RIE KAWAKAMI
Art Project
Rie Kawakami http://reicreatesart.wixsite.com/riekawa
Education:
1990 Research fellow, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music (Tokyo)
1989 M.F.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music (Tokyo)
1987 B.A. Tama Art University (Tokyo)
Solo Exhibition:
2025 “Earth Code” Gallery Monma, Sapporo
2024 “FLAT and DYNAMISM 2024” Centpure Garden, Higashikawa, Hokkaido
2023 “Sight & Tactile” Centpure Gallery II, Higashikawa, Hokkaido
“FLAT and DYNAMISM 2023” Park Larch Tree Forest, Moerenuma Park, Hokkaido
2022 “Yet We Keep Seeking for a Balance 2022” Court Installation, Tomakomai City Museum, Hokkaido
2021 “Fossil of Will” Gallery Monma, Sapporo
2019 “Plateau” Restaurant hache, Cross Hotel Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Landscape Will 2019” Sapporo Cultural Art Community Center, Hokkaido
2018 “Cloud Rock” ARTBOX, JR Tower East Concourse, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2017 “Elements of Planet” Fabulous Wall, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Landscape Will - On the Ground -” Gallery Monma ANNEX, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2016 “Camping Near the Woolen Mountain.” Gallery Retara, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2015 “Trace” Cross Hotel Entrance Space, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2014 “MIRAGE” Sarou Houmura, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2013 Museum Courtyard Project, ”Landscape Will -2013” Sapporo Art Museum,
Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Unlimited Life Zone” Gallery Sou, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2012 “Rie Kawakami Solo Exhibition” Tokarune, Toyokorochou
2011 “Shape of Metal Spirit” Shin Sapporo Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2010 “Shape of Metal Spirit” Shin Sapporo Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Illogical Movement” Sarou Houmura, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2009 “Living Cube” The Lab, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
2007 “Breathing Earth” Border Art Residency Exhibition, Olo Gallery, El Paso, TX, U.S.A.
2006 “Trace of Will” CAI Contemporary Art Institute, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2005 “Earth Energy” STV Entrance Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2004 “Landscape Will” Red Mill Gallery, Vermont, U.S.A.
“Landscape Will” Temporary Space, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Sabi no Ma” ArtWarm, Ishikari, Hokkaido
“For the Future Which Will Be the Past” Youkobo Art Space, Suginami, Tokyo
2002 “Rie Kawakami Solo Show” Ishikari City Hall, Ishikari, Hokkaido
“Rie Kawakami Solo Show” Red Mill Gallery, Vermont, U.S.A.
2001 “traces d'osmose” Alliance Francaise de Sapporo, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“An Afterimage” Gallery Tapio, Sapporo, Hokkaido
1999 “For the Future Which Will Be the Past” The Sapporo City Document Museum,
Sapporo, Hokkaido
1994 “Rie Kawakami Solo Show” Am Art Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido
1993 “Rie Kawakami Solo Show” Gallery Yamanote, Sapporo, Hokkaido
1992 “Rie Kawakami Solo Show” Gallery R-BOX, Sapporo, Hokkaido
1991 “Rie Kawakami Solo Show” Daido Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido
1990 “Rie Kawakami Solo Show” Gallery Natsuka, Tokyo
Group Exhibition:
2025 “Taisetsu Art Festival” Kamikawa & Higashikawa
“Work in Progress 12 Beyond Boundaries” Hokusho University Sapporo Maruyama Campus, Sapporo
2024 “Art Journeys” Kiyoe Gallery Niseko, Abuta
“Work in Progress 11 or work in process?” Hokusho University Sapporo Maruyama Campus, Sapporo
2023 “Work in Progress 10 Still Waters Run Deep” (Hokusho University Sapporo Maruyama
Campus, Sapporo)
“Sarou Houmura 20th Anniversary Exhibition” Sarou Houmura, Sapporo
“Through the eyes of Hokkaido Artists” Absolute Space for the Arts, Tainan, China
2022 “20th Anniversary Asahikawa Sculpture Festival” Asahikawa City Sculpture Museum,
Asahikawa, Hokkaido
“ArtWarm 20th Anniversary Ishikari Art File” ArtWarm, Ishikari, Hokkaido
“Signal sauvage” Sarou Houmura, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Forest of Figure” Hokusho University Sapporo Maruyama Campus Sapporo
”AKARI：Weightless Parallel” GLASS PYRAMID “HIDAMARI”, Moerenuma Park, Sapporo
2021 ”Sapporo Art Stage 2021” Sapporo Cultural Art Community Center, Hokkaido
“Ikor-no-Mori Meets Art 2021” Ikor-no-Mori, Tomakomai, Hokkaido
“Forest of Figure” Hokusho University Sapporo Maruyama Campus Sapporo
2020 “Sapporo Musuem Art Fair 2020-21” Sapporo Art Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Ikor-no-Mori Meets Art 2020” On web, https://www.ikor-meetsart.com/2020
