Biography

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Rouketsuzome

I make artwork with rouketsuzome. Rouketsuzome is one of techniques used to dye cloth. For rouketsuzome, we make use of the characteristic of wax: the wax on cloth resists the penetration of dye. Rouketsuzome is created with brushes, wax and dye. We control wax and use it prevent the cloth being dyed.

Statement

I was born in Yamagata-gun, Hiroshima. It has a lot of beautiful nature. I feel close to nature, and I think nothing is more beautiful than nature. I am fully aware that neither my artwork nor my imagination can exceed the beauty of nature; nature presents us with a different beauty every single day.

The reason why I use dying techniques is because I feel that dyes drifting with the current in water can recreate the current of particles in the water and the air. The-out-of-control moves of dyes can give my artworks a natural expression on cloth.

I pursue a new art style by combining my imagination and a natural phenomenon, utilizing the power of nature.

Born:

1993 Yamagata-gun, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan.

Education:

2012-2016 Hiroshima City University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Design and Applied

Arts, Division of Textiles (BFA)

2018 Hiroshima City University, Department of Design and Applied Arts,

Division of Textiles (MFA)

2017 I was selected Scholarship member from Mitsubishi Corporation.

Solo Exhibition:

2021 ■ ‘AYAKA UMEDA solo exhibition – in a trance-, at The seventh floor of Fukuya Hatchobori Main Store art art gallery (12/９~12/14)

2019 ■ ‘AYAKA UMEDA solo exhibition, at GALLRY ART POINT, Tokyo (12/９~12/14)

2018 ■ ‘AYAKA UMEDA solo exhibition, at GALLRY ART POINT, Tokyo (12/10~12/15)

2018 ■ ‘Undying Trees’ at mm project gallery, Hiroshima (10/27~11/17)

2016 ■ ‘SOMEIRO Aquarium’ at mm project gallery , Hiroshima (9/3~10/25)

Group Exhibition:

2021■ ‘’Shimotuki ni Asobu, art space morgenrot, Tokyo

2019■ ‘Kusanotuyu Hananoka’, art space morgenrot, Tokyo

2019 ■‘The 45th Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program’, at MC FOREST, Tokyo

2019 ■‘Art Gaia@ jonanjima’, at ART FACTORY jonanjima, Tokyo

2019 ■‘The 44th Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program’, at MC FOREST, Tokyo

2019 ■‘The 43rd Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program’, at MC FOREST, Tokyo

2019■ ‘Hatsune, Hanakage, Harunotuyu’, art space morgenrot, Tokyo

2018 ■ ‘The 42nd Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program’, at MC FOREST, Tokyo

2018■ ‘Independent Tokyo2018’, at Asakusa Hulic Holl, Tokyo

2018 ■ ‘The 41th Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program’, at MC FOREST, Tokyo

2018 ■ ‘The 40th Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program’, at MC FOREST, Tokyo

2018 ■ ‘The 39th Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program’, at MC FOREST, Tokyo

2018 ■ ‘The 38th Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program’, at MC FOREST, Tokyo

2018 ■‘The 21th Graduation Exhibition Hiroshima City University Faculty of Arts and Graduate School of Arts’ at Hiroshima City University Art Museum(2/14~2/18)

2017 ■ ‘The 37th Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program’, at MC FOREST, Tokyo (12/５~12/14)

2017 ■ ‘The Group Exhibition of Up and Coming Artists Working in Contemporary Dyeing’　at Some Seiryukan, Kyoto (11/3~11/26)

2017 ■ ‘Auction in Kanazawa for Kogei and Art（AKKA）‘ at PIAS gallery, Osaka (10/10~10/12) at dining gallery Kanazawa of Ginza, Tokyo (10/14~10/15) at Kanazawa Art Gummi gallery, Ishikawa (10/19~10/31)

2017 ■ ‘The 72th new Takumi Crafts Exhibition’ at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (10/8~10/14) at Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (10/18~10/22)

2017 ■ ‘The 71th Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Exhibition’ at Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum (9/16~10/1)

2017 ■ ‘The life in Satoyama ! The Artists – Into the Streets’ at mm project gallery and the shopping street in Kake, Akiota, Hiroshima(9/2~10/1)

2017 ■ ‘The 34th Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program’, at GYRE gallery, Tokyo (2/20~3/2)

2017 ■ ‘The New World’, at Hiroshima Art Center, Hiroshima (2/22~2/26)

2017 ■ ‘The ultramarine of spring’, at Honmaru Coffee gallery (1/31~2/12)

2016 ■ ‘The exhibition of Seifukai’, at Itsukaichi Memorial Hospital(11/30~12/7)

2016 ■ ‘The 4th New Kenbiten’, at Annual Competition of Art in Hiroshima Prefecture　(7/2~7/17)

2016 ■ ‘The 19th Graduation Exhibition Hiroshima City University Faculty of Arts and Graduate School of Arts’ at Hiroshima MOCA (2/17~2/21)

2015 ■ ‘21 exhibition’ at Hiroshima City University Art Museum(9/27)

2015 ■ ‘The 70th new Takumi Crafts Exhibition’ at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (10/22~10/28) at Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (11/4~11/8)

2015 ■ ‘The 8th Snow Design Competition’ at Nakaya Ukichiro Museum of Snow and Ice (1029~2/16/2016)

2015 ■‘The 3ed New Kenbiten’ at Annual Competition of Art in Hiroshima Prefecture (6/20~7/5)

2015 ■ ‘METAPHOR’ at GOJINSHA Wendy Hito-Machi Plaza gallery(1/9~1/13)

2014 ■ ‘The 2nd New Kenbiten’, at Annual Competition of Art in Hiroshima Prefecture (6/28~7/23)

2013 ■ ‘Art in Wine Cellar’ at Saijyou, Hiroshima (8/24~9/1)

Award:

2018 ■ The 43rd Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program