Artist: Fumina Tsutsui
Nationality: Japan
Instagram: 筒井文那(Fumina Tsutsui) (@shimada0120) • Instagram photos and videos

Note: This interview was translated from Japanese

Art inspiration: In recent years, the successive deaths of my grandfather, my dog, and my little bird have greatly affected my work.

Originally, I often painted about death, but I now paint a wider world than before, including death, life, memory, and existence.

I put my own precious memories into my paintings, praying that the memories will remain forever like fossils.

Style: I create a sad but warm little story for each work. I record the lives of those who should have lived somewhere else.

Favourite Artists: Mark Ryden

Favourite piece you have worked on: “Fifictitious Cohabitation” series

Exhibitions/Publications:

2024 ONE ART TAIPEI2024

2024 ART FAIR TOKY02024

2024 Mango Art Festival2024

Solo Exhibition

2024 思い出つぎはぎ穴あきのきみ/NODA CONTEMPORARY,Nagoya
2024 薄膜より透明な気配,Tokyo

Group Exhibitions

2025

2025新春三人展/銀座三越,Tokyo

ひとひらの摩擦熱/絵と本羊雲,Kagawa

2024

mini◯/Sansiao Gallery,Hongkong
KUKANSAITEN/aL Base,Tokyo
mini◯/Sansiao Gallery,Tokyo
Utsuro na gunzou/Tsutaya Book Store,Tokyo
Forest fairies/STARBRIDGE TEA,MOTTO ART/Tokyo
常の夜、只の夜/marienkafer,Tokyo
CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL/LWArt,LaLaport Toyosu,Tokyo
LOOP LOOP/アトリエ三月,NU茶屋町,Osaka
Poetry in motion/Gallery Grappe,Korea
あの星の名前/木之庄企畫,Tokyo
星にねがいを/新宿高島屋,Tokyo

Future plans: Right now, I am mainly active in Japan, but I would like to expand my work overseas as well. Also, I would like to start working on three-dimensional pieces in the future.

Note: Images taken from Artist Instagram with permission

Fumina Tsutsui

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