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KUMI HIROSE
The surging energy of a big city.
Young people fly into a passion ! !
Children, cry out ! !
Old man, good luck ! !
I am me.
No more, no less.
We are different human beings with our own individuality.
You too.
Even my works of art are the same.
It is my ways to express
my passion.
<Biography>
| 1986 Born in Tokushima prefecture, Japan |
| 2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts - Oil Painting and Printmaking |
| Course, Department of Painting, College of Art and Design, |
| Joshibi University of Art and Design |
| 2010 Master of Fine Arts - Concentration in Oil Painting, |
| Fine Art Course, Master's Degree Program, Joshibi University of |
| Art and Design Graduate School of Art and Design |
| 2022 The Art Students League of New York |
<History of Awarded Prize>
| 2021 Achievement Award by Paulina Pobocha, Curator of MoMA |
| ( AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL : The Real & The Imagined / |
| WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY ) |
| 2020 2nd Prize by Paulina Pobocha, Curator of MoMA |
| ( Works Created During the Lockdown Period / |
| WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY ) |
| 2020 Bronze prize ( The Annual Group Exhibition 2020 / J - Collabo.org, |
| Brooklyn, NY ) |
| 2019 Red Dot Prize ( The Red Dot Exhibition / The Art Students League of |
| New York, NY ) |
| 2017 Grant Recipient ( G25N Virtual Online Gallery, New York, NY ) |
| 2013 Honorable mention ( The 98th Nika Art Exhibition / The National Art |
| Center, Tokyo, Japan ) |
| 2010 Honorable mention ( The 20th All-Japan Art Salon Painting Grand |
| Prize Exhibition / The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan ) |
| 2009 Honorable mention ( The 4th Kojin Toneyama Memorial Grand Prize |
| Exhibition Triennale in Kitakami / Kitakami City Citizen Exchange |
| Plaza, Iwate, Japan ) |
| 2008 2nd Prize ( The 44th Kanagawa Art Exhibition |
| / Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Kanagawa, Japan ) |
| 2008 A Prize of Collection in Joshibi University of Art and Design Art |
| Museum Prize ( Joshibi University of Art and Design, Tokyo, Japan ) |
| 2008 Valedictorian Prize |
| ( Joshibi University of Art and Design, Tokyo, Japan ) |
<Permanent collection>
| 2023 The 24th Annual WAH Salon Show / WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2023 Wood & Paper / WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2022 The 23rd Annual WAH Salon Show / WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2021 AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL : The Real & The Imagined |
| / WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2021 Togetherness & Oneness / WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2021 The 22nd Annual WAH Salon Show / WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2020 Works Created During the Lockdown Period |
| / WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2019 New Japanese Horizon / WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY |
<Solo Exhibition>
| 2024 The Kumi Festival / Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2023 May Everyone Be Happy / International Center of CCCS, |
| New York, NY |
| 2023 The Kumi Universe / Space 776 Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2021 JCAT Online Exhibition, Kumi's mysterious world |
| / JCAT Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2019 Kumi's World 3 / Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2019 Kumi's World 2 / Rabbit House, New York, NY |
| 2018 Kumi's World / YN Bar, New York, NY |
| 2018 Colorida and Kumi Hirose / Colorida Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal |
| 2017 Crazy toy box 3 / International Center of CCCS, New York, NY |
| 2017 Crazy toy box 2 / Ouchi gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2016 Crazy toy box / Ouchi gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
<Group Exhibition>
| 2023 Love Exhibition / Noho M55 Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2023 VIEWs 2023 / Gallery ART POINT, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2023 6th Annual Exhibition SJAC 2023 / Gallery Max New York, NY |
| 2023 May Juried Salon Show / Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2023 The 27th JAA Art Exhibition of Japanese and Japanese American |
| Artists in NY / JAA Hall, New York, NY |
| 2023 April Juried Salon Show / Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2023 Vol.66 Honey's Tuesday / Honey's bar, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2023 7th Annual International Women's Day / One Art Space Gallery, |
| New York, NY |
| 2023 The 24th Annual WAH Salon Show / WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2023 NY CONNECTION 2023 / Gallery SIACCA, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2022 Maruzen Marunouchi Art Fair 2022 / Maruzen Marunouchi, |
| Tokyo, Japan |
| 2022 PRINTS ON B'DWAY / Gallery Max New York, NY |
| 2022 Wood & Paper / WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2022 The Darkness of This Time / Viridian Artists Inc, New York, NY |
| 2022 Bushwick Open Studios 2022 / Brooklyn Brush Studios, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2022 Made in Japan Exhibition 2022 / Noho M55 Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2022 CACAO / Cacao Channel Presentation at the Fine & Raw Chocolate, |
| Brooklyn, NY |
| 2022 5th Annual Exhibition SJAC 2022 / Tenri Cultural Institute of |
| New York, NY |
| 2022 Final Project Exhibition / The Art Students League of New York, NY |
| 2022 The 26th JAA Art Exhibition of Japanese and Japanese American |
| Artists in NY / JAA Hall, New York, NY |
