Iku Harada1982-

Iku Harada creates computerized virtual reality spaces, with houses and parks. She then depicts scenes from that world in paint. There are trees and even a gallery with paintings exhibited. Computerized scenes are not real, without depth of the atmosphere, and are deprived of ambivalent gradation of colors caused by different lights in the real world. These are classical paintings insofar as they show virtual-reality views, but they are first created by computer. Even in her virtual world, the sun rises and shadows move with the passage of time. Harada replaces her computer-generated virtual image with a painted canvas, existing in a real world.　Recently her works encompass to three-dimensional block which are then to be drawn on the canvas again, thus creating the interlocking relationship between two- and three-dimensional world.

Biography

1982 born in Yamagata
2005　BFA, Tokyo Zokei University
2007　MFA, Tokyo Zokei University

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Solo Exhibitions

2023 "In the Window" Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2023 "Art Valley" Shibuya station / Tokyo
2023 "InnerSpase" MetaGallery LaLuna / Seoul
2022 ”WHITE CUBE- WHITE CUBE- ROPPONGI 2022” Roppongi Art Night 2022 / Tokyo
2020 "Within Witout" Galerie Bhak / Seoul
2020 Taipei Dangdai Art Fair 2020 / Taipei
2019 Open Studio 75 Iku Harada "Another World Map of 10th Year", Fuchu Art Museum / Tokyo
2018 "NEW DIMENSIONS" Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2018 museum shop T / Tokyo
2017 "Iku Harada -circle-" Gallery Pepin / Saitama
2015 "My Garden” Anjin (Daikanyama T - site) / Tokyo
2015 "This, and the Other" Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2013 "Iku Harada Solo Exhibition : One Window and Awaking Garden" Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2012 "Landscape of the Children - on unknown countries and their people" Lamp harajuku B1Gallery / Tokyo
2011 "Iku Harada Solo Exhibition 2011" Harmas Gallery / Tokyo
2011 "spring” Lamp harajuku B1Gallery / Tokyo
2010 "GARDEN”＋”WHITE CUBE" node / Tokyo
2010 "IKU HARADA SOLO EXHIBITION" Gallery TRINITY / Tokyo
2010 "IKU HARADA EXHIBITON" Mashimo Keiji Memorial Museum of Art / Yamagata

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Group Exhibitions

2023 "Kiaf SEOUL" / Korea
2023 "Synergies, or between creation and generation" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / Tokyo
2023 "Tokyo Gendai" Pacifico Yokohama / Kanagawa
2023 "VOL. 40 2023 Summer-Autumn: Ametsuchi no Uta" Park Hotel Tokyo / Tokyo
2023 "Art Front Selection : Spring 2023" Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2023 "ART SG" the Marina Bay Sands Convention and Exhibition Center / Singapore
2022 "WHITE CUBE- WHITE CUBE- ROPPONGI 2022" ROPPONGI ART NIGHT / Tokyo
2022 ”A Perfect Getaway” Galerie Bhak / Seoul
2021 “Survival Nature” Ginza Tsutaya Books / Tokyo
2021 ”’80s→NOW ART FAIR From the collection from the 80's to the present” Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2021 ”Open Space 2021: New Flatland” NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] / Tokyo
2021 ”KIAF ART SEOUL 2021” Galerie Bhak / Seoul
2021 ”The Night Before the Breakthrough” Ginza Tsutaya Books / Tokyo
2021 ”Art Front Selection 2021 spring” Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2021 The Museum in the Multi-layered World" NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] / Tokyo
2018 "Yoro Tenmei Hanten Augmented Reality" / Gihu
2018 "Artful Places in the Community, Aplus x ATLIA" Kawaguchi Art Gallery ATLIA / Saitama
2018 "Before Explosion : Artists of Next Generation" Bunkamura Gallery / Tokyo　　
2016 "A plus viewing 01" Kawaguchi Municipal Cultural Heritage Center Annex (Former Tanaka’s Residence) / Saitama
2015 "This, and the Other" Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2014 "Summer forum 2014 / Tochigi Art Stage Singapore" the Marina Bay Sands Convention and Exhibition Center / Singapore
2013 "BORDERS" HARMAS GALLERY / Tokyo
2012 "ULTRA 003 Emerging Art Directors Art Fair (Directed by Hironori Yagi)" Spiral / Tokyo
2012 "Living Places : Iku Harada and Ryota Sato" Harmas Gallery / Tokyo
2011 "Inside the Garden : Iku Harada and Miyuki Takenaka" Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2010 "SICF11 (Spiral Independent Creators Festival)" Spiral / Tokyo
2010 "ULTRA 003 Emerging Art Directors Art Fair (Directed by Hironori Yagi)" Spiral / Tokyo Another Approach to Arts ＋PLUS, spazio1 Yoga / Tokyo
2009 "SET ON THE PLATFORM" ANNEX Gallery / Tokyo
2008 "The Exhibition of Forest" Bunpodo / Tokyo
2007 "a smoky room ・The sky is anonymous・The room is anonymous・The World is anonymous" MONKEY GALLERY / Tokyo

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Awards

2010 awarded Liquitex Prize at GEISAI #14 /Tokyo
10th Gunma Art Biennale of Youth 2010 Museum of Modern Art Gunma / Gunma
2003 awarded Encouragement Prize at Yamagata Prefectural art exhibition

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Collection / Public Art

2020 Fuwari art forest, Narita 2020 & "Artpool project"
2019 Senzoku Gakuen

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