“Benizakura Park Art Annual 2020” Benizakura Park, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2018 “Art Planets Grand Prix 2018” Planis Hall, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2017 “Art Fair Sapporo” Cross Hotel Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Shelves II” Orie Art Gallery, Tokyo
“Aru Natsuno (Some in Summer)” Kitakara Gallery, Sapporo
“Tarumae arty 2017” Tarumae Elementary School, Tomakomai, Hokkaido
2016 “Naturally Artificial” Poetica, Naganuma, Hokkaido
“2016 Daegu Contemporary Art Festival in Gangjeong” The Arc Square in Gangjeong,
Daegu, Korea
2015 “Tsunagarou
2015” Underground Walkway, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Won Won Wonderful!” Migishi Kotaro Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Perceived Art” Moerenuma Park Glass Pyramid, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Friendly Tokachi” Kanda Nissho Monumental Museum of Art, Kotogun Shikaoicho
2014 “Art Fair Sapporo 2014” Cross Hotel Sapporo, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“New City Art Fair“ The Songshan Cultural and Create Park, Taipei
“Sprouting Garden” Sapporo Art Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Conditional Landscape” Biserica Evangherică Gușterița, Sibiu, România
2013 “16th Domani” The Ntional Art Center, Tokyo
“Tadayasu Sakai and Friends” Gallery Retara, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Kurogane (Iron) and Space” Gallery Monma, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Naïve Conversation” Continental Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“BIOTOPE” Underground Walkway Sapporo, Hokkaido
2012 “Shiryoukan Wo Art Suru” Sapporo Document Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Sapporo Odori 500m Museum Exhibition” 500m Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Plus 1 Meets Daegu – Shape of Consciousness” Artspace Purl, Daegu, Korea
“Spice of Art” Gallery Monma, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Space Abstraction II” Sarou Houmura, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Eat Art” Sarou Houmura, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Plus 1 Shape of Consciousness” Tomato Gallery, Sarugun
“Intersection of View and Form Vol.5” Sapporo Art Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“50 Sapporo Artists Exhibition” Gallery Retara, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“SAPPORO ART MAP“ 500m Underground Walkway Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2011 “Abstract Sculpture by 30 Artists” Hongo Shin Memorial Sculpture Museum, Sapporo,
Hokkaido
“JR Tower Art Planet 2011” Planis Hall, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“1st Nakayama Touge Mori-no-Bijutsukan Exhibition” Nakayama Touge Museum,
Kimobetsu
“Maboroshinoie” Gallery Monma・ANNEX, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Sarou Houmura 7th Anniversery Memorial Exhibition” Sarou Houmura, Sapporo,
Hokkaido
“Sapporo Art Stage” Underground Walkway, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Plus 1 Condensation” Continental Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Abstract/Figuretive Sculpture by 60 Northan Artists” Hongo Shin Memorial Sculpture
Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Sapporo 50 Artists” Gallery Retara, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2010 “Shiryoukan Wo Art Suru” Sapporo Document Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Space Abstruction” Sapporo Tokeidai Gallery, Sapporo
“Plus1 This Place” Hongo Shin Memorial Museum of Sculpture, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Kokoromi no Chaji” Gallery Sou, CAI02, Gallery Monma, Annex, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Kinokuniya Wo Art Suru” Kinokuniya Book Store, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“2010 International Sculpture Exhibition” Miyazaki Airport, Miyazaki, Kyushu
“Tokeidai Wo Art Suru” Tokeidai, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2009 “Chair Exhibition by 16 Creators” Gallery Sou, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“SAG Introduction II” Gallery Tapio, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Tarumae Arty 2008” Kobo Leo, Tomakomai, Hokkaido
“Intersection of View and Form” Continental Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Love” MJ Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2008 “SAG Introduction” Gallery Shinajina, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Creative Way” MJ Gallery, Daegu, Korea
“Art on the Green Sculpture Invitational” Kemp Center for the Art, Wichita Falls, TX, U.S.A.
