Sumie Matsuura
Japan
My work is based on my old memories. I love Japanese paper sliding door Shoji which allows light to come through by using thin paper. Japanese have used paper for architecture in various cases for [more than / about] eight hundred years. When I matched paper and silver leaf that is an old Japanese painting material, these came to demonstrate multiple phenomena. I have represented contemporary themes, for example, an environmental problem, a lie of nation and others with the old material and technique in my work, paying attention not to lose the beauty of paper work.
Selected Solo Exhibition
2018 An encounter of contemporary art and tea world, Jugetsudo, Paris
2018 Aquarium Berlin-admiration for the south, Zum Einhorn, Tokyo
2016 Light and Shadow of the Island_Tokyo 2016, Galerie de La Maison Franco-Japonaise, Tokyo
2010 Water Environment—3,Kageyama Gallery,Shizuoka,Japan
2003 Dialogue with Water, Verkehr Shimizu Port Terminal Museum Gallery
1997 Water environment, Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibition
2019 Japan Now-Sofia Paper Art Fest 2019, Sofia, Bulgaria
2019 Amateras Exhibition Sofia Paper Art Fest 2019, Sofia, Bulgaria
2017 Shizuoka 9 artists ＋１、Mizunami Art Hall, Gifu,Japan
2008Bangkok-Shizuoka;Aesthetics’ The Relationship Art Exhibition”, Silpakorn Unversity, Bangkok Thailand
2005 Tea Ceremony & Pleasure Grand Prize, Second,Fujingaho,Tokyo
1996 International Tannan Art Festival, Takef, Japan
1996 Washi-Group “Kami-za” Show, ’96 ’97 ’98 Shizuoka, Japan
1995 Mino Washi Akari-Art Contest, Special Judge’s Prize, Japan
