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Reina MIKAME

 

Artist

She pursues painterly expressions Concerning human perception through capturing scenes in everyday life, tracing the source of their impression, and engaging in repeated contemplation.

Born in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, Japan in 1992. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts (M.F.A.) in 2017. Selected solo exhibitions include: “Looking at the line” at Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo(2021); “Looking at the color” at Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo(2020); “project N 69 Reina Mikame” at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo(2017)

Based in Tokyo, Shizuoka, and Aichi, Japan

Biography

2017 M.F.A, Oil Painting Course, Department of Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts

2015 B.A, Oil Painting Course, Department of Painting, Tama Art University

1992 Born in Aichi, Japan

Solo Exhibitions

2024

"Distance of the Light" Verkehr Museum, Shizuoka

"Following  the Light" Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo

2023

"Deconstructing the Periphery" Gallery Pictor, Kanagawa

2022

"Embracing the Light" Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo

2021

"Looking at the line" Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo

"Touch the heat" MONO.LOGUES, Tokyo

2020

"Looking at the color​" Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo

2018

"The Weight of Water, The Light that Blurs," Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo

"The light that exists over there" Iijimashouten, Kanagawa

2017

"project N 69 MIKAME Reina" Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo

"Reina MIKAME Exhibition" Roppongi Hills Club, Tokyo

2016

"Reflection" Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo

2015

“Exhibition of Cafe Kiyosumi - Reina MIKAME” Cafe Kiyosumi, Tokyo

2013

“Fall in Love” Art House Aichi, Aichi

“TWS-Emerging 203” Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo

2012

“Tokyo Wonder Wall 2012” Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions

2024

Drawing with the Light” The Reference, Seoul, Korea

anonymous art project “collective2024” OMOTESANDO CROSSING PARK, Tokyo

“[Go back and forth, Proceed at your pleasure] Final Group Show” Gallery Pictor, Kanagawa

2023

“CADAN × ISETAN ART GALLERY The Painter” ISETAN ART GALLERY, Tokyo

Kouichi Tabata, Kisho Mwkaiyama, Reina Mikame, Nerhol, Takashi Kunitani “sky" Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo

“MEMORIES 01” selected by Yoshiaki Inoue CADAN YURAKUCHO, Tokyo

“[Go back and forth, Proceed at your pleasure] Opening Group Show” Gallery Pictor, Kanagawa

“Artslope"  SEIBU SHIBUYA Art Gallery, Tokyo

2022

“MONO.LOGUES  at GASBON #1” GASBON METABOLISM, Yamanashi

“Artslope"  SEIBU SHIBUYA Art Gallery, Tokyo

can (not) reachEUKARYOTE, Tokyo

Light Brain Vol.3 Re-Lux/Lax the urban environmentITOKI TOKYO XORK, Tokyo

"hueLe Museum art Labo supported by Yutaka Kikutake Gallery" hueLe Museum art Labo, Tokyo

“Spirited Artist in Toyota” Toyota Citizen gallery, Aichi

Reason of Picture” MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo

2021​​

“Toyota Hybrid Art Exhibition” Toyota Garou, Aichi

“Collectors’ Collective Vol.5” biscuit gallery, Tokyo

UNLOGICAL” MONO.LOGUES, Tokyo 

emerging japanese painters” SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

“Beloved things” Toyota Garou, Aichi

“The conversation of lovable art” GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS, Tokyo

2020

"It is a season when the sun shines brightly against you and you tend to feel sick, but please spend your regular and healthy days."  SEIBU SHIBUYA Art Gallery, Tokyo

“Spinner Markt” Spiral Garden, Tokyo

"VOCA2020- The Vision of Contemporary Art" The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

“Time After Time(s)” Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo

2019

Atsuko Yamashita  and Reina Mikame “Painting” TAKU SOMETANI GALLERY, Tokyo

ART DAYS Toyota 2019 " Toyota Specific: Recalled Folklor" TOYOTASHI MINGEI-KAN, Aichi

“Practice_01: Drawing lines” EUKARYOTE, Tokyo

ART DAYS Toyota 2019 " Toyota Specific: Scenery and Signs" Sky Hall Toyota, Aichi

"ARTS CHALLENGE 2019" Aichi Arts Center, Aichi

2017

Hirofumi Isoya, Reina Mikame, Kisho Mwkaiyama, Kouichi Tabata" Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo

"Through the Glass "Tokyo University of the Arts (Traveling exhibition at AGC Studio) , Tokyo

"65th Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation Works Exhibitions" Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo

2016

"Art in YUJUKU" Yujuku spa, Gumma

“Honeycomb Catalogue” Gallery Senbyakudo, Tokyo

“O'YA5” MONDAY ART SPACE, Tokyo

Mariko Oya, Nerhol, Reina Mikame Group Exhibition” Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo

2015

“Where does a person go now? -Master class student’s exhibition of Tokyo University of the Arts” Gallery Senbyakudo, Tokyo

 “Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi" Marunouchi Building,  1F MARUCUBE, Tokyo

“Föhn” Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo

“Arisa KIMURA and Reina MIKAME” Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo

