June 24 – July 12, 2025

Vassilina Dikidjieva (b. in Bulgaria) studied architecture in the Higher Institute of Civil Engineering in Sofia, Bulgaria, and graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute, Russia. With her career as a professional architect, she worked in Bulgaria, Ethiopia and New York. She currently lives and works in New Jersey, USA.

“The masterfully rendered figures, some of them paraphrases of well-known classical works, intentionally span the height and width of the entire paintings – the city with its roofs, towers and windows dominates in the composition, but the incorporeal human forms dominate in their scale. It seems to me that this intentional inversion of the scale of the human against the city is one of the greatest distinctions of Vassilina’s creative work.” [Ventzislav Iliev] The full text here



Noho M55 Gallery
548 West 28th St #634 New York, NY 10001 917 675 6884
Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-6pm


Image: Metropolitan XI – Olympia NY, Oil on linen, 24 x 36 inches, 2024

April 2 – May 12, 2025

Opening Reception
Wednesday, April 2, 5–7 PM



Image: Five snails, 2025, Etching, 4.5 x 10 inches ©Mariko Kuzumi




Image: Dreaming Seed, 2024, Acrylic, charcoal on canvas, 20 x 24 inches ©Miho Hiranouchi

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)


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



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

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



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