SHINAGAWA Ryo
White camellia
natural pigment, Chinese ink, glue,
gold on Japanese paper, wooden panel

2021
TOKYO TORCH Tokiwabashi Tower
Tokyo

Client: Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd.
Curating & Direction: Code-a-Machine
Project members: NAKAHARA Takashi (DENBAK-FANO DESIGN)、TSUNOO Mai
Assistant: SONOBE Tatsuri
Technical Team: HIGURE 17-15 cas
PR: KOIKE Miki（HOW）

Photo: OTA Takumi

  • Art Consulting
  • Curation/Planning
  • Management/Coordination

Shinagawa combines the traditional style of Japanese wall paintings using gold leaf with abstract shapes to emphasize the design aspect of his work. If you look closely, you can see that the white flowers are depicted like a single-stroke drawing. The work also evokes the casual and stylish flavor of spray-painted graffiti. While Shinagawa is certainly working with a new type of Japanese painting, we can also see that these types of highly designed art are in line with the Rinpa school and other traditional Japanese aesthetics.

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SHINAGAWA Ryo

1987 Born in Kagawa and raised in Osaka, Japan Currently based in Kyoto

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 “LANDSCAPE”, oil by bijutsutecho gallery, Tokyo
2020 “Nature’s first green is gold,”, Ginza Tsutaya, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 “Shikansuiyo 紫幹翠葉”, Meiji Jingu Museum, Tokyo
2020 “VOLTA New York”, East Metropolitan, New York

Collections
Zozo, Inc., Chiba
TIGER CORPORATION, Osaka
Universal Music LLC, Tokyo
WAKUDEN, Kyoto
Shimogamosaryo, Kyoto