Artist Statement
Haruko Inagaki often visited the zoo near her birthplace in her childhood.
So when she started studying and specializing painting, they’re appeared animals and zoos in her works naturally.
In the landscapes Inagaki draws, there are often animals and children with unclouded eyes.
The world she creates is a forgotten memory of the human race.
Inagaki would like to make a soft and kind wake-up call to the forgotten memory of audiences.
Inagaki mainly uses natural pigments(soil, shells, glass and so on).
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+Biography
Born in Nagoya, Japan.
1990 Graduated from Japanese painting course of Musashino Art University.
1992 Completed Japanese painting course of Graduate School of Musashino Art University.(M.A.)
1995- Lives and works in Tokyo.
+Solo Exhibitions
1997 Galleria grafica bis, Tokyo
1999 Gallery Tomura, Tokyo
2002 Gallery Kura, Saitama
2018 Galleria grafica bis, Tokyo
+Group Exhibitions
1991-2018 "The Japan Fine Arts Exhibition" Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum/National Art Center Tokyo
1993-2019 "The Japan Fine Arts Exhibition in Spring" Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum/Kyoto City Museum of Art Annex
1996 "The second Expect of Beauty" Exhibition Art Gallery of Takashimaya Departmentstore in Nihonbashi Tokyo
"1st Tokyo Japanese Painting New Selection" Exhibition Ohmishima Art Museum,Ohmishima Imabari Ehime
1997 "Yamatane Museum of Art Awards" Exhibition Yamatane Museum of Art
1998-2000 "S'30's Japanese Painting" Exhibition Tobu Departmentstore in Ikebukuro/Sogo Departmentstore in Yokohama
2000 "Magnetic Field of Expression-Current trend of Japanese Painting" Musashino Art Univ.
2001 "Modern Japanese and Foreign Painting New Selection" Exhibition Art Gallery of Takashimaya Departmentstore in Nihonbashi Tokyo
"Peace for Peace 2001 Oh No! vengeful war" Poetic Painting Exhibition Maruki Art Museum
2001-2003 "Byo Byo" Exhibition Fujiya Gallery Tokyo
2004 "Green Leaves" Exhibition Gallery52
2005-2006 "1st Hatsu" Exhibition Art Gallery of Takashimaya Department Store
2012 "A Water Works" Gallery Kei ,Shinjuku Tokyo
2015 "13th Homage on Shigeru Aoki" Exhibition Gallery Saikousha,Urawa Saitama
2016-2018 "7th Fans and Wind Chimes" Exhibition Gyallery A Bientot,Asakusa Tokyo
2017 "Cocon" Aoi Club ,Nagoya Aichi
2018-2019 "41th Musashino Artist Association Exhibition" Kichijyoji Art Museum,Tokyo
+Collections
The Museum of Fine Arts Ohmishima,Imabari Ehime
+Teaching
2010-2015 Guest Lecture,Kyoto College of Arts, Japan
+Awards
1993,1996 Japan Fine Arts Exhibition Incentive Award
1996 Tokyo Japanese Painting New Selection Incentive Award
1998 Nissyun Award