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Tomita Natsumi, On the way home, 2011, 25x58x14cm, Newspaper

Tomita Natsumi 富田菜摘 (b. 1986)

About Tomita Natsumi

Equipped with a sharp eye for detail, Tomita Natsumi is a contemporary artist from Japan who was born in Tokyo in 1986. After enrolling in the oil painting course at Tama Art University in her hometown, she developed the foundation for her artistic practice. Since 2007, her work has appeared in solo exhibitions and art fairs in Japan and abroad. In addition, respected institutions such as the Hamada Children’s Museum of Art have included her work in their collections.

Artistic Approach

Known for her witty and unconventional perspective, Tomita works with quirky and unexpected materials drawn from everyday life. Rather than relying solely on traditional artistic media, she transforms ordinary scraps and found objects into vivid, playful, and imaginative creations. As a result, familiar materials are presented to viewers in surprising new forms.

Nature, Urbanity, and Imagination

Youthful, rebellious, and highly intuitive, Tomita’s practice reflects on humanity’s relationship with the natural environment, especially the tension between urban life and nature. Furthermore, animals and fantastical creatures frequently appear in her compositions, rendered in vibrant forms through unusual combinations of materials. Endearing yet thought-provoking, these works evoke a sense of childlike wonder while encouraging viewers to reconsider the overlooked creative possibilities of everyday things.

Education

  • 2009 | Department of Painting (Oil Painting Course), Tama Art University, Tokyo

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Recent Solo Exhibitions

  • 2025 | Things and Creatures, Hiroki Oda Museum of Art, Fukuoka
  • 2025 | Old and Good Things, Fukuzumi Gallery, Osaka
  • 2024 | Shangri-La, Nakamuraya Salon Museum of Art, Tokyo
  • 2024 | WONDER CIRCUS, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
  • 2022 | Wonder World, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
  • 2022 | Strange Paradise, Fukuzumi Gallery, Osaka
  • 2020 | Scrap World, Yamazaki Mazak Museum, Aichi
  • 2020 | Monogatari, Matsuzakaya Nagoya Store Art Gallery, Aichi
  • 2020 | A Dream in Reality, Shinjuku Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo
  • 2020 | Art through Creative Reuse! x Natsumi Tomita: Things and Living Things, Chofu City Cultural Hall Tazukuri, Tokyo
  • 2020 | Days of Hanging Advertisement, Fukuzumi Gallery, Osaka
  • 2019 | LOST WONDERLAND, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
  • 2018 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Takashimaya Shinjuku Art Gallery, Tokyo
  • 2018 | Higashine City Public Cultural Facility Manabia Terrace, Yamagata
  • 2018 | Manabi no Mori Noichi Kaleido, Ishikawa
  • 2018 | Days of Train Advertisements, Galerie Tokyo Humanité, Tokyo
  • 2018 | Long Long Time Ago, Fukuzumi Gallery, Osaka
  • 2017 | TSUNAGU GALLERY × Natsumi Tomita, Kokusai Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd. Headquarters Building, Tokyo
  • 2016 | Carnival of Animals, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall Gallery, Kanagawa
  • 2016 | ONCE UPON A TIME, Shinjuku Kashiwajima 10F Art Gallery, Tokyo
  • 2016 | Re:Born, Machida Tokyu Twins, Tokyo
  • 2016 | Adults’ Grand Sports Day, Fukuzumi Gallery, Osaka

Earlier Solo Exhibitions

  • 2015 | Things and Living Things, Shinjuku Residents Gallery, Tokyo
  • 2015 | Heisei Ukiyo-e – Pictures of Actors on Stage -, Galerie Tokyo Humanité, Tokyo
  • 2014 | Wonder Carnival, Bunkamura Box Gallery, Tokyo
  • 2014 | Wonder Jungle, Fukuzumi Gallery, Osaka
  • 2013 | The Small Forest, Galerie 412, Japan
  • 2013 | Happy and Fun These Days: A Creature World Exhibition by Natsumi Tomita, Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo
  • 2013 | Natsumi Tomita’s Creature World, Shinjuku Historical Museum, Tokyo
  • 2013 | Adults Grand Sports Day, Galerie Tokyo Humanité, Tokyo
  • 2012 | All My Newborns, iPreciation, Hong Kong
  • 2012 | Natsumi Tomita Exhibition ~Utopia~, Chukyo University Art Gallery C-Square, Aichi
  • 2010 | Donjarahoi in the Shade of the Forest, GALLERY Ecru no Mori, Shizuoka
  • 2010 | Tomita Natsumi’s Art Like This Too, Takashimaya Tokyo Store Art Gallery X, Tokyo
  • 2010 | Night Carnival, Fukuzumi Gallery, Osaka
  • 2010 | Sorry for keeping you waiting for so long, Galerie Tokyo Humanité, Tokyo
  • 2009 | Solo Exhibition, iPreciation, Singapore
  • 2009 | WONDERLAND, Nisshin Gallery, Tokyo
  • 2009 | PARADISE, Gallery Fukuzumi, Osaka
  • 2009 | Yoridorimidori, Gallery Strenger, Tokyo
  • 2008 | I LOVE SON, NODA CONTEMPORARY, Nagoya
  • 2008 | Natsumi Tomita’s World, Andersen Children’s Museum, Chiba
  • 2007 | GALAPAGO, Galerie Tokyo Humanité

