ETSU EGAMI

Etsu Egami is a representative of the third generation of post-war Japanese contemporary artists, actively involved in Japan, China, United States, and Europe. She studied at The Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HFG) in Germany and at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at Tsing Hua University. She is particularly interested in the process of miscommunication and rethinking society through language. Her projects have received international acclaim for its site-specific field research and documentation. Notable recent projects include Etsu Egami, Obsession and Question, New Horizons of Modern Painting (Woodone Museum of Art, Japan), Entrance Gallery Vol.1: Etsu Egami (Chiba City Museum of Art, Japan), and ‘Group show’ (Nassima Landau Foundation, Israel).

She was also highly recommended by museum curators, to participate in the VOCA Exhibition 2020 at The Ueno Royal Museum, which is considered a gateway to success for young artists. Egami is currently one of the most sought-after young contemporary artists. The VOCA exhibition has served as a platform for artists who have paved the way for the Japanese art world, such as Takashi Murakami for the ﬁrst VOCA 1994 exhibition and Yoshitomo Nara in the 1997 exhibition.

Etsu Egami's works are collected by notable institutions such as He Art Museum, Hiroshima Woodone Museum of Art, Central Academy of Fine Art Museum, Yusaku Maezawa Collection, Nanjo Art Museum, Yuan Art Museum, Yi Lian Foundation, Damei Museum, Longlati Foundation, Tree Art Museum, Masamichi Toyama Collection, Korea Suncheon City Art Center, Hua Wei Collection, HOW MUSEUM, Masatoshi KUMAGAI collection, among others.

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Etsu Egami: Oscillating Between the Abstract and Figurative｜By Tan Siuli

January 06, 2023 - January 20, 2023
Singapore

Etsu Egami's Exhibition at Wood One Museum of Art in Hiroshima

September 22, 2022
Hiroshima, Japan

The Philosophers: ETSU EGAMI × JY

HK H Queen’s 7-8/F
2023.03.17 - 04.06

Etsu Egami solo exhibition: Incessant is the change of water where the stream glides on calmly: the spray appears over a cataract, yet vanishes without a moment's delay.

Singapore
January 06, 2023 - January 20, 2023

ETSU EGAMI: ICHIGO ICHIE

HK H Queen’s 7-8/F
August 5 - August 24, 2021

ETSU EGAMI: Rainbow

Karuizawa Gallery1, 2, 3
April 24 - May 30, 2021

ETSU EGAMI: Rainbow

Taipei
January 23 - March 14, 2021

LITTLE FABLES

HK H Queen’s 7-8/F
March 18 - May 16, 2020

ETSU EGAMI: Your Name?

Ginza New Gallery
November 1 - November 24, 2019

2021: Forbes Asia 30 UNDER 30 , Forbes Magazine
Most 10 In-demand Artist，Artsy
2020: Outstading artist dispatch to New York and Los Angeles , Agency for Culture Affiars, Government of Japan
Art collectors prize 2020 Masamichi Toyama prize ,Arts Chiyoda 3331, Japan
CAF AWARD 2020 Finalist, Contemporary Art Promotion Foundation,Tokyo
Forbes China 30 UNDER 30, Forbes Magazine
2019: Sovereign Asian Art Award 2019 ,Sovereign Art foundation, Hongkong
5th BaoZhen Great graduate works show, CAFA, Beijing
WAN YING YOUNG DREAMS 2019, Wan Ying Art Museum, Hebei
2018: 16th Chiba city government Art and Culture new star prize, Chiba city government, Chiba
2017: Excellent works awards, China national foundation
2016: Yi Lian Great Graduation works award, Yilian, Beijing
The 17th East International Art Exhibition,Minister of Foreign Affairs Award
Winner of the 12th “Open Studio Day” Award, CAFA
2014: Sketch outstanding awards, CAFA
Social activities awards, CAFA
2013: The outstanding creation awards, CAFA
The 14th East International Art Exhibition Chiba prefectural Museum of Art Director awards

