Kaori Someya C.V.

Career

1977 Born in Shimane Prefecture, 1999 Completed Undergraduate Program - Nihonga Japanese Painting Major - Department of Fine Arts, University of the Arts 2002 Completed Masters Program - Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Assets Major -Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts 2004 Research Assistant at the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (~’06) 2008 Adjunct Instructor at Keio University (~’13) 2009 Adjunct Instructor at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts (~’14) 2014 Research Assistant at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts (~’17) 2015 Received Nomination to become Tokutai Ranking Member of Nihon Bijutsuin 2017 Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts (~’20) Present Tokutai Ranked Member of the Japan Arts Institute (Nihon Bijutsuin)

Public Collections

Permanent collections Adachi Museum of Art / Sato Sakura Museum / Niimi Museum of Art / Imai Art Museum

Noteworthy Solo Exhibitions

2005 Kaori Someya Solo Exhibition, Gallery Tomo () 2008 The Shape of Life, Gallery Goto (Ginza) 2010 Various Shapes, Tobu - 2012 A Woman’s Heart Changes Like the Weather, Tobu - Ikebukuro 2013 The Colour of Flowers, Sogo - 2014 Hanamamire (Covered in Flowers), Tobu - Ikebukuro The Colour of Flowers, Seibu - Otsu and Sogo - 2015 Synchronicity - A Meaningful Coincidence, Tobu - Ikebukuro 2016 Exhibition of Kaori Someya’s Works Featured on the Cover of “Koseihogo Magazine (Rehabilitation Aid)”, Nakajima Art (Ginza) 2017 Kaori Someya Solo Exhibition, - Changes of Time, Ichibata - Matsue Hare and Ke - Kaori Someya Solo Exhibition, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store 2018 Ikyoku (Different Styles), Tobu - Ikebukuro and Funabashi 2020 Mixed, Mitsukoshi - and The Obsession Gallery (Daikanyama)

Group Exhibitions

1998 Shundo-ten Exhibition (~’01) 2001 ‘Spring INTEN’ Exhibition (~’06, ’09 ~) ‘Saiko INTEN’ Exhibition (’03~) 2003 Yuuga no Kai Exhibition, Seibu (~’07) 2004 Shinjukai Exhibition, Mitsukoshi (~’12) 2005 Ichi no Kai Exhibition, (~’09) Petit Tableaux Exhibition, Onward Gallery (~’12, ’14 ~) 2009 Brightness Exhibition, Art Fair Tokyo (~’10) Stave Poem Exhibition, Sogo and Seibu (~ Present) 2010 Soaring in the 21st Century – Nihonga of Tomorrow Exhibition, Matsuzakaya 2011 Summer Arts Festival – Exhibition of Works by the Next Generation of Young Artists, Mitsukoshi (’12, ’14) Kokikai Exhibition, (’12) Art of Our Time – Charity Auction to Benefit the Reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tokyo Art Club 2012 INTEN Artists Living in Exhibition, Yagihashi Department Store Hatsunekai Exhibition, Matsuzakaya (~’04) 2013 TRENTENNE Exhibition, Onward Gallery 2014 Sai no Kai Exhibition, Matsuzakaya - Ueno and Exhibition of Young Artists from Tokyo University of the Arts – Selected by MITSUKOSHI, Art Fair Tokyo 2015 Best Selection Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Mukyu no Kai Exhibition, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store (~’17) 2016 Sakura, Sakura, Sakura Exhibition – A Competition of Modern and Contemporary Masters, Art Hall (7F) Seiseikai Exhibition, Takashimaya - , and (~’20) Ballet Dancers Drawn by Young Talents Exhibition, Seibu - Ikebukuro (’18) 9th Suga Tatehiko Awards Exhibition, The Museum of Kyoto and Kurayoshi Museum 2017 5th Sato Sakura Museum of Art Oka-sho Award Exhibition, Sato Sakura Museum (Tokyo) 110th Anniversary of Mitsukoshi Art : Hopes – 100 Artists of the Next Generation Exhibition, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store My Cats Exhibition - Drawn and Made by 70 Contemporary Artists, The Sato Museum of Art Tokyo University of the Arts 130th Anniversary Exhibition, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store 2018 Exhibition of Artists Featured on the Cover of “Koseihogo Magazine (Rehabilitation Aid)”, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store, Mitsukoshi - and Hiroshima Mizunashikai Exhibition of Small Works from the Spring INTEN Exhibition Hankyu Umeda Main Store (~’19) La Nouvelle Vague de Peinture Japonaise Exhibition, Bunkamura Gallery 2019 Kegon no Kai Exhibition, Sogo - , Daimaru Matsuzakaya - Nagoya and Sogo - Omiya (~’20) Conservation and Restoration of Nihonga Cultural Properties Exhibition (Bunponichi-ten), Tokyo University of the Arts Chinretsu - kan Gallery Kobo no Kai Exhibition, Iwakatsu Gallery Kaori Someya and Takashi Yamaguchi Exhibition, Tokyu Department Store Main Store 2020 Gen no Kai – New Nihonga Exhibition, Iwakatsu Gallery

Accolades

1999 Received Honourable Mention at the Aogaki 2001 Japanese Painting Exhibition 2007 Received the Minister of Justice Award at the Yuuga no Kai Exhibition 2011 Received the Honourable Mention Award at the 96th INTEN Exhibition 2013 Received the Minister for Foreign Affairs Award and Honourable Mention Award at the 68th Spring INTEN Exhibition Received the Honourable Mention Award at the 98th INTEN Exhibition 2014 Received the Honourable Mention Award at the 2nd Sato Sakura Museum of Art Oka-sho Award Exhibition Received the Honourable Mention Award at the 69th Spring INTEN Exhibition Received the Honourable Mention Award at the 99th INTEN Exhibition 2015 Received the Honourable Mention Award at the 70th Spring INTEN Exhibition Received the Nakamura Award at the 4th Maeda Seison Memorial and Nakamura Scholarship Foundation Awards Received the Honourable Mention Award at the 100th INTEN Exhibition 2016 Received the Honourable Mention Award at the 71st Spring INTEN Exhibition Received the Honourable Mention Award at the 101st INTEN Exhibition 2017 Received the Honourable Mention Award at the 102nd INTEN Exhibition 2018 Received the Honourable Mention Award at the 72nd Spring INTEN Exhibition Received the INTEN Scholarship Foundation Awards Received the Honourable Mention Award and the Adachi Museum of Art Award at the 103rd INTEN Exhibition 2020 Received the Honourable Mention Award at the 75th Spring INTEN Exhibition

Other Career Highlights

May 2014 ~ Present In charge of drawing the cover picture of Monthly Report of National Personnel Authority August 2015 Issue to July 2016 Issue In charge of drawing the cover picture of “Koseihogo Magazine (Rehabilitation Aid)”