Fumika Tsuchitori

Biography

Fumika Tsuchitori (b.1995, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan) graduated from Kyoto University of the Arts in 2020 with a Master’s degree in Oil Painting, she currently lives and works in Kyoto.

Two people kissing and embracing, two people who love each other.Many works that use the motif of two human figures can be found in the history of painting and art. I consider this to be a universal theme, one that has been continuously handed down from one generation to the next. It is still alive and well today. I have been working mainly with motifs of this image of the “intimate couple,” which I have taken from art history, film, and shojo manga (girls’ manga) as my background.

The intimate couple is a reference to affection and relief, and on the other hand, death, fear, hatred, and one-sided violence. This observation comes from my experience of realizing that images of intimate couples that stem from affection and those that arise out of violence, which one would expect to be polar opposites of the other, are in fact completely similar and indistinguishable from one another. (They can embrace each other because they are separate bodies, but what about the violence?) In terms of this contradiction, what is shown or hidden in these paintings? What is presumed to be present, and what is presumed to be absent? This is something in the paintings that gives me hesitation.

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

2025Swaying Outlines, Gallery & Restaurant Butaiura, Tokyo, Japan

2024Frames and Breath, MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

Drawings, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan

Drawings, NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo, Japan

Drawings (＋), 3F of Tokyo Plaza Harajuku “HARAKADO”, Tokyo, Japan

2023Sleeping with me holding in my arms, Silence, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan

2022Blind Spot, COHJU contemporary art, Kyoto, Japan

2020Bones and Skin (light a fire, have to go find the roses), WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2025SPRING SHOW – Drawings –, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan

To Sway and Surround : Japanese Female Abstraction, Each Modern, Taipei, China

2024Collectors III -Turning the World-, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

collection #08, rin art association, Gunma, Japan

Kyoto Art for Tomorrow, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

2023CADAN × ISETAN ART GALLERY MtK satellite Vol.2, MtK satelite, Aichi, Japan

SPRING SHOW, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan

The Painter, Isetan Shinjuku Store Main Building 6F art gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2022A painting surface: matière that narrates, Nihombashi Mistukoshi Honten, Main building 6F, Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

天人花展, Seibu Shibuya Alternative Space, Tokyo, Japan

2021Up_02, GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS, GINZA ATRIUM, Tokyo, Japan

Neko and Matière, MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan

Light Brain Vol.1, ITOKI TOKYO XORK, Tokyo, Japan

Kyoto Perspective, ANB Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2021, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

2020UNTAMED VOL.2 YOUNG ARTISTS GROUP, COHJU contemporary art, Kyoto, Japan

-Inside the Collector’s Vault, vol.1-, WHAT MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan

10th, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan

ART AWARD TOKYO MARUNOUCHI 2021, Gyoko Chika Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

SUBJECT, ANTEROOM KYOTO, Kyoto, Japan

A-Lab Artist Gate 2020, A-Lab, Hyogo, Japan

Kyoto University of the Arts Degree Show, Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto, Japan

2019Kyoto Art Lounge, Starbucks Coffee Sanjo Ohashi, Kyoto, Japan

Shibuya STYLE Vol.13, Seibu Shibuya art gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Innocent -P-, Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan

Artist’s Tiedeland KYOTO, Isetan Shinjuku Men’s Building Art Lounge, Tokyo, Japan

SPURT, Galerie Aube, Kyoto, Japan

2018Read the Wachuan, Notre Dame Jogakuin Junior and Senior High School Wachuan, Kyoto, Japan

HOP, Galerie Aube, Kyoto, Japan

Kyoto University of Art and Design Degree Show, Kyoto University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan

2017Now, That Paintings, Painting Laboratory303, Kyoto, Japan

Awards (Selected)

2020Kyoto University of Art and Design, Graduate Show Award

2017Japan Traffic Culture Association, The 38th International TAKIFUJI Art Award, Prize for Excellence

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Selected works

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Exhibitions