Profile
Tomohisa Ishizuka
He was born in Akita, Japan
He studied school nurse in Ibaraki University
2003 - 2010 a lot of exhibitions in Tokyo
Since 2010 - lives and works as an independent painter in Berlin, Germany
Art:
Vincent van Gogh, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francis Bacon, Niki de Saint Phalle, Joseph Ferdinand Cheval, etc.
Music:
The Back Horn, Avishai Cohen, The Yellow Monkey, Satoru Sakamoto, Junko Yano, Hiromi Uehara, world's end girlfriend, Matryoshka, etc.
Book:
The little prince, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh, etc.
Anime:
Ghost in the Shell, Attack on Titan, etc.
Video Works >> YouTube
Prize&Exhibitions
2009.03 "Spring Award 2009" CREARE AOYAMA, Tokyo, Japan
2008.11 "Artcompe X" The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2008.10 "Amuse Art Jam 2008" The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
2008.06 "Tokyo Wonder Wall 2008" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Solo Exhibitions
2021.01 Menu Box/Café Pappelreihe, Berlin, Germany "Loc(o)k Down(Up) Show"
2019.10 MOTOYA(Book-Café-Gallery), Tokyo, Japan "From Subconscious"
2019.09 Café Épice, Akita, Japan "From Subconscious"
2019.08 Café Pappelreihe, Berlin, Germany "100 SKETCHES"
2019.05 Jazzclub Schlot, Berlin, Germany "From Subconscious"
2019.04 Café Tasso, Berlin, Germany "From Chaos"
2019.01 Café Pappelreihe, Berlin, Germany "DRAWING"
2018.08 Atorion, Akita, Japan "The Landscape living in the Memory"
2017.10 Altes Rathaus, Passau, Germany "Partnerstädtische Bindeglieder"
2017.05 Café Tasso, Berlin, Germany "Fragments of Stories"
2016.04 Café Pappelreihe, Berlin, Germany "Further Forward"
2015.03 Neue Kapelle im Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany "Mirror of Soul"
2014.10 Café Tasso, Berlin, Germany "Daydream of Midnight"
2014.06 Café Pappelreihe, Berlin, Germany "Our Café, Our Neighbourhood"
2014.05 VINGT VINS D'ART, Paris, France "The Wanderer in The Unconscious"
2013.12 Café Pappelreihe, Berlin, Germany "Our Café"
2013.10 K.S.GALLERY, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan "November, 2012 in Berlin"
2012.03 K.S.GALLERY, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan "Tracks of the Soul vol.3"
2011.04 Link Hair Design, Berlin, Germany "Proof of Exsistence"
2011.03 K.S.GALLERY, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan "Tracks of the Soul vol.2"
2010.09 K.S.GALLERY, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan "Tracks of the Soul vol.1"
2010.04 K.S.GALLERY, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan "The One Before Word"
2009.11 Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo, Japan "TWS-Emerging130 : Soul Where It Lived For 29 Years"
2009.09 K.S.GALLERY, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan "I'm Living?"
2009.03 K.S.GALLERY, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan "Trace of Soul"
2008.09 K.S.GALLERY, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan "The Scene of Live of Death"
2008.04 K.S.GALLERY, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan "Delicate Monster"
2007.11 GALLERY SOURCE, Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, Japan "November, 2007"
2007.09 K.S.GALLERY, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan "Untitled (about a studio) "
2007.03 coco laboratory, Akita, Japan "about a story"
2007.01 K.S.GALLERY, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan "Boku to Boku no"
2006.08 K.S.GALLERY, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan "Intence Thing"
2006.03 K.S.GALLERY, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan "Melancholic Soldier and Mad Planet"
2004.06 Gallery appel, Kyodo, Tokyo, Japan "material"
2004.06 Ono Gallery Kyobashi, Kyobashi, Tokyo, Japan "Tomohisa's Show"
2004.05 Ono Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan "Tomohisa's Show"
2004.01 Gallery Jiyuu, Tama, Tokyo, Japan "Rock Art Tour"
2002.11 Ikeda Museum, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan "no title no theme, only impulse"
2002.09 Avignon Gallery, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan "TOMOHISA<=>PURUPURUGUM."
Group Exhibitions / Events
2021.09 "20-21" coco laboratory, Akita, Japan
2019.06 "10. BERLINER KUNSTALLEE" Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
2019.04 "FORM ART 2019" Bürgerhaus Glinde, Glinde, Germany
2017.09 "OpenAirGallery2017" Berlin, Germany
2017.06 "Berlin Design Market White Pony" Berlin, Germany
2017.05 "Makersmarket SOLOH" Berlin, Germany
2015.04 "FORM ART 2015" Bürgerhaus Glinde, Glinde, Germany
2014.02 "Four positions of contemporary painting" art place berlin, Berlin, Germany
2013.10 "Zero Exhibition 2013" Jyukai Arena, Akita, Japan
2012.09 "YES BUT NO by KOIKLUB 11th September" KRACH STUDIO, Berlin, Germany
2012.08 "APART" Café Pappelreihe, Berlin, Germany
2012.02 "PLUG European Electronic Music Conference" Berlin, Germany
2011.09 "08. Berliner KUNSTSALON" UFERHALLEN, Berlin, Germany
2010.10 "Japanese & German Contemporary ART" Gallery DEN, Berlin, Germany
2010.06 "Handmade Book Fair Vol.2" MOTOYA (Book-Cafe-Gallery), Tokyo, Japan
2009.10 "YOUNG ARTIST JAPAN Vol.2" TOKYO KOTSU KAIKAN, Tokyo, Japan
2009.06 Collaborated with "Elmur.net" to exhibit on the street in Lleida, Spain
2008.12 "Lineart 2008" Flanders Expo, Gent, Belgium
2006.12 "Design ・ Festa vol.24" Tokyo Big Site, Tokyo, Japan
2005.06 "The world of Fude Shogi" Gallery Spacekids, Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
Open Studio
2018.01 "OFFENE ATELIERS" Berlin, Germany
2017.06 "48 Stunden Neukölln" Berlin, Germany
2017.01 "OFFENE ATELIERS" Berlin, Germany
2015.12 vol.03 Berlin, Germany
2012.01 vol.02 Berlin, Germany
2011.09 vol.01 Berlin, Germany
Project
2019.08 "100 SKETCHES" in Berlin, Germany
2012.11 "Painting | Newspaper" in Berlin, Germany
2007.11 "Painting | Newspaper" in Tokyo, Japan
2005.01 "Fude Shogi" with Toshiaki Kouda
Self-Publishing
2016.03 "Seelenspiegel" Art book
2010.10 "Portraits of The Soul" Art book
2010.06 "Encounters of Petroglyphs" Travel journal ver.2
2008.01 "November, 2007" Art book
2007.03 "Grain of Soul" Art book
2003.11 "Encounters of Petroglyphs" Travel journal
Published
2014.06 "BIFROST Vol.17" by Artcross Inc., Japan
2010.08 "Repli Vol.01" Feature: Delicate Monster
2010.06 "The Face of Akita" Interview (web)
Others
2019.12 Music Album "Piano Tomohisa" release
2019.09 at a private office, Berlin, Germany
2018.05 Stay and work in Akita, to September (four months)
2017.08 Stay and work in Passau, to October (three months)
2017.03 at a private office, Wensickendorf, Germany
2008.11 Selected as TWS-Emerging 2009, Tokyo Wonder Site