hpgrp Gallery Tokyo - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for hpgrp Gallery Tokyo. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Michael E.J. Stanley “Kotosaheku”
We are pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Kotosaheku by the Japan-based American-born photographer Michael E. J. Stanley. The unusual title derives from an ancient Japanese word that evokes (...)
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Ryoono "Undulation"
Ryoono is an artist who plays with graphics, textiles, wall painting and more. His work is characterized by vivid colors and precise lines, and he has produced many works in collaboration with apparel (...)
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Tadaomi Shibuya "Shibuya Zoo"
In this exhibition, Shibuya reconstructs various motifs using unique surfaces and straight lines. One year since his last solo exhibition, "Construct", these "Shibuya Zoo" works have been developed using (...)
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Yusuke Gunji "Conpeitoi"
Yusuke Guji showed us his totally unique perspective through colorful, repetitive images of a house in an exhibition called “Creamy House” in April 2007. He is back with a body of new work called “conpeito” (...)
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Makiko Tanaka "sign/kehai"
We are pleased to announce the exhibition “sign/kehai”, with new works of Makiko Tanaka, an artist who works actively in a variety of media, such as pencil drawing, watercolor and installation. Although (...)
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Daisuke Nagaoka "Aimai na Niwa (Ambiguous Garden)"
Most of Daisuke Nagaoka's works are drawings consisting of overlapping lines. He has drawn animals, insects and forests in this detailed style that lies somewhere between the real and imaginative. The (...)
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"Untitled" Exhibition
It has been almost a year since hpgrp Gallery Tokyo started showing contemporary art. The word "Gendai Art (means contemporary art in Japanese)" sounds a little doubtful today because it is easily overused. (...)
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Taka "In Between"
In this solo exhibition, this artist displays works that reconstruct the absolute elements - color, form and texture - present in photographs from a unique perspective. One series of photographs is presented (...)
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Tiny Dinosaur + Junio "Shadow Graph"
"Shadow Graph" is designed by the collaboration of Naomi Yamamoto, an apparel designer for "tiny dinosaur," and Yasuaki Kimura and Isuzu from the glass artists' unit "JUNIO". These artists have attempted (...)
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"Sculptures' Instinct Vol.3" Exhibition
This is a group exhibition by 4 sculptors that use what can be called traditional sculpture media in their work. In times when the nonphysical realm is growing at a high pace, what meaning is there in (...)
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Kenjiro Kitade "Kitade Art"
The director of hpgrp Gallery New York, Shuhei Yamatani first met this artist in the summer of 2000. This artist's work "Kidoairaku (Delight Anger Sorrow Pleasure)," comprising an angry face and laughing (...)
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Aosando Art Fair
"Aosando" is the nickname for the alley which connects Aoyama-dori Street and Omotesando Street. A new art fair is coming to this alley, called "Aosando Art Fair." Many creative and unique shops, boutiques, (...)
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Cristina Toro "Minute Moon and The Garden of Triangular Sunshine"
This artist paints a colorful, whimsical world full of layered patterns that evoke lost fairy tales. Her current body of work is based on her idea of "a nocturnal garden of triangular sunshine". In each (...)
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Tadaomi Shibuya "Construct"
This artist's works are unique compositions of images of a wide range of people, animals and industrial products. At first glance they look sharp and flat, but the fine lines, hand drawn by the artist, (...)
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"American Woman: New Feminism" Exhibition
The theme of this exhibition can easily be linked with Feminism, but these three New York-based female artists are not trying to take up the issue of women's liberation from problems based on cultural (...)
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Kenichi Iwai "Sparks,"
This artist has been active as a freelance photographer all over the world for nearly twenty years since encountering photographer Katsuo Hanzawa. In his interactions with Hanzawa, the artist finds the (...)
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E*Rock + Mumbleboy "Superhero"
The theme of this exhibition is "Superheroes." Superheroes for the artists are not typical like Superman, but created out of completely different resources. The two artists' work looks psychedelia, but (...)
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Martes Bathori "Lovebud"
The title of this exhibition "Lovebud" comes from the last scene of Orson Wells' classic "Citizen Kane," where Kane is holding a rosebud in his fist as he dies. The artist calls himself "a traveler in (...)
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Yusuke Gunji "Melting House"
This is a solo exhibition by an artist who expresses daily life from a unique abstract viewpoint, using bright colors. Houses are often the subject of the artist's paintings. His simply deformed, ruminating (...)
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Marthe Desmoulins "Bazar et Garde-Manger"
For this exhibition, Marthe Desmoulins, a former fashion designer, uses intriguing objects and items from daily life that one would never want to let go, and that embody the joy of happening upon things (...)
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Julian Gatto + Guillermia Baiguera "Under the Shadow of Leafy Green Trees"





