SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 works on paper, SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong
2019  
park, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018  
Painting and ... vol.3 Kyoko Murase, Gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan 
2014  
Drawings, Taka Ishii Gallery Modern, Tokyo, Japan
2013  
Cloud Shapes Made of Mud from the Sea, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012  
Waiting 100 Million Light Years Away, Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
2010  
Sapphire, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

            Fluttering far away, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan 
2008  
Emerald, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007  
Cicada and horned owl, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan 

            Around the lilac rock, Cohan and Leslie, New York, NY, USA
2006  
The Moon, the Woods and the Snail under the Fern, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2004  To The Mountain Lake, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2002  
Chasing Butterflies, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2001   
From the distant sky, Galerie Lethert, Bad Munstereifel, Germany
2000 
Yawn, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

              In the forest, ON Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1999  Sleepers, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

             Holidays, Galerie Lethert, Bad Munstereifel, Germany
1998  
Daydreams, Galerie Van Laethem, Lanaken, Belgium
1997  
I'm sleeping in this room., Stichting de Bank, Enschede, the Netherlands

            Lunatic, ON Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1996  
I'm sleeping in this room., Galerie Geviert, Berlin, Germany
1994  
Die Traume der schlafenden Hunde, Galerie Leßmann & Lenser, Rodgau, Germany

 


 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2021  友達と – "tomodachi to". With friends, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
            Living in symbiosis with Forests and Water, Nagano Prefectural Art Museum,
            Nagano, Japan

2020  Without Stopping, ratio 3, San Francisco, CA, USA
            
Luxury dialogue: Episode 3 Light is Like Water, Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi,
            Japan

            VISION III part 1: On Light / Light On, Location: Toyota Munincipal Museum of Art,
            Aichi, Japan
            Group Exhibition, Taka Ishi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
            
Blue Child and Slow Walk, SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong

2019  Fixed Shadows, Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
            
Rieko Hidaka, Kyoko Murase, Mika Yoshizawa, Art-Theque Gallery, Tama Art
            University, Tokyo, Japan 
            
Ster Guided Art Tour, Iwami Art Museum, Shimane, Japan
            
Reborn-Art Festival 2019, Oginohama, Miyagi, Japan
            
Survived!, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 
            
Aichi Art Chronicle 1919-2019, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan 

2016 MOVED, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
            
Horizon That Appears Out of The Sleepy Woods, Stephen Friedman Gallery,
            London, UK 

2015 Gaka no uta, Shijin no e, Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa / Hekinan City
            Tatsukichi Fujii Museum of Contemporary Art, Aichi / Himeji City Musem of Art,
            Hyogo / Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi 
/ Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido,
            Japan 

2012  Manifestly Present, Castle Old Rekem, Rekem, Belgium
            
10th Anniversary Exhibition To Wander a Garden, Vangi Sculpture Garden
            Museum, Shizuoka, Japan 

2011 Art in an Office, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan 
            
Prospect for Contemporary Paintings, Old Shimbashi Station [Railway History
            Exhibition Hall], Tokyo, Japan
            
Pathos and Small Narratives: Japanese Contemporary Art, Gana Art Center,
            Seoul, South Korea 

2010 Garden of Painting: Japanese Art of the 00s, The National Museum of Art, Osaka,
            Japan

2009 Cross Art 2, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
            
I BELIEVE: Japanese Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama,
            Japan 
            
In the Little Playground: Hitsuda Nobuya and his surrounding students, Aichi
            Prefectural Museum of Art; traveled to Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan 

2008 neoteny japan: contemporary artists after 1990’s – from Takahashi Collection,
            Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima; traveled to Museum of Contemporary
            Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido / The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan / The Niigata
            Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata / Akita Museum of Art, Akita / Yonago
            City Museum of Art, Tottori / Ehime Prefectural Museum, Ehime (through 2010) 

2007 Vanishing Points: Contemporary Japanese Art, The National Gallery of Modern
            Art, New Delhi / Project 88, Mumbai, India 
            
Red Hot: Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts,
            Houston, TX, USA

            dreaming, faraway, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX, USA

            Painting as Forest: Artist as Thinker, Okazaki City Museum, Aichi, Japan 
2006
Liquid Paper, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA, USA

             Madels, Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Cologne, Germany
2004
Time of My Life Art with Youthful Spirit, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo,
            Japan

            Roppongi Crossing: New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art 2004, Mori Art
            Museum, Tokyo, Japan 
            
Appuappu, (with Shin Fukunaga) Nadiff Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

            10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2003
girls don't cry, Parco Museum, Tokyo, Japan 
2002
MOT Annual 2002 - Fiction? Painting the reality in the Age of the Virtual -,
            Museum of 
Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan 

2001 The Standard, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan 
2000
Konrad Klapheck & Freunde, Galerie & Grafikkabinett Heiko Anders, Dusseldorf,
            Germany 1999
Brunos Enkel, Bruno Goller-Haus, Gummersbach, Germany

            Japandorf, Kunstmuseum, Thun, Switzerland

            In de Ban van de Ring, Prefectual Center of Fine Arts - Begienhof Museum, Hasselt,
            Belgium
1998
Kyoko Murase & Magdalena Pelzer, Galerie Van Latethem, Lanaken, Belgium

            The Revolve Temptation, ON Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1996
The future of painting 1996, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka , Japan

            Kind of Blue, Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan

 


 

PUBLICATION

 

Fluttering far away. Tokyo: Seigensha, 2010
Kyoko Murase Drawings: Jelly Morning. Tokyo: NOHARA, 2008
The Moon, the Woods and the Snail under the Fern. Tokyo: Taka Ishii Gallery, 2006
Drop Dead Cute -- The New Generation of Female Artists in Japan. San Francisco: Chronicle Books LLC, 2005
Appuappu. Tokyo: Kodansha, 2004

 


 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS


East Japan Railway Culture Foundation, Tokyo, Japan

Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan

Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Toyota Art Collection, Aichi, Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan