Ryohei Usui
Utilizing ordinary objects as his main motif/medium, Usui has released works that alter our “perspectives” to things already existing in our life, as if making Mitate (an old Japanese term for “metaphor” in haiku culture) updated to the contemporary time.
Works
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Selected solo show
- 2020
- “Solid, State, Survivor”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2016
- “Objects on a table”
- UTRECHT,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2015
- “Temporary things”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2012
- “PET (summer edition 2012)”
- Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino,
- Kanagawa, Japan
- “PET (Portrait of Encountered Things)”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2009
- “encounter”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2008
- “Flying goza mat”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2007
- “Sunday Remains”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
Selected group show
- 2020
- “Megururi Art Shizuoka 2020”
- Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art,
- Shizuoka, Japan
- 2019
- “SETTAI STYLE: From Edo Chic to Tokyo Modern”
- Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan,
- (traveled to Mitsui Memorial Museum, Tokyo / The Suiboku Museum, Toyama / Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan)
- 2017
- “Amazing Craftsmanship! From Meiji Kogei to Contemporary Art”
- Mitsui Memorial Museum, Tokyo, Japan,
- (traveled to Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu / Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum, Yamaguchi / The Suiboku Museum, Toyama / Abeno Harukas Art Museum, Osaka, Japan)
- “Spring Fever”
- KOMAGOME Soko,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2016
- “Contemporary tales from the province IV - Susaki artist in residence”
- Susaki Machikado Gallery,
- Kochi, Japan
- “Assembridge Nagoya 2016: Panorama Garden - Discovering Signs in an Alternative Ecosystem”
- Former dormitory of the customs of Port of Nagoya,
- Aichi, Japan
- 2015
- “Contemporary tales from the province III - Susaki artist in residence”
- Susaki Machikado Gallery,
- Kochi, Japan
- “by the mountain path”
- White Rainbow gallery,
- London, UK
- “Open Theatre 2015 Totsuzen Museum”
- KAAT,
- Kanagawa, Japan
- 2014
- “Goldfish”
- P!,
- ew York, USA
- “VOCA; The Vision of Contemporary Art 2014”
- The Ueno Royal Museum,
- Tokyo,Japan
- 2013
- “Now Japan; Exhibition with 37 contemporary Japanese artists”
- Kunsthal KAdE,
- Amersfoort, The Netherlands
- “Musubijutsu”
- Museum of Art Shizuoka,
- Shizuoka, Japan
- “Something Overlooked”
- sendai mediatheque,
- Miyagi, Japan
Public collection
- M+,
- Hong Kong
- Rennie Collection,
- Canada
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