商品系列: EMI KURAYA 倉谷惠美
Emi Kuraya, born in 1995, is one of the most interesting and refreshing new voices in the contemporary Japanese art panorama. A graduate of Tokyo’s Tama Art University, in spite of her young age Kuraya has already had a few high-profile solo shows, in Japan and at Perrotin Seoul in South Korea, and has been exhibited at the Hong Kong edition of Art Basel and also at Frieze New York, receiving wide acclaim for the freshness, and the deep layers of meaning that make her work so captivating. Since 2018, Kuraya has been a member of Kaikai Kiki, the art enterprise founded by Takashi Murakami.
倉谷惠美(Emi Kuraya,日語:くらや えみ)1995年出生於日本神奈川縣(Kanagawa),現在還是位在著名的私立多摩美術大學(Tama Art University)繪畫科主修油畫的學生。該校建立於1935年,原稱為「多摩帝國美術學校」,建立後當年的「帝國美術學校」(現武藏野美術大學,也是一所藝術人才輩出的日本藝術大學)與多摩帝國美術學校分離。1947年,升格為專門學校,改稱「多摩造形藝術專門學校」,至1950年設置多摩美術短期大學,1953年改為現名至今,是日本三大藝術大學之一。近年來在學術與市場都甚受矚目的Mono-ha(中文有翻譯稱之為「物派」,但尚有爭議)其中兩位領軍大將:觀念藝術家菅木志雄(Kishio Suga, 1944)及關根伸夫(Nobuo Sekine, 1942 - 2019)都是該校著名校友。
Photo: Emi Kuraya in Studio © 2020 Emi Kuraya/KaiKai Kiki Co. Ltd. All Rights Reserved | Courtesy Perrotin