The Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi (AATM), which will celebrate its 18th anniversary in 2024, aims to discover and nurture young Artist by hosting an exhibition of selected works from graduation projects of major art universities and graduate schools across the country, and has introduced over 500 Artist to date.
We are pleased to announce the holding of "Window Gallery in Marunouchi - from AATM vol.2", which will exhibit works by three Artist who have participated in past AATMs and are still active today: Takada Maru, winner of the Grand Prix at AATM2024; Asai Sayaka, winner of the Mitsubishi Jisho Award; and artists who have participated in past AATMs and are still active today.
Through their works, we support Artist from Marunouchi and provide them with an opportunity to spread their wings and fly out into the world.
Exhibiting Artists
AATM2024 Award Winners
[AATM2024 Grand Prix Winner]
MalTakada
By painting personal descriptions and writings such as diaries and handwritten letters in public places and showing them to others, she continues to deepen her practice in various ways and create works that answer the question of what the act of drawing is.
Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1987. Graduated from the Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Literature, Japan Women's University in 2009. Attended multiple courses at Bigaku School from 2013 to 2015. In 2016, she was the initiator of the exhibition and dialogue project "Painting Review Group". In 2020, she launched the one-person publishing company "Painting Review Group". In 2024, she graduated from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts, majoring in oil painting. Major solo exhibitions include "This Flower, Dahlia, Dahlia, Dahlia" at NADiff window gallery (2024), and the book "Unforgettable Painting Stories: Painting Review Group 2020-2021" (2022).
Why do humans still desire to paint pictures, show pictures, and look at pictures?
In exploring the primal human impulses and desires surrounding paintings, he sees "painting" not as a material form but as an event that occurs between people, and considers through his practice what happens in very personal depictions and descriptions, and in the communication and misinterpretation of these in public spaces.
"Painting" as a discourse changes, but the act of painting will always be personal. I continue to deal with that personal nature.
Picture, wall, pencil, wood, plastic sheet, paper, acrylic paint, glass bottle, 2022
[AATM2024 Mitsubishi Estate Award Winner]
IrohaAsai
Using printmaking techniques, he creates media that reports on the transitions of imaginary worlds, overlooking the past and future, depicting the evolution of fictional civilizations, bringing out themes and discomforts that are relevant to us today, with a touch of humor.
Born in Miyagi Prefecture in 2001. Graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design, Department of Fine Arts, majoring in Western Painting in 2024. Major exhibitions include "Reflect" Joshibi Art Museum, Kanagawa (2022) and "Tokyo Five Art Universities Joint Graduation and Completion Exhibition" The National Art Center, Tokyo (2024).
He creates a fictional civilization that may have existed, and depicts its gradual demise due to a disease that causes soil to decay. Through these works, he attempts to make people think about how we deal with "change" and the differences in people's perceptions of life.
"We live our lives being consumed by destruction and birth. Confronting "change" and thinking about what "life" is."
2023, 445×320, silkscreen, Japanese paper
*There were errors in the titles of some of the works on the leaflet.
Artist from AATM
[AATM2015 Mitsubishi Estate Award and Yusaku Imamura Award winner]
ShoTanaka
He has created a wide range of works, from three-dimensional pieces to communication with people, centering on delicate printing techniques such as wood engraving. Born from his interest in trees, his work depicts the grand timeline that created nature, and various motifs such as fish, coffee, and insects appear in his work. He was born in Gifu Prefecture in 1988. He completed his graduate studies in printmaking at Musashino Art University in 2015. His major exhibitions include "VOCA 2024" at the Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo), and his major solo exhibitions include "Machida Serigaya Egonoki Engi" at Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts (Tokyo, 2019), "project N 67 Tanaka Akira" at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery 4F Corridor (2017), and "About Trees" Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo History Archives (Tokyo, 2016).
