SUNOHARA Naoto

Profile

Born in 1996 in Nagano, Japan. Lives and works in Yamagata, Japan. Graduated with an MFA in Fine Arts from Japanese Painting Department, Tohoku University of Art & Design in 2020.

Recent exhibitions
2024 ”Echoing Bodies,” Ippats, Okayama, Japan
2023 “Shin Japanese Painting: Revolutionary Nihonga,” POLA Museum Of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
2022 “Nature in Ourselves,” THE NORTH FACE Mountain & THE NORTH FACE Alter, Tokyo
2021 “Fragments from Scaling Mountain,” Art Front Gallery, Tokyo
2021 “VOCA2021 (the Vision Of Contemporary Art),” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

Grant and other
2022, 2023 “THE NORTH FACE WALLS ARE MEANT FOR CLIMBING Vol.1, Vol.2,” Collaboration products and exhibition
2018-2020 “2nd & 3rd Creators Scholarship,” by Kuma Foundation

About works

He primarily creates works with mountains as the main theme. By personally climbing mountains, he translates the physical movements gained from these experiences into his brushstrokes, expressing them as abstract landscapes. While using traditional Japanese painting mediums such as ink and mineral pigments, he explores new possibilities for flat, extended-surface artworks. Recently, he has been working on the Skin series, inspired by the textures of mountain surfaces, reflecting his interest in the relationship between himself and the world around him.