2007 “Tarumae Arty 2007” Kobo Leo, Tarumae, Hokkaido
“Edge” The Museum of Art, Kochi
“Store Front Project” Pittsfield, MA, U.S.A
. “Location One IRP Group Show Location One, NY, U.S.A.
“Sapporo Otani Junior College 100th anniversary art exhibition - 100 Works of
Otani” Sapporo Otani Junior College, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2006 “Edge” The Museum of Art, Kochi
2005 “Gwanghwamoon International Art Fair” Sejong Cultural Center Museum, Seoul, Korea
“Art and Craft in North - Charity for Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake”, Continental Gallery,
Sapporo
2004 “A Talk with Art - Five Memories” Monbetsu Municipal Museum
“04 Summer Festival, Sea” Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2003 “From 03 to 04” Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“A MUSE LAND 2004, Big or Small!?” Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo,
Hokkaido
“IYOMANTE –open air art festival in Tobetsu 2003” Tobetsu, Hokkaido
“Fest Part II” Exhibition Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Time Passage in Water, Silent Sound in Forest“ Continental Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Art of Sapporo 2003 <Attempt of 19+1>” Sapporo Citizen Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2002 “Artists Exhibition” Gallery Tapio, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“From 02 to 03”, Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“North Sculpture Exhibition 2002” Sapporo Sculpture Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“The 2nd Window-Arts Exhibition in Shikaoi” Shopping District, Shikaoi-town, Hokkaido
“Fest” Saitou Gallery, Sapporo
“Portraits of a Water Vein: Contemporary Art in Japan and Korea” Hokkaido Museum of
Modern Art, Sapporo / Art Warm, Ishikari
Tokai University Gallery, Fukido Gallery, Asahikawa, Hokkaido
2001 “From 01 to 02” Saitou Gallery, Sapporo
“Hokkaido Solid Art” Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Woman” Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“The 10th International Triennial of Tapestry” Central Museum of Tapestry, Poland
“From 00 to 01” Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2000 “Northern Creator 2001, Viewpoints of ARTing” Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo,
Hokkaido
“American Center Reopening Commemoration Fine Arts” American Center, Sapporo,
Hokkaido
“Color Part II” Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“The 2nd Art Exhibition of the Shiribetsu River, As for the River, from the Green
Wood” Arishima-Art Gallery, Niseko, Hokkaido
”Life, Breathing in Art” Daimaru Fujii Central, Sapporo, Hokkaido
1999 “From 99 to 2000” Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Color” Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“The 1st Art Exhibition of the Shiribetsu River <-River- Natural Twinkking>” Arishima Art
Gallery, Niseko, Hokkaido
“A MUSE LAND '99, SUN & MOON” Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Sensitive Round Fan” Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido
1997 “Project Exhibition of Hokkaido Art Association, The Investigation of the Space“ Daimaru
Fujii Central, Sapporo, Hokkaido
“Selected Artists in Hokkaido” Canadian World, Ashibetsu, Hokkaido
“Hokkaido Art Association 70th Anniversary <New and Powerful Artists>” Daimaru Fujii
Central, Sapporo, Hokkaido
1994 “52 Forms of Love” Gallery R-BOX, Sapporo, Hokkaido
1994 “52 Forms of Love” Gallery R-BOX, Sapporo, Hokkaido
1990 “To the Children, Then, to the Eternal Boys & Girls. ’91” Gallery R-BOX, Sapporo,
Hokkaido
1989 “THREE STROKE” Saitama Museum of Modern Art, Urawa, Saitama
Grant and Award:
2023 SCARTS Arts and Culture Promotion Grant (Sapporo)
2021 Hokkaido Cultural Encouragement Prize (Sapporo)
2018 Awarded Second Grand Prix at Art Planet Grand Prix 2018 (Planis Hall, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
