Hisashi Kurachi (倉地 比沙支)
Born in Nagoya in 1961, currently lives and works in Aichi, Japan

Education
1984   BFA, Department of Oil Painting, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music
1986   MFA, Department of Oil Painting, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1985    Gallery Hakuzen, Nagoya
1988    Gallery Surugadai, Tokyo
1989    Gallery Garandou, Nagoya
1994    Gallery Art Box, Tokyo
1994    Gallery Shin, Tokyo
1995    Gallery Garandou, Nagoya
1996    Gallery Shin, Tokyo
1997    Gallery Tomy, Tokyo
1998    Gallery Shibata, Tokyo
1998    Gallery Garandou, Nagoya
2000    Gallery Garandou, Nagoya
2003    Gallery Shibata, Tokyo
2004    Gallery Garandou, Nagoya
2004    Exhibition of Hisashi Kurachi, Oguchi Historical Folk Museum, Oguchi Town, Aichi
2007    Gallery Garandou, Nagoya

Selected Group Exhibitions
2001    J:Mai Japan-Magyar Grafika, Pecsi Gareria, Hungary
2001    VI. International Biennial Gyor, Varosi Museum, Hungary
2002    The 5th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Ino-cho Paper Museum, Kochi
2002    Seoul International Print Biennale, Seoul, Korea
2002    A Hatodik Mai Japan-Magyar Grafikai Kiallitas, Foyer Gallery at Kamiyamada Culture Hall, Chikuma, Nagano
2004    Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition, Kurobe City Art Museum, Kurobe, Toyama
2005    Current of the Contemporary Prints, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo / Matsumoto City Museum, Matsumoto
2006    Aichi Silpakorn Exchange Art Exhibition, Center Gallery Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
2007    Show me THAI, Tokyo Contemporary Art Museum, Tokyo
2008    MAXI GRAPHICA Final Destinations, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
2009    Double Diablerie” Artist in Residence, E.C.A, Edinburgh, UK
2009    AICHI ART-NO-MORI, Warehouse of Horikawa, Nagoya
2011    Building a Castle of Sand (Or, Breaking It), Next Door Gallery, Seoul, Korea 

Awards
1994    Prize-Winner, The Hanga Annual
1999    Triennial Prize, 12th Norwegian Print Triennial, Norway
1999    Silver Medal, The 9th Taiwan International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition, Taipei Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2005    Epson Prize, Epson Color Imaging Award 2005, Tokyo
2006    Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw Prize, International Print Triennial Krakow
2007    Nagoya City Art Recommendation Prizes
2007    Special Prize, Sprit Graphic Biennial, Croatia
2009    Excellent Prize, 2nd Bangkok Triennial

Collections: Materials Museum of Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts,
Museum of Kitanotani (Chiba), Tikotin Museum (Israel), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 12th Norwegian Print Triennial, Kurobe City Art Museum (Kurobe, Toyama), Oguchi Historical Folk Museum (Oguchi Town, Aichi), Dacca University (Dacca, Bangladesh), Silpakorn University (Bangkok), Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (Poland), Fuso Town Cultural Hall (Aichi)


Ayako Kurihara (栗原 亜也子)
Born in Yokohama in 1974, currently lives and works in Yokohama

Education
1999    BFA in Oil Painting, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2006    Mind Games, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama
2007    New Map, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama
2007    Untitled/ Ayako Kurihara, Gallery Maki, Tokyo
2007/8 Open Studio:Ayako Kurihara Project Room, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama
2009    fiction/error, Gallery Maki, Tokyo
2009    Open Studio: Mind Games 2009 in Sakuraso, BankART Sakuraro, Yokohama
2010    Open Studio: Mind Games 2010, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama
2010    Pictures, Edwin R. Molenaar Atelier, Yokohama
2011    Conversation with Mr. H, Demado Contemporary Art Project, Kyoto

Selected Group Exhibitions
1997    Battadofu- Rolling Library, Nagoya City Midori Library, Nagoya
2007    CET07 - Central East Tokyo 07, Taigaku Bldg., Tokyo
2007    Light Room vol.4 - Yamate No.111 Library Exhibition, Yamate No.111, Yokohama
2007    Open Studio: Atelier Gake + Kotori Cafe, Atelier Gake, Yokosuka
2008    Self Portrait, Gallery Sakamaki, Tokyo
2008    Blue Dot Asia, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
2008    Food and Contemporary Art part 4 (Yokohama Geijutsu Noren-gai), BankART 1929 Yokohama / Iseya, Yokohama
2008    Open Studio: Atelier Gake + Kotori Cafe + Oto, Atelier Gake, Yokosuka
2011    Building a Castle of Sand (Or, Breaking It), Next Door Gallery, Seoul, Korea 

Collaborations/ Projects
2011    Video projection work for theatrical performance “Rose: A Woman’s Life”
           Video projection work for oriental dance show “Love”
           Performance “Mind Games 2011 vol.2 Conversation with Kanako Nagai”


Nobuyuki Osaki (大崎のぶゆき)
Born in Osaka in 1975, currently lives and works in Aichi

Education
1998    BFA, Print Making Department, Kyoto City University of Arts
2000    MFA, Kyoto City University of Arts

