Resume: Rie Kawakami
Education:
1990 Research fellow, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music (Tokyo)
1989 M.F.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music (Tokyo)
1987 B.A. Tama Art University (Tokyo)
Selected Solo Exhibition:
2007 “Breathing Earth”, Border Art Residency Show, Olo Gallery (El Paso, TX, U.S.A.)
2006 “Trace of Will”, CAI Contemporary Art Institute (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
2005 “Earth Energy”, STV Entrance Art (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
2004 “Landscape Will”, Red Mill Gallery (Vermont, U.S.A.)
“ Landscape Will”, Temporary Space (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
“Sabi no Ma”, ArtWarm (Ishikari, Hokkaido)
“For the Future
Which Will Be the Past”, Youkobo Art Space (Suginami, Tokyo)
2002 “Rie Kawakami Solo Show”, Ishikari City Hall (Ishikari, Hokkaido)
“Rie Kawakami Solo Show”, Red Mill Gallery (Vermont, U.S.A.)
2001 “traces d'osmose”, Alliance Francaise de Sapporo (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
“An Afterimage”, Gallery Tapio (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
1999 “For the Future Which Will Be the Past”, The Sapporo City Document Museum (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
1994 “Rie Kawakami Solo Show”, Am Art Gallery (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
1993 “Rie Kawakami Solo Show”, Gallery Yamanote (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
1992 “Rie Kawakami Solo Show”, Gallery R-BOX (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
1991 “Rie Kawakami Solo Show”, Daido Gallery (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
1990 “Rie Kawakami Solo Show”, Gallery Natsuka (Tokyo)
Selected Group Exhibition:
2008 “Art on the Green Sculpture Invitation” Kemp Center for the Art (Wichita Falls, TX, U.S.A.)
2007 “Tarumae Arty 2007” (Kobo Leo, Tarumae, Hokkaido)
“Edge”, (The Museum of Art, Kochi)
“Window Art Project” (Pittsfield, MA, U.S.A.)
“Location One IRP Group Show (Location One, NY, U.S.A.)
“100 Works of Otani” (Sapporo Otani Junior College, Sapporo)
2006 “Edge”, (The Museum of Art, Kochi)
2005 “Gwanghwamoon International Art Fair”, (Sejong Cultural Center Museum, Seoul, Korea)
“Art and Craft in
North - Charity for Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake”, (Continental
Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
2004 “A Talk with Art - Five Memories”, (Monbetsu Municipal Museum)
“04 Summer Festival, Sea”, (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
2003 “From 03 to 04”, (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
“A MUSE LAND
2004, Big or Small !?”, (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo,
Hokkaido)
“IYOMANTE
–open air art festival in Tobetsu 2003”, (Tobetsu, Hokkaido)
“Fest Part II” Exhibition (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
“Time Passage
inWater, Silent Sound inForest“, (Continental Gallery, Sapporo,
Hokkaido)
“Art of Sapporo
2003 <Attempt of 19+1>”, (Sapporo Citizen Gallery, Sapporo,
Hokkaido)
2002 “Artists Exhibition” (Gallery Tapio, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
“From 02 to 03”, (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
“North
Sculpture Exhibition 2002”, (Sapporo Sculpture Museum, Sapporo,
Hokkaido)
“The 2nd
Window-Arts Exhibition in Shikaoi”, (Shopping District,
Shikaoi-town, Hokkaido)
“Fest”, (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
“Portraits of a
Water Vein: Contemporary Art in Japan and Korea”, (Hokkaido
Museum of Modern Art,
Tokai University
Gallery, Fukido Gallery, Asahikawa/ Art Warm, Ishikari, Hokkaido)
2001 “From 01 to 02”, (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
“Hokkaido
Solid Art”, (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
“Woman”, (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
“The 10th
International Triennial of Tapestry”, (Central Museum of
Tapestry, Poland)
“From 00 to 01”, (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
“Northern
Creator 2001 <Viewpoints of ARTing>”, (Museum of
Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
“American
Center Reopening Commemoration Fine Arts”, (American Center,
Sapporo, Hokkaido)
“Color Part _”, (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
“The 2ndt
Art Exhibition of the Shiribetsu River, As for the River, from the
Green Wood”, (Arishima-Art Gallery,
Niseko, Hokkaido)
”Life,
