西久松友花

He is interested in the activities and nesting of living creatures, as well as the cycles of life. By partially extracting forms left over from the process of evolution and activity through drawing and transforming them into ceramics, the traces of life activities are visualized through the material of clay. Rocks weathered, living carcasses mixed in, and soil was formed by deposit. Humans have evolved through diverse forms of life, and the history of soil has been alongside the evolution of living things.
Influenced by the concept of the 'ring world' proposed by biologist Yukskul, which states that each organism constructs its own species-specific perceptual world, I want to consider how we perceive and recognize the world by exploring how the threads of life have continued continuously from the perspective of various creatures living in different sensory worlds.

Born in Kyoto Prefecture in 1992
2018 Completed Master's Program in Crafts, Ceramics at Kyoto City University of Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts
2026 Artist-in-Residence (Shiga Prefectural Ceramic Forest)
〈Major Solo Exhibitions〉
2024 Seokeki Hideo (Marco gallery / Osaka)
2025 Decomposer (ROD G ALL ERY / Tokyo)
〈Major Group Exhibitions〉
2025
Distance from the Rim / Distance of the Rim (BUoY/Tokyo)
Taipei Dangdai 2025 (Taipei/Taiwan)
SPRING/BREAK Art Show New York City 2025 Exhibition (75 Varick Street / USA)
3rd Japan International Art Festival (Osaka Kansai Expo Venue EXPO Messe WASSE)
Gunma Youth Biennale 2025 (Gunma Contemporary Art Museum / Gunma)
West Bund Art & Design (Shanghai/China)
Rooms of Our Own, Eunoia × NAYAZ Studio (NAYAZ Studio/Tokyo)
2026
PAVILION Taipei (Taipei/Taiwan)
29th Taro Okamoto Contemporary Art Award (TARO Award)
PAVILION Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
ArtCentral (Hong Kong)
NADA (USA)
〈Major Awards〉
2023 ART & CITY AWARD presents Sieria Tower Nakanoshima Grand Prix
2024 13th International Ceramics Exhibition Mino, Selected
2025 Kyoto City Art Newcomer Award for Fiscal Year 2024
2025 Gunma Youth Biennale 2025 Gateau Festa Harada Award
2026 29th Taro Okamoto Contemporary Art Award (TARO Award) Selected
〈Collection〉
Kyoto Bank / Onjoji Temple / CITIC Museum of Art / Sieria Tower Nakanoshima

Work image: Photography by Takeru Koroda

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