Gallery EM, Nagasaki, Japan
“Kouki Tsuritani and Atsuo Suzuki”, Misaki Gallery, Oita, Japan
EXPO CHICAGO, Chicago, USA
The Society of Wood Engravers 87th Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
2024 The Society of Wood Engravers 86th Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA, Fukuoka Convention Center, Japan
“Anniversary Exhibition”, Art de Art View, Takatsuki, Japan
2023 “Sequence of a Dream”, CHICAGO PRINTMAKERS COLLABORATIVE, Chicago,USA
EXPO CHICAGO, Chicago, USA
“Shinobazu Chronicle 2023”, Shinobazu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The Society of Wood Engravers 85th Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
“CONTINUATION OF DREAMS. BEGINNING OF STORIES”, Kurobe Art City Museum, Japan
A TALE OF TWO CITIES, Art of Nature Contemporary Gallery, Hong Kong
34th Annual International Small Print Show, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, USA
THE CARDS EXHIBITION Vol.2. Gallery108, Okayama
2022 The Society of Wood Engravers 84th Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
6th “Han-to-Hyogen”, Iwasaki Museum, Japan
Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong 2022, Hall 3BC HKCEC, Hong Kong
“Flower Wall”, ASTRoPE, Fukuoka, Japan
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery ROKUTSUBO, Tokamachi, Niigata
“Han-wo-Tsumugu”, Gallery 108, Okayama
33rd Annual International Small Print Show, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, USA
“gift 2022”, Shinobazu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Hikari-no-Kasanari Vol.2”, Art Space KAWAMOTO, Toyama, Japan
“Seigetsu-no-Hanga Club” , Gallery EM, Nagasaki, Japan
THE CARDS EXHIBITION Vol.1. Gallery108, Okayama
2021 “Rich Black Exhibition”, Bunkamura Gallery 1F, Tokyo, Japan
“PORTRAITS?”, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, USA
“SCRAMBLE”, Shinobazu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION OF GALLERY ARTGRAPH Part Ⅵ,
Gallery Artgraph, Nagoya, Japan
“gift 2021”, Shinobazu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The 11th Trienniale Internationale de Gravures in Chamalieres, France
“Yunus Emre” International Invited Virtual Exlibris Exhibition
Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, Turkey
32nd Annual International Small Print Show, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, USA
“Hikari-no-Kasanari Vol.1”, Art Space KAWAMOTO, Toyama, Japan
2020 The Society of Wood Engravers 82st Annual Exhibition, MOMA, Machynlleth, UK
“Blue Rocker”, Museum of Poster and Printed Arts MATOU, Toulouse, France
5th “Han-to-Hyogen”, Iwasaki Museum, Japan
“Kotoba no Iranai Monogatari”, Bunkamura Box Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Shinobazu Chronicle 1960 - 2020”, Shinobazu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
02nd Art Biennial International 'ARTiJA, Mostovi Balkana, Kragujevac, Serbia
2020 CWAJ Open Print Art Gallery, Online, Japan
31st Annual International Small Print Show, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, USA
“Nakao Hanga Club”, Nakao Gallery, Kumamoto, Japan
“Hanga Club - December”, Gallery EM, Nagasaki, Japan
“gift 2020 with Amabie”, Shinobazu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“STAFF SELECTIONS”, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, USA
2019 Cesaros International mail-art-project, “ortung Ⅵ - in the spirit of gold”, Schwabach, Germany
63rd CWAJ, Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan
“monochrome + α”, GALLERY HANA SHIMOKITAZAWA, Tokyo, Japan
“Blue Rocker”, Museum of Fine Arts of Yekaterinburg,Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Russia
The Society of Wood Engravers 81st Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
“Kulturbunker”, Cultural Center Cologne-Museum, Cologne, Germany
30th Annual International Small Print Exhibition, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, USA
“ROKKO Art market 2019”, Rokko international musical box museum, Japan
5th 'Enter into Art' Jury, “Kulturbahnhof” - Cultural center, Germany
“gift”, Shinobazu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018 International Mezzotint Invitational, Davidson Galleries, USA
“Hanga de Tsunagu”, Higashihiroshima City Museum, Japan
Premio Leonardo Sciascia the IX edition, Scuola Internazuionale di Grafica, Italy
“Dohanga-Raisan!”, Shinobazu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Homage Nagare Kadosaka Ⅱ”, Shinobazu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
62nd CWAJ, Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan
“Ex Libris 2018”, Nakao Gallery, Kumamoto, Japan
“Hatsunatsu-no-Uta”, Gallery EM, Nagasaki, Japan
“HANGA x BONSAI”, Gallery Shimazu, Fukuoka, Japan
The Society of Wood Engravers 80th Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
4th 'Enter into Art' International Installations 2017 - 2018,
“Kulturbahnhof” - Cultural center, Germany
ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2018, Hotel Okura Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
“Nominee and Won”, Town Hall Foyer Weißenthurm, Germany
The 1st ”mezzotint India”, Bihar Museum, India
3rd Jogja International Miniprint Biennale (JIMB) 2018, Miracle Prints, Indonesia
ART KAOHSIUNG 2018, The Pier-2 Art Center, Taiwan
29th Annual International Small Print Show, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, USA
‘ARTiJA 01st International Art Biennial, Mostovi Balkana, Kragujevac, Serbia
“Collection 2018”, Gallery Art Graph, Nagoya
2017 28th Annual International Small Print Exhibition, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, USA
5th Annual International Juried Print Exhibition, Remarque/New Grounds Print Workshop,
Albuquerque, USA
McNay Print Fair, McNay Art Museum, USA
“palanski art”, Gallery Wall, National Library “Stevan Sremac”, Nish, Serbia
4th 'Enter into Art' International Installations 2017 - 2018,
“Kulturbahnhof” - Cultural center, Germany
Splitgraphic International Graphic Art Biennial, Old City Hall, Croatia
“Animal Ma-rui”, Shinobazu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
61st CWAJ, Tokyo, Japan, Highfield Hall and Gardens, MA, USA
ON PAPER contest 2017, Chicago Printmakers, Chicago, USA
8th SPLITGRAPHIC BIENNIAL 2017, Old City Hall, Split, Croatia
International Contemporary Miniprint of Kazanlak, Art Gallery Kazanlak, Bulgaria
“The Gathering”, Gallery EM, Nagasaki, Japan
4th International Mezzotint Festival, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Russia
Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition, Inbe Art Space, Tokushima, Japan
“Physical Expression, Rhythm, Memory”, Kurobe Art City Museum, Japan
ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2017, Hotel Okura Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
“Han-to-Hyogen”, Iwasaki Museum, Japan
2016 “palanski art”, Nish Cultural Centre, Serbia
Kouki Tsuritani + Ryoji Suzuki, Atelier Nishinomiya, Nishinomiya, Japan
“JAPANESE PRINTS SHOW 2016”, Shanghai, China
8th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro – 2016, Alijo, Portugal
2015 Kouki Tsuritani + Atsuko Suzuki, New woks “Small Autumn, Blue Autumn”,
Shinobazu Gallery, Tokyo
Kouki Tsuritani + Atsuko Suzuki, New woks “Never-ending story”, Misaki Gallery, Oita, Japan
Kouki Tsuritani and Ogawa chiaki original calendar exhibition, Gallery ART G, Takasaki, Japan
“Contemporary Japanese Printmakers”, Davidson Galleries, USA
“remix!!” Shinobazu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
International Contemporary Miniprint of Kazanlak, Art Gallery Kazanlak, Bulgaria
The 5th 《Hangzhou Art Fistival 居室版画》art exhibition, Hangzhou, China
Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennial 2015, Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo
3rd International Mezzotint Festival, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Russia
“palanski art”, The Gallery TRAG, Belgrad, Serbia
The Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia, Gallery Serbia, Nis, Serbia
“Graphics of two Japanese: Kouki Tsuritani and Tamekane Yoshikatsu”,
The Gallery Synagogue of Nis National Museum, Serbia
ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2015, Solaria Nishitetsu Hotel, Fukuoka, Japan
Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition 2015, Inbe Art space, Tokushima, Japan
“ TSUMARI de EXHIBITION 2015”, Gallery 6 tsubo, Niigata, Japan
“Han-to-Hyogen”, Iwasaki Museum, Japan
2014 The Society of Wood Engravers 77th Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
The 4th 《Hangzhou Art Fistival 居室版画》art exhibition, Hangzhou, China
“ART NAGOYA 2014” , Nagoya, Japan
“The Art of Books”, Shinobazu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“KOBE ART MARCHE 2014” Kobe Meriken Park Oriental Hotel, Kobe, Japan
2013 “HAN and Expression”, Iwasaki museum, Yokohama, Japan
The Society of Wood Engravers 76th Annual Exhibition,
“A selection of Japanese relief prints”, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
“DOBUTSU-HYOUGEN”, Nishida museum, Toyama, Japan
International Biennale for Miniature Graphics, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
Exhibition of Children's Book Illustraters, Bologna, Italy
“The warm story that music boxis and prints weave II”,
Rokko international musical box museum, Japan
“Han-to-Hyogen”, Iwasaki Museum, Japan
2012 “Japanese Prints”, Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, Washington, USA
“Both Sides of the Brain”, Basile Gallery, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis Indiana
Washington Printmakers Gallery, Silver Spring Maryland
Gallery 215, Northern Illinois University School of Art
“Two Fables”, Hoshi to Mori no Uta Museum, Japan
“Bologna the Wonderland”, The PIER-2 Art Center, Taiwan
“The warm story that music boxis and prints weave”,
Rokko international musical box museum, Japan
Ⅶ The Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada
2011 The Society of Wood Engravers 74th Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