2014 Awarded S-AIR AWARD for residency program at Gustarita (Sibiu, Romania)
2012 Sapporo City Cultural Encouragement Prize (Sapporo)
2007 Selected to be a resident of Border Art Residency (NM, U.S.A.)
2006 Grant by Agency for Cultural Affairs to attend Location One IRP in NY, U.S.A. (Japan)
2004 Awarded 11th Annual Asian Artists Fellowships sponsored by the Freeman Foundation (U.S.A)
2003 Awarded full fellowship for residency program at Vermont Studio Center (U.S.A)
2002 Grant from Freeman Foundation for residency program at Vermont Studio Center (U.S.A)
2001 Grant from Ishikari city for participating “10th International Triennial of Tapestry” (Ishikari, Hokkaido)
Artistic Activity:
2013 “*folding cosmos Moerenuma” Moerenuma Park（Sapporo）
“*folding cosmos Kanazawa” Suzukitaisetsukan（Kanazawa）
“*folding cosmos Takamatsu” Kagawa Museum Bunkan・Kagawakenritsubunkakaikan (Takamatsu)
2015 “*folding cosmos Helsinki” Annantalo Arts Center (Helsinki、Finland)
“*folding cosmos Villa Savoye” Villa Savoye (Poissy, France)
2012 Lecture at Sapporo Art Labo “Presenting Rie Kawakami by Rie Kawakami” (Toov Café, Sapporo)
2011 Practical report post, "Efforts to spatial representation by interactive work" for "Hokkaido art
commentary" third issue (Hokkaido)
2010 Wire workshop for children (Shin Hongo Memorial Sapporo Sculpture Museum, Sapporo)
Artist talk (Teijiro Nakahara Memorial Asahikawa Sculpture Museum, Asahikawa)
2009 Lecture at San Francisco State University (San Francisco, CA)
2008 Lecture at Irvine High School (El Paso, TX)
Artist talk at Olo Gallery (El Paso, TX)
2007 Open studio organized by Border Art Residency Board of Directors (La Union, NM)
Invited to be a visiting artist at University of Texas El Paso (El Paso, Texas)
Presentation about Location One IRP, organized by Sapporo Artists Gallery (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
2006 Participated in residency program at Location One International Residency Program (New York,
U.S.A.)
Attended the project of Asahikawa Sculpture Festival at Chubetsubashi Park (Asahikawa, Hokkaido)
2005 Participated in project for Sapporo Snow Festival (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
Visiting lecturer at Dongduk Women’s University (Seoul, Korea)
2004 Participated in residency program at Vermont Studio Center (Vermont, U.S.A)
2003 Participated in residency program at Vermont Studio Center (Vermont, U.S.A)
Lecture for members of Sapporo Sculpture Museum (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
Lecture for public at Sapporo Citizen Gallery (Sapporo)
2002 Writing short essay to a quarterly magazine, “Bijutsu Pen, No.107” (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
Participated in residency program at Vermont Studio Center (Vermont, U.S.A)
Lecture for public at Art Warm (Ishikari, Hokkaido)
Artist’s talk at Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
2001 Presentation about 10th International Triennial of Tapestry (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
Lecture for public at Museum of Contemporary Art, Artist’s and Audience’s Collaboration (Sapporo,
Hokkaido)
1999 Lecture for children at Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
2022 (R4) ~ Assistant Director, S-AIR Secretariat, Specified Nonprofit Organization
2020 (R2) ~ JIA Hokkaido Graduation Design Contest Jury
2018 (H30) ~ Nayoro International Snow Sculpture Tournament Japan Cup Jury
2014 (H26) ~ 2021 Director of S-AIR, a specified non-profit organization
2013 (H25) ~ Hokkaido Art Society Member
2013 (H25) ~ Part-time lecturer at Hokkaido Beauty College (Cultural & Fashion History)
2010 (H22) ~ Part-time lecturer at Sapporo City University
2005 (H17) -2015 (H26) Part-time lecturer at CAI Institute of Contemporary Art
1999 (H11) -Part-time lecturer at Sapporo Otani Junior College
1991 (H3) -2005 (H17) Part-time lecturer at Hokkaido University of Education Sapporo
1991 (H3) -2013 (H24) Part-time lecturer at Hokkaido Art and Design College