December 22, 2024


KUNIO IZUKA
SERIES OF LINOCUTS
quoted from fairy tales by Kenji Miyazawa

January 2 – 26, 2025


After searching the most effective way to appeal for peace to the world, Kunio Izuka (1939-2020) finally achieved his solo exhibition WHERE ARE WE GOING? (1995) at the United Nations on the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombings. But holding the exhibition at United Nations was indeed a difficult journey. While fretting about his ambitious plan and wondering how human beings can get along and maintain peace, the poem Izuka had learned in elementary school and the name of poet Kenji Miyazawa suddenly came to mind. He read Miyazawa’s books again with fascination, selected 10 of his wonderful fairy tales, and made them into prints, which saved him from setbacks and confusion, and impelled him to continue to appeal for peace to people on the planet.


Biography (En & Jp)


Flyer (En & Jp)


NAGASAKI PEACE MUSEUM (Admission Free)
7-15 Matsugaemachi, Nagasaki 850-0921
Hours: 10:00~17:30 (1/2: from 12:00, 1/26: to 14:00)
Closed: Mon 1/6, Tue 1/14, Mon 1/20


Image: Cello Player, 1996, linocut on washi, 16 x 12 inches ©Kunio Izuka

December 10, 2024


Ayako Bando
MEMORIES OF LIGHT

December 18 – February 18, 2025

Opening Reception
Wednesday, Dec 18, 5–7 PM


INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF CCCS
80 Maiden Lane, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10038
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 11am–5pm


Images, from left: Shinning Now, 2024, 13 x 9 in, Solvent transfer and soft pastel on washi
Joyful Harmony, 2024, 7 x 5 in, Solvent transfer, soft pastel and collage on washi ©Ayako Bando
November 20, 2024

Fifth Annual Exhibition
PRINTS ON B’DWAY

December 3 – 14, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, Dec 7, 5-7pm

Akira Asakawa • Ayako Bando • Max Fujishima • Miho Hiranouchi • Kazuko Hyakuda • Kunio Izuka • Mariko Kuzumi • Clarita Liepolt • Tokoha Matsuda • Kenji Matsumoto • Miki Nagano • Nobuko Saji • Katsumi Suzuki • Akemi Takeda • Masami Takimoto • Rina Taytu • Motomi Tsunoda • Izu Watanabe • Yayoi Yokoyama

Gallery Max New York
552 Broadway, Suite 401, New York, NY 10012
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 12-6pm

Images (detail) by, from left, Mariko Kuzumi, Miki Nagano, Akira Asakawa, Clarita Liepolt, Motomi Tsunoda ©2024 PRINTS ON B’DWAY
October 18, 2024


Seicho Taniguchi
THE WALL

November 13 – December 17, 2024

Opening Reception
Wednesday, Nov 13, 5–7 PM


INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF CCCS
80 Maiden Lane, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10038
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 11am–5pm


Image: Series of Shu-ha-ri, 2024, Oil-based marker, resin-based Ink on print, each 9.75 x 7.5 inches ©Seicho Taniguchi

September 30, 2024

Akiko SIACCA
ON THE PLANET

October 9 – November 12, 2024

Opening Reception
Wednesday, Oct 9, 5–7 PM

Akiko SIACCA focuses on the various natural phenomena that occur on the beautiful Earth, and depicts the infinite time and space spreading out in the sky from one of the small planets in the universe.


INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF CCCS
80 Maiden Lane, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10038
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 11am–5pm


Image: SKY ©2024 Akiko SIACCA • www.instagram.com/siaccaakiko • siaccaohki@gmail.com

September 14, 2024


SIACCA NY ART FAIR 2024
September 28 – October 5

Opening Reception: Saturday, Sep 28, 5–7pm
Live Performance by Manuel Ciordia

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Silvia Aviles • Makoto Anazawa • Christopher Craig • Jaya Duvvuri • Wasabro Fkunaga VII • Hiroko Fujitaka • Minoru Gondo • Miki Goto • Shuichi Gotoh • Miho Hiranouchi • Ling Ikeda • Kenichi Inoue • Kazumi Ishibashi • Takako Isomura • Ito Kanko • JUNPeTTA • YUE KAKIZAKI • Masayuki Katayama • Satoru Kato • Hideki Kawamura • KENDY • Heena Kim • Tomoko Komada • Kris Kou • Kazue Kugimachi • Clarita Liepolt • Takaaki Mano • Noriyo Matumaru • Michiyo Nabata • Mai Nishito • Rieko Notsu • Kiyoko Ogino • Shinji Ohya • Kaoru Okuda • Noriko Omura • Kiyohito Ootake • WEST OTAKE • Atsuko Roka • Akiko Sakuraba • Humans Sato • Saya • Yoko Shibata • Rikako Shibazaki • Yui Shimojo • Shigehiko Shimozaki • Akiko SIACCA • Kunio Suzuki • Takashi Suzuki • Harue Tamaki • RINA Taytu • Chizuko Todoroki • Makoto Tomioka • Hitoshi Tomotaki • Tomotsuki • Eri Tsujii • Katsu Tsukahara • Eriko Uchiyama • Yosuke Ueda • Kumiko Yamada • Michiyo Yanagiya • Noriaki Yoshida • Miho Yoshii • Sonosuke Yukichika • Yume ShuShu

