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Emi Harukusa (Tokyo, Japan 1978) is an artist who works mainly with paint. Emi graduated in Japanese Painting at Joshibi University of Art and Design in 2002 and lived in Italy from 2016 to 2017. During this period she carried out an internship at the Migliore+Servetto Architects studio in Milan, where she studied architectural design. The stay in the historical and artistic Italian cities inspired her, expanding the scope of the landscapes she creates. 

Emi has held numerous solo and group exhibitions and has won several art awards; it is also active in the production of wall paintings, in the binding of books and in the design of duvet covers. 

Her landscapes are intimate places of deep connection with her affections where memories and fantasies converge and aggregate, restoring interior scenarios full of melancholy and, together, of hope that cross time and space. Emi Harukusa uses the traditional techniques of Japanese painting and ukiyo-e to create delicate landscapes, imbued with a fluid ether that combines everyday elements with fantastic motifs.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 Distant streams are reflected on the eyelids - Ohshima Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan.

2021 The wind beyond caresses my cheeks - Ohshima Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan.

2018 The wind carries the wind - Joshibi SPACE 1900, Kanagawa, Japan.

2018 Growing up slowly - Ohshima Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan.

2016 La Vista - Consolato Generale del Giappone a Milano, Milan.

2016 Dive into the ground and floating - Ohshima Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan.

2014 The Hoop of Spring - Ohshima Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan.

2013 The plan of parallel warp - Ohshima Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan.

2011 Tail of the Air - Ohshima Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan.

2010 Twilight Rings - Gallery Trinity, Tokyo, Japan.

2010 I’m home in horizontal shadow - Ohshima Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan.

2008 Aqua Leaf Ouchi Gallery, New York, USA.

2007 Dancing the Leaves - MOTT Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013 Gazoku - Gallery popotame, Tokyo, Japan.

2012 Gazoku - unseal contemporary, Tokyo, Japan.

2011 Gekitotsu-ten - unseal contemporary, Tokyo, Japan.

2011 Four-person exhibition - GALLERY TRINITY, Tokyo, Japan.

2010 Shibuya Style - SEIBU department, Tokyo, Japan.

2010 Spring Show 10 viewing room - Ohshima Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan.

2009 Unbleached Vol.6 - GALLERY TRINITY, Tokyo, Japan.

2009 super competition vol.1 in NYC - Ouchi gallery, New York, Japan.

2007 The seed of a picture-book2 - Gallery Eiziu, Tokyo, Japan.

2006 PRISM - Gallery La Mer, Tokyo, Japan.

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COMMISSION WORKS

2011 Riku Onda "Yesterday World" Kodansya, Cover designs.

2009 Bedding cover Printing, Taiwan Votre.

2007-2009  Art event "Art hot spring" Producer.

2009 Ninomiyatyuou Clinic wall painting, Tochigi, Japan.

 

AWARDS

2015 FumikoOmura foundation Milano Prize of Joshibi University of Art and Design, Japan.

2014 Wonder Seeds. 

2013 FumikoOmura foundation Encouragement Prize of Joshibi University of Art and Design, Japan.

2013 D Art Biennale.