1920 born in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan.
1943 graduated from Tokyo University of Arts. drafted and sent to Manchuria.
1952 moved to Paris, France.
1955 became the member of Salon d’automne.
1958 received the 2nd Yasui Awards.
1968 became associate professor of Tokyo University of Arts (’72 professor).
1978 received Japan Essayist Award Grand Prize, with his essay “dessin with 400 letters”.
2000 became Persons of Cultural Merit.
2008 completed stained glass “Itsuka wa Aeru (We’ll meet someday)” for Tokyo Metro Meiji-jingumae Station.
2014 received Order of Cultural Merit.
2017 completed stained glass “Homing Day” for Iizuka City Hall, Fukuoka.
2020 completed stained glass “We’re all friends” for Aoyama Itchome Station, Tokyo.
lives and works in Tokyo

David DIAO was born in Sichuan, China in 1943. He came to Hong Kong at 6 and at 12 left for New York, where he has been living and working to date. Acquiring his bachelor’s degree in philosophy, DIAO’s work features structural precision and contemplative depth. He has evolved from abstract painting to conceptual and postmodern paintings. Symbols and diagrams are his characteristic painterly language to address such issues as identity politics, family memory, and artistic institutions. Scintillating with particular insight and humor, his work moves beyond the sphere of traditional painting while remaining involved with its mechanisms. His retrospective at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, “David Diao,” is elected one of the top 15 artist retros in 2015 by The Huffington Post.

Felipe Pantone (b. 1986, Buenos Aires, Argentina) lives and works in Valencia, Spain. Beginning his career as a graffiti artist at the age of twelve, he went on to receive a degree in Fine Art from the University in Valencia. Recent exhibitions include Metallic Contact, albertz benda, New York (2022); Beyond the Streets New York (2019); and Art from the Streets, ArtScience Museum, Singapore (2018), among others.

Pantone’s art is a meditation on the ways we consume visual information. Drawing inspiration from kinetic artists like Victor Vasarely and Carlos Cruz-Diez, Pantone utilizes modeling software that allows for 3D insights into a project, which can then be translated into frescoes, murals, paintings, and sculptures, giving tactile merit to what is occurring in the digital world.

Nick Dong graduated with a BFA in Mixed Medias and Paintings from Tung-Hai University and further acquired an MFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry at the University of Oregon. After moving to Oakland, Dong established his own atelier: “studioDONG” in 2013 and started to exhibit both nationally and internationally. In 2012, Dong was enlisted as one of the 40 Under 40: Craft Futures artists by the Renwick Gallery of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Dong is more than just a trained metalsmith; he is a multi-disciplinary conceptual artist that incorporates science theories, cutting age technologies, and humanity into his work, with the aim to spark wonder and create transcending experiences.

Daniel Pulman (b. 1975) was born in Manchester, UK, and received his master’s degree in painting from the Royal College of Art, UK in 1999. He has lived London, Paris, New York, and has spent the last few years travelling extensively in China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. He specializes in visualizing his observation, perception and memory of natural landscape and cultural characteristics of different places through painting the everyday life of ordinary people. Drawing upon the 19th-century European tradition of figurative and landscape painting, his style demonstrates a mastery of Western oil painting techniques, as well as new interpretations of the three-dimensional and the abstract through the use of lines and colors in figurative themes.

Born in Nanjing, China in 1932, HO Kan is a pioneer of Chinese geometric abstraction and a founding member of Tong Fan Art Group, the renowned modern art group in Taiwan. He moved to Taiwan in 1949, and started studying modern art with Li Chun-Shan. In 1956, Ho and another seven painters founded the Tong Fan Art Group to promote “the Taiwanese modern art movement,” and have been reputed “Eight Great Outlaws” since. In 1964, Ho moved to Milan, Italy, where subsequently lived for half a century before he returned and settled in Taiwan in 2014.

Born in 1984 in Ibaraki, Japan. Kawai studied contemporary art at Chelsea College of Art in London (BA.HONS) Fine Art, 2007). After returning to Japan, he studied ceramics at the Ibaraki Prefectural College of Ceramics, graduating in 2018 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. He currently lives and works in Ibaraki Prefecture.

After studying contemporary art, his encounter with the medium of ceramics was an experience that liberated his creativity and led him to a breakthrough. Characterized by dynamic colors and shapes, his ceramic works show various expressions of irregularity, ugliness, grotesqueness, and fragility, revealing the inner self brought out by the material in a multi-layered way. The piled up lumps of clay reflect the time axis of the dialogue between the clay and himself.

Born in 1987 in Aichi.
Matsukawa graduated from Tama Art University in 2011, specializing in oil painting. Her recent exhibitions include Roppongi Crossing 2016: My Body, Your Voice (Mori Museum, Tokyo, 2016), Shell Artist Selection (The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2013) and Artist Meets Kurashiki vol.12 Tomona Matsukawa (Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, 2016). She was a finalist for the Asian Art Award (2017), and was awarded the Fukuzawa Ichiro Memorial Award (2011) and The 25th Holbein Scholarship (2010).
Matsukawa’s distinctive realistic and somewhat dramatic paintings are born from interviews with other women of her generation and the titles and motifs are derived from phrases that were striking during these conversations.

Mariko Kobayashi (1987 Born in Osaka, Based in Saitama) depicts different connections that exist in the world by utilizing textile techniques such as weaving, dyeing, knitting, and stitching. Her artistic concept is based on the awareness of being conscious in the present moment, as we continue our life as mortal beings. Kobayashi’s work traces the long journey of how the flesh, the physical body that separates humans and animals, returns to the earth and continues a new life after reincarnation. Her exploration attempts to unravel essential form of life, which is rendered in chaos created by over- laying colors and shapes of different materials.2012 Masters of Fine Arts [Textile design], Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan

Born 1977 in Denver, Colorado, Alex Dodge currently works from Brooklyn, New York, and Tokyo, Japan. His recent shows include LAUNDRY DAY : IT ALL COMES OUT IN THE WASH(solo, Maki Fine Arts, 2021); Alex Dodge (solo, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, 2020); The Trauma of Information (solo, Maki Fine Arts, 2019); Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018 (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2018-2019); and Whisper in My Ear and Tell Me Softly (solo, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, 2018). His works have been added to collections at The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.