Artist

Osamu Mori|森 靖

BIOGRAPHY
1983  愛知県生まれ
  Born in Aichi pref. Japan
2009 東京藝術大学大学院美術研究科修士課程彫刻専攻修了
  MFA sculpture, Tokyo University of the Arts
 

2010年、当時の山本現代で初個展「Can’t help falling in love」を開催し、翌年には横浜トリエンナーレ「OUR MAGIC HOUR-世界はどこまで知ることができるか?」に参加。2020年に4mに達するエルヴィス・プレスリーをモチーフにした作品を10年ぶりの個展「Ba de ya」(PARCEL、東京)で発表。2022年にはPARCELからFrieze SeoulのAsia Focusセクションにて個展形式で参加した。2023年オーストラリアのビクトリア国立美術館のNGVトリエンナーレ2023に参加。2024年には近代を代表する彫刻家、荻原碌山の生地にある碌山美術館にて個展を行う。現在は5mを超える作品を制作している。

Osamu Mori held his debut solo exhibition Can’t help falling in love in 2010 at Yamamoto Gendai, marking the beginning of a distinctive sculptural practice that blends pop iconography with monumental form. The following year, he gained further recognition through his participation in the Yokohama Triennale OUR MAGIC HOUR: How Much of the World Can We Know?. After a decade-long interval, he returned in 2020 with Ba de ya at PARCEL, Tokyo, where he unveiled a towering four-meter sculpture of Elvis Presley. This marked a renewed commitment to scale and popular imagery that continued into his solo presentation at Frieze Seoul’s Asia Focus section in 2022, also organized by PARCEL. In 2023, Mori was featured in the NGV Triennial at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, and in 2024 he held a solo exhibition at the Rokuzan Art Museum, located in the hometown of modern sculptor Rokuzan Ogiwara. Currently, he is working on a new piece that exceeds five meters in height.

個展 | Solo Exhibitions

2024 Gigantization Manifesto, Rokuzan Museum 禄山美術館, Nagano, Japan
2023 Twister, PARCEL, Tokyo, Japan
2020 Ba de ya, PARCEL, Tokyo, Japan
2010  Can’ t Help Falling in Love (好きにならずにいられない), YAMAMOTO GENDAI, Tokyo, Japan

グループ展 | Group Exhibitions

2024 Centennial Art Festival – Environment and Desire – Uchiboso Art Fest (100年後芸術祭 環境と欲望 内房総アートフェス), former Satomi Elemetary School, Ichihara, Japan
  Japanese Contemporary Art Private Collection: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  KOSHIKI ART 2024, Koshiki Island, Kagoshima, Japan
  Art Ichihara 2024 Autumn, former Satomi Elemetary School, Ichihara, Japan
2023 YOKUKA NO KIKYOU, Furukawa Museum Furusaburou Memorial Museum, Aichi Japan
  Intersecting Perceptions-交差する眼差し-, Terrada Warehouse, Tokyo, Japan
  NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2022 Sonoaida, Shin Yurakucho bldg., Tokyo, Japan
  Another Asian Artist, The Shop House, Hong Kong
  FRIEZE SEOUL (Asia Focus solo booth, PARCEL), COEX, Seoul, Korea
  NACC Vol2, Nihonbashi Anarchy Culture Center, Tokyo, Japan
  Sculptor and House, Denchu House, Tokyo, Japan
2021  New Works, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Open Studio, Studio Kodai, Japan
2018 Engraved Time (刻まれた時間-もの語る存在), Tokyo University of the Arts Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Spring Fever, Komagome Soko, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Current Traditions: Contemporary Japanese Wood Sculpture, Salisbury University Art Galleries, Mary Land, USA
2015 New Works in an Old Studio Vol10 (第 10 回アトリエの末裔あるいは未来展 ),
  Tokyo Univ of the Arts Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Open Studio, Studio Kodai, Ibaraki Pref, Japan
2013 Open Studio, Studio Kodai, Ibaraki Pref, Japan
  Matter and Sculpture: From Aporia toward Memento (物質と彫刻 ),
  Tokyo University of the Arts Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2012 MI Yosakoi Art Festival, Sawada Manshion Gallery, Kochi Pref. Japan
2011 shuffle, Shirokane Art Complex, Tokyo, Japan
  Summer Art Festival – emering artists, Ginza Mitsukoshi Dept., Tokyo, Japan
  Yokohama Triennale 2011 – Our Magic Hour, Yokohama Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
  Sculpture times, Ueno Royal Museum Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Subjective Object, YAMAMOTO GENDAI, Tokyo, Japan
2010 TDR-ART Jarapagos Exhibition, Tokyo Designers Week, Tokyo, Japan
2009 12th Taro Okamoto Conteporary Art Award Exhibition, Kawasaki City Taro Okamoto Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
  Sculpture – Blues and Low Blow (彫刻̶労働と不意打ち), Tokyo University of the Arts Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Gunma Biennale for Young Artists 2008、Gunma Pref Modern Art Museum, Gunma, Japan
  New Works in an Old Studio Vol4, Denchu Hirakushi house and atelier, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Geidai Arts in Marunouchi, Marunouchi bldg, Tokyo, Japan
  New Work from and Old Studio vol 3, Denchu House, Tokyo, Japan

受賞歴 | Awards

2007  Yasuo Sugawara Award (菅原安男賞)
2009 Geidai Purchase Award (Tokyo University of the Arts) 藝大買い上げ賞
2012 Tokyo University of the Arts Emerald Award

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