Meet The Artists
Meet The Artists
Artwork featured on the cover of the 2023 NewsLetter.Reproduction strictly prohibited, all rights belong to the artist.
Naho Ito
This is an artist who is actively engaged in their craft, based in Kyoto (Japan).
Instagram：nahoito_at.y
Naho Ito CV
2002 B.F.A in Japanese Painting, Tama Art University ⁄ Tokyo
Solo Exhibitions
2022 "Constellation", Gallery G-77 ⁄ Kyoto 2019 "A Word", Gallery G-77 ⁄ Kyoto 2018 “A Walk with Kierkegaard II”, Art Gallery Kitano ⁄ Kyoto 2013 “A Walk with Kierkegaard”, Art Gallery Kitano ⁄ Kyoto 2009 “Forest of Paintings”, Gallery Maronie ⁄ Kyoto 2007 “Moment” paint fresco, Otowa Restaurant ⁄ Tochigi
Selected Groupe Exhibitions & Fairs
2023 the 28th SEN Kyoto City Kyocera Museum ⁄ Kyoto (Tue., Apr. 25 - Sun., Apr. 30) the 6th NANASOTEN Gallery Create Raku ⁄ Kyoto 2022 SUMI Myokoji-Temple ⁄ Kyoto SEN + en Japanese style painting exhibision Kyoto City Kyocera Museum ⁄ Kyoto MONOCHROME Gallery EGAKU ⁄ Kyoto “Butterfly Dream ~A Dream within a Dream~” Myokoji-Temple ⁄ Kyoto the 5th NANASOTEN Gallery Create Raku ⁄ Kyoto 2021 SEN small works exhibition Gallery Keifu ⁄ Kyoto the 26th SEN Kyoto City Museum ⁄ Kyoto 2020 Art on Paper Gallery G-77 ⁄ NY 2019 ”The shapeless form” Gallery EGAKU ⁄ Kyoto Seattle Art Fair Gallery G-77 ⁄ Seattle AAF Battersea Gallery G-77 ⁄ London AAF Brussels Gallery G-77 ⁄ Blussels art MRKT San Francisco Gallery Repost ⁄ San Francisco 2018 SCOPE Art Show NY, Gallery G-77 SCOPE Art Show Basel, Gallery G-77 AAF Battersea, Gallery G-77 2017 1st Anniversay Exhibition of Gallery EGAKU Gallery EGAKU ⁄ Kyoto 2016 "Coincidence" Myokoji-Temple ⁄ Kyoto
Statement:
"When I paint, I always think about a shivering that humans long, long ago felt from an internal shock. That shiver forced them to speak words that didn't yet have meaning and made them into one person and then an individual. I want to reach that shivering from where we are now, and I start drawing a picture by drawing lines, coloring, and pulling water. I'm not drawing a grand story, a firm image, or any personal claims or messages. Just as there is not just one path to somewhere, everything intertwines in this world full of contradictions, there is nothing definitive, and everything is moving. I'm trying to depict the tension of a moment when various incompatible things, acceptable things, familiar things, unfamiliar things, things that appear similar but are completely different, acknowledge each other while retaining their individuality, without abandoning those contradictions. Moreover, that moment is moving. I think it has a certain nobility similar to that first shivering. And in that gap, light can be glimpsed. That's the kind of painting I want to create."
Naho Ito
Artwork featured on the cover of the 2023 NewsLetter.Reproduction strictly prohibited, all rights belong to the artist.
Naho Ito
This is an artist who is actively engaged in their craft, based in Kyoto (Japan).
Instagram：nahoito_at.y
Naho Ito CV
2002 B.F.A in Japanese Painting, Tama Art University ⁄ Tokyo
Solo Exhibitions
| 2022 "Constellation", Gallery G-77 ⁄ Kyoto |
| 2019 "A Word", Gallery G-77 ⁄ Kyoto |
| 2018 “A Walk with Kierkegaard II”, Art Gallery Kitano ⁄ Kyoto |
| 2013 “A Walk with Kierkegaard”, Art Gallery Kitano ⁄ Kyoto |
| 2009 “Forest of Paintings”, Gallery Maronie ⁄ Kyoto |
| 2007 “Moment” paint fresco, Otowa Restaurant ⁄ Tochigi |
Selected Groupe Exhibitions & Fairs
| 2023 the 28th SEN Kyoto City Kyocera Museum ⁄ Kyoto (Tue., Apr. 25 - Sun., Apr. 30) |
| the 6th NANASOTEN Gallery Create Raku ⁄ Kyoto |
| 2022 SUMI Myokoji-Temple ⁄ Kyoto |
| SEN + en Japanese style painting exhibision Kyoto City Kyocera Museum ⁄ Kyoto |
| MONOCHROME Gallery EGAKU ⁄ Kyoto |
| “Butterfly Dream ~A Dream within a Dream~” Myokoji-Temple ⁄ Kyoto |
| the 5th NANASOTEN Gallery Create Raku ⁄ Kyoto |
| 2021 SEN small works exhibition Gallery Keifu ⁄ Kyoto |
| the 26th SEN Kyoto City Museum ⁄ Kyoto |
| 2020 Art on Paper Gallery G-77 ⁄ NY |
| 2019 ”The shapeless form” Gallery EGAKU ⁄ Kyoto |
| Seattle Art Fair Gallery G-77 ⁄ Seattle |
| AAF Battersea Gallery G-77 ⁄ London |
| AAF Brussels Gallery G-77 ⁄ Blussels |
| art MRKT San Francisco Gallery Repost ⁄ San Francisco |
| 2018 SCOPE Art Show NY, Gallery G-77 |
| SCOPE Art Show Basel, Gallery G-77 |
| AAF Battersea, Gallery G-77 |
| 2017 1st Anniversay Exhibition of Gallery EGAKU Gallery EGAKU ⁄ Kyoto |
| 2016 "Coincidence" Myokoji-Temple ⁄ Kyoto |
Statement:
"When I paint, I always think about a shivering that humans long, long ago felt from an internal shock. That shiver forced them to speak words that didn't yet have meaning and made them into one person and then an individual. I want to reach that shivering from where we are now, and I start drawing a picture by drawing lines, coloring, and pulling water. I'm not drawing a grand story, a firm image, or any personal claims or messages. Just as there is not just one path to somewhere, everything intertwines in this world full of contradictions, there is nothing definitive, and everything is moving. I'm trying to depict the tension of a moment when various incompatible things, acceptable things, familiar things, unfamiliar things, things that appear similar but are completely different, acknowledge each other while retaining their individuality, without abandoning those contradictions. Moreover, that moment is moving. I think it has a certain nobility similar to that first shivering. And in that gap, light can be glimpsed. That's the kind of painting I want to create."
Naho Ito