Tsutomu Sasaki
1968 Born in Akita,Japan
1995- Based in Sendai, Japan
1995 Completed Master's Degree at Joetsu University of Education, Joetsu, Niigata, Japan
1993 Completed Advanced Course of Art Education at Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan
1992 Graduated Iwate University, Faculty of Education, Morioka, Iwate, Japan
M.Ed, Joetsu University of Education, 1995
Exhibitions
Solo
2024 Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2022 "Garden of Fragments and Relationships, Place of Fragments and Relationships",
Special Exhibition Room of Sasaki Art and Doll Museum, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
2022 SENDAI ARTIST RUN PLACE, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
2021 SENDAI ARTIST RUN PLACE, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
2019 SENDAI ARTIST RUN PLACE, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan (12.17 - 12.2)
SENDAI ARTIST RUN PLACE, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan (2.5 - 2.10)
Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2015 SENDAI ARTIST RUN PLACE, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2013 SENDAI ARTIST RUN PLACE, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
2009 Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo2011 Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
SENDAI ARTIST RUN PLACE, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
2007 Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2006 Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
”Scale-Out The Second Period", HUMOUS SWING, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
2005 Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Gallery FIFTH AVENUE, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
2003 Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
"N.E.blood 21,vol.10", Rias Ark Museum of Art, Kesennuma, Miyagi, Japan
2002 "Inside and Outside", Gallery αＭ, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery SEIJO, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
2001 Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2000 Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Gallery SEIJO, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Group
2024 "MESSAGE 2024", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2024 "Painting and Prints", Old House Kenrei Ishii, Morioka, Iwate, Japan
2023 "MESSAGE 2023", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2022 "MESSAGE 2022", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2021 "MESSAGE 2021", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
"Art Exhibition of Yairo-no-Mori - Colors Speak, Shape awakens", Ikeda Art Museum, Minami-Uonuma, Niigata, Japan
"Adventure on the surface - Abstract Baroquism", Katayanagi Academy Gallery KOU, Tokyo, Japan
2020 "MESSAGE 2020", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2019 "MESSAGE 2019", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
"The 6th Anniversary Art Festival of Sasaki Art and Doll Museum", Sasaki Art and Doll Museum, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
2018 "MESSAGE 2018", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2017 "MESSAGE 2017", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2016 "MESSAGE 2016", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2015 "MESSAGE 2015", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2014 "MESSAGE 2014", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2013 "MESSAGE 2013", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2012 "MESSAGE 2012", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
"Abstract painting - What kind of thing is it to understand? - ", Old House Kenrei Ishii, Morioka, Iwate, Japan
2011 "MESSAGE 2011", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2010 "MESSAGE 2010", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2009 "MESSAGE 2009", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2008 "Scale-Out 2008", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
"MESSAGE 2008", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2007 "Oku-no-Wakatemichi", Rias Ark Museum of Art, Kesennuma, Miyagi, Japan
Hakodate Museum of Art,Hokkaido, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan
Kitami Rejion Museum of Science History and Art, Kitami, Hokkaido, Japan
Tsuruoka Art Forum, Tsuruoka, Yamagata, Japan
"MESSAGE 2007", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
"Scale-Out 2007" Creative space, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
2006 "White Dai-Sakusen Debut", The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
"MESSAGE 2006", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
"Scale-Out 2006", HUMOS SWING, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
2005 "MESSAGE 2005", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2004 "The 10th Anniversary of Rias Ark Museum of Art, Rias Ark Museum of Art, Kesennuma, Miyagi, Japan
"Palm size Exhibition, Gallery FIFTH AVENUE, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
"MESSAGE 2004", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2003 "Art Miyagi 2003", The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
