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NEWS

    • Upcoming Event


  • Moment by Moment
    Friday, November 14, 2014
    Gallery Conceal Shibuya
    1-11-3 Fujishoji building 4th floor, Dogen-zaka
    Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0043
    Japan
    Phone: 03-3463-0720
    Door Open @ 7:00pm
    Performance Start @ 8:00pm
    Performances: Gekommen, Including You: Dawn
    http://galleryconceal.wix.com/gconceal

  • Butterfly Effect
    Sunday, November 16, 2014
    Ashikaga-City, Sukedo Public Hall and Kominka House (former Kimura House)
    453-2 Sukedonakacho
    Ashikaga-city, Tochigi 326-0043
    Japan
    Door Open @ 3:00pm
    Performance Start @ 4:00pm
    Performances: Gekommen, Including You: Dawn
    Exhibition @ Kominka 3:00pm

ARTIST

Takeshi Kanemura

  1. Southern California-based painter and performance artist Takeshi Kanemura was born in Okinawa, Japan, and lives and works in Los Angeles. He received a BA from University of California, Riverside, an MA from California State University, San Bernardino, and an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. Kanemura has transcended traditional Japanese art and absorbed those practices into his current art form of mixed media performance art. With the influences of Japanese performance dancing called Butoh, traditional large scale Japanese brush stroke painting, and traditional music, Kanemura's current pieces incorporate all these elements with Americanized flair, to humbly represent the new present-day American status: the amalgamation of one's identity. Kanemura proudly displays the identity of the Japanese-American. His goals with his art are to promote cultural awareness and the embracing of all cultural heritages.

      2. Education


    • 2013
    • MFA, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

    • 2011
    • MA, California State University San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA

    • 2007
    • BA, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA

      • Solo Exhibitions


    • February 2013
    • Reflexions
    • East Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, CA

      • May 2011
    • Invisible Layers
    • Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, Dutton Family Gallery
    • California Statue University San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA

      • Performances


    • April 2014
    • Re-Birth
    • dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA

    • March 2014
    • Including You: dA II
    • dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA

    • February 2014
    • Including You: IE
    • Collaboration with Satomi Akutsu, Ranwakaba, Hiroshi Shimizu
    • Crafton Hills College PAC Theater, Yucaipa, CA
    • Including You: CV part 1 and part 2
    • Collaboration with Satomi Akutsu, Mei Hotta, Cris Law, Mark Dennis McConnell,
    • Snezana Petrovic, Ranwakaba, Hiroshi Shimizu
    • Coachella Valley Art Center, Indio, CA

    • January 2014
    • Including You: dA
    • Collaboration with Johnny Guerrero, Mei Hotta, Cris Law, Betsy Lohrer Hall
    • dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA

    • December 2013
    • Liminal (Group performance event)
    • Collaboration with Various Artists
    • The LOFT Gallery, San Pedro, CA

    • November 2013
    • Including You: T I and T II
    • Collaboration with Ranwakaba, Hiroshi Shimizu
    • Glasio Bluo, Tokyo, Japan

    • October 2013
    • Including You: Iwate
    • Light House Ofunato, Iwate, Japan

    • August 2013
    • Including You (part 1, 2, and 3)
    • Collaboration with Johnny Guerrero, Mei Hotta, Cris Law
    • Groundspace Project Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    • March 2013
    • Rainbow Bubble
    • Collaboration with Dominique Ovalle
    • The Fox Theater, Pomona, CA
    • Pink Sand Castle
    • Collaboration with Dan Taulapapa McMullin
    • West Gallery, California Statue University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA

    • February 2013
    • Cris Law, CGU Concerts at CST
    • Collaboration with Dominique Ovalle
    • Kresge Chapel, Claremont School of Theology (CST), Claremont, CA
    • Reflexions
    • Collaboration with Cris Law
    • East Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, CA

    • November 2012
    • Dear Takako
    • Atrium, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

