born in 1962 in Nagoya (Japan)
Kenji Sugiyama’s work ensue from a long research, started on 1995.
In his artworks, Sugiyama, reconstructing the visual perception as being Russian dolls, restrict the viewer to a smaller visual field to experience a meta viewing and evoke his memory of the past and his personal experience.
The works Inside and Outside, enact circular paths, from being object of observation lead to observing and again to be the subject of an observation more intimate and personal, within the work of art itself. Through these circular paths, the visitor is asked to recreate his own Museums, remembering what has been previously visited, what has been lived and experienced, reconstructing the memory.
As Proust stated, time, interior or exterior, is always tied to the past, but, at the same time, is a time which tends to the present. The proustian epiphany, the memory solicited by a casual feeling that evokes the past with no locical proceedings and lets feel as contemporary that past, is what Sugiyama proposes in his works, bringing the viewer’s to awake the consciousness, for a new awareness of the act of seeing, of feeling and remember, to understand that this new experience is totally and inescapably personal and unique.
Sugiyama’s art and his “Institute”, tell us about these enclosed spaces, circumscribed and exclusive, about his “Museums”, so essentially common and public, yet so intimate and quiet, the ideal places to capture the inner experience.
1962 Born in Nagoya, Japan
Education
1987 B.F.A. Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, JAPAN
1989 M.F.A. Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, JAPAN
Solo exhibition (selected):
2018
Cell – Closed Chamber as Myself, Inside and Outside – STANDING PINE, Nagoya
2015
Institute of Intimate Museums, La lanta Fine Art / Bangkok, Thailand
2014
Institute of Intimate Museums Mirror Mirror, Primae Noctis Art Gallery, Switzerland
Institute of Intimate Museums Ghosts in my mind, STANDING PINE, Nagoya
2010
I.I.M. The world’s End, STANDING PINE, Nagoya
2009
Institute of Intimate Museums 1999-2008, STANDING PINE, Nagoya
2007
Self-Portrait, Gallery Ray, Nagoya
2006
Very Inner Place, Gallery Ray, Nagoya
2005
Viewer, Gallery Ray, Nagoya
2003
I.I.M. Director"A", I I M Director"B", Nagoya City Archives, Nagoya
2001
I.I.M. Director's Room Gallery OH”, ORIBETEI, Aichci
2000
I.I.M. Institute of Intimate Museums”, A.C.S, Nagoya
1999 “Institute of Intimate Museums”, A.C.S Nagoya
1997
Inside Outside, A.C.S, Nagoya
1996
Inside Outside, A.C.S, Nagoya
1995
Inside Outside Focusing on a New Generation in ‘95, Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo
Inside Outside Face to Face, A.C.S, Nagoya
Group Exhibition (selected):
2018
Treasure Box of Contemporary Art, OPAM Toshioka Collection Oita Prefectural Art Museum Oita
Through the Looking Glass, COB Gallery, London, UK
2017
DESTINATION : ASIA NOW, Primae Noctis Gallery, Switzerland
2016
CROWD, A Perfect day for Kiso River ”, Minokamo, Gifu, Japan
2013
Wavy banners ET4U, DK
2012
Who is inside ?, Contemporary Art in Toyohashi Aichi Art Program, JP
2011
Who is inside ?, Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum Aichi, JP
2007
City-net Asia Seoul Museum of Art Korea, KR
2006
Next station, Nagoya citizen gallery Yada Nagoya, JP
2005
Peindre, Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-paul, CA
Butins, musees et autres curiosites, galerie HORACE, CA
2004
Institute of Intimate Museums, IBCube Gallery Bovelingjerg DK
2003
JAPAN:RISING, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, USA
Contemporary Art Position Nagoya City Art Museum Nagoya, JP
2002
THE FIRST MOVE, Tokyo International Forum Exhibition Hall Tokyo, JP
2001
HAKOIRI-BIJYUTU, (Art in Box) Kariya City Art Museum Aichi, JP
24 Winners from 1996 to 2000 FUJI TV Forum, Tokyo, UMEDA STELLA Hall Osaka, JP
1999
First Steps, Grey Art Gallery, N.Y.U. USA
1998
Philip Morris Art Award 1998 Tokyo International Forum Exhibition Hall Tokyo, JP
Memento, EST-NORD-EST Centre de Sculpture, Quebec, CA
1997
EFFET D'UILITAIRE, le Centre d'exposition de Baie-Saint-Paul, CA
1996
Inside of Works, Outside of Works, Itabashi Art Museum Tokyo, JP
Rewards (selected):
2011The Asahi Shimbun Foundation, JP
2005
International Contemporary Art symposium in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec, CA
The Nomura Cultural Foundation, JP
2002
Freeman Fellowship 2002-2003 Alternate, USA
Vermont Studio Center, USA
AIGIN Education and Culture Foundation, JP
2000
The Pollock-krasner Foundation , Inc. USA
1999
ART/OMI USA 1998 Philip Morris Art Award, USA
1997
POLA Art Foundation
Canada's year of Asia Pacific CANADA
1996-98
EST-NORD-EST Centre de Sculpture, Quebec CANADA
Kenji Sugiyama - Inside 1
2016 - Paper, board, glass, epoxy clay - 61 x 20 x 20 cm
Kenji Sugiyama - Inside 1
2016 - Paper, board, glass, epoxy clay - 61 x 20 x 20 cm
