Nobuya Hitsuda 櫃田 伸也

Nobuya Hitsuda was born in 1941 in Tokyo, Japan and currently lives and works in Aichi prefecture.
After completing the graduate course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1966, he worked as a lecturer at the said university, and later as a designer in the art department at NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation. In 1975 he began teaching at the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts, and from 2001 to 2009 taught as a professor at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

He has received the Award for Artist in Nagoya City (1984), the 28th Yasui Grand Prize (1985), and the Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art Grand Prix (2011). His work has been included in several public collections such as The National Museum of Modern Art, The Tokyo; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; the Agency for Cultural Affairs; The Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (Aichi); the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music; the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art; The Nagoya City Art Museum (Aichi); The Toyohashi City Museum Art and History (Aichi); the Aichi Prefectural Art University; The Tochigi prefectural Art Museum; The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu; The Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art (Shizuoka); The Miyakonojo City Museum of Art (Miyazaki); The Kariya City Art Museum (Aichi) and The Suwa City Museum (Nagano).

In 2009, In the little playground: Hitsuda Nobuya and his surrounding students, a set of dual exhibitions at the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and the Nagoya City Art Museum, introduced the works of painter and teacher Nobuya Hitsuda, along with his 19 students including Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito and Shin Morikita.

Masanori Tomita 富田 正宣

　Masanori Tomita has consistently worked with the extensive freedom, yet complexity, of oil paints to produce his intense creations which may be considered both abstract and figurative.

　Characterized by his rich matiere and complex colors, Tomita’s paintings evoke a variety of unspecified concrete images such as human figures, hands, landscapes, flowers, and broken dishes. In viewing everyday things and events in the world as a complicated product of many intricate elements, Tomita attempts to find an opening between these coats of diverse concepts to compose his paintings. He takes careful notice of subtle interactions between his peers for hints and insights as he actively adopts differing perspectives to broaden his field of creations. Tomita’s habit of collecting, recording, and digesting these small nonchalant moments in his daily life, along with digital images and scenes from manga constitutes a significant aspect of his works.
　In confronting Tomita’s paintings, we become drawn into the material presence of his heavily overlapping oil paints. However, in contrast to this bold materiality, the images which emerge from behind the surface emit such ephemerality that it seems as if it could disperse any moment. Tomita captures this sensitivity through his endeavor to depict the present “midway”, which therefore allows us a glimpse of the other side, or form of reality, in a dimension apart from our everyday.

　Masanori Tomita was born in 1989 in Kumamoto, Japan. Gained B.F.A. in Oil Painting from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo. Currently Lives and works in Saitama.
　Recently, Tomita presented his work in “LE BISCUIT À SOUPE” at HIGH ART ARLES, Arles, 2022, solo show “Usen” at KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo, 2022, “LA CONSTITUANTE” at Parliament, Paris, 2021, “Emerging Japanese Painters” at SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong, 2021, “Studio Exhibition” at Satoshi Ohno studio, Yamanashi, 2018, “Hikarie Contemporary Art Eye vol.9 supervised by Tomio Koyama -through the glasses” at Shibuya Hikarie, Tokyo, 2018, ”Inner Flash” at Space Wunderkammer, Tokyo, 2014, “SLASH/ square” at gallery 5, Tokyo, 2014, ”Masanori Tomita / Koji Nakazono” at TURNER GALLERY, Tokyo, 2012, solo show “mtz2” at TURNER GALLERY, Tokyo, 2012.