”Yellow Leaves” 2024, paint on paper (mineral pigments, suihi pigments, sumi, gofun, washi, and wooden panel), 910x727mm

August 6 (Tue) – September 8 (Sun), 2024
Opening hours: 11:00-19:00 (last entry 18:45)
Closed: Mondays (if a public holiday falls on Monday, the gallery is closed the following day). We are closed for the summer holidays from August 13-15.
The artist will be in the gallery from 4 pm on the first day of the opening.
This will be an opportunity to hear an explanation of the artworks in person, so please come along.

＜Exhibition Outline＞
In her solo exhibition “Urban Forest”, Japanese painter Rina Shiino presents new landscape paintings of urban trees in Tokyo.
Scenes of warm spring rain replacing snow, the earth hardened by the cold becoming soft and moist, fresh green at the beginning of summer, and the intensity of sunlight – Shiino describes her own work as “unassuming,” but by embedding in her paintings the small aspects of nature she experiences in her daily life and the small happiness she finds in these changes, she creates an expressive “Urban Forest” from her own unique perspective.

＜Artist＞

Rina Shiino
2016 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Japanese Painting
2018 M.F.A., Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Japanese Painting
2021 D.F.A., Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Japanese Painting

Past Exhibitions
2013
The 21st Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program Exhibition (GYRE Omotesando)
2016
“SPACELESS” (WooSuk Gallery, Seoul National University)
2018
MITSUKOSHI × Tokyo University of the Arts – Summer Art Festival (Nihombashi MITSUKOSHI Honten)
The 23rd SOGA-Kai Tokyo-Kenkyukai Summer Exhibition (Gallery Seira)
The 45th Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program Exhibition “MC FOREST” (Mitsubishi Shoji Building)
2020
“L’ESPOIR Solo Exhibition” (Ginza Surugadai Garou, Tokyo)
2023
“Tsukuba Award of Art 2023”
“Will+s 2023”
The 50th Tokyo Spring SOGA-Kai Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)
2024
The 50th Tokyo Spring SOGA-Kai Exhibition, 19’21’22’23’

＜Past works＞

“Forest Path”, 2021, color on paper (mineral pigments, suihi pigments, sumi, gofun, washi, and wooden panel)
“What I am trying to depict with urban forests is not so much individual trees, but rather “places” made up of sky and ground. This includes the shape of the sky and the ground, the air, the gravity, and other aspects that appear through the silhouettes of the trees and structures. The impulse of my own creation is to put different kinds of information between objects.” (Excerpt from doctoral thesis, “Enclosed forests: organic form and color”)

“Appearance” , 2018, color on paper (mineral pigments, suihi pigments, sumi, gofun, washi, and wooden panel)
The title “Appearance” refers to a fountain suddenly appearing in the center of the painting.