Profile
2018 MFA, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
2015 BFA in Printmaking, Department of Oil Painting, Musashino Art University
Exhibitions
2023– Kaidan: Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn (Traveling exhibition: Expo Osaka; Ireland House, Tokyo; SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin, etc.)
2023 The End is Sunday (Mizusai, Tokyo)
2022 At the Mercy of Women / Onna no Manimani (Gallery Soumeido, Tokyo)
2022 How to Create a Landscape (Ginga 101, Tokyo)
2022 Singing "La La La" (Japanese Tea Cafe & Gallery Rafu, Saitama)
2021 Time flies. (Gallery Binosha, Tokyo)
2020 Collect → Preserve: Gathering and Leaving Behind (The Museum of Art, Kochi)
2020 Girls in the Paper. (Gallery Soumeido, Tokyo)
2017 Special Juror's Prize, Hamamatsu City Museum of Art Printmaking Grand Prix Exhibition
2017 The Sumio Kawakami Memorial Museum of Woodcut Prints Grand Prix
2017 The Museum of Art, Kochi Prize, The 10th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints
2017 Fujimori Award Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition
2015 Excellence Award, Musashino Art University Graduation Exhibition Purchase Prize
2015 39th Exhibition of the Japan Association of Art Universities (Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts)
Public Collections
Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts (Tokyo, Japan)
Kanuma City Sumio Kawakami Memorial Museum of Art (Tochigi, Japan)
The Museum of Art, Kochi (Kochi, Japan)
Jyväskylä Art Museum (Finland)
Introduction
HANO Kanami creates abstract portraits of people that seem to melt into space, using the deep overlapping textures unique to woodblock prints and the bleeding that occurs in the Japanese paper. The quiet strength that flows from her works seems to flow into the viewer as we follow the intentionally blurred and unsteady gaze of the figures. We would also like to draw attention to the changes in the form of the figures, her recent challenges with supporting materials, and three-dimensional works.
2018 MFA, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
2015 BFA in Printmaking, Department of Oil Painting, Musashino Art University
Exhibitions
2023– Kaidan: Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn (Traveling exhibition: Expo Osaka; Ireland House, Tokyo; SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin, etc.)
2023 The End is Sunday (Mizusai, Tokyo)
2022 At the Mercy of Women / Onna no Manimani (Gallery Soumeido, Tokyo)
2022 How to Create a Landscape (Ginga 101, Tokyo)
2022 Singing "La La La" (Japanese Tea Cafe & Gallery Rafu, Saitama)
2021 Time flies. (Gallery Binosha, Tokyo)
2020 Collect → Preserve: Gathering and Leaving Behind (The Museum of Art, Kochi)
2020 Girls in the Paper. (Gallery Soumeido, Tokyo)
2017 Special Juror's Prize, Hamamatsu City Museum of Art Printmaking Grand Prix Exhibition
2017 The Sumio Kawakami Memorial Museum of Woodcut Prints Grand Prix
2017 The Museum of Art, Kochi Prize, The 10th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints
2017 Fujimori Award Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition
2015 Excellence Award, Musashino Art University Graduation Exhibition Purchase Prize
2015 39th Exhibition of the Japan Association of Art Universities (Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts)
Public Collections
Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts (Tokyo, Japan)
Kanuma City Sumio Kawakami Memorial Museum of Art (Tochigi, Japan)
The Museum of Art, Kochi (Kochi, Japan)
Jyväskylä Art Museum (Finland)
Introduction
HANO Kanami creates abstract portraits of people that seem to melt into space, using the deep overlapping textures unique to woodblock prints and the bleeding that occurs in the Japanese paper. The quiet strength that flows from her works seems to flow into the viewer as we follow the intentionally blurred and unsteady gaze of the figures. We would also like to draw attention to the changes in the form of the figures, her recent challenges with supporting materials, and three-dimensional works.
