Imai Shunsuke Biography

1978 Born in Fukui
2004 Completed MFA in oil painting at Musashino Art University’s Graduate School of Art and Design

Solo Exhibitions

2021	"Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, and White," HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo
2020	"color / form / surface / volume," ISETAN SALONE ART WALL, Tokyo "point of view point," Meets by NADiff, Shibuya PARCO, Tokyo
2019	"NEWoMan ART wall vol.18 Shunsuke Imai," NEWoMan SHINJUKU, Tokyo "range finder," HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo "range finder," Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany
2017	"float," HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo
2015	"Kart Invitation Program Vol.6 Shunsuke IMAI ‘equal’," Gallery Kart, Tokyo "equal," See Saw gallery + cafe, Aichi
2014	"shiseido art egg vol. 8 Shunsuke Imai ‘range finder’," Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo "color / form," HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo
2013	"surface / volume," HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo
2012	"surface / volume," LOOP HOLE, Tokyo
2011	"Remasta Open Studio 3 Shunsuke Imai ‘new piece’," Remasta, Tokyo
2008	"emptiness," PLAYROOM (NAKAZAKI Tohru + Mizuki ENDO), Ibaraki
2007	"empty eyes," ZENSHI, Tokyo
2006	"patterns," GFAL, Tokyo
2005	"empty babes," APARTMENTS POOL, Tokyo
2003	"Peeping Tom," exhibit LIVE [laiv], Tokyo
2002	"flower & honeybee," exhibit LIVE [laiv], Tokyo

Group Exhibitions

2022	"Roppongi Art Night 2022," Roppongi-area, Tokyo "Insight 26 ‘connection’," Yoshimi Arts, Osaka "Sekai no Yuragi wo Chikaku suru, Onagaku ni Kyoshin suru Kaiga no Ima [Perceive the swing of the world, paintings that resonate with music today]," art space kimura ASK?, Tokyo
2021	"Various colors. The world of colors and works.," Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui "FUJI TEXTILE WEEK 2021," Fujiyoshida-city, Yamanashi "Gake to Kaidan [Cliffs and Stairs]," azumagaoka articulation, Kanagawa "CADAN ROPPONGI presented by Audi," ROPPONGI HILLS Hills café / Space, Tokyo "Two-dimensional Expression over Two Eras: Shigeru Izumi and Six Contemporary Artists," Yoshimi Arts, Osaka "NEW SPACE / NEW WORKS," HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo
2020	"NEW INTIMACIES," soda @ KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo
2019	"MOT Collection Part 2: Pleased to meet you. New Acquisitions in recent years," Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo "MOT Collection: Pleased to meet you. New Acquisitions in recent years," Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo "BIJYUTSU JORON," Fujieda-city Hall and other places, Shizuoka "MIRU," Art Project KAZE, Shizuoka "Reborn - Update for the Future - Part Ⅱ Creating the Next Stage Collection × Contemporary Artists," Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui
2018	"small good things," HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo "through the glasses Hikarie Contemporary Art Eye vol.9 Supervised by Tomio Koyama," Shubuya Hikarie 8/ CUBE 1, 2, 3, Tokyo "Invisible Strings in Spring," Devening Projects, Chicago, America "Tohru Nakazaki / Shunsuke Imai / Tamotsu Kido / Soshi Matsunobe ‘pictures’," HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo "Paintings Here and Now," Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo
2017	"Natsu no Tobira - Organized by Misako and Jeffrey Rosen," Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, America "Spring Fever," Komagome SOKO, Tokyo "Contemporary Art Experimental Exhibition Perspectives (1)," INTERMEDIATHEQUE, Tokyo
2016	"Cool Invitations 3," XYZ Collective, Tokyo "Open Theatre KAAT Totsuzen Museum 2016," KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Kanagawa "Through the Window - Contemporary Art in Kasugai," Bunka Forum Kasugai, Aichi
2015	"4 painters 4 paintings," mime (Tokyo Zokei University), Tokyo "Shunsuke Imai / Nobuhiko Nukata ‘line & color’," HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo "Nuit Blanche Kyoto 2015," Yōkai SOHO, Kyoto "Shunsuke Imai, Kenjiro Okazaki, Enrico Isamu Ōyama," Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo "VOCA: The Vision of Contemporary Art 2015," The Ueno Royal Musuem, Tokyo
2014	"Find ASIA," Yokohama Creativecity Center, Kanagawa "ART KURA BIRAKI FUJIYOSHIDA 2014 ‘Utopia’," Fujiyoshida-city, Yamanashi "The Way of Painitng," Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo "Joshua Abelow / Heather Guertin / Zak Prekop / Shunsuke Imai ‘paintings’," HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo
2013	"DAI CHU SHOW," Citizen’s Gallery of Fuchu Art Museum, LOOP HOLE, Tokyo "KEIJI," KABEGIWA (Nihon University College of Art), Tokyo "Imago Mundi," Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venezia, Italy "Gallery Show," HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo "LOVE TOKYO," ROPPONGI HILLS CLUB, Tokyo "TOO YOUNG TO BE ABSTRACT," SPROUT Curation, Tokyo
2012	"Research Associate Exhibition 2012," Musashino Art University Museum, Tokyo "31st Outstanding Rising Artists Exhibition in 2012 Presented by Sompo Japan Fine Art Foundation FINAL," Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo
2011	"energy: Research Associate Exhibition," Musashino Art University Museum, Tokyo "A Midsummer Night's Dream," hiromiyoshii roppongi, Tokyo
2010	"2-305!! Research Associate Exhibition COLLABORATION Vol.2 errortrap," Musashino Art University, Tokyo "SSS - expanded painting," MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo "RA'10 The Works of Research Associates 2010," Musashino Art University Museum & Liblary + gFAL・FAL, Tokyo "Last Breath?," ZAIM Gallery, Kanagawa
2009	"Geba Geba summer show - Geba geba 4 weeks," MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo
2008	"Red," ZAIM Annex, Kanagawa "Gallery Artists," ZENZHI, Tokyo "CHOCOLATS DES FUCHU," LOOP HOLE, Tokyo "NEW TOKYO CONTEMPORARIES 2008," (marunouchi) HOUSE, Tokyo
2007	"something as if we do," cafe parlwr, Nagoya University Project Gallery "clas," Aichi "SAKURA meets ARTS," HK+MODE SHIROKANE, Tokyo
2005	"studio show at APARTMENTS POOL," APARTMENTS POOL, Tokyo
2004	"CET04 (Central East Tokyo 2004)," INO BLDG., Tokyo "studio show at APARTMENTS POOL," APARTMENTS POOL, Tokyo
2003	"group show," warehouse art project, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
2002	"whap summer selection," warehouse art project, Musashino Art University, Tokyo "EXHIBITION CHEERS," china rose traffic, Tokyo

Award

2014	The 8th shiseido art egg

Public Collections

Aichi Prefecture Museum of art
The National Museum of Art Osaka
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Fukui Fine Arts Museum
Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand