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Tomona Matsukawa has been appointed to the Jury of “Idemitsu Art Award 2026.”     The Idemitsu Art Award is an open-call art award that marks its 55th edition in 2026. Established in 1956 as the Shell Art Award, it was renamed the Idemitsu Art Award in 2022. The award supports emerging artists who will shape the

KOTARO NUKAGA is pleased to announce its participation in Art Basel in Basel 2026, taking place from June 18 to 21, 2026. For this first appearance at the fair, the presentation offers a comprehensive survey of Saori Akutagawa（1924 – 1966）, tracing the development of her pictorial language across a career of little more than fifteen

Amadour’s solo exhibition ‘Nevada Proscenium’ will be held at Truckee Meadows Community College in Nevada, USA from May 18 – June 18, 2026.  The work draws inspiration from Nevada’s mining history, referencing the timbered frameworks that supported underground labor while obscuring the workers themselves. Rather than embracing familiar frontier narratives, Amadour’s work challenges the idea of the West as vacant

Sputniko!’s artwork Tech Bro Debates Humanity will be exhibited in ‘NU Festival 2026’ at TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY from June 26 – June 28, 2026.  ‘NU Festival 2026’ is a festival platform that uses music, art, and science as its starting point to create new experiences using the city itself as its stage. A diverse program unfolds across various spaces in the city, including live performances,

Takehiro Iikawa ‘Decorator Crab: The Heavy Bag’ currently being held at KOTARO NUKAGA Tennoz will be extended until May 30, 2026. We look forward to seeing you there.

We are pleased to announce POLA MUSEUM ANNEX will present ‘Worlding — No Oars, No Shore,’ from June 12 to July 5, 2026. The exhibition will feature Akiko Ueda, Gentaro Ishizuka and Keita Morimoto, each offering a distinct mode through which a world comes into being.      Worlding － No Oars, No Shore,   A single thread, trembling.  Waves rise, fold, become

KOTARO NUKAGA Roppongi is pleased to present Yohei Chimura’s solo exhibition ‘They stand, once more, before the next name,’ on view from June 6 through July 18, 2026. Alongside the sculptural series “The Experiment on the Origin,” in which tin is sealed within the body of glass, the exhibition presents an installation that envelops the

As part of the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka will present work both inside and outside the Giardini Pavilion in Koyo Kouoh’s ‘In Minor Keys’, running publicly May 9 – November 22.    The 110 invited participants of this exhibition – among them, individual artists, collaborative duos, collectives, and artist-led organizations – hail from

KOTARO NUKAGA is pleased to announce that “From the outside, it probably looked like nothing was wrong.,” a major work by Tomona Matsukawa will be collected by Shiga Museum of Art.  Matsukawa’s distinctive realistic and somewhat dramatic paintings are born from interviews with other women of her generation and the titles and motifs are picked from the phrases that strook her during the conversations.

Carlos Rolón’s artwork will be exhibited in ‘TRY & SEE’ at Shiga Museum of Art from April 17 – June 21, 2026.  Rolón’s works, Discovery in the New World II  and Discovery in the New World III  were donated to SMoA by Mr. Hiroyuki Maki.    【EXHIBITION DETAILS】 Title: TRY & SEE Venue: Shiga Museum of Art Period: April 17 – June 21, 2026 Hours: 9:30