Ryohei Usui
Ryohei Usui has been presenting works that can be seen as a contemporary version of “Mitate,” in which he employs different mediums, mainly familiar materials to change the way we “see” things that already exist.
Since 2012, he has been working on a series of glass works entitled “PET (Portrait of Encountered Things),” in which plastic containers abandoned on the streets are superimposed on people living in the city, presenting them as a kind of “contemporary portrait.
Works
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Selected solo show
- 2022
- “Still life on the street”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2020
- “Solid, State, Survivor”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2016
- “Objects on a table”
- UTRECHT,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2015
- “Temporary things”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2012
- “PET (summer edition 2012)”
- Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino,
- Kanagawa, Japan
- “PET (Portrait of Encountered Things)”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2009
- “encounter”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2008
- “Flying goza mat”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2007
- “Sunday Remains”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
Selected group show
- 2024
- “MOT ANNUAL on the imagined terrain”
- Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2020
- “Megururi Art Shizuoka 2020”
- Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art,
- Shizuoka, Japan
- 2019
- “SETTAI STYLE: From Edo Chic to Tokyo Modern”
- Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan,
- (traveled to Mitsui Memorial Museum, Tokyo / The Suiboku Museum, Toyama / Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan)
- 2017
- “Amazing Craftsmanship! From Meiji Kogei to Contemporary Art”
- Mitsui Memorial Museum, Tokyo, Japan,
- (traveled to Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu / Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum, Yamaguchi / The Suiboku Museum, Toyama / Abeno Harukas Art Museum, Osaka, Japan)
- “Spring Fever”
- KOMAGOME Soko,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2016
- “Contemporary tales from the province IV - Susaki artist in residence”
- Susaki Machikado Gallery,
- Kochi, Japan
- “Assembridge Nagoya 2016: Panorama Garden - Discovering Signs in an Alternative Ecosystem”
- Former dormitory of the customs of Port of Nagoya,
- Aichi, Japan
- 2015
- “Contemporary tales from the province III - Susaki artist in residence”
- Susaki Machikado Gallery,
- Kochi, Japan
- “by the mountain path”
- White Rainbow gallery,
- London, UK
- “Open Theatre 2015 Totsuzen Museum”
- KAAT,
- Kanagawa, Japan
- 2014
- “Goldfish”
- P!,
- ew York, USA
- “VOCA; The Vision of Contemporary Art 2014”
- The Ueno Royal Museum,
- Tokyo,Japan
- 2013
- “Now Japan; Exhibition with 37 contemporary Japanese artists”
- Kunsthal KAdE,
- Amersfoort, The Netherlands
- “Musubijutsu”
- Museum of Art Shizuoka,
- Shizuoka, Japan
- “Something Overlooked”
- sendai mediatheque,
- Miyagi, Japan
Public collection
- M+,
- Hong Kong
- Rennie Collection,
- Canada
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