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Ex Convento del Carmen

Tuesday 19
Exhibition Opening

Kenya Hara
Contemprary Japanesse Posters

Hiroyuki Okumura
Sculpture

Kunio Iezumi
Paint

Ryuichy Yahagi
Paint, Sculpture, Photography

From May 19 to June 21

KENYA HARA
CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE POSTERS

The Japanese poster has kept its important presence in everyday life In spite of competing with massive electronic media communications. Japanese designers have a centennial tradition in visual arts, and keeping that in mind, their efforts are always focused on building new proposals that now, helped by computer software, facilitate their creative expression with the topmost aesthetic quality.

They are always open to new influences, foreign styles and recently created representation manners, which they integrate in their doing.

Japanese people intervention in social aspects has given birth to a new proposal for contemporary posters, as is the case with Kenya Hara. Posters have become dignified representatives of the art of design and take part in important international events, which has been the case in Mexico, where different and renowned Japanese designers have had the most outstanding participations in each of the editions of the ‘International Poster Biennial in Mexico.’

HIROYUKI OKUMURA, Sculptor

Hiruyoki Okumura was born in Kanazawa, Japan on November 7, 1963. He took his Bachelor’s and specialized in Sculpture in the Fine Arts School in his native city from 1982 to 1988.

In 1989, Okumura took part in the sculptor Kiyoshi Takahasi’s project “Monumental Sculpture”, in Niigata, Japan.

He has lived in Mexico since 1989, near the city of Xalapa, state of Veracruz, Mexico

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1991 Exhibition: “Subconscious Structures” Ramón Alva de
la Canal Gallery, Xalapa, Ver. Mexico.
Exhibition: “Universe of Conscience” Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico.
Exhibition: “The middle of Silences”, AP Gallery, U.V., Xalapa, Ver. Mexico.
1994 Exhibition: “Sing Earth”, Xalapa State Gallery, Ver. Mexico.
1998 Exhibition: "Hand Erosions", Entre Estudio y Galería,
Puebla, Pue. Mexico.
Exhibition: "Archaic Emotions", Kin Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
1999 Exhibition: “Ages”, Kin Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
Exhibition: “Before Man”, Paris, France.
2000 Exhibition: “Omens”, Kin Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
Exhibition: “Elements”, Pinacoteca Diego Rivera, Xalapa, Ver. Mexico.
2001 Exhibition: “Echo” Entre Estudio y Galería, Puebla, Pue. Mexico.
Exhibition: “Hiroyuki Okumura”, Allan N. Bone Gallery, Arizona, U.S.A
Exhibition: “Stone Currents”, Kin Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
Exhibition: “Minamoto-Source of Origin” Japan Embassy Culture and Information Center, Mexico City, Mexico
.
2002 Exhibition: “Stone Resonances”, Paris y Mer, France.
Exhibition: “Belongs to Earth”, Kin Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
2003 Exhibition: “Inside of All”, Howard Scott Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2005 Exhibition: “Landscapes”, Museo Casa Diego Rivera, Gto. Mexico.
Exhibition: “Hiroyuki Okumura 2005”, Ramón Alva de la Canal Gallery, Xalapa
Ver. Mexico.
2006-2008 Exhibition: “Heart of the Earth”, Vértice Gallery, Guadalajara, Jal. Mexico.
Exhibition: “Matter: Virtual Continent”, Kin Gallery, Mexico City, Christ Church Parish, Mexico CITY, Calakmul Santa Fe, Mexico City and Four Seasons Hotel, Mexico City
2008 Exhibition: “Messenger”, Howard Scott Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1984-1988 Exhibition “Sculpture in Kanazawa”, Japan.
1985 Exhibition “Niki Group”, Tokyo y Kanazawa, Japan.
1986 Exhibition “30 x 30 x 30 cms.” Kanazawa, Japan.
1986-1987 Exhibition “Contemporary Art in Ishikawa”, Kanazawa, Japan.
1990-1991 Kanazawa is selected for “Arte Joven”, Aguascalientes, Ags. Mexico.
1991 Exhibition “New Times in Plastic Arts”, Alianza Francesa,
Xalapa, Ver. Mexico.
1992 Exhibition “Plastic Arts in Veracruz 1992”, Amparo Museum, Puebla,
Pue. El IVEC de Veracruz, Ver. Mexico.
Kanazawa is selected for “First Monterrey Biennial”, Monterrey, N.L. Mexico.
Exhibition “Contemporary Sculpture in Veracruz”, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chis. Mexico.
Exhibition “Origins” Museo de Antropología, Xalapa, Ver. Mexico.
1993 Exhibition “Seven Sculptors in Veracruz”, State of Xalapa Gallery,
Xalapa, Ver. Mexico.
1997 Exhibition “Paths of Volume and Shape”, State of Xalapa Gallery,
Veracruz, Mexico.
Kanazawa is selected for the Primer Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales,
“Tridimensional Biennial Section1997”, CNA, Mexico City, Mexico.
Exhibition “N 19 33’ 18” O 96 56’ 29” 11420 SNDM”, Kalimba, Xalapa, Ver. Mexico.
1999 Exhibition, The Aguirre Gallery, San Mateo, California, U.S.A
Exhibition, Cezanne Winter, Switzerland.
2000 Exhibition Macke Gallery, Palm Desert, California, U.S.A
Exhibition, Ramón Alva de la Canal Gallery, Xalapa, Ver., Mexico
2001 Exhibition “Outside Japan: Three Sculptors”, Howard Scott
Gallery, N.Y., U.S.A
Exhibition “Ichigo Ichie”, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico.
Kanazawa is selected for “Fifth Monterrey Biennial FEMSA”, Monterrey, N.L.
Mexico.
Exhibition “Labyrynth”, Arte Contemporáneo de Xalapa Gallery, Ver. Mexico.
2004 Project “Merida from Yucatan Sculpture City”, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.
2005 Exhibition “Reflejos de la Alteridad- Cuatro Miradas”, Kin Gallery, Mexico City Exconvento Tepoztlán, Mor.
Culture Institute of the State of Guanajuato, Leon, Gto.
Querétaro City Museum, Qro.
2006 Exhibition “White II”, Howard Scott Gallery, N.Y. E.U.A.

