Kyoko MURASE (1963-) is a Japanese painter living in Dusseldorf since her early twenties. Though all her paintings are figurative, smooth and light touches of the brash strokes evoke our fundamental senses of body, like temperature and humidity of wind passing on our skin or water wrapping us. Furthermore, we can see in her paintings two conflicted elements like warmth and coolness, loneliness and intimacy, expansion to the outside space and sedimentation to the inner world. In this exhibition, we will show her paintings from 2000 to today, including her brand new paintings and wall drawing installation in our gallery.

Biography
1963 born in Gifu, Japan
1983 Completed postgraduate studies at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music
1990-96 Studied at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf
1993 Completed Meisterschuler course with Konrad Klapheck. Lives and works in Dusseldorf

Solo exhibitions
2002 "Chasing Butterflies" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2004 "To The Mountain Lake" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2006 "The Moon, the Woods and the Snail under the Fern" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2007 "Cicada and horned owl" Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, "Around the lilac rock"　Cohan and Leslie, New York
2008 “Emerald” Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

Artist’s publications
The Moon, the Woods ant the Snail under the Fern, Taka Ishii Gallery, 2006
Kyoko Murase Drawings: Jelly Morning, NOHARA, 2008

* The text provided by Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.

Opened dates: April 10 - July 13, 2010