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Shoichi Okumura’s “Fictional Travelers.”

Currently on view until October 6th, 2021 at Kiyoshi Art Space in Tokyo, Japan is artist Shoichi Okumura’s exquisite solo exhibition of new works, “Fictional Travelers.”

Okumura was born in Beijing and raised in Tokyo. While studying at the Department of Japanese Painting at Tama Art University in 2011 he studied abroad at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in China where he studied Chinese painting.  Returning to Japan in 2013, he announced the “Sister Sansui / Grandpa Sansui” series, which combined elements of Japanese painting and Chinese painting and was well received by Japanese art critics.  After that, he explored the world of Taoyuan with mandala structures of gardens and Hokusung Sansui as a foundation and won the “Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2015” Shuuemura Award, the “20th Taro Okamoto Contemporary Art Award,” and the “Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi as well as many other awards for his work.  He currently exhibits in Japan, receiving numerous accolades and awards with each new body of work.

“Fictional Travelers” is an exploration and questioning of social imagination, told through exciting, tropically colored works derived from the alluring colors of modern Japanese shopping malls all while being influenced by Western and Song Dynasty landscape paintings.

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