Masaya Chiba Exhibition｜Exhibitions

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About exhibition

Masaya Chiba will hold an exhibition at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery from Saturday, January 16, 2021, which will be his first major solo exhibition at a museum in Japan.

Chiba continues to explore the illusory nature of painting, using all kinds of things as motifs for his artworks. At other times, he is fearless in taking advantage of this illusory nature. In this exhibition, Chiba will make full use of the space of the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery by exhibiting more than sixty oil paintings, drawings, sculptures and videos, from his past to his latest works.

This exhibition features the Opera City version of the “warm-hearted staff” series, in which he paints portraits on electric carpets and electric blankets, as well as the latest exhibition of the Jointed Tree Gallery project, in which the artist holds an exhibition in a tree. Moreover, in order to usher the viewers into his painting space, Chiba will set up passages for the turtle, which he has taken care of and has often introduced as a motif for the Turtle’s Life series.

We hope you will not miss this great opportunity to see Chiba’s artworks all at once.

Information

Masaya Chiba Exhibition

Dates

2021.1.16 Sat – 3.21 Sun

Venue

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Exhibition info

For further information regarding opening hours and admission fees, please visit the website above.

Masaya CHIBA

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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