"Ryo-Yo-no-Me", MATSUZAKAYA Art Museum, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Tanabe City Museum of Art, Tanabe, Wakayama, Japan
Amagazsaki Cultural Center, Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan
Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Fuji-Kwaguchiko, Yamanashi, Japan
Mihara Rejion Plaza, Mihara, Hiroshima, Japan
Nihonbashi-MITSUKOSHI Main Store, Tokyo, Japan
"MESSAGE 2003", Gallery KOBAYASHI, Tokyo, Japan
2000 "Ubusuna 2000", Gallery SEIJO, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
1999 "Ubusuna", Gallery SAIENSU, Morioka, Iwate, Japan
1998 "Ubusuna 1998", Citizen Gallery of The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
1997 "Boundary Division Flow", Gallery SEIJO, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
1994 "Impressive Creation Art Exhibition" , Niigata City Art Museum，Niigata, Japan
Workshop
2003 "Continuous Space - Abstract Painting - ", The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Awards
1994 Grand Prize, "Impressive Creation Art Exhibition" , Niigata City Art Museum，Niigata, Japan
Collection
Aria Gokoku-ji Tmple, Benesse, Tokyo, japan
Granda Ryokuchi-Koen, Benesse, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
Tokyo Electron Matsushima Club, Matsushima, Miyagi, Japan
Ashiya Baycourt Club, Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan
The Westin Sendai, Sendai, Japan
Rias Ark Museum of Art, Kesennuma, Miyagi, Japan
Fukuda Corporation, Niigata, Japan
Bibliograhy
Self Writing
"The Picture Plane as Glass ", Art and Education, N0.3,
Department Art and Design, Joetsu University of Education,1997, pp.75-86
"Inside and Outside", Catalog for Solo Exhibition at Gallery αM, Musasino Art University, 2002
Art Miyagi 2003, Catalog for Solo Exhibition, The Miyagi Museum of Art, 2003, p.34
"Un-uniformity in Pictorial Composition ", The Journal for Society of Art Education in University , No.43,
Society of Art Education in University, 2011, pp.143-150
N.E.blood 21, vol.10, Catalog for Solo Exhibition, Rias Ark Museum of Art, 2003
The 10th Anniversary of Rias Ark Museum of Art, Catalog for Group Exhibition, Rias Ark Museum of Art, 2004, p.26
Leaflet for Solo Exhibition at Gallery FIFTH AVENUE, 2004
Koichi Okawa, "SASAKI TSUTOMU EXHIBITION", DOJIDAI, No.27, Company of Black, 2009, pp.102-105
Takayuki Hayashi, " 'Scale Out' as crack", Scale Out 2008, Catalog for Group Exhibition, 2008
Takasaki Oshima, "Opposite Possibility to Polyphonic - Scale Out 2007",
Scale Out 2007, Catalog for Group Exhibition, Executive Committee of Scale Out, 2007, p.11
Koichi Wada, "The Exhibition as Chimaera by Five Artists", Scale Out, Catalog for Group Exhibition, 2006
Koichi Wada, "A Sense of Visual Resistance that Seems to be Roughly Mixed",
Tempyo, No.014, ART VILLAGE, 2003, p.96, pp.119-120
Junichi Shoji, "Tsutomu Sasaki：Spacetime of The Still Unformed World After Chaos /
About The Transparency of Paintings", Catalog for Group Exhibition Art Miyagi 2003,
The Miyagi Museum of Art, 2003, pp.7-8
Kenji Ishikawa, "Unremitting Eyes to Colors", Mainichi Newspapers : Evening papers, 2002.１.29
Gen Umetsu, "Tsutomu Sasaki / Gallery αＭ"，
BIJUTSUTECHO, March issue, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, 2002, p.196, p.201
Takayuki Hayashi, "Sweet & Bitter", Catalog for Solo Exhibition at Gallery αM, Musasino Art University, 2002
Catalogs for Solo Exhibitions
"N.E.blood 21, vol.10", Rias Ark Museum of Art, 2003
"Inside and Outside", Gallery αM, Musasino Art University, 2002
Catalogs for Group Exhibitions
Art Exhibition of Yairo-no-Mori (The Forest of Eight Colors): Narrating Colors, Awakening Forms,
Executive Committee of the Art Exhibition of Yairo-no-Mori (The Forest of Eight Colors), 2022.
Adventure on the surface - Abstract Baroquism,
Planning: Atsushi Tanigawa, Supervising: "Adventure of the Surface" Executive Committee + NPO Arch Farm, 2021
Scale Out 2008, Executive Committee of Scale Out, 2008
Scale Out 2007, Executive Committee of Scale Out, 2007
Scale Out, Executive Committee of Scale Out, 2006
The 10th Anniversary of Rias Ark Museum of Art,, Rias Ark Museum of Art, 2004
Art Miyagi 2003，The Miyagi Museum of Art，2003
Ryo-Yo-no-Me, Executive Committee of Ryo-Yo-no-Me, 2003
Other Publications
gallery αM The αM 30th Anniversary Collection 1988-2018, Gallery αM, Musasino Art University, 2018, pp.246-247
"Space and Substance, The Characteristics of The Painting are Intricately Intertwine", KAHOKU SHINPO, 2011.1.13
"Tsutomu Sasaki, Footprints of light", GEIJUTSU SHINCHO, July issue, SHINCHO-SHA, 2007, p.137
"Space and Time in The Picture", KAHOKU SHINPO : Evening papers, 2005.2.24
"Miyagi Prefecture Art Yearbook 2003",
Miyagi Prefecture Environmental Life Department Life, Culture Section, 2004, p.43
"Miyagi Prefecture Art Yearbook 2004",
Miyagi Prefecture Environmental Life Department Life, Culture Section, 2003, p.42
"Round-Table Discussion / Young Creators Who Art in The Space of Miyagi",
DATEBITO, Miyagi Prefectural Culture Promotion Foundation, 2003, pp.4-7
"Tsutomu Sasaki's mucous membrane abstract", GEIJUTSU SHINCHO, March issue, SHINCHO-SHA, 2002, p.98
"Gallery αM ANNUAL 2001", Gallery αM, Musasino Art University, 2002, pp.32-35
"ART REPORT : Exhibition of Tsutomu Sasaki", Bijutsu-no-Mado, November issue, Seikatsu-no-Tomo, 2001, p.153