HISAMATSU Tomoko

Profile

Born in 1991 in Mie, Japan, works and lives in Yamagata, Japan. In 2017, she graduated from Tohoku University of Art and Design with a Master’s degree in Japanese painting (Nihon-ga) and left the university without finishing her doctorate program in 2019. 


Recent Exhibitions
“ARKO2018 Tomoko Hisamatu” Solo exhibition, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, 2018
“Yamagata Geijutsu Kaiwai Exhibition vol.11” Group exhibition, GALVANIZE gallery, Miyagi, 2018
“Yamagata Biennale 2018” Group exhibition, Tohoku University of Art and Design, Yamagata, 2018
“NIHON-GA: Have a Desire for New Horizon” Group exhibition, Toyohashi City Museum of Art and History, Aichi, 2016
“Is it possible ‘TOHOKU-GA’? – Museum for Hypothetical State of Tohoku ―” Group exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo,2015

Awards
Incentive Prize, The 7th Koji Kinutani Prize (2015)
Toshiko Okamoto Award (2nd Prize), The 18th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art (2015)

About works / performance

My paintings started by doubting the modern and contemporary art system and historical perspective in Japan. The works deals with art history depict < Deity of Art > and< Meta-Narrative > for me. However, some artist criticized my work that "it is a kind of caricature". Since he is said it, I became to had to work more on how to tell < Narrative > and, I had to think why I paint that. In recent years, I feel the need for a reconsideration of the theme of work, I began to treat personal memories as the subject of painting. I have been working on paintings by ordinary snaps shot with a smartphone, and the theme is “Painting of < Little Narrative >”.