The Jean Pigozzi Collection Of Contemporary Japanese Art
Internal Terrorism - 2007
119 x 89 cm
Graphite on paper
Ayakoh Furukawa
Education :
2007
M.F.A in painting, Hunter College, New York
2004
B.F.A. in painting, Hunter College, New York
2000-02
The Art Students League of New York, (awarded Merit Scholarship)
1993
A.A. in painting, Los Angeles Valley College, California
Solo Exhibitions:
2016
Can Art Be A Forma of Prayer, onetwentyeight Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions in the U.S.:
2011
JAPANCONGO, Le Magasin - Centre National d Art Contemporain, Grenoble; The Garage Center For Contemporary Culture, Moscow; Palazzo Reale, Milan
2008
Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Chelsea, Chelsea, NY
Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, sponsored by Marlborough Gallery, Shanghai, China
Became a member of Artist Pension Trust
MEHR GALLERY TWO PERSON SHOW, with Ai Shinohara, Chelsea, NY
Curated Me, Art, and the World, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY.
Making a Home:33 Contemporary Japanese Artists in NY, Japan Society, New York,
The Feminine Mystique, Jersey City Museum, New Jersey
Womens Voice, Womens Vision, St. Marks Church, New York
2007
Thesis Exhibition, Hunter College Times Square Gallery
Art Fair: The Evening of Art & Talk, Tenri Cultural Institute of New York
Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York
2006
Contemporary & Traditional: Two Aspects of Jaa, NYCoo Gallery, New York
Reverie: Visions of Mystery, 58 Gallery, Jersey City, New NJ
CUNY Arts Gala: Fiction, Film, Poetry, and Video, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center of CUNY
2005
East Wind in the Stroll Garden, Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY
2005-06
Summer Festival Art Student Show, Ise Cultural Foundation (2005 receives Commendation, 2006 receives Janet Koplos Juror Award)
2004
Dialog I, II-RENKA, Consulate General of Japan, New York
The Bartha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York
2002
911 Tribute Exhibition, Gallery 128, New York
Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, New York
2001
Collage & Assemblage, The Art Students League of New York
1999-2007
Annual Exhibition of Japanese Artists Association of New York, Inc. (1999 Broom Street Gallery,
New York, 2000 New Century Gallery, NY, 2001~2007, Tenri Cultural Institute of New York)
Apocalypse 1999, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY.
Solo and Selected Group Exhibitions in Japan:
1998
Two-person Exhibition with Taeko Higuchi, Gallery Yamato, Osaka Japan
1997
(awarded Osaka Twenty-First Century Association Award)
Solo Exhibition, Gallery Yamato, Osaka Japan
1995 -96
Annual Exhibition of Shingeijutsu Kyokai (1995 Osaka Municipal Museum of Art and Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1996 Kyoto Art Center)
1994
Solo Exhibition, Gallery Ichi, Osaka, Japan
Publications:
Eric Bryant, Reviews Making a Home, ARTnews, December Issue, 2007
Karen Rosenberg, Willingly or Unwillingly Calling New York Their Home, The New York
Times, Nov. 9, 2007 Benjamin Genocchio, Feminine, but Not Much to Explain the Mystique, The New York Times, Nov.18, 2007
Robert C. Morgan, Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York, The
Brooklyn Rail, November Issue, 2007
Art: Making A Home, The New Yorker, Oct. 29, 2007
John Haber, Feminism in the Singular, Harbers Art Review, October, 2007
Dan Bischoff, Many faces, many forms, Jersey City exhibit showcases thoughtful reaction to feminism, The Star Ledger, Sep.30, 2007
Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, The Problem that Has No Name, the catalog of Feminine Mystique Exhibition Jersey CityMuseum, 2007
Eric C. Shiner, Loss in Lead, the catalog of Making a Home Exhibition, Japan Society, 2007