Kyoko MURASE

Title Chasing Butterflies (Bangs)
Artist Kyoko Murase
Work Date 2002
Edition Unique
Materials Oil on canvas
Size h: 21 x w: 18.5 in / h: 53.5 x w: 47 cm


Title Grape
Artist Kyoko Murase
Work Date 2002
Edition Unique
Materials Oil on canvas
Size h: 59 x w: 47 in / h: 150 x w: 120 cm


Title A Feeling Says
Artist Kyoko Murase
Work Date 2002
Edition Unique
Materials Oil on canvas
Size h: 43 x w: 35 in / h: 110 x w: 90 cm


Title Surfboard
Artist Kyoko Murase
Work Date 2001
Edition Unique
Materials Oil on canvas
Size h: 27 x w: 124 in / h: 68 x w: 62 cm


Title Chasing Butterflies
Installation View
Artist Kyoko Murase
Work Date 2002, Taka Ishii Gallery
Edition Unique
Materials Oil on canvas

1963
Born in Gifu, Japan

1986
Graduated from Faculty of Fine Art, Aichi Prefectual University of Fine Art

1989
Completed postgraduate studies at Aichi Prefectual University of Fine Art

1990 - 96
Studies at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf

1993
Completed Meisterschuler from Konrad Klaphek
Lives and works in Dusseldorf

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2002
"Chasing Butterflies" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

2001
"From the distant sky" Galerie Lethert, Bad Munstereifel/ Germany

2000
"Yawn" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
"In the forest" ON Gallery, Osaka

1999
"Sleepers" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
"Holidays" Galerie Lethert, Bad Munstereifel/ Germany

1998
"Daydreams" Galerie Van Laethem, Lanaken / Belgium

1997
"I'm sleeping in this room." Stichting de Bank, Enschde / Holland
"Lunatic" ON Gallery, Osaka

1996
"I'm sleeping in this room." Galerie Geviert, Berlin/ Germany

1994
"Die Traeume der schlafenden Hunde" Galerie Lessmann&Lenser, Rodgau/ Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2002
"MOT Annual 2002-Fiction? Painting the reality in the Age of the Virtual-"
Museum of Contemporary Art,Tokyo

2001
"The Standard" Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa

2000
"Konrad Klapheck & Freunde" Galerie & Grafikkabinett Heiko Anders, Dusseldorf

1999
"Brunos Enkel" Bruno Goller-Haus, Gummersbach / Germany
"Japandorf" Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun / Switzerland
"In de Ban van de Ring" Prefectual Center of Fine Arts - Begienhof Museum, Hassel / Belgium

1998
"Kyoko Murase & Magdalena Pelzer" Galerie Van Latethem, Lanaken / Belgium
"The Revolve Temptation" ON Gallery, Osaka
"Erlebnis Mobilitaet" Kooperation Boesner/ Museum Bochum, Bochum/ Germany
"Kontrast" Galerie Irene Sagan, Essen/ Germany

1997
"Begegnungen" Galerie Irene Sagan, Essen/ Germany

1996
"Karl-Schweisig-Preises '96" Staedtisches Museum Galsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen/ Germany
"The future of painting. 1996" Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka
"Kind of Blue" Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya

1994
"Harvest '94" Hausbockdorf, Kempen/ Germany