Mio Kaneda

 

Mio Kaneda
Born in 1963, Tokyo. Lives and works in Tokyo.

Completed graduate course at Tama Art University in 1988. She was also supported by the Japanese Government Study Program for Artists in 2005. Primarily works in oil painting on paper and canvas.
Mio Kaneda began her career as an artist in printing in the late 1980s. She gradually broadened her output, which had been centered on oil paintings using paper as the supporting medium, and incorporated modes of expression with all sorts of materials including water-soluble crayon and charcoal. She continues to produce such works today.In addition to scenes in her surroundings and little everyday happenings, she sensitively captures even amorphous phenomena such as light, temperature, humidity, air, sound, and feelings present there. She then affixes them to the surface of the supporting medium with delicate organic lines and forms, and carefully overlaid coloring.For Kaneda, to paint is to constantly think. The profound thought of artists and their practice, while giving us visual joy, simultaneously cause various images hidden inside us to quietly rise up.

Her major exhibitions include Mirage on a Suumer Day – Reflections on Nature by Contemporary Artists – (Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Gunma, Japan, 2005), Artist File 2009: The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art (The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2009), Quintet: Five-Star Artists (Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, 2014), Open Studio Program 73: Kaneda Mio – The Blue Sky and the Moon (Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, 2018), Observation: artists confronting the wonder of looking intently (Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Gunma, Japan, 2019), Energy Overflowing from the Gaze (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, 2022), Tsukurikake Lab 11 – Mio Kaneda “Kingdom of Lines” (Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan, 2023), and more.

 

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Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi (Gunma)
The Tokushima Modern Art Museum (Tokushima)
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Hiroshima)
Fuchu Art Museum (Tokyo)
Agency for Cultural Affairs

 

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