Selected Group Exhibitions

Recent Group Exhibitions

  • 2025 | A Living Tapestry, Nagano Prefectural Art Museum, Nagano
  • 2022 | Animals living in forest of Art, Menard Art Museum, Aichi
  • 2019 | Retirement Exhibition of Hiroji Noda: External Force, Tama Art University, Tokyo
  • 2018 | Lovely Small Animals, Nihombashi Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo
  • 2018 | Waste Material Art, Hamada Children’s Museum of Art, Shimane
  • 2017 | Animal Park, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store Art Square, Tokyo
  • 2017 | Newspaper Transformation, Hamada Children’s Museum of Art
  • 2017 | My Cat, The Sato Museum of Art
  • 2017 | Message to the Future from Two Rich Islands, Toshima Center Square, Tokyo
  • 2016 | Art of ULTRAMAN, Shinjuku Takashimaya Art Gallery

Earlier Group Exhibitions

  • 2015 | Kyoto International Film and Art Festival, Former Rissei Elementary School, Kyoto
  • 2014 | the Collection 047 Animals in the Picture, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
  • 2014 | Azamino Children’s Gallery, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Kanagawa
  • 2013 | Fishes, Hamada Children’s Museum of Art, Shimane
  • 2012 | sogno･dream, The Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo
  • 2012 | Female times, Bunkamura Box Gallery, Tokyo
  • 2012 | Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial “friends of forest in Kyororo”, Forest school Kyororo, Niigata
  • 2011 | Emerging Japanese Artists at iPRECIATION Hong Kong
  • 2011 | The 3rd COREDO Women’s Art Style, COREDO Nihombashi, Tokyo
  • 2011 | TAMA VIVANT II 2011, Tama Art University, Tokyo
  • 2011 | Parthenon Tama, Tokyo
  • 2011 | Art Swim in the Sea, The World Children’s Art Museum in Okazaki, Aichi
  • 2009 | Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial “Satoyama Art Zoo”, Matsudai Nobutai Gallery, Niigata
  • 2009 | Takashimaya Art Aquarium, Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo and traveling in Japan

Selected Collections

  • Hamada Children’s Museum of Art
  • Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
  • The Sato Museum of Art
  • Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo

Public Installations

  • Underground Shopping Center: Whity Umeda, Osaka
  • Toshima City Office, Tokyo
  • Resource Circulation Center: Recycling Forest, Mie

Further Information

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Doris Wong Wai Yin 黃慧妍 (b. 1981)

Born in Hong Kong in 1981, Wong Wai Yin is a young visual artist who experiments with a variety of media. Ranging from painting, sculpture, collage, installations and photography, Wong’s works have won acclaim for her unique, conceptual approach. Possessing an expansive way of thinking beyond traditional studio practices, the artist frequently investigates the nature of what is real or fake, what constitutes art, and what doesn’t. Creating emulators, Wong proceeds to juxtapose these ‘raw’ pieces alongside the original articles, dispelling the notion of an ideal framework, and persuading viewers to question the nature of authenticity; challenging preconceptions whilst blurring boundaries. Wong graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2004, and a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Leeds, the United Kingdom in 2005. She was also the Founder of the Observation Society in Guangzhou. Wong has exhibited her works extensively in Hong Kong, as well as showcases in Japan, U.S.A, Singapore and Guangzhou. Wong’s works were also featured at the Hong Kong Museum of Art in 2009, as part of the ‘Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation’ exhibition. Wong’s artworks, including the exclusive ‘Hong Kong Artist Museum’ paintings, and her Museum Poster Series of works, are available for sale.

