Yoshinori Takakura | 髙倉吉規
Yoshinori Takakura
Yoshinori Takakura (b. 1981, Tokyo) is an artist who lives and works in Tokyo. He received his doctorate in Oil Painting from Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Oil Painting Technique and Material. His unique oil paintings are composed of odd forms and multilayered colors that provoke metaphors for internal aspects of the human character. Takakura materializes on his canvas forms in which internal desires and external influences blend and commingle with each other, a visual transference of the nature of the human psyche, where sensations of both disgust and comfort often exist in uneasy cohabitation. He was selected for Overseas Study Program for Artists provided by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, and worked in Lebanon.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Emerging Artist, Vol 001, Toride Gap Gallery, Toride
2013 L’Espoir Yoshinori Takakura, Surugadai Gallery, Tokyo
2010 Parasite-Gain from Life, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
2009 Melting Forest, Gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo
2008 TWS Emerging 100 - The Gift, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
Yoshinori Takakura, NODA CONTEMPORARY, Nagoya
Yoshinori Takakura, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo
2007 Yoshinori Takakura, Gallery k, Tokyo
2006 Yoshinori Takakura, Gallery k, Tokyo
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Polka Dot, Ginza Mitsukoshi, Tokyo
2016 NORA x HAISHAKKEI, Nora Hair Salon, Tokyo
2014 NORA x HAISHAKKEI - Keep Changing, Still Dreaming, Nora Hair Salon, Tokyo
Contemporary Beirut 2014, ARTHEUM Beirut, Beirut
2013 L’Empire des Sens, ARTHEUM Beirut, Beirut
2012 AIR 3331- Alternative Tokyo, ARTS CHIYODA 3331,Tokyo
Secret Auction @ Command N, ARTS CHIYODA 3331, Tokyo
MITSUKOSHI X TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS 2012, Mitsukoshi, Tokyo
NORA x HAISHAKKEI, Nora Hair Salon, Tokyo
ART LINE KASHIWA, Sogou Department Store, Ibaraki
What is Alternative? Festival or Mountain?, Haisyakkei, Ibaraki
Concord - The Link of Rhythmical Encounter, Nora Hair Salon, Tokyo
2011 Tokyo University of the Arts Doctoral Final Exhibition 2011, University of Art Museum, Tokyo