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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