“TARGET” Fuchu Art Museum, Citizen gallery, Tokyo

“Joint Graduation Exhibition of 5 Art Universities in Tokyo" The National Art Center, Tokyo

2014

"Eijiro SAITO and Reina MIKAME” Fukagawa bansho, Tokyo

2013

“Momentary miracle” Gallery Nagatani, Tokyo

“O'YA4/Open Atelier” Tama Art University, Tokyo

“Super Open Studio” Lucky Happy Studio, Tokyo

“O'YA3” Turner Gallery, Tokyo

2012

“O'YA2” Tama Art University, Tokyo

“Tokyo Wonder Wall Winning Exhibition” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo

2011

“O'YA1” Tama Art University, Tokyo

Prizes

2021

Toyota City Cultural New Face Award, Toyota City Cultural Promotion Foundation

2019

Selection,  “ARTS CHALLENGE 2019” 

2012

Tokyo Wonder Wall Award, “Tokyo Wonder Wall 2012”  

Public Collection

Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art

​Toyota City, Aichi

Art fair / Event

2024

Frieze Seoul” COEX, Seoul, Korea

Tokyo Gendai” PACIFICO Yokohama, Kanagawa

Liste Art Fair Basel​ 2024” Messe Basel Hall 1.1, Basel, Switzerland

ART​ OnO” SETEC, Seoul, Korea

Hospitality in HananokoridukiLINEN and DECOR HOUSE, Tokyo

2023

NADA Miami 2023” Ice Palace Studios, Miami

Art Collaboration Kyoto” Kyoto International Conference Center Event Hall, Kyoto

“ART NAKANOSHIMA 10th anniversary,  2023” DOJIMA RIVER FORUM, Osaka

Foundations” Artsy (online)

2022

“NADA Miami 2022” Ice Palace Studios, Miami

Art Collaboration Kyoto” Kyoto International Conference Center Event Hall, Kyoto

“ARToVILLA MARKET” Fabcafe Tokyo, Loftwork COOOP 10, Tokyo

“ART NAKANOSHIMA #6,  2022” DOJIMA RIVER FORUM, Osaka

“Minatomachi Art Book Fair 2022” MAT, Nagoya, Aichi

2021

“ART NAKANOSHIMA #5,  2021” DOJIMA RIVER FORUM, Osaka

“Minatomachi Art Book Fair 2021” MAT, Nagoya, Aichi

2020

“ART NAKANOSHIMA #4,  2020” DOJIMA RIVER FORUM, Osaka

“Spinner Markt” Spiral Garden, Tokyo

“CADAN: GENDAI BIJUTSU” TERRADA B&C HALL, Tokyo

2019

“ART NAKANOSHIMA #3,  2019” DOJIMA RIVER FORUM, Osaka

2018

“ART NAKANOSHIMA #2,  2018” DOJIMA RIVER FORUM, Osaka

Talk 

2023

Artist Talk “Deconstructing the Periphery”  Speakers: Naha Kanie, Yusuke Hasegawa and Reina Mikame

2022

Artist Talk “An Examination of Painting Today”  Speakers: Kenjiro Hosaka, Shunsuke Imai and Reina Mikame

Talk Session “IF I STAY OUT OF LIFE...?“  Speakers: Ryujin Kiyoshi and Reina Mikame (Guest)

2021

Online Talk Event “Look and write"  Speakers: Soichi Chigusa and Reina Mikame (Guest)

2020

 J-WAVE “Growing Reed” (Guest)

Online Talk Event “The art room"

2019

Artist's Talk “Talk about Drawing lines”  Speakers: Tomohiro Kubota, Taishi Hatayama, Reina Mikame and Shin Yoshimura

Articles

2024

“Art Collector's No.187” Seikatsu no Tomo Sha, October, 2024

“Eureka” Seidosha, March, 2024

Harper’s BAZAARHEARST FUJINGAHOMarch, 2024

2023

“Art Collector's No.173” Seikatsu no Tomo ShaAugust, 2023

“GOETHE” Gentosha, April, 2023

“Art Collector's No.168Seikatsu no Tomo ShaMarch, 2023

2022

“Art Collector's No.161” Seikatsu no Tomo Sha, August, 2022

“Art Collector's No.156Seikatsu no Tomo ShaMarch, 2022

2021

“Art Collector's No.149 Seikatsu no Tomo Sha, August, 2021

“Art Collector's No.144Seikatsu no Tomo Sha, March, 2021

2020

“Art Collector's No.134” Seikatsu no Tomo ShaMay, 2020

“HERS” Kobunsha, January, 2020

2016

“L'OFFISIEL JAPAN No.011” Seven & I pub. November, 2016

Others

2022

 “IF I STAY OUT OF LIFE...? for the  main visual

2021

 “HARE THE FILTER by REINA MIKAME“  collaboration with HARE

2017

 “THE NORTH FACE KIDS 2017 SPRING & SUMMER  Feel the wind of the season In charge of artworks

2016

 “THE NORTH FACE KIDS 2016 FALL & WINTER  Under a big sky In charge of artworks

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