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Video at the reception

Gallery Max New York
552 Broadway, Suite 401, New York, NY 10012
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-6pm

©2024 Gallery SIACCA• www.siacca.com • siaccaohki@gmail.com
Image (detail): Sonosuke Yukichika • Curated by Kaz at www.artspheres.org

September 1, 2024


TOKYO GADAN NY 2024
September 19 – 25


Opening Reception: Saturday, Sep 21, 3–5pm
Live performance: Kuni Mikami, Jazz piano

Sonosuke Yukichika
Akiko SIACCA
Shinji Ohya
Masako Izaki
Nilmini Bandara
Yume SyuSyu


TOKYO GADAN was formed in 2020 by painters who “dedicate themselves to painting in pursuit of pure painterly expression” (Representative: Sonosuke Yukichika). Since then, as the leading figures in the Japanese and Western painting worlds, they have held such as two large-scale exhibitions at the Maruzen Marunouchi gallery, pursuing the creation of beauty. At this New York exhibition, six artists at the helm of the times exhibit approximately 35 works in an effort to spread this momentum even further around the world.


JAA Hall, Japanese American Association of New York
49 W 45th St, 5th Fl, New York, NY 10036
Hours: Mon–Fri 9am to 5pm • 212-840-6942 / info@jaany.org


Images (detail) from left: SyuSyu, Bandara, Yukichika, SIACCA, Ohya, Izaki ©2024 TOKYO GADAN

August 19, 2024

Kazuko Hyakuda
ORCHARD STREET

August 28 – October 8, 2024

Opening Reception
Wednesday. Aug 28, 5–7 PM

Orchard Street, in the modern era, was a shopping district full of enthusiasm, being supported by the specialty stores selling clothing, fabrics, hats, bags, toys, etc. competed for low prices and product selection. This series of black-and-white photographs taken in 2003 is the situation in an attempt to capture the changing times when the vibrant 20th century prosperity turned into decline, representing the original scenery of a downtown shopping district.



INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF CCCS
80 Maiden Lane, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10038
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 11am–5pm

July 22, 2024


Tenth Annual Exhibition
PEACE 2024

August 1 – 27, 2024

Reception
Tuesday. Aug 6, 5–7 PM

Ayako Bando • Vassilina Dikidjieva • Ayakoh Furukawa-Leonart • Kana Handel • Miho Hiranouchi • Kumi Hirose • Kazuko Hyakuda • Kunio Izuka • Heena Kim • Chris Kozel • Tokoha Matsuda • Mieko Mitachi • Elisabeth Page Purcell • Nobuko Saji • Akiko SIACCA • Akemi Takeda • Izu Watanabe • Yayoi Yokoyama


Anti-war Anti-nuke Art: PEACE Project is an August exhibition to remember the 1945 two atomic bombings on Hiroshima, August 6, and on Nagasaki, August 9, so that people may think about peace and hand this beautiful planet over to next generations.


INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF CCCS
80 Maiden Lane, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10038
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 11am–5pm

July 4, 2024

KUNIO IZUKA
PIKADON: A Tale of the Big Blast

July 17 – August 12, 2024


PIKADON: A Tale of the Big Blast (1983) is a narrative picture book consisting of 10 pieces of watercolor painting, which was found in the inner part of the storage after his death in 2020. Izuka made PIKADON to dedicate it to his father who had been exposed to radiation in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki. The 10 depictions released for the first time at Nagasaki Peace Museum are stories of what his father experienced and witnessed just after the atomic bombing on August 9, 1945.


Short Biography (En & Jp)


Flyer (En & Jp)

Press Coverage (Jp)
Nagasaki Shimbun　 NHK Nagasaki　 Shukan NY Seikatsu


NAGASAKI PEACE MUSEUM (Admission Free)
7-15 Matsugaemachi, Nagasaki 850-0921
Hours: Tue–Sun 10:00~17:30 • Mon 8/12 10:00~14:00
Closed: Mondays 7/22, 7/29, 8/5


Nagasaki X (detail), 1982, Watercolor on paper, 18 x 24 inches (457 x 610 mm) ©Kunio Izuka