Education

  • 2005 | MA in Fine Art, University of Leeds, UK
  • 2004 | Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art Department, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2014 | Man’s Future Fund, Discover Asia, Art Fair Tokyo, Japan
  • 2013 | “But is it Art?” “I know but I don’t know.”, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
  • 2013 | The Imperfect Circle, Osage Gallery, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
  • 2013 | Hong Kong Eye”, ArtisTree, Hong Kong
  • 2012 | Mobile M+: Yau Ma Tei”, Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong
  • 2012 | Why Do Trees Grow Till the End?, SOUTHSITE, Hong Kong
  • 2012 | Wearable Exhibition: Bring Art Everywhere, Fotan, Hong Kong
  • 2011 | Primitive Craftsmanship – Contemporary Mechanism, Artist Commune, Hong Kong
  • 2011 | Except why not just come right out and say it, Collectors House, Heerlen, The Netherlands
  • 2010 | Go-Young Artist in China, OCAT, Shenzhen, China
  • 2009 | ISCP Open Studio, ISCP, New York, USA
  • 2009 | One Degree Separation, Chinese Art Centre, Manchester, UK
  • 2009 | Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
  • 2009 | Muse, Louis Vuitton Gallery, Hong Kong
  • 2009 | Charming Experience, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
  • 2008 | 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
  • 2007 | Art responds to the 14 Qks, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
  • 2007 | Copied right, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
  • 2007 | 97+10, Videotage, MOMA, Shanghai, China
  • 2007 | Variances in Singular, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong
  • 2006 | Dream a little dream, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
  • 2005 | Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition, Hong Kong
  • 2005 | Art SuperMart Para/Site, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
  • 2005 | Studio Visit, Bankley House Studios, Manchester, UK
  • 2005 | Meeting Point, MA Fine Art Graduation Show, University of Leeds, UK

For full list of exhibitions, please contact the gallery at enquiry@iprecitaion.com

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Budi Ubrux (b. 1968)

One of the most progressive and radical new artists to emerge from Indonesia, Budi Ubrux is less a visionary than an acerbic social reactionary. Prior to winning the Philip Morris Indonesian Art Award in 2000, Budi Ubrux was a billboard artist and painter based in Switzerland.

His paintings are powerful satirical observations on social degeneration through the alarmingly haunting aesthetic of faceless figures mummified in newsprint. Inspired by the Indonesian government’s transitional period from the “Orde Baru” (New Order) to the “Orde Reformasi” (Reformation Order) in 1999 and its resulting impact on society, his works struggle with the themes of political oppression, the ironic role of the media, and above all, a strong sense of disappointment in prevalent ideologies, and disenfranchisement of the individual.

Attempting to locate “the ulcer of corruption” – as quoted from the artist himself – in the heavily politicized agenda of contemporary society, Budi explores the concept of a mediated reality through the role of newspapers. Historically, media was supposed to be the “eyes and ears of the people”, with ethical reporting integrity. In his paintings, the vicious irony of an overwhelming and subversive media culture reveals its reductionist effect on subscribers. The newsprint wraps itself around human life, effacing, suffocating and blinding the figures within. Its substance literally carries the weight of our ulcerating social fabric with its content of screaming headlines and tawdry iconism; its transient consumerist philosophy has been forced on to our persons.

The entity of the medium has also been refuted, its magnifying and distorting lens turned inwardly upon itself. The newsprint moves from unimpeachable medium to the object of scrutiny for its role as a dehumanizing and oppressive force – an uncanny parallel to the central theme of how humanity has become the unwilling construct of its own perceptual tools. Many viewers have initially confused the intricate detail and texture of Budi’s paintwork for mixed media.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2017 | INDONESIA, National Gallery of Indonesia, Indonesia
  • 2012 | Nggiring sapi neng PWI, Gedung PWI, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
  • 2008 | Togetherness, Parco Sculpture Park, Delchianti, Italy
  • 2008 | Beyond the Headlines, iPreciation, Singapore

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2018 | Jogja Contemporary Artist, Art:1, Jakarta, Indonesia
  • 2017 | Indonesian Artists: Works in the Gallery, iPreciation Gallery, Singapore, Singapore
  • 2016 | Art: 1 Selected Contemporary Art, Art:1, Jakarta, Indonesia
  • 2015 | Land Before Our Time: A Vernacular in Southeast Asian Art Making, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
  • 2014 | Membaca Pager Piring: Mengenang Romo Mangun, Bentara Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
  • 2014 | ARTJOG|14 – Legacies of Power, Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
  • 2013 | ARTJOG|13 – Maritime Culture, Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
  • 2013 | Batang Community Group Exhibition, Batang, Central Java, Indonesia
  • 2012 | Art Stage Singapore, Singapore
  • 2011 | Closing the Gap, MIFA Melbourne, Australia
  • 2011 | Maximum City, Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta, Indonesia

For full list of exhibitions, please contact the gallery at enquiry@ipreciation.com

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