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Outcry of City
"City" is the place to support people equally in the present age. However, it was often interpreted negatively as a leviathan who alienated human and nature. Satoshi Koyama who started creation in 70's is the one of the artists who spent his adolescence not in such huge city. Buildings which reduced to windowless cube continue endlessly.
Such strange spectacle of "City Series" shows it eloquently. His works were invited to exhibitions such as "Shell Art Award", "Memorial of Shigeru Aoki", "Tenri Biennale" and "Memorial of Ryohei Koiso" and evaluated higher one after another. His nihilistic look which even surpasses surrealist Yves Tanguy might have scooped out people's minds sharply and nailed down their eyes. That is the one of the scenes of contemporary art with deep emotion.
However, I came to think that his works of "City Series" lead the city images of current people slowly but surely. I could do nothing but be surprised that inorganic and anti-natural Koyama's world turned to the global inner city or megacity before one knows. The strange buildings became trees or human bodies and turned to the bright life hymn. I can comprehend that because of nothing but his insight of the city.
Jun Teshigawara (Art Critic)
Public Collections
The National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka
Kitasato Institute Medical Center
Kanazawa Institute of Technology
Keiju Medical Center
Kobe City (Koiso Memorial Museum of Art)
Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto
Anakusa City
Shironoue Elementary School (Koshigaya City)
Kawaura Junior High School (Amakusa City)
Book Cover Designs
Asahi Jurnal (Weekly News Magazine)
"Coin Locker Babies" Ryu Murakami
"Amakusa - sunlight filtering down through the trees shines on" Jo Tamaki
Satoshi Koyama
1953
Born in Amakusa, Kumamoto
1977
Exhibition of Ichiyo (-1983)(Became a member of Ichiyo-kai in 1982)
1979
The 23rd Exhibition of Shell Art Prize, Tokyo / 3rd Prize
The 14th Kanagawa Pref Exhibition (Prize of Art Encouragement Association)
1980
The 24th Exhibition of Shell Art Prize, Tokyo
The 13th Tokyo Biennale (Tokyo National Museum of Art. Tokyo, Osaka) (Award of National Museum of Art)( - 16th Exhibition)
1981
Outstanding Rising Artists Exhibition of The Yasuda Fire and Marine Insurance Fine Art Foundation
Japan Art Festival (Tokyo, London, Osaka)
1983
The 16th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan (- 20th)
1985
The 28th Yasui Award, Tokyo.
The 1st and 2nd ABC and PI Exhibition (Osaka/Excellence Award at the 1st Exhibition)
1986
The 7th Contemporary Painting Exhibition of Japan (Ube, Yamaguchi)
1992
The 1st International Contemporary Art Fair, Japan(NiCAF) (Shinobazu Gallery Booth, Yokohama)
1994
The 37th Yasui Award, Tokyo.
Exhibition of Shigeru Aoki Grand Prize
Tenri Biennale
1995
The 12th Painting Exhibition of Izu Fine Art Museum (Excellence Award)
1997
Exhibition of Chu Asai Memorial Prize
Biennale Makurazaki "Art of Wind" (Kagoshima)
2000
"Asean Art Now" at Las Vegas (Museum Award)
The 5th Koiso Ryohei Award (Grand Prize) (Kobe, Asahikawa, Tokyo, Fukuoka)
2003
"Power of Kyushu" (Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto)
2007
"Satoshi Koyama X Yayoi Kusama" (Shinobazu Gallery)
2011
"Outcry of City" Satoshi Koyama (DOKA Contemporary Arts)
2012
Duo Exibition with Hidetoshi Takahama "A Shape of Water & Life" at Kenmin Deptartment Store, Kumamoto and Hamaya Deptartment Store, Nagasaki planned by DOKA Contemporary Arts.
2014
"Huge Power" at Yamakataya Deptartment Store, Kagoshima.
Duo Exibition with Takamichi Ito "Wind and Light Flow Through Life City" at Tenmaya Deptartment Store, Okayama planned by DOKA Contemporary Arts.
2016
40th Anniversary Exhibition "Expose the City" (Ichiryusha Gallery)
2017
ART EXPO NEW YORK (ARTandMORE Booth, New York, USA) Artist Argent: DOKA Contemporary Arts
"Outcry of City - Satoshi Koyama"
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Satoshi Koyama
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