SYMPOSIA

1997 International Sculpture Symposium, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. Mexico.
1998 International Sculpture Symposium, Puebla, Pue. Mexico.
2000 International Sculpture Symposium, Illindentci, Bulgaria.
National Sculpture Symposium, Sosopol, Bulgaria.
2005 XIV International Stainless Steel Sculpture Symposium, Tultepec, State of Mexico, Mexico.

PUBLIC WORK

1988 Fine Arts University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan.
1997 Autonomous University of Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chis. Mexico.
1998 Sculpture Garden, IVEC , Xalapa, Ver. Mexico.
1999 Centre Culturelle Franco-Japonais, París, Francia.
2000 Sosopol City Gallery. Bulgaria.
Foundation Art Center Ilindentci, Bulgaria.
2001 XXI Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.
Ágora de la Ciudad, Xalapa, Ver. Mexico.
2002 Plaza Veracruz Hotel Gallery, Ver. Mexico.
2003 Plaza Veracruz Hotel Gallery, Ver. Mexico.
Plaza Veracruz Hotel Gallery, Ver. Mexico.
2004 Chedraui Group Corporate Headquarters, Mexico CITY Mexico.
Plaza Veracruz Hotel Gallery, Ver. Mexico.
2005 Aqualand X, Xalapa, Ver. Mexico.