| 2022 2022 Annual Art Members Exhibition / J - Collabo.org, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2022 The 23rd Annual WAH Salon Show / WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2022 6th Annual International Women's Day / One Art Space Gallery, |
| New York, NY |
| 2022 NY CONNECTION 2022 / Gallery SIACCA, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2021 The Works Acquired in the Yuko Nii Foundation's Permanent |
| Collection from the Three Consecutive Exhibitions Related to the |
| COVID - 19 Pandemic / WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2021 SHOPPIN "N" LOOKIN with Your Art, Tote bags art exhibition |
| / J - Collabo.org, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2021 JCAT Online Exhibition, The Gift 2021 / JCAT Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2021 AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL : The Real & The Imagined |
| / WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2021 Bushwick Open Studios 2021 / Brooklyn Brush Studios, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2021 Virtual Expo, J - Collabo Bronze Winner exhibition / J - Collabo.org, |
| Brooklyn, NY |
| 2021 Hot Dance ! / A Dixon place & Creative Performances Presentation at |
| the Dixon place, New York, NY |
| 2021 4th Annual Exhibition SJAC 2021 / Tenri Cultural Institute of |
| New York, NY |
| 2021 Togetherness & Oneness / WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2021 The 25th JAA Art Exhibition of Japanese and Japanese American |
| Artists in NY / JAA Hall, New York, NY |
| 2021 22nd Annual WAH Salon Show / WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2021 5th Annual International Women's Day / One Art Space Gallery, |
| New York, NY |
| 2020 The Annual Group Exhibition 2020 / J - Collabo.org, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2020 Japanese and Japanese American Artists in NY, Support the Arts, |
| Support JAA / JAA Hall, New York, NY |
| 2020 Works Created During the Lockdown Period |
| / WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2020 4th Annual International Women's Day / One Art Space Gallery, |
| New York, NY |
| 2020 Made in Japan Exhibition 2020 / Noho M55 Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2019 Made in Japan Exhibition 2019 / Noho M55 Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2019 Annual Group Exhibition 2019 / J - Collabo.org, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2019 New Japanese Horizon / WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2019 Bushwick Open Studios 2019 / Brooklyn Brush Studios, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2019 Fusion Exhibition / Noho M55 Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2019 The Red Dot Exhibition / The Art Students League of New York, NY |
| 2019 3rd Annual Exhibition SJAC 2019 / Tenri Cultural Institute of |
| New York, NY |
| 2019 Made in March show / Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York, NY |
| 2019 3rd Annual International Women's Day / One Art Space Gallery, |
| New York, NY |
| 2019 Smiley exhibition 2019 by JCAT / Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2019 Holiday show 2019 / Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York, NY |
| 2018 Annual Group Exhibition 2018 / J - Collabo.org, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2018 SJAC 2018 Exhibition / Gallery Max New York, NY |
| 2018 Bushwick Open Studios 2018 / Brooklyn Brush Studios, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2018 Japanism 2 / Pleiades gallery, New York, NY |
| 2018 First Fall Double Decker Salon Show / Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, |
| NY |
| 2018 We Summer Exhibition 2018 / Pleiades gallery, New York, NY |
| 2018 ZERO - Live Art Experience / Resobox, New York, NY |
| 2018 Spring Fling Grand Salon Show / Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2018 April 6th People's Choice Salon Show / Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, |
| NY |
| 2018 Open Call : March Grand Salon Show / Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, |
| NY |
| 2018 2nd Annual International Women's Day / One Art Space Gallery, |
| New York, NY |
| 2018 Japanism / One art space gallery, New York, NY |
| 2017 Annual Group Exhibition and Showcase / J - Collabo.org, Brooklyn, |
| NY |
| 2017 Gallery 25N Presents Abstract 2017 / G25N Virtual Online Gallery, |
| New York, NY |
| 2017 SJAC 2017 Exhibition / Gallery Max New York, NY |
| 2017 Bushwick Open Studios 2017 / Brooklyn Brush Studios, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2017 JCAT Showcase / Gallery Max New York, NY |
| 2017 Channel to brooklyn art show / J - Collabo.org, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2017 Summer of love Exhibition / House of Yes Presentation at the Park, |
| Brooklyn, NY |
| 2017 Open Call Salon de Eros / Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2017 The 11th 100 Artists / Ouchi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2016 Holiday Salon Show / Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2016 People's Choice Art Show / Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2016 Dark and Scary Halloween Show / Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2016 Bushwick Open Studios 2016 / Brooklyn Brush Studios, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2013 The 98th Nika Art Exhibition / The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2012 GEISAI#16 / TRC Tokyo Ryutsu Center Inc., Tokyo, Japan |
| 2011 The 20th All-Japan Art Salon Painting Grand Prize Exhibition |
| / The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2009 The 4th Kojin Toneyama Memorial Grand Prize Exhibition Triennale |
| in Kitakami / Kitakami City Citizen Exchange Plaza, Iwate, Japan |
| 2008 The 44th Kanagawa Art Exhibition / Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, |
| Kanagawa, Japan |