Contemporary Mezzotints, Davidson Galleries, USA
The World of Wood-Engraving, Iwasaki Museum, Japan
1st International Mezzotint Festival, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Russia
Exhibition of Children's Book Illustraters, Bologna, Italy
Galway International Mini Print Exhibition, Galway City Museum, Ireland
Contemporary Arts Exhibition Under Relationship THAI - JAPAN, Kenminkaikan Museum, Japan
2010 The Society of Wood Engravers 73rd Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
5th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro – 2010, Alijo, Portugal
Footprint International Print Competition 2010, Norwalk, USA
“From the 20th century to the 21th century, Zhejiang Art Museum, China
“Yume Jyu Ya” Galleria Ponte, Kanazawa, Japan
Contemporary Art Toyama. The Toyama Art of Modern Museum, Japan
Ⅵ The Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada
2009 “Friends of Bologna”, Art de Art view, Takatsuki, Japan
“Tera no Machi ART in INAMI”, Jyo-ren temple, Inami, Japan
54th CWAJ, Tokyo, Japan
“JAPAN PRINTS SHOW - from 20c to 21c - “, Shanghai, China
Japan Prints 2009 in Syogawa, Syogawa Museum, Toyama, Japan
‘The Art and the Mountain’ The 1st International Competition Exhibition Mini Print
and Ex Libris 2008, Milano, Italy
LIBERTY AND ART - WITHOUT BORDERS, United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA
7th British International Mini Print Exhibition, London, UK
CREARE AOYAMA ART FESTA, Aoyama Art Forum, Tokyo
HAPPY WORKS 2009, Shinobazu Gallery, Tokyo
2008 CREARE AOYAMA ART FESTA, Aoyama, Tokyo
Mitos y Leyendas, Xylon Argentina
Concorso Internazionale Exlibristico “Il Bosco Stregto” Bosia, Italy
The Society of Wood Engravers 71st Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
Prints for Peace, Monterrey NL México
The Americas Biennial, Iowa, USA
Dedalo Center for Contemporary Art "Printmaking Today" International Review
Japan Prints 2008 in Syogawa, Syogawa Museum, Toyama, Japan
Intercontinental Biennial of small Graphics, Alba, Romania
V International Competition for Ex Libris, Bulgaria
The 5th International Biennial of Miniature Art Częstochowa 2008, Poland
International Ex libris Competition ‘Gdańsk Lions’ Gdańsk, Poland
BIMPE V, 5th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada
VELVET, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, U.K.
Originals 08, London, U.K.
2007 Edinburgh Printmakers Winter Exhibition 2007, Edinburgh, U.K.
KOKORO NO HANGA. Shinobazu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Art Toyama. The Toyama Art of Modern Museum, Japan
Japan Prints 2007 in Syogawa, Syogawa Museum, Toyama, Japan
8th International Biennial of Engraving PREMIO ACQUI Acqui terme, Italy
“ SEEDS ” all things is little seeds Gallery MORYTA, Hukuoka, Japan
Japanese Modern Prints Kurobe Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
6th International exhibition of miniatures "little m", Vilnius, Lithuania
The 1st International Illustration Exhibition of Dictionaries Book. Teheran, Iran
“ON THE CUTTING EDGE.” The Library of Congress, Washington, USA
Exhibition of Children's Book Illustraters, Bologna, Italy
52th CWAJ, Tokyo, Japan
Winter Exhibition 2007, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, U.K.
2006 COLLECTION-SAKKAnoSHITEN- Kurobe Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
Exhibition of Children's Book Illustraters, Bologna, Italy
LESSEDRA, Sofia, BULGARIA
HANGANOMIRYOKU'06, Shinobazu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
BIMP Ⅳ, 4th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada
The Iowa Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Miniature Prints, Iowa, USA
The International Small Engraving Salon 2006 , FLOREAN MUSEUM, Romania
Ⅱ.International Print Exhibition Conpetition, Istanbul, Turkey
HANGA-TAISHO-TEN Hamamatsu Art Museum,Shizuoka, Japan
2005 LESSEDRA, Sofia, BULGARIA
50th CWAJ, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Art Grove in COLARE, Toyama, Japan
Artists of Printmaking, Hukushima, Japan
FIELD OF NOW,Tokyo,Japan
2002 Artists of Printmaking, Hukushima, Japan
2001 KOKOLO NO GENHUUKEI, The museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
2000 TOYAMA HAN ILOILO,UTHIYAMA-TEI, Toyama, Japan
1998 FIELD OF NOW, Tokyo, Japan
Public Collection:
KANAZAWA College of Art, Japan
Kurobe Art Museum, Japan
The Library of Congress, USA
INTER-ART Contemporary Art Museum, Romania
KIRKWOOD COLLEGE, USA
Painting and Sculpture Museum Association , Turkey
The International Biannual of Engraving Museum , Italy
University of Wales, Aberystwyth Print Collection , U.K
Gdańsk Archipelago of Culture , Poland
Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium
The Centre of Culture Promotion „Gaude Mater” , Poland
Dedalo and Museum Archives : Castle of Castiglione Abruzzo , Italy
Zhejiang Art Museum, China
Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Russia
Tama Art University Museum, Japan
“Imago Mundi”, Benetton Collection
The National Library of Paris, France