KUNIO IEZUMI SP TEXT

1952 He was born in Ashikaga Togichi, Japan
1974 Works as Engineer in Sony
1978 Studies drawing at the Art Academy in Paris, France
1979 Studied Plastic Arts at the San Fernando University in Madrid, Spain
1994 He lives and Works in Tepoztlán, Morelos.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1986 Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
1987 Yanagisawa Gallery, Urawa, Japan.
1989 Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
Yanagisawa Gallery, Urawa, Japan
1991 Olando Art Square Gallery, Warabi Saitama Japan.
Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
1999 Saitama Modern Art Museum, Japan
Yanagisawa Gallery, Urawa, Japan.
2000 Yanagisawa Gallery, Urawa, Japan.
2001 Miharudo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Yanagisawa Gallery, Urawa, Japan.
2003 Kin Gallery, San Angel, Mexico City
2004 Yanagisawa Gallery, Urawa, Japan.
Kin Gallery, San Angel, Mexico.
2005 Kin Gallery, San Angel, Mexico.
2006 Yanagisawa Gallery Urawa, Japan.
Kuso Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan.
Cuernavaca City Museum, Cuernavaca, Morelos.
2001 Yanagisawa Gallery, Urawa Japan
2007 Kin Gallery, San Angel, Mexico.
Kuso Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan.
2008 Kin Gallery, San Angel Mexico.
2009 Yanagisawa Gallery, Urawa, Japan.
Museo de la Ciudad de Cuernavaca. Cuernavaca Morelos.
2005 Gallery Yanagisawa Urawa, Japan
Yuu Oogaki Gifu Gallery, Japan
2006 Casa Frissac Centro de Tlalpan
Hojarasca de la piedra Banko de Mexico City
San Pedro Museum, State of Puebla
2007 Yanagisawa Gallery, Saitama Japan
Kin Gallery, Mexico City
2008 Kin Gallery, Mexico City

GROUP EXHIBITION

1987 XVI Contemporary International Art Exhibition at the Tokyo Modern Art Museum
and the Kyoto City Museum, Japan.???
1987 Triangle Gallery Tokiwa, Tokyo, Japan
Modern Art Festival, Saitama Modern Art Museum, Japan.
1988 XVII Contemporary International Art Exhibition at the Tokyo Modern Art Museum
and the Kyoto City Museum, Japan.???
1989 Tangram, Saitama Modern Art Museum
1990 XVIII Contemporary International Art Exhibition at the Tokyo Modern Art Museum
and the Kyoto City Museum, Japan.
1991 Get Out F 32, Tokyo Modern Art Museum, Japan.
1992 Contemporary Art Exhibition 120, Saitama Modern Art Museum.
1998 Process of Nature, Takada Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.
1999 Exhibition, The Aguire Gallery, San Mateo California, U.S.A.
2000 New Talent Alpha Gallery, Boston, Mass, U.S.A.
2001 ‘Ichigo Ichie’, Del Chopo University Museum, Mexico City
2004 ‘Distance’, Tochigi Modern Art Museum, Japan
2005 Dúo (Nininten) Casa del tiempo, Mexico City
2006 Two Painters Exhibition, Saint Peter Museum, Puebla

RYUICHI YAHAGI Sculptor

Ryuichi Yahagi was born on the 14th July, 1967, in the City of Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. From 1991 to 1995 he studied Sculpture at the Arts and Crafts Fine Arts University in Kanasawa.

From 1995 to 1998, he studied under a scholarship from the Plastic Arts Faculty, Universidad Veracruzana in the State of Veracruz, renewed for 1998-1999, for the Arts Laboratory.

In 2001 The Foreign Department grants him a scholarship as a foreigner to continue his studies.
From 2002 to 2006, he was a Guest Sculpture Teacher at the Universidad Veracruzana, where he now is a Sculpture Teacher.

