10 Chancery Lane Gallery

KEN MATSUBARA

b.1949, Tokyo, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.

Ken Matsubara is a Japanese artist who primarily works with video art. Using photos, movies, objects and collages, Matsubara’s work addresses memories and histories to which we can all relate, regardless of our backgrounds, statuses or age. He incorporates photographs, videos, object installations, and collages to bring forth the past and to converse with future generations. The artist sees human consciousness as recollections of the same ancient knowledge that transcends the individual, passed down through generations and across peoples, at a microcosmic level. By recollecting shared memories, Matsubara believes that we can overcome individuality.

b. 1949 in Tokyo, Japan

EDUCATION

1973
Graduated from Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014
Repetition, Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Repetition, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Repetition, Art 45, Montreal, Canada
Repetition, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2012
The Sleeping Water, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The Sleeping Water, Jhonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, U.S.A.

2011
Winter Dreams The Story of Water, Spazio lightbox, Venezia, Ital
Winter Dreams, MA2Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2009
The Portrait of Fruits, MA2Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2008
A Knife In the Water, eN arts, Kyoto, Japan

2006
Sleep walker, MA2Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2004
Sleep walker, Windows Bergdorf Goodman, N.Y., U.S.A.

1997
Transmission, Coagulation, Reﬂection, Gallery ÉøM, Tokyo, Japan

1993
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, N.Y., U.S.A.
Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Art Site, Fukui, Japan

1990
Vertical and Horizontal, PS Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1988
Picture Photo Space, Osaka, Japan
Twisted Perspective, PS Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Jayne H. Baum Gallery, N.Y., U.S.A.

1987
Light Gallery, N.Y., U.S.A.
Studio 666, Paris, France
Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1982
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Suikatou, Tokyo, Japan

1981
Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015
Smoke and Mirrors, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.A.
Venice Meeting Point, Navy Officer’s Club, Venice, Italy
Ryuta IIda, Yuko Ozawa, Ken Matsubara, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2012
The End of Everything / A New Beginning, LARM galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark

2011
Forces, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
Night Scented Stock, Marianne Boesky Gallery N.Y., U.S.A.
The Tiger and Sunﬂower, Schroder Romero & Shredder Gallery, N.Y., U.S.A.
Close Encounter, AKI Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
THE P.2 PROJECTS, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, U.S.A.

2010
The State Theater in Kosice, Slovakia
International Theater Festival, Theater Polski in Poznan, Poland
Archetype of Photography, Froese, Matsubara, Przyborek, The "Laznia" Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland

2009
.BIENNALE FOTOGRAFII, Galeria Miejska Arsenal, Poznan, Poland

2008
The Story Box, MA2Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1999
Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, U.S.A.

1994
INSIDE OUT: Contemporary Japanese photography, The Light Factory Photographic Arts Center, Charlotte. North Carolina, U.S.A.

1993
Breda Fotograﬁca '93, De Beyerd Breda, the Netherlands

1992
Photography of Contemporary Art, Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea

1991
Compound of The "Maniéra," Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Machida
The 20th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, 1991, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan

1990
The Silent Dialogue, Still Life in the West and Japan, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
The Imprinted Ideas, Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
Les Fleurs, Studio 666, Paris, and Galerie Photographique, Toulouse, France
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan

1989
Group Show, Maison de La Culture, Annecy, France
Retrospective des Artistes Exposé entre 1986 et 1988, Studio 666, Paris, France

1988
Expressions in Photography and Its Related Media II, Gallery Miyazaki, Osaka, Japan

1987
AIPAD Show, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

1981
The 12th Print Grand-Prix Exhibition, Nichido Salon, Tokyo, Four Stars, Kado Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

International Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Nippon Polaroid (Polaroid Corporation of Japan),Tokyo, Japan
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, California. U.S.A.
Maison du Livre de L' image et du Son, La Bibliotheque de Villeurbanne, Lyon. France
Bayly Art Museum, Virginia. U.S.A.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. U.S.A.
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Bell Atlantic Corporation, N.Y., U.S.A.
Goldman Sachs Corporation, N.Y., U.S.A.
Readers Digest, N.Y., U.S.A.
Marieke and Pieter Sanders Collection, Netherland