Through fieldwork, he creates woodblock prints based on the theme of the time that trees have and their relationships in society. As he traced the origins of trees, he began to focus on the Devonian period, when forests themselves were formed. He started by searching for wingless insects that have remained almost unchanged to the present day, and his interest in marine life, which was at its peak at the time, led him to take up fishing, creating works inspired by fish encyclopedias and fish prints. At first glance, fishing may seem like a hobby, but it is deeply connected to people's lives and communities. In order to preserve even a little of the connections he has made with people he has made while fishing all over Japan, he has recently started issuing numbered fishing cards and distributing them.
2024, 6.1cm x 10cm, paper, risograph, stamp ink
[AATM2013 French Embassy Award and Audience Award Winner]
MarieNohara
By breaking down the process of painting in his own way, he expands the motifs and shapes he paints, the way he constructs lines, and the tools he uses to express them, to create his own unique paintings.
Born in Osaka in 1987. Graduated from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts, majoring in oil painting in 2013.
Major exhibitions include art resonance vol.01 “The Thawing of the Times” Ashiya City Museum of Art and History (Hyogo, 2023), “Holbein Scholarship Results Exhibition 2023” N&A Art SITE (Tokyo, 2023), “VOCA Exhibition 2022” Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo, 2022), Hikarie Contemporary Art Eye vol.15 “The Future of Art” curated by three people (Tokyo, 2021), Osaka Prefecture 20th Century Art Collection Exhibition “A Picture Mirror of Ourselves” Osaka Prefectural Enokojima Cultural Arts Creation Center [enoco] (2021), and the solo exhibition “Buried Images, Recombining Landscapes” Aomori Contemporary Art Center (2020).
He has been interested in the sensory and ambiguous process of painting and the thoughts that go into it, and has focused on the process of painting. Until now, he has created large-scale paintings using charcoal and pigments, making his own cloud-shaped rulers and stencils for drawing lines and surfaces. In recent years, he has been drawing many works inspired by the shapes of natural objects such as plants and stones, and shapes that he senses from invisible things such as sounds and smells. In terms of color, he has used the rocks of the Qutub Minar ruins, which he was impressed by during his one-month stay in India, and the brocaded stones he has collected on the coasts of Aomori Prefecture and other places, as motifs. He also holds Shops all over Japan and continues to present paintings created through collaborations. By creating works while moving back and forth between himself and others, he is exploring new possibilities for the production and appreciation of paintings.
2022, 288×380mm, acrylic on paper
Photo: Yoshiro Masuda
[AATM2020 Noguchi Reiichi Award Winner]
YuihaYamaguchi
He paints familiar landscapes with vibrant brushstrokes and vibrant colors. He expresses fleeting natural scenes such as the sky, the rustling of trees, and waterside scenes in the pictorial space using oil paint.
Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1992. Graduated from the Master's Program in Oil Painting at the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School in 2020.
Her major solo exhibitions include "Drawing the Line" at TAKU SOMETANI GALLERY (Tokyo, 2023), "project N 90 Yamaguchi Yuha" at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (2023), and "CAF Award 2019 Selected Works Exhibition" at Daikanyama Hillside Forum (Tokyo). She is an artist-in-residence at Hong Kong University (Hong Kong/China, 2018) and a recipient of the 36th Holbein Scholarship (2023).
The motif of my paintings is the scenery of my daily life, and there is no specific theme or message. However, the awareness that I am "painting a certain subject" is very important. "What to paint" is directly connected to "how to paint it."
I think about the final result, then I work backwards to decide on the color, the presence or absence of gloss, the brush strokes and the order in which to use them, and then I start painting. However, the plans I made before painting don't always go as planned. I respond to each move and think about how I will paint it. The first move can completely change the painting. I value the layers of paint I paint while thinking about it, and the process that they show.
2024, 1621×1621mm, oil on canvas
Photo: Tamotsu Kido
If you are interested in exhibiting your work, please contact us at info.aatm@gmail.com.
