Biography

A portrait that Tomoko Kashiki describes is fragmented at times and placed in the limited space. It traps a person and its exuded presence on the surface of a painting.

Although the flat and smooth texture and flowing lines strike viewers as a Japanese-style painting apparently, all the works are actually described by acrylic. Taking the process of sanding and repainting on a canvas, her artworks show that smooth painting surface and the background of multi-layered colors. Her painting style which reminds of Buddhist paintings in the Heian period and Bijinga, pictures of beautiful women, with pinewood gardens might be derived from Kyoto where she was born and raised.

As the artist states, "The beginning of painting is my image, and the goal is how much I can approach to it", she creates paintings with overlapping layers by weaving accumulated scenes, fermenting them, erasing them to get closer to goals, checking the ongoing canvas and the goals, and moderating motifs and expressions which adjust the impression. The flatly sophisticated canvas is designed intending to delete the time and evidences of hands because it is considered that described things do not originally contain stories but exist in the head, so time does not exist there. An ordinary sight undergoes a change as it moves toward goals, and it becomes a painting that leaves vivid impression like a daydream.

Tomoko Kashiki was born in Kyoto in 1982. She completed M.F.A. and Ph.D. in Painting at Graduate School of Kyoto City University of Arts. In the past, she had a solo exhibition "Aperto 05, KASHIKI Tomoko ~Daydream~" at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Ishikawa, 2015) and participated in "Takahashi Collection: Mirror Neuron" (Tokyo, 2015), "The 7th Asia Pacific Triennale of Contemporary Art" (Brisbane, 2012), "Yokohama Triennale" (Kanagawa, 2011), "Bye Bye Kitty!!!" (Japan Society Gallery, New York, 2011) and other group exhibitions all over the world. Her works are also part of public and private collections, including the Museum of Old and New Art (Tasmania, Australia), the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia), the National Museum of the Art, Osaka (Japan) and the Toyota Art Collection (Japan).

Works
  • Tomoko Kashiki, Azalea, 2024
    Tomoko Kashiki
    Azalea, 2024
    Acrylic, pastel, linen, wooden panel
    100 x 72.7 cm
  • Tomoko Kashiki, Soup of Memories Served with Smiling Sunflowers and Bones, 2020
    Tomoko Kashiki
    Soup of Memories Served with Smiling Sunflowers and Bones, 2020
    Acrylic, linen, wooden panel
    181.8 x 227 cm
  • Tomoko Kashiki, Moon and Earphone, 2020
    Tomoko Kashiki
    Moon and Earphone, 2020
    Acrylic, wall paper on wooden panel
    250 x 182 cm
  • Tomoko Kashiki, The Hanged Man, 2019
    Tomoko Kashiki
    The Hanged Man, 2019
    Acrylic, silica sand, linen, wooden panel
    180 x 79 cm
  • Tomoko Kashiki, Stuffed Toys and floral pillow, 2019
    Tomoko Kashiki
    Stuffed Toys and floral pillow, 2019
    Acrylic, linen, wooden panel
    122 x 190 cm
  • Tomoko Kashiki, Sea Dream, 2019
    Tomoko Kashiki
    Sea Dream, 2019
    Acrylic, silica sand, linen, wooden panel 
    163 x 218 cm
  • Tomoko Kashiki, Untitled, 2017
    Tomoko Kashiki
    Untitled, 2017
    Pastel, acrylic, linen, wooden panel
    130.3 x 162 cm
  • Tomoko Kashiki, Story of Tomorrow, 2017
    Tomoko Kashiki
    Story of Tomorrow, 2017
    Pencil, coloured pencil, paper
    29.7 × 21 cm
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