Solo Exhibitions

1994 Acerca de nuestro ser, Tsurugi Betsuin Temple (Ishikawa, Japan)
1996 Acerca de nuestro ser II, Former Santo Domingo Convent (Chiapas, Mexico)
Acerca de nuestro ser III, Gallery of Veracruz University Art Department
(Veracruz, Mexico)
1997 Relations, First Printing House in America (Mexico City, Mexico)
Acerca de nuestro ser IV, Ramón Alva de la Canal Gallery (Veracruz, Mexico)
Seal, AI Gallery, (Tokyo, Japan)
1998 Relation, Ramón Alva de la Canal Gallery (Veracruz, Mexico)
1999 Hecho en Mexico, Marie Louis Ferrari Gallery (Veracruz, Mexico)
Hecho en Mexico, Public Information Culture Center, Japanese Embassy Consulship, (Mexico City, Mexico)
2000 Looking this time, Bellini Hill Gallery (Yokohama, Japan)
2001 Everyday Life, The center of the State of Nuevo León (Nuevo León, Mexico)
Everyday Life, Xalapa Sculpture Park Gallery (Veracruz, Mexico)
2002 Relation, Esmeralda Gallery –CAN (Mexico City, Mexico)
2004 Everyday Life, Kanazawa Citizen’s Art Center (Kanazawa, Japan)
2005 Se Buscan GUADALUPES, Guadalupe City Museum (Nuevo León, Mexico)
Se Buscan GUADALUPES, 350 Gallery (Chiapas, Mexico?
Se Buscan GUADALUPES, Oxydol gallery/Oct gallery/Ai Gallery (Kanazawa/Kyoto/Tokyo, Japan)
2006 Se Buscan SUZUKI-san, ICC+S-AIR (Sapporo, Japón)
Se Buscan GUADALUPES, UDLA (Puebla, México)
2007 Se Buscan GUADALUPES, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo ALFREDO ZALCE (Morelia, México)
Peluquería de la ciudad de Xalapa, Ramón Alva de la Canal Gallery (Veracruz, Mexico)
Se Buscan GUADALUPES, Foto Teca Veracruz (Veracruz Mexico)
2008 10g x 100, Nebulosa Gallery (Veracruz, Mexico)
Colores entre el Cielo y la Tierra, Cozmel Museum (Q.Roo, Mexico)

Group Exhibition

1992 Ishikawa Gallery, Ishikawa Prefecture’s Museum (Ishikawa, Japan)
1993 First Exhibition of Asian Sculpture in Oita (Oita, Japan)
Yokohama Sculpture exhibition III, Yokohama Museum (Yokohama, Japan)
Chiba Modern Molding Sculpture VI, Chiba Prefecture’s Museum (Chiba, Japan)
Art in Kanagawa, Kanagawa Prefecture’s gallery (Yokohama, Japan)
Exhibition of Hokuriku Chiunichi of Art, Ishikawa Prefecture’s Museum (Ishikawa, Japan)
Kanazawa Sculpture exhibition, Place of the Kanazawa City (Kanazawa, Japan)
1994 Shanghai-Yokohama Contemporary Art exhibition (Shanghai, China) Art in Kanagawa, Kanagawa Prefecture’s gallery (Yokohama, Japan)
Exhibition of Hokuriku Chiunichi of Art, Ishikawa Prefecture’s Museum (Ishikawa, Japan)
1995 NICF95 (Yokohama, Japan)
Lake Biwa modern molding Sculpture exhibition (Shiga, Japan)
Kanazawa Sculpture exhibition, Place of the Kanazawa City, (Kanazawa, Japan)
1997 International Japanese Sculpture Symposium in Mexico (Chiapas, Mexico)
Japanese Artists in Mexico, Carrillo Gil Contemporary Art Museum (Mexico City, Mexico)
Three Japanese Sculptors, Rancho Kalimba, (Veracruz, Mexico)
1998 Artists of Xalapa Sculpture Park, Xalapa Sculpture Park (Veracruz, Mexico)
International Sculpture Symposium in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
1999 Ten..., AI gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
Each Photograph Interpretation Expression, Moe gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
Kanazawa Sculpture exhibition, Place of the Kanazawa City, (Kanazawa, Japan)
2000 Hundred of the Fathom Library (Tokyo ? Aichi ? Kyoto, Japan)
Mexican Fine Arts, Plaza Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
The Dangerous Art/Art of the danger, Fototeca Nuevo León (Nuevo León, Mexico)
2001 One Term One Meeting, Chopo Museum of UNAM (Mexico City, Mexico)
International Sculpture Symposium in Xalapa, Xalapa Sculpture Park (Veracruz, Mexico)
Art in Art Japan, Himeji City Museum (Hyogo, Japan)
Little Stone Sculpture, Plaza gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
Seven Samurai, Marie Louis Ferrari Gallery (Veracruz, Mexico)
2002 International Sculpture Symposium in Vietnam (Hue, Vietnam)
Presencia de Japón en México, Casa del Lago (Mexico City, Mexico)
Alumbramientos, Ramma Gallery (Mexico City, Mexico)
2003 Si+No, Gallery of Veracruz University of Arts Laboratory (Veracruz, Mexico)
Little Sculpture, Casumi2F Gallery (Kanagawa, Japan)
Terra Ignota, La Nebulosa Gallery (Veracruz, Mexico)
2003 Toco Madera, Xalapa Contemporary Art Gallery (Veracruz, Mexico)
Si+No II, Public Information Culture Center, Japanese Embassy Consulship, (Mexico City, Mexico)
UN SIGLO Y A VOLAR, Chopo Museum of UNAM (Mexico City, Mexico)
The Danger of Art/Art of the danger II, CASA FRISSAC Gallery (Mexico City, Mexico)
2004 Si+No II, Morelia Citizen’s Art Center (Michoacán, Mexico)
Exposición colectiva de Esculturas, ORFIS (Veracruz, Mexico)
GIN NO ZA open-air exhibition, Kyobashi Park (Tokyo, Japan)
2005 OH-SATOGAERI, 21th Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa (Kanazawa, Japan)
SONIDOTO–URBANIDAD COTIDIANA Y CIUDADES CONTIGUAS, Satoru Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
Exchange project Veracruz University and Tokyo Art University (Veracruz, Mexico + Ibaragi, Japan)
XI Bienal Guadalupana, Casa de Cultura de Tlalpan (Mexico City, Mexico)
Casa de la Primera Imprenta de América (Puebla, Mexico)
2006 SONIDOTO – URBANIDAD COTIDIANA Y CIUDADES CONTIGUAS, Radio Educación (Mexico City, Mexico)
Festival de Arte de la Tierra del Volcán Paricutin (Michoacán, México)
Dos Países del Sol, Plaza Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
50 aniversario de la Fundación de la Asociación México Japonesa A.C., Torre Pemex (Mexico City, Mexico)
2007 Hermandades Escultóricas México-Japón (Mérida, Mexico)
II Exchange project Veracruz University and Tokyo Art University (Veracruz, Mexico + Ibaragi, Japan)
II GIN NO ZA open-air exhibition, Kyobashi Park (Tokyo, Japan)