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2001    Between Inside and Outside, Galerie 16, Kyoto / Inart Gallery, Osaka
2002    Distance of Interval, O-Gallery eyes, Osaka / O-Gallery U.Ps, Tokyo
2003    Cutaneous Respiration, Osaka Contemporary Art Center
2003    Distance of Interval, CAI, Hamburg
2003    Between Inside and Outside, Kunstraum, Dusseldorf
2004    Landscape, Luce Verde Open Space, Ehime
2004    Skin of Images, Gallery Jin,Tokyo
2007    Meltdown on the Reality, Gallery Jin,Tokyo
2008    Phantom, Galerie 16, Kyoto
2008    Meltdown, Kyoto Art Center
2009    Phantom-water Drawing, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg
2010    Dimension Wall, Gallery Hosokawa, Osaka
2010    Falls, Yuka Contemporary, Tokyo
2010    Portraits of Mirror, Standing Pine Cube, Nagoya

Selected Group Exhibitions
1998    PRINTS 10, City Gallery I.M.,Osaka
1998    Prints Artist of the New Generation '98, Gallery Coco, Kyoto
1998    KAVC Art Annual-Thinking of Photo Images, KAVC, Kobe
2001    Nomart Projects 2001 - Image on Image, Nomart Editions Project Space, Osaka
2001    PRIMARY STATEMENT, O-Gallery eyes,Osaka
2002    ISEA2002 Mediaselect Program-The immortal space, Nagoya Citizens Gallery Yada, Nagoya
2002    Selected Artists in Kyoto-2002, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto
2004    Power of Printmaking, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto
2005    Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection I: The Seeing ‘I’, Kyoto Municipal  Museum of Art, Kyoto
2005    Enhanced Organism, CASO, Osaka
2006    Dream of Dreaming, Gallery Raku, Kyoto
2007    5-7-5, Kunsthaus, Hamburg
2007    Re-Act, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
2007    Distance of Printmaking, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
2009    12th Japan Media Arts Festival, The National Art Center, Tokyo
2009    Exotic, Aichi Children's Center, Aichi
2010    AICHI GEEN, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music University Art Museum, Aichi
2010    volatilecolors, Masayoshi Suzuki Gallery, Okazaki, Aichi
2010    Aichi ART no Mori, Toyo Logistics Tenant Building, Nagoya
2011    Haut. Mythos und Medium, Kunsthaus Hamburg
2011    TOUGEN, Masayoshi Suzuki Gallery, Okazaki, Aichi
2011    Building a Castle of Sand (Or, Breaking It), Next Door Gallery, Seoul, Korea 

Awards and Grants
1996    Purchase Award at "The 21st Annual Exhibition of The Association of Japanese Art Colleges" (also in 1997, 98 and 99)
1998    Matsubara Award at Exhibition of Kyoto City University of Arts
1998    Suda Prize at "Kyo-ten"
2000    Alumni Association Cultivate Award at Exhibition of Kyoto City University of Arts
2001    Purchase Prize Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art Award at "Kyo-ten"
2001    The 16th Holbein Scholarship Grant
2002    The 4th Art Documents Support Program by Shiseido Co.,Ltd.
2003    Osaka Prefectural Government's Artist-in-Residence Program "ART-EX"
2008    Jury Recommended Work at"12th Japan Media Arts Festival"
2008    Art Contest at Kyoto Art Center 2008

Public Collections: Machida City Museum of Print Art (Tokyo), Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (Kyoto), Kyoto City University of Arts (Kyoto), Sannohe Town Print Workshop (former Sannohe Town Contemporary Print Center, Sannohe Town, Aomori), Sekiguchi Museum (Tokyo)

Noriyori Shirakawa (白河 ノリヨリ)
Born in Tokyo in 1969, currently lives and works in Aichi

Education
1993    BFA in oil painting, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
1995    MFA, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1996    Ginza Surugadai Gallery, Tokyo
1997    Ginza Seigetsudo Gallery, Tokyo
1998    Ginza Seigetsudo Gallery, Tokyo
2004    Gallery Garando, Nagoya
2006    Ginza Goraku Gallery, Tokyo
2010    Gallery Garando, Nagoya

Selected Group Exhibitions
1995    Ginza Seigetsudo Gallery, Tokyo
1997    Shinjuku Zenrosai Hall Gallery Space Zero, Tokyo
2001    ART FORM OF JAPAN, The Suan Dusit Art Gallery, Bangkok
2002    Hasegawa Kukansozo Company, Tokyo
2002    New Traditonal Art, Silpakorn University Art Center, Bangkok
2002    Garando Gallery, Nagoya
2003    Aoi-no-kai, Ginza Surugadai Gallery, Tokyo (also in 2004, 05, 06, 07, 08 and 09)
2003    FIELD OF NOW, Ginza Yokyo Art Hall, Tokyo
2005    Ten by Ten Small Universe, Gallery Alpha, Nagoya
2006    CONNECT [Impression on Paper], Silpakorn University Art Center, Bangkok
2009    Octave, Garando Gallery, Nagoya
2010    Gold Experience, Hyun Gallery, Seoul
2011    JUNINTOIRO, Gallery Garando, Nagoya
2011    Building a Castle of Sand (Or, Breaking It), Next Door Gallery, Seoul, Korea 

Collections: Embassy of Peru in Japan (Tokyo)