Born 1974 in Yamagata, Japan, Fuminao Suenaga graduated from Tokyo Zokei University in 1999 with a major in painting. His paintings and three-dimensional works are based on visual subject matters inspired by elements relating to exhibition spaces and observations made during day-to-day activities.

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1974
Born in Yamaguchi prefecture

1999
Graduated in Tokyo Zokei University

2000
Finished research program at graduate school of Tokyo Zokei University

[SOLO EXHIBITIONS]

2024
Light paintings, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo

2020
Picture Frame, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo

2018
Form, Gallery ZERO, Osaka
Search Result, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo
Unknown Sculpture Series No.7 #6 Generic Object, galleyr21yo-j, Tokyo

2016
Breathing Painting, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo
Fuminao Suenaga, N3331, Tokyo

2015
Houkago Remix (after-school remix), Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo
Unshrap, Gallery ZERO, Osaka
Camouflage, Gallery Nakano, Yamaguchi

2014
APMoA Project, ARCH, vol. 11, ‘Museum Piece’ , Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Exhibition Room 6, Aichi

2013
in the corner of sight, switch point, Tokyo

2012
Yamaguchi Artist Support Project, Suenaga Fuminao solo exhibition ‘KAGERI,’ Yamaguchi prefecture
Sampling Trace, A-things, Tokyo

2011
-2009/ imitate, See Saw Gallery + Café, Aichi

2008
Recent Paintings, switch point, Tokyo

2007
Copy & Existence, Time & Style Existence, Tokyo

2005
Paintings and Prints, Gallery Mai, Tokyo
Standard, switch point, Tokyo
Standard 2, Nakazaki Tohru Playroom, Tokyo

2004
Visual Amplifier, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo
Mixing View, switch point, Tokyo

2003
Suenaga Fuminao Exhibition, node, Tokyo

2002
Exhibition Curated by Okamura Takao 12: Suenaga Fuminao, Ayumi Gallery, Tokyo

2001
Suenaga Fuminao Exhibition, Gallery ES, Tokyo

1999
Suenaga Fuminao Exhibition, Gallery Fresca, Tokyo

[GROUP EXHIBITIONS]

2019
Weavers of Worlds – A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern and Contemporary Art -, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Public-ness of the Art Center – Part1, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki

2018
framework, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo
Tanaka Yaesu Gallery, Tokyo
blanClass, Kanagawa

2017
PilotPlant – Marcel Duchamp, CAS, Osaka

2016
Art Fair Kimawari 2016, Kimawarisou, Ibaragi
Itazu Litho-Grafik “Footprints”, Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa
αM project “Trans / Real: The Potential of Intangible Art vol.3 Fuminao Suenaga, Yui Yaegashi“, gallery αM, Tokyo
Locus of Aura – Osamu Kokufu, Motohiro Tomii, Fuminao Suenaga, CAS, Osaka
TAMA VIVANT2 2016, Tama Art University, Parthenon Tama, Tokyo
Group Show, Gallery Nakano, Yamaguchi
TRANS ARTS TOKYO 2016, Good Moernig Cafe Kanda Nishikicyo, Tokyo
calendar, Cafe R, Tokyo
ZOKEI NEXT50, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo

2015
Director’s Eye#3 Arata Hasegawa OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR, the three konohana, Osaka
dreamers, blanClass, Kanagawa
railroad siding 2015, Ex-Tokorozawa city supply center of school meals, Saitama
4painters 4paintings, mime, Tokyo
discreet abstraction – curated by Fuminao Suenaga, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo

2014
Hovering: Hara Takeshi + Suenaga Fuminao, See Saw Gallery + Café, Aichi
Akisada Isamu, Suenaga Fuminao Two-Person Exhibition, Gallery Nakano, Yamaguchi
Color Walls II, Time & Style Residence, Tokyo
Intersection Point, Okamura Takao with 13 Artists, Ayumi Gallery, Tokyo
1974, Part 1, Born in 1974, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki

2013
Resembling Empty Space, Gendai Heights, Tokyo
VOCA 2013 – Prospects of Contemporary Art, New Two-Dimensional Artists, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
Asano Takayuki, Suenaga Fuminao, Makihara Taisuke: ‘Safety Place,’ Talion Gallery, Tokyo
Notice, Nihon University College of Art, Ekoda campus, West Building B1, corridor in front of sculpture studio, Tokyo
CSP1 – Amplitude, Kuwasawa Design Institute, 1 F, Tokyo
DAI CHU SHOW – Abstracts Now, Fuchu Art Museum Citizens’ Gallery, loop hole, Tokyo

2012
Art Program Ome 2012: Beyond Existence, Ome Municipal Museum of Art, Tokyo

2011
Out Range 2011, Bunpodo Gallery, Tokyo
Days with ‘be’ – Suenaga Fuminao, Taguchi Jun, Tanabe Takeshi, Gallery Nakano, Yamaguchi

2010
6th Zokei Contemporary Artists Exhibition Pantahedron, Tokyo Zokei University Manzu Art Museum , Tokyo
Color of Prints, Bunpodo Gallery, Tokyo
SSS Expanded Painting, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo
camaboco, Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo
SSS – Contracted Paintings – The John Riepenhoff Experience, Inova, Milwaukee
lighthouse Vol. 5, curated by Nariai Hajime, Tominaga Motonao+Suei Fumihiro+Tomita Motoaki+Morii Hirohiro+Sueta Fumiaki+Morinaga Hironao, switch point, Tokyo

2009
Suenaga Fuminao, Scott Olson: Painting Painting, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo

2008
Itazu Lithografik ‘Hills & Villages,’ Ayumi Gallery, Tokyo
New Balance, gallery Archipelago, Tokyo

2006
Standard Technology, Kabegiwa, Tokyo

2004
Flatplat, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery, Kanagawa/Contemporary Art Space Osaka, Osaka

2003
Marker Exhibition 2003, Ai Gallery, Tokyo
Kaleidoscopic Gaze, Gallery Mai, Tokyo

2002
twitter☆, Gallery ES, Tokyo

2001
Ritornèllo, Bunpodo Gallery, Tokyo
Overlapping Memories, Saison Art Program Gallery, Tokyo

[PUBLIC COLLECTION]

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection

News

Gallery Exhibitions

Abstractions – from a certain point –
Yasuko Toyoshima, Katsuhisa Sato, Fuminao Suenaga, Shoko Masunaga

August 6 – 25, 2024
CADAN Yurakucho / Kokusai Building 1F, 3-1-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

Fuminao Suenaga “Light paintings”

February 17 – March 17, 2024
Opening reception : Saturday, February 17, 17:00 – 19:00

Group Show – Yoshio Shirakawa | Fuminao Suenaga | Keisuke Shirota | Shunsuke Kano | Sean Micka

25 June – 24 July 2022

Ordinary objects – Alex Dodge / Shoko Masunaga / Ryosuke Ogino / Fuminao Suenaga

November 27 – December 20, 2020

Fuminao Suenaga “Picture Frame”

August 29 – September 27, 2020