Public Outdoors Work

Kawasaki City (Kawasaki, Japan)
Yokohama City (Yokohama, Japan)
Parque de la Paz de Kawasaki (Kawasaki, Japan)
Kyobashi park (Tokyo, Japan)
Hue City (Hue, Vietnam)
Sculpture Park of Jalapa (Veracruz, Mexico)
Veracruz University in USBI (Veracruz, México)
Merida Contemporary Art Museum MACAY (Mérida, Mexico)

Conferences and Workshops

Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas
Universidad de las Américas
Escuela Popular de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo,
Universidad Veracruzana
Universidad Iberoamericana
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Etc.

Experimental Work
(Group YAMASA-Ryuichi Yahagi + Hosumi Masafumi)
1996” Let's float a stone I?II?III” Rufino Tamayo Studio (Oaxaca, Mexico)
“Let's float a stone IV” Former Santo Domingo Convent (Chiapas, Mexico)
1997 “Let's float a stone V and VI” Carrillo Gil Contemporary Art Museum (Mexico City, Mexico)
1998 “Let's float a stone VII” Bangkok Art Gallery (Bangkok, Thailand)
“International Performance Festival” Ex-Teresa (Mexico City, Mexico)
1999 “Let's float a stone VIII” Iberoamericana University Library (Puebla, Mexico)
“Let's float a stone XI” Marie Louis Ferrari Gallery (Veracruz, Mexico)
2001 “One Term One Meeting -HUSUI- with Tadashi Okada” Chopo Museum of UNAM (Mexico City, Mexico)
“Experimental Work of YAMASA” Nuevo León State of Art Center (Nuevo León, Mexico)
2004 “Let's float a stone X” Monterrey Contemporary Art Museum (Nuevo León, Mexico)

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