    • September 2012
    • Tokyo September
    • Gallery Conceal Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

    • August 2012
    • Three-One-One in Miyagi
    • Miyagi, Japan

    • March 2012
    • Three-One-One
    • Studio 129, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

    • February 2012
    • Invisible Layers 2012
    • Studio 208, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

    • January 2012
    • Horizon: Phase II
    • Studio 225, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

    • December 2011
    • Horizon: Phase I
    • Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

    • September 2011
    • Sound MigrationZ―Flag Stop
    • Torrance, CA

    • May 2011
    • Invisible Layers
    • Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, Dutton Family Gallery

    • November 2010
    • Invisible Asian
    • Crafton Hills College Art Gallery, Yucaipa, CA

    • June 2008
    • Strange Bedfellows
    • Crafton Hills College Theater Gallery, Yucaipa, CA

    • June 2007
    • The Stylish Kids in the Riot
    • Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA

    • May 2006
    • Thoughts and Life
    • Crafton Hills College, Yucaipa, CA

    • May 2005
    • Becoming-LA-Culture
    • Electric Lodge, Venice, CA


      • Group Exhibitions


    • September 2013
    • Forty Annual Korean Cultural Festival 2013
    • LELA International Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    • August 2013
    • LELA Selected Artists Show 2013
    • LELA International Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    • July 2013
    • Plastic Sunshine
    • Groundspace Project Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
    • 34th Annual Nagasaki 8•9 Peace Exhibition
    • Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki, Japan

    • June 2013
    • CA 101 2013
    • AES Power Plant Redondo Beach, Redondo Beach, CA

    • April 2013
    • A Song of Soil and Wind
    • Crafton Hills College Art Gallery, Yucaipa, CA
    • 2nd “10+1 Artists” Show
    • LELA International Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    • March 2013
    • Where East Meets West
    • dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA

    • October 2012
    • While You Were Out
    • East Gallery and Peggy Phelps Gallery,
    • Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

    • August 2012
    • Greater Los Angeles Masters of Fine Art (MFA) Exhibition 2012
    • California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

    • June 2012
    • Church of Peace Show
    • Church of Peace in LA, Los Angeles, CA

    • April 2012
    • Trilateral Exchanged
    • dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA

    • October 2011
    • Twernty Seven Plus Three
    • East Gallery and Peggy Phelps Gallery,
    • Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

    • September 2011
    • Sound MigrationZ―Flag Stop
    • Torrance, CA

    • November 2010
    • Sound MigrationZ
    • Crafton Hills College Art Gallery, Yucaipa, CA

    • October 2010
    • Spit and Polish
    • Gallery 106, California Statue University San Bernardino,
    • San Bernardino, CA

    • December 2009
    • Sound MigrationZ
    • Blok Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

    • June 2008
    • Strange Bedfellows
    • Crafton Hills College Theater Gallery, Yucaipa, CA

    • June 2007
    • The Stylish Kids in the Riot
    • Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA

    • April 2006
    • The Sixth Annual Geijyutsu Kukan Exhibition
    • Ebisu Garden Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan


      • Private Collection


    • September 2013
    • Los Angeles, California, USA

    • May 2012
    • New York, New York, USA

    • February 2012
    • Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan

    • December 2011
    • San Diego, California, USA

    • May 2004
    • Medical Mall, Mitsui and Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan


      • Grants


    • 2012
    • Albert B. Friedman Grant

    • 2011-2013
    • Claremont Graduate Fellowship


      • Residency


    • 2014
    • Performance residency supported by dA Center for the Arts, Pomona,CA

    PAINTING

    GALLERY

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    PERFORMANCE

    GALLERY

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    VIDEO

    VIDEO LINK

    Negative Space 2011
    Phase 1
    Invisible Layers
    Invisible Layers

    SCULPTURE

    GALLERY

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    INSTALLATION

    GALLERY

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    CONTACT

    Location: Los Angeles, California, USA

    takezok395@hotmail.com

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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