Masaya CHIBA

The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, 2024-2025, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art

Photo by Chloë Callistemon, QAGOMA

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The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, 2024-2025, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art

Photo by Chloë Callistemon, QAGOMA

Copyright Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art

The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, 2024-2025, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art

Photo by Chloë Callistemon, QAGOMA

Copyright Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art

tenterhooks, 2024, Simone Subal Gallery

Photo by Marc Tatti

Sideward Exhibition, 2023, ShugoArts

Photo by Shigeo Muto

Sideward Exhibition, 2023, ShugoArts

Photo by Shigeo Muto

Sideward Exhibition, 2023, ShugoArts

Photo by Shigeo Muto

Masaya Chiba Exhibition, 2021, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Photo by Shigeo Muto

Masaya Chiba Exhibition, 2021, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Photo by Shigeo Muto

Masaya Chiba Exhibition, 2021, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Photo by Shigeo Muto

Masaya Chiba Exhibition, 2021, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Photo by Shigeo Muto

ASSEMBRIDGE NAGOYA 2019, 2019, Former Minato Dormitory of Nagoya Custom

Photo by Ryohei Tomita, Photo courtesy : Assembridge NAGOYA Executive Committee

ASSEMBRIDGE NAGOYA 2019, 2019, Former Minato Dormitory of Nagoya Custom

Photo by Ryohei Tomita, Photo courtesy : Assembridge NAGOYA Executive Committee

Solo Show: Perry Rhodan and my life, 2018, Art Center Ongoing

Photo by Shigeo Muto

Solo Show: Perry Rhodan and my life, 2018, Art Center Ongoing

Photo by Shigeo Muto

αM Project 2018 Painting and… , 2018, gallery αM

Photo by Shigeo Muto

What to Do With Memories by Utilizing Things Such as Indirect Lighting in Light Box Style, Yatsuzaki Halo, Feeling of Wanting to Kiss, Family Story, Sagamihara Stone Burger, Forget Medusa, and Element 50m Ahead, 2017, ShugoArts

Photo by Shigeo Muto

Pork Park, 2016, ShugoArts

Photo by Shigeo Muto

Mitsukyo, 2008, ShugoArts

Photo by Shigeo Muto

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The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, 2024-2025, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art

Photo by Chloë Callistemon, QAGOMA

Copyright Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art

The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, 2024-2025, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art

Photo by Chloë Callistemon, QAGOMA

Copyright Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art

The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, 2024-2025, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art

Photo by Chloë Callistemon, QAGOMA

Copyright Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art

tenterhooks, 2024, Simone Subal Gallery

Photo by Marc Tatti

Sideward Exhibition, 2023, ShugoArts

Photo by Shigeo Muto

Sideward Exhibition, 2023, ShugoArts

Photo by Shigeo Muto

Sideward Exhibition, 2023, ShugoArts

Photo by Shigeo Muto

Masaya Chiba Exhibition, 2021, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Photo by Shigeo Muto

Masaya Chiba Exhibition, 2021, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Photo by Shigeo Muto

Masaya Chiba Exhibition, 2021, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Photo by Shigeo Muto

Masaya Chiba Exhibition, 2021, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Photo by Shigeo Muto

ASSEMBRIDGE NAGOYA 2019, 2019, Former Minato Dormitory of Nagoya Custom

Photo by Ryohei Tomita, Photo courtesy : Assembridge NAGOYA Executive Committee

ASSEMBRIDGE NAGOYA 2019, 2019, Former Minato Dormitory of Nagoya Custom

Photo by Ryohei Tomita, Photo courtesy : Assembridge NAGOYA Executive Committee

Solo Show: Perry Rhodan and my life, 2018, Art Center Ongoing

Photo by Shigeo Muto

Solo Show: Perry Rhodan and my life, 2018, Art Center Ongoing

Photo by Shigeo Muto

αM Project 2018 Painting and… , 2018, gallery αM

Photo by Shigeo Muto

What to Do With Memories by Utilizing Things Such as Indirect Lighting in Light Box Style, Yatsuzaki Halo, Feeling of Wanting to Kiss, Family Story, Sagamihara Stone Burger, Forget Medusa, and Element 50m Ahead, 2017, ShugoArts

Photo by Shigeo Muto

Pork Park, 2016, ShugoArts

Photo by Shigeo Muto

Mitsukyo, 2008, ShugoArts

Photo by Shigeo Muto

Biography

Born in Kanagawa, Japan, in 1980. Currently lives and works in Tokyo. Chiba’s paintings are created through a process in which the artist actively engages with the objects of his choice as much as necessary; he extracts images from his surroundings and previous life events and reconstructs them on canvas while utilizing his handmade motifs. With his sophisticated skill set, Chiba can differentiate textures of various motifs in his paintings where he establishes a complex world combining pseudo-reality, pure artificiality and reality. While sincerely imprinting copious achievements of paintings of all times and places on his mind, the artist boldly disturbs the existing structure of contemporary art with his preferred medium, painting.

 

Selected exhibitions: Sideward Exhibition, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2023; Masaya Chiba Exhibition, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, 2021; Assembridge NAGOYA, Former Minato Dormitory of Nagoya customs, Nagoya, 2019; Painting and …, Gallery αM, Tokyo, 2018; Perry Rhodan and my life, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, 2018; MAM Collection 006: Materials and Boundaries – Handiwirman Saputra + Chiba Masaya, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2017; What to Do With Memories by Utilizing Things Such as Indirect Lighting in Light Box Style, Yatsuzaki Halo, Feeling of Wanting to Kiss, Family Story, Sagamihara Stone Burger, Forget Medusa, and Element 50m Ahead, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2017; Discordant Harmony, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, 2015 (Travelled to Seoul and Taipei); Roppongi Crossing 2013: OUT OF DOUBT, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2013