Mitsunori Kimura

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Mitsunori Kimura
木村充伯
Born1983
Shizuoka Precfecture, Japan
OccupationJapanese artist

Mitsunori Kimura (木村充伯, Kimura Mitsunori, born 1983 in Shizuoka Precfecture, Japan) is a Japanese artist. He lives and works in Shizuoka, though his artwork has been exhibited Seoul, Florence, Valencia, Luxembourg. Kimura is represented in Tokyo and Nagoya by Kenji Taki Gallery.

Artwork[]

Kimura is a sculptor creates works by wood carving and oil paint modeling. He picks up the motifs of his works from daily moments of humor and unexpected intimacy.

Background and education[]

Mitsunori Kimura was born in Shizuoka, Japan in 1983. Kimura received his B.F.A. (2005) and an M.F.A. (2007) from the . In 2013, Kimura had been selected to participating in Asia-Pacific Fellowship Program at National Art Studio, Changdong – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul.

Solo exhibitions[]

  • LOVE (2019, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan)
  • There is No Ape Here (2018, Do a Front, Yamaguchi, Japan)
  • Wonderful Days (2017, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan)
  • We Mammals (2016, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan)
  • Wonderful Man (2015, Gallery Kiche, Seoul, Korea)
  • Above the horizon (2014, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan)
  • Double Story (2013, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan)
  • Mitsunori Kimura (2011, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan)
  • Mitsunori Kimura – the cat's sleeping pattern (2013, curated by Fumiko Nakamura, Social Kitchen, Kyoto, Japan)
  • The Man Absorbing Oil (2010, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan)

Selected group exhibitions[]

  • Aichi Art Chronicle 1919-2019 (2019, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan)
  • trans_2018-2019 AiR Overseas Dispatch Program (2019, Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan)
  • Before Form (2018, Gallery Kiche, Seoul, Korea)
  • Festival GCC (2018, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan, Korea)
  • Rendez-vous, Biennale de Lyon 2017 (2017, Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France)
  • Black, Color - Mitsunori Kimura and Ru Yi Tan (2017, Art Lab Aichi, Nagoya, Japan)
  • 6th Exhibition AGAIN-st Peaceful Sculpture (2017, NADiff Gallery, Tokyo, Japan)
  • Enokojima Art Days 2017 Other Ways (2017, Enoco, Osaka, Japan)
  • Navigation & Trajectory (2015, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan)
  • Tails (2014, Gallery Kiche, Seoul, Korea)
  • Koganecho Bazaar 2014 (2014, Koganecho Area, Yokohama, Japan)
  • Convocatoria Internacional annual de jovenes artistas – XV Edición (2013, Luis Adelantado Valencia, Valencia, Spain)
  • Seoul Seoul Seoul (2013, National Art Studio, Changdong – National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul, Korea)
  • il dio delle piccole cose (The god of small things) (2009, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi, Casa Masaccio / centro per l’arte contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy)
  • City_net Asia 2007 (curated by Masahiko Haito, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)

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