MICHI SUWA

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Michi Suwa was born in 1980 in Kanagawa, Japan where she currently works and lives. She received her M.F.A. in Painting at Tama Art University, Tokyo.
Michi has presented her work in: solo show "Knife Rest" at Gallery21yo-j, Tokyo, 2024; solo show "Floor Plan" at Galleria Finarte, Aichi, 2024; "Letters, Lights, Travels on the Street (Bokura ga tabi ni deru riyuu) Curated by Jeffrey Rosen" at NOWHERE, New York, 2022; solo show "project N 86" at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, 2022; "Heliotrope" at Shouonji temple, Tokyo, 2022; solo show "Three Worlds" at KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo, 2020; "Rolling kites, Falling water" at AZUMATEI PROJECT, Kanagawa, 2020; "VOCA 2020" at The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, 2020; "TAMAVIVANTⅱ Dissémination" at Art-Theque gallery/Tama Art University, Tokyo, 2018; "Paintings Here and Now" at Fucyu Art Museum, Tokyo, 2018; "Temporary construction and Stardust" at A-things, Tokyo, 2016; and "Tactile sensation of action and thinking of repetition" at The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, 2011.

http://michisuwa.jp

• Three Worlds / December 23, 2020 – February 7, 2021

Time Equal to Life, 2022, oil on canvas, 162 x 162 cm

Shadow, 2022, oil on canvas, 65.2 x 65.2 cm

Humming, 2022, oil on canvas, 65.2 x 65.2 cm

Passages, 2022, oil on canvas, 53 x 53 cm

Foolishness, 2022, oil on canvas, 53 x 53 cm

Units, 2022, oil on canvas, 39.5 x 35 cm

Cassettes (A), 2022, oil on canvas, 33 x 22 cm

from left: Passages, 2022 & Time Equal to Life, 2022

Exhibition view, project N 86, 2022, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo / Japan

Exhibition view, project N 86, 2022, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo / Japan

Hinge - Window, 2020

Landscape (orange), 2021, oil on canvas, 27.3 × 27.3 cm

Landscape (pink), 2021, oil on canvas, 27.3 × 27.3 cm

Honey, 2020, oil on canvas, 33.3×33.3 cm

Come in Floating, 2021, oil on canvas, 65.2 x 65.2 cm

Dividing and separating, 2021, oil on canvas, 72.7 x 91 cm

from left: Hinge-Ribbon, 2021 & Interior, 2021

from left: Cut Pieces, 2021 & Cloudy Sky, 2021

Ptolemaic Theory, 2020, oil on canvas, 65.2 × 65.2 cm

from top: Kite, 2020 & Kite, 2020

Hinge - Window

from left: Three Worlds, 2020 & Pretending to Sleep−Re-act, 2020

Exhibition view, Three Worlds, 2020, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo / Japan

from left: Front View of the Island, 2020, Front View of the Island, 2020, Front View of the Island, 2020 & Front V

Neighboring Octagon, 2020, bottle, bamboo, paper, acrylic, wood, wa

Rolling Kite, Falling Water, 2020, cloth, bamboos, strings, wax, dimensions variable

Rhythm of Four Beats, 2019, oil on canvas, 33.3 × 33.3 cm

Kite of Tree, 2019, oil on canvas, 33.3 × 33.3 cm

Light, 2019, oil and acrylic on canvas, 65.2 x 65.2 cm

Island, 2019, oil and acrylic on canvas, 45.5 x 38 cm

Embers, 2019, bottles, matches, acrylic, wood, 73 x 40 x 40 cm

Mountains and Valleys, 2019, paper, wood, acrylic, wax, 44.5 x 40 x 40 cm

Exhibition view, island, 2019, gallery21yo-j, Tokyo / Japan

Untitled, 2017, acrylic on paper, 17 × 24 cm

Untitled, 2017, acrylic on paper, 17 × 24 cm

Untitled, 2017, acrylic on paper, 17 × 24 cm

Obedient Floor, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 162 × 130.3 cm

Pole(top), Pole(bottom), 2017, acrylic on canvas, 80.3 × 130.3 cm × 2 pieces

Bottom(back and forward), Bottom(bundle), 2017, acrylic on canvas, 27.3 × 45.5 cm × 2 pieces