AZUKI FURUYA AZUKI FURUYA

AZUKI FURUYA

AZUKI FURUYA
AZUKI FURUYA

Azuki Furuya is a mixed media artist based in Tokyo. She studied art in Tokyo and London, then graduated with an MFA from Brooklyn College in 2019. After drawing the composition from a photograph, she builds it up with layered bits of colored paper and fragments of the photograph, then meticulously sands down the papered surface until it is exposed like a derelict billboard, and paints inside and around the contours. The patterns and colors are derived from their backgrounds, the layers become geological formation of their lives, shaved layers express vulnerability and weakness and lastly coloring empowers the subject and work.

ARTWORKS

ARTICLES

The Spectrum Beneath | Azuki Furuya's Layered Artistry

2024.05.31
INTERVIEW

GALLERY EXHIBITIONS

AZUKI FURUYA: Sacred Contours

Ginza New Gallery
2024.05.31 - 06.22

MAJOR EXHIBITIONS, COLLECTIONS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
Sacred Contours, Whitestone Ginza New Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2023
Immortal Gaze, Over the Influence, Hong Kong
2020
Fragility, Fridman Gallery, New York

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Duo Exhibition, Beacon on the Bowery, Fridman Gallery, New York
Who is Your Master?, 1969 Gallery, New York
2022
WHAT CAFÉ EXHIBITION vol.23, Tokyo, Japan
MAGO GALLERY AWARD The group show, Mago gallery, Shiga, Japan
2021
Drifting Off in a Bathtub, Walking Up in a Water Tank, HEREart, New York
2020
THE PRIVILEGE OF GETTING TOGETHER, REGULARNORMAL, New York
SHOWFIELDS x Larry Ossei-Mensah, Collaborative project
All Women Art Show, Online Art Show, Brooklyn, New York
2019
THE GOOD FIGHT, 601Artspace, New York
2017
Collaborative Art Performance, Dinner Party, Auxiliary Projects, Brooklyn
2014
University Exhibition, the National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
University Exhibition, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
2013
Azuki Furuya and Moe Tanaka, Galerie H, Tokyo, Japan
University Exhibition, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
2012
Azuki Furuya and Moe Tanaka, Galerie H, Tokyo, Japan
2011
Azuki Furuya and Moe Tanaka, Aoyama, Japan
2009
Group Exhibition, Aomori, Japan

IMAGES

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Blessed
Procession of Courtesans
When the Moon Sets

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