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023: Incessant is the change of water where the stream glides on calmly: the spray appears over a cataract, yet vanishes without a moment's delay. - ETSU EGAMI solo show, Whitestone gallery Singapore
2021: Social Distancing - ETSU EGAMI solo show, A2Z PARIS, Paris
RAINBOW - ETSU EGAMI solo show, Karuizawa New Art Gallery, Karuizawa
Face book - EGAMI ETSU solo show, ChambersFineArt, New York, USA
Star Time - ETSU EGAMI solo show, Ginza SIX Tsutaya Atrium, Tokyo
RAINBOW - ETSU EGAMI solo show, Whitestone gallery Taipei, Taipei
Ichigo Ichie - ETSU EGAMI solo show, Whitestone gallery HQueens, Hong Kong
In a Moment of Misunderstanding all the masks fall, Tang contemporary, Beijing
2020: Entrance Gallery Vol.1 Egami Etsu，Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba
International talk at Chiba city museum of art, “The shape of communication”
with Julie Champion(assistant curator of Center de Pompidou), Chiba Shigeo(Art Critics), You Yang (Deputy director of UCCA), Etsu Egami
2019: YOUR NAME? - ETSU EGAMI solo show, Whitestone gallery Ginza, Tokyo
2018: Dialogue beyond 4000 years - Etsu Egami solo show, Chiba art center, Japan
Dialogue beyond 400 years - Etsu Egami solo show, Playground London, London
2017: The Hidden Truth - EGAMI ETSU solo exhibition, Tokyo GINZA, Japan
In to the light .... Etsu Egami solo exhibition,βpace, Germany
2016: God’s voice, human’s words?, DEHAIRI projects, Tokyo
It is not a Mis-hearing game, de Sarthe gallery, Beijing
Mis-hearing × Truth, Horizon Art Space, Beijing

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022: Dialogue, Locarno Rivellino Chambers Fine Art, Swiss
Broken Pinata, L21 Gallery, Spain
2021: Collection visit with Sam and Rachel Shikiar, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hello Future, Where are we?, CAFA Museum, Beijing
Art Paris Art Fair, Grand Paris, Paris
Collection, Tomioka City Museum of Art, Tomioka Low Fever, Tang Contemporary, Hong Kong
Hello Future, Where We Are？, FIAC, Beijing
Beijing Jin ShangYi Art Foundation 2nd New Painting Artist Exhibition, The Chinese Academy of Oil Painting Museum, Beijing
Opening Exhibition Museum collection, T.Maison Art Museum, Okinawa
2020: VOCA 2020 -New perspective of painting, Ueno-Royal Museum, Tokyo
3331 Selected Art Fair, Arts Chiyoda 3331, Tokyo
CAF AWARD 2020 finalist, Contemporary Art Promotion Foundation, Tokyo
Little Fables ,Whitestone Gallery, Hong Kong
Spring Session, Whitestone gallery, Taipei
UNSCHEDULED, Taikwun Contemporary Museum, Hong Kong
Para Site Art Gala, Para Site，Hong Kong
2019: Sovereign Asian Art Prize finalist exhibition, Tai Kwun Contemporary, HQueen's, HongKong
CAFA Master Graduate exhibition, CAFA Museum, Beijing
DESERT GARDEN, OTAFINEARTS, Shanghai
8 ARTIST, A2Z gallery, HongKong
WANYING YOUNG DREAMS 2019, WANYING ART MUSEUM, Hebei
2018: A CITY TO WEAR 2.0 Paintings Beyond “Painting”, The Research House for Asian Art, Chicago
The 2nd Beijing Media Art Biennial, CAFA Museum, Beijing
Surpassing r=a(1-sin), Qimu space, Beijing
Bio Art Archive Drawer- Absence of the Authority, HDK, Swiss
2017: Grounding exhibition, UCCA, Beiijng
Legal Aliens, Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing
2016: 3rd CAFA Art Biennale “Negotiating the space”, CAFAM, Beijing
Fan Xin Ji Hua, Tree Art Museum, Beijing / Tian Jing Wen Hua Gu,Tian Jing/Japan-China friendship center art museum, Tokyo / Milal Art Museum, Seoul
Graduated exhibition, CAFAM, Beijing
Neither Here Nor there，Yuan Art Museum, Collaborated with Boston Museum Fine Arts, Beijing
2015: The 3rd China International Forum for Art Installation, Todays art museum, Beijing

