What the two artists have in common is that they are both from and live in Hokkaido, the northern area in Japan. Perhaps that's why the colors are so pale and the worldview is so far-reaching and somehow mysterious/dreamy.

Amanatsu Aono uses Japanese painting techniques, but she is n... [Read more]

Hattori Shihori based in Kyoto absorbs the pictorial expression, technique, and sentiment which are the origin of Japanese art such as Yamato-e (classical Japan decorative paintings), Kano School, Rinpa School, and Ukiyo-e. And powerfully she creates her paintings with her fresh sensitivity.<... [Read more]

Toko Okamoto says she wants to describe the strength of woman.
The women in her works are not only "pretty" or "beautiful" but also "real" ones.You may find it from their pose, fingertips, face and eyes.
At first glance they look like just pure and fragile but they are standing fi... [Read more]

日本近代絵画の巨匠たちと、そこから半世紀を隔てて現代に再燃した美人画作家たち8名の作品を約70点、一堂に展観。
各時代の日本の美意識を捉えた美人画の名手たちの作品を辿り、それらに通底する日本の美の本質を浮き彫りにします。

”Fantastic" artists such as one of the leading artists Ito Jakuchu performed colorfully in Japanese art world in Edo period with novel ideas. Four contemporary artistes inspired by them jump towards the world to mark a new phase.

It will be held "ART CENTRAL 2020 online exhibition at Artsy" instead of the ART CENTRAL 2020 that was canceled because of the influence of new corona-virus.

concept：SHUKADO feel that it is our mission to find and introduce young promising artists in addition to the handling of trad... [Read more]

For this show we decided to pick up the artists who deliver powerful messages about our indigenous world peculiar in Japan and review them in the context of modern world art.
So to say, art is always under the necessity of renewing of its concept and rethinking about its “raison d’être”... [Read more]

Living with cat, Drawing cat.

Solo exhibition of Chen Pei Yi, the greatest Artist of cat in the East. In her artworks she draws various expression of cats from her daily life with them.

In this exhibition you will enjoy her unique world, and also it is notable the carpets drawin... [Read more]

On this occasion, SHUKADO plans to introduce the inspiring works of Japanese promising artists.
Kamine Takuma who creates cubic objects inspired by SF and Buddhism sculptures. Kusumi Erika produces digital photo-collages incorporating the opposing elements of hope and despair. Murakami ... [Read more]

First solo exhibition by Hara Takahiro at SHUKADO. He, studied the essence of current realism from Antonio López in Spain, paints the beauty of ordinary life.
It is the focus on whether he breaks new ground moving to Hiroshima, his hometown from Kanazawa.

This exhibition to introduce Japanese Contemporary Art with the theme of “Mono no Arawe”, a core concept in Japanese aesthetics, is defined as the pathos of things.
We introduce Hara Takahiro, Kusumi Erika, Murakami Hitomi, Kondo Satomi, Tanaka Miho and Chiba Mika to the people of singa... [Read more]

Kawanabe Kyosai who had been active from the end of Edo period to the Meiji period (late 1800’s). After he studied Ukiyo-e from Kuniyoshi, entered the Kano-sect and studied painting in the traditional academy, so he created a myriad of works in a wide range of genres.
Kyosai garners mor... [Read more]