- Sirius／2023
Ryota Watanabe
渡邊涼太
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Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1998.
2021 Graduated from Tohoku University of Art and Design, Faculty of Art and Design
2023 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Oil Painting
Ryota Watanabe is based in Tokyo and will be presenting his works after graduating from the Master's program at the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts in 2023. Watanabe creates his works by combining the act of painting with a brush and the destructive act of applying paint and scraping it off with tools such as a cutter knife that he created himself, leaving traces of these acts on the screen. Watanabe pursues the origins of what makes a painting a painting, while at the same time painting portraits and landscapes as a mirror of the era. Watanabe's painting technique follows the existentialism of Lucian Freud, who exudes vividness and richness in his brushstrokes, and Alberto Giacometti, who stripped away elements to get to the essence, and has switched to a modern approach, challenging the renewal of painting history that leads to Cubism.
Selected solo exhibitions include "Horizon" (Roid Works Gallery, Tokyo, 2021).
Major group exhibitions include "ART F AIR ASIA FUKUOKA" (SOM G ALL ERY, Fukuoka, 2023), "DOOMs" (S OMG ALL ERY, Tokyo, 2023), "SO" (HIRO OKAMOTO, Tokyo, 2023), "1998" (G ALL ERY ROOM・A, Tokyo, 2022), and "One Art Taipei 2022 Art Taipei" (The Sherwood Taipei, 2022).
His major awards include TOP 10 Outstanding Works at "One Art Taipei" (2022), the WATOWA ART AWARD 2021 Kobashi Kenji Award, and the Grand Prize in the "Contours of a Twenty Year Old" project by Nakamurauchi Art Village, sponsored by Rokkatei (2018).
Ryota Watanabe_CV
2021 Graduated from Tohoku University of Art and Design, Faculty of Art and Design
2023 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Oil Painting
Ryota Watanabe is based in Tokyo and will be presenting his works after graduating from the Master's program at the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts in 2023. Watanabe creates his works by combining the act of painting with a brush and the destructive act of applying paint and scraping it off with tools such as a cutter knife that he created himself, leaving traces of these acts on the screen. Watanabe pursues the origins of what makes a painting a painting, while at the same time painting portraits and landscapes as a mirror of the era. Watanabe's painting technique follows the existentialism of Lucian Freud, who exudes vividness and richness in his brushstrokes, and Alberto Giacometti, who stripped away elements to get to the essence, and has switched to a modern approach, challenging the renewal of painting history that leads to Cubism.
Selected solo exhibitions include "Horizon" (Roid Works Gallery, Tokyo, 2021).
Major group exhibitions include "ART F AIR ASIA FUKUOKA" (SOM G ALL ERY, Fukuoka, 2023), "DOOMs" (S OMG ALL ERY, Tokyo, 2023), "SO" (HIRO OKAMOTO, Tokyo, 2023), "1998" (G ALL ERY ROOM・A, Tokyo, 2022), and "One Art Taipei 2022 Art Taipei" (The Sherwood Taipei, 2022).
His major awards include TOP 10 Outstanding Works at "One Art Taipei" (2022), the WATOWA ART AWARD 2021 Kobashi Kenji Award, and the Grand Prize in the "Contours of a Twenty Year Old" project by Nakamurauchi Art Village, sponsored by Rokkatei (2018).
Ryota Watanabe_CV