Breathing in Art”, (Daimaru Fujii Central, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
1999 “From 99 to 2000”, (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
“Color”, (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
“The 1st Art
Exhibition of the Shiribetsu River <-River- Natural
Twinkking>”, (Arishima Art Gallery, Niseko, Hokkaido)
“A MUSE
LAND '99 <SUN & MOON>”, (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art,
Sapporo, Hokkaido)
“Sensitive Round Fan”, (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
1997 “Project Exhibition of Hokkaido Art Association
<The Investigation of the Space> “, (Daimaru Fujii Central,
Sapporo, Hokkaido)
“Selected
Artists in Hokkaido”, (Canadian World, Ashibetsu, Hokkaido)
“Hokkaido Art
Association 70th Anniversary <New and Powerful Artists>”,
(Daimaru Fujii Central, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
1994 “52 Forms of Love”, (Gallery R-BOX, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
1990 “To the children. then, to the eternal
boys & girls. ’91”, (Gallery R-BOX, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
1989 “THREE STROKE”, (Saitama Museum of Modern Art, Urawa, Saitama)
Commission Works:
2007 Art and Sol Project (El Paso, Texas) / 2006 Chubetsubashi Park
(Asahikawa, Hokkaido) / 1998 Fukoku Seimei Building (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
/ Ishikari City General Health Welfare Center (Ishikari, Hokkaido) /
1994 Naganuma Community Park (Naganuma, Hokkaido) / 1993 Sapporo
Municipal Houmei High School for Handicapped Children (Sapporo,
Hokkaido) / 1992 Daiichiseimei, Totsuka Kyouiku Center Building
(Yokohama, Kanagawa)
Grant and Award:
2007 Selected to be a resident of Border Art Residency (NM, U.S.A.)
2006 Grant from Agency for Cultural Affairs to attend Location One IRP in NY, U.S.A. (Japan)
2004 Awarded 11th Annual Asian Artists Fellowships sponsored by the Freeman Foundation (U.S.A)
2003 Awarded full fellowship for residency program at Vermont Studio Center (U.S.A)
2002 Grant from Freeman Foundation for residency program at Vermont Studio Center (U.S.A)
2001 Grant from Ishikari city for participating “10th
International Triennial of Tapestry” (Ishikari, Hokkaido)
Artistic Activity:
2008 Artist presentation at Irvine High School (El Paso, TX, U.S.A.)
Artist presentation at Olo Gallery (El Paso, TX, U.S.A.)
2007 Open studio organized by Border Art Residency Board of Directors (La Union, NM)
Invited to be a
visiting artist at University of Texas El Paso (El Paso, Texas)
Report meeting about
Location One IRP, organized by Sapporo Artists Gallery (Sapporo,
Hokkaido)
2006 Participated in residency program at Location One International Residency Program (New York, U.S.A.)
Attended the
project of Asahikawa Sculpture Festival at Chubetsubashi Park
(Asahikawa, Hokkaido)
2005 Participated in project for Sapporo Snow Festival (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
Visiting lecturer at Dongduk Women’s University (Seoul, Korea)
2003 Participated in residency program at Vermont Studio Center (Vermont, U.S.A)
Lecture for members of Sapporo Sculpture Museum (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
Lecture for public at Sapporo Citizen Gallery (Sapporo)
2002 Writing short essay to a quarterly magazine, “Bijutsu Pen, No.107” (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
Participated in
residency program at Vermont Studio Center (Vermont, U.S.A)
Lecture for public at Art Warm (Ishikari, Hokkaido)
Artist’s talk at Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
2001 Report meeting about 10th International Triennial of Tapestry (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
Lecture for
public at Museum of Contemporary Art, Artist’s and
Audience’s Collaboration (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
1999 Lecture for children at Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
Employment:
Since1998; Part Time Instructor, Sapporo Otani Junior College (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
1992 to 2005; Part Time Instructor, Hokkaido University of Education (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
Since1991; Part Time Instructor, Hokkaido Institute of Design (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
Address in the US (until May 2008);
Border Art Residency
3124 Highway 28 South, LA UNION, NM 88021
Address (Japan):
88-5 Takaoka, Hachimancho, Ishikari, Hokkaido 061-3481
E-mail: webrkwkm@gmail.com
URL: http://www.riekawakami.net