Artist

Shoko Masunaga

Born 1980 in Osaka, Japan, Shoko Masunaga graduated from Seian Zokei Junion College in 2001 with a degree in painting. She was in New York from 2018 to 2019 through the NARS Foundation International Residency Program. Her creative process originates from paintings and utilizes a variety of techniques. By focusing on the connections to the surrounding environment and space, her works become fluid and interchangeable.

Featured Works

At a closer distance, it is not a field of flowers
2023
Panel, canvas, acrylic, gel medium, charcoal
73 x 73 x 5.5 cm
March / This signifies 20 meters below ground / Difference in humidity
Found a beautiful run-down bridge / Blue articulates / Reading someone’s melancholy
Whisper from a faded sunflower / A certain part without a doubt / Never-seen-before playground equipment; strong wind blowing
2023
wooden panel, canvas, acrylic, gel medium
each 19 x 19 x 3.5 cm (9)
Meanwhile
2022
 clip, canvas, acrylic
96 x 27 x 10 cm
photo : Koichi Nishiyama
Wherever
2022
binder, canvas, acrylic, pencil
40 x 22 x 20 cm
photo : Koichi Nishiyama
K-1
K-2
K-3
2021
wooden frame, wooden panel, canvas, acrylic, pencil
33.3 x 22 x 2 cm
33.3 x 33.3 x 2cm
Φ33.3 x 24.2 cm
photo : Kunihisa Fukuda
A-1
A-2
A-3
2021
wooden frame, plywood panel, canvas, acrylic, pencil
110.7 x 99.2 x 2 cm
photo : Kunihisa Fukuda
I am I, or other than I
2019
wooden panel, acrylic, pencil
18 x 18 x 2 cm
Φ18 cm
fuwatto-suko-papapan
2019
wooden frame, canvas, acrylic, pencil
45.7 x 35.5 cm
60.9 x 50.8 cm
50.8 x 60.9 cm
photo : Mami kosemura
Box inside Box inside Box
2019
wood, canvas, acrylic, pencil
121.8 x 162.4 x 12.7 cm
photo : Mami Kosemura
Up in the air
2019
wood, canvas, dermatograph, acrylic, cardboard、acrlic box
46 x 114 x 6 cm
photo: Mami Kosemura
salt & pepper
2018
wood, canvas, dermatograph, acrylic, cardboard, acrlic box
100 x 72.7 x 11 cm
photo : Masumi Kawamura
Would you like a cop of coffee?
2018
wooden panel, acrlic box, canvas, dermatograph, acrylic, cardboard
70.8 x 50.8 x 6.9 cm
photo : Masumi Kawamura
Even Our Tiny Maps Are Stuck onto the Growing Ivy
2017
wooden panel, acrlic box, canvas, dermatograph, acrylic, cardboard
each 65 x 39 x 5cm (6)
upper left : 4/8
upper right : 3(2)/11
bottom right : 2(1)/10
bottom left : 4/8
2013
wooden panel, canvas, acrylic
72.7 x 72.7 x 2.35 cm
　photo : Koichi Nishiyama
4/9
2013
wooden panel, canvas, acrylic, oil, pastel
194 x 450 x 3 cm
photo : Koichi Nishiyama
Abstract Butter
2011
pumpkin, spinach, chocolate, black sesame, bread
11 x 11 x 2 cm
breakfast
2012
acrylic,tile
9.7 x 9.7 cm

Artist’s Website

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1980
Born in Osaka, Japan

2001
Graduated from Seian Zokei Junior College (Painting) , Kyoto


[Solo Exhibitions]

2023
What Comes After the Beyond, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo

2022
editing, nidi gallery, Tokyo

2021
replace, LOKO GALLERY, Tokyo

2019
Box, Box, Box, Cooler Gallery, Brooklyn New York

2018
CRITERIUM 93 Shoko Masunaga “Daily Routine” , Gallery 9, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki

2016
RURAN TADD PADAN-PADAN, Gallery yolcha, Osaka
Platform, LOOP HOLE, Tokyo

2015
Abstract Butter at HAGISO, HAGISO, Tokyo

2013
Line / Color, ART TRACE Gallery, Tokyo

2012
Abstract Butter, Nidi Gallery, Tokyo
Symphony, Gallery Face to Face, Tokyo

2011
The Flower of the Fig, Gallery yolcha, Osaka

2010
Tachiifurumai, No.12Gallery, Tokyo

2009
marunouchinokichi, Marunouchi Cafe, Tokyo

2008
Shoko Masunaga Exhibition, No.12 Gallery, Tokyo

2005
show-co Exhibition, Gallery CASO, Osaka


[Group Exhibitions]

2022
SCINE5 “exercise” second half, Time&Style Midtown, Tokyo

2021
SCINE5 “exercise” first half, Time&Style Midtown, Tokyo
Face Up, Mitsufuji planning, Somewhere in Tokyo

2020
Ordinary objects, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo

2019
Behind the Seen, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn New York
Here : A Bit of Everywhere and Everyone They’ve Been, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn New York
The Body Responds by Lying, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn New York

2017
VOCA(The vision of contemporary art), A recommender : Naoki Yoneda(The National Art Center Tokyo), The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

2016
3331Art Fair, A recommender : Tomoko Yabumae( Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo), Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
At night when I gat home, milkyeast, Tokyo

2015
This is what in the mailbox, IONIO&ETNA, Tokyo
ignore your perspective31, “means of making painting”, Kodama Gallery, Tokyo
ignore your perspective30 “CHAIN REACTION”, Kodama Gallery, Tokyo
Three desks, ArtCenter Ongoing, Tokyo

2014
quadruple track, Gendai Heights, Tokyo
Medium Conditions, HAGISO, Tokyo

2013
Contemporary Art SIDING RAIL ROAD 2013, Tokorozawa School Lunch Center Number Two, Saitama
in the dish, Gallery CUBE in Seian Zoukei University, Shiga

2012
On the border, Gallery Face to Face, Tokyo
Arts Challenge 2012, Aichi Arts Center, Aichi

2011
Ceramic and Paper, Gallery Face to Face, Tokyo
Circulation, ZEN FOTO Gallery, Tokyo
SICF, Spiral Hall, Tokyo
The charity exhibition by 50person, Books&Gallery Popotam, Tokyo

2005
BECKO, SUMISO Gallery, Osaka


[Public Collection]
Takahashi Collection

News

2023.10.06

Shoko Masunaga – Ginza Curator’s Room#005 Angel’s Perch

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

Patterns and Distance
Makoto Ito, Shoko Masunaga, Kota Sasaki, Nao Osada, Yuka Hotta

July 6 – August 4, 2024

Shoko Masunaga “What Comes After the Beyond“

March 18 – April 23, 2023

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

November 27 – December 20, 2020