Biography

Ishimatsu Yufu paints plant motifs in mineral pigments, gofun, and sumi ink on Japanese paper mounted on Shina plywood. The image surfaces on both the wooden ground and the paper, drifting between layers. Loosening the transparency that Japanese painting has long granted its support, the picture plane sways with light and with the viewer's movement through space. Born 1999 in Oita Prefecture; MFA in Japanese Painting, Saga University Graduate School of Regional Design (2025).

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EDUCATION

2025

Saga University, Graduate School of Regional Design, Japanese Painting, MFA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2026

SHOWCASE vol.3: Kyushu / Okinawa by ArtSticker, Art ka Biifun ka Hakuchuu, Tokyo

SAGA-DAI-HATSU ART PROJECT 7th Exhibition "Sleep Sideways", Saga Daihatsu Sales, Saga

2025

Chiasmus, aaploit, Tokyo

2024

Long Slow Distance, EDAUME, Saga

Prologue XV 2024, GALLERY ART POINT, Tokyo

Paper I Don't Remember, PERHAPS, Saga

The 9, EDAUME, Saga

2023

Orientation, atelier CORO, Saga

At the Minimum of Experiment (2), KOZENDO, Fukuoka

(a) cup of water, gallery NOMA, Saga

2022

Group Exhibition (1), Silkro, Saga

2021

Drawing Exhibition "mi, Saga University Faculty of Arts and Regional Design, Building 3, Saga

Drawing Exhibition "u", Saga University Museum, Saga

ART FAIRS

2025

Art Fair Beppu 2025, Beppu International Convention Center B-Con Plaza, Oita

AWARDS & GRANTS

2023

Idemitsu Art Award 2023, Selected