COLLECTIONS

He Art Museum, Hiroshima Woodone Museum Of Art, Central Academy of Fine Art Museum, Karuizawa New Art Museum, T.Maison Art Museum Japan, Longlati foundation, Tree Art Museum, Yuan Art Museum, Yi Lian Foundation, Damei Museum, Korea Suncheon City Art Center, Galerie 99 Germany, Suncheon Cultural Foundation, Yusaku Maezawa Collection

TALK

2021: Nancy Berliner(Senor curator of Boston Museum of Art) zoom talk at Karuizawa
Alexandra Munroe(Solomon.R Guggenheim Musuem) zoom talk at Karuizawa
Alexis Lowry (Curator of Dia Beacon) talk with Etsu Egami (NY program by Culture affairs of Japan Government)
Sarah Suzuki (Deputy director of Moma) talk with Etsu Egami (NY program by Culture affairs of Japan Government)
John Carpenter (Curator of Metropolitan Museum of Art) talk with Etsu Egami (NY program by Culture affairs of Japan Government)
Oka Midori (Associate director of The Mary Griggs Burke Center in Columbia University ) talk with Etsu Egami (NY program by Culture affairs of Japan Government)
Owen Duffy (Director of St.John's University) Kruizawa New Art Museum
Artist talk (Organized by Boston Museum of Art Curatorial Team)
“The third generation of Japanese post war artist”Artist talk, The Pennsylvania State University
“Star time” : Teiya Iwabuchi ( Bijutsu Techo Editor-in-Chief) , Hiroki Yamamoto (Teacher in Tokyo University of the Arts ) ,GINZA SIX GINZA TSUTAYA
“International Talk” : Masatomo Kawai (Dorector of Chiba City Museum of Art) , Chen KuangYI (Chair of Art department,National Taiwan University of Arts ), Zhen Yan(Art Director of Wan Ying Art Center) , Etsu Egami (GINZA SIX GINZA TSUTAYA )
“Etsu Egami : The potential of the third generation post war Japanese artist”, Artist talk, Asia Society
2020: The shape of communication (Chiba City Museum of Art)
Participatients,Egami Etsu, Julie Champion(assitant curator of Center de Pompidou in Paris), You Yang(Deputy Director of UCCA Beijing) , Chiba Shigeo
2019: TDC Design Conference (TDC)
2018: The 2nd Beijing Media Art Biennale（CAFAM）
International Artist Forum, Hai Kou CIty Culture Season (Hai Kou City)
2016: QingDao Intenational Artist Conference（CAFA） International Director Conference（CAFA）
2015: Curator talk between Japan and China(Japan Foundation, Wu Zuo Ren Foudnation)

SELECTED PUBLICATION

2021: Oil Painting, People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, 2021 04 (Upcoming)
2020: A Joint of Visions, ShangHai caligraphy and painting Publishing House (Co-authotship)
Oil Painting, People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, 2020 02
Oil Painting, People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, 2020 04
VOCA2020 - New Vision of Painting, Ueno-Royal Museum of Art, Japan
2017: Gekkanbijyutsu art magazine 07, Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha,Ltd.
2016: Gekkanbijyutsu art magazine 07, Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha,Ltd.
North art magazine 02, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts
2015: Gekkanbijyutsu art magazine, Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha,Ltd.

2023 ETSU EGAMI solo show, Whitestone Gallery Singapore

2022 Westbund

2022 Wood One Museum of Art in Hiroshima

2021 Ichigo Ichie - ETSU EGAMI solo show, Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong

2021 RAINBOW - ETSU EGAMI solo show, Whitestone Gallery Karuizawa

2021 RAINBOW - ETSU EGAMI solo show, Whitestone Karuizawa Gallery

2021 RAINBOW - ETSU EGAMI solo show, Whitestone Gallery Taipei

2021 RAINBOW - ETSU EGAMI solo show, Whitestone Gallery Taipei Talk: ETSU EGAMI × CHEN, Kuang-Yi (Dean of the College of Fine Art / Professor of National Taiwan University of Arts)