Ku Watanabe

Ku Watanabe
“Tangled Mind”
H:49cm x W: 32cm
Acrylic on canvas
2025
$480

Life is so complicated and sometimes your mind is tangled and struggling. But you should realize that it is a process of your growing mind as vines get matured.


=About Artist=

Artwork History

Ku Watanabe had a lot of chance to interact with arts for her early age, being influenced by her mother who used to join exhibitions as a calligraphy artist inside and outside Japan.
In the past Ku was a ceramic artist, but since her retirement, she has become more devoted to working in oil, acrylic paintings and original three-dimensional works, having a sense of collaboration of two worlds by living two countries, Japan and Hawaii.
Her works have been accepted at numerous juried exhibitions in each country.
Originally Ku painted mainly sceneries in natural colors. She recently began challenging new styles of expressing matured emotion including tension and release using concentrated lines, less color with large open spaces on canvases. Moreover, she also has been developing a new direction to give some messages in landscape with monochrome as a technique.

2018　 accepted at juried exhibition by Hawaii Island Art Alliance
2019　 accepted at juried exhibition by Hawaii Kahilu Theater Foundation
2020 accepted at Juried exhibition by Hawaii, Waimea Arts Council
2020 accepted at juried exhibition by Hawaii Island Art Alliance 　
2023　accepted at juried exhibition by New Art Zero Association Kansai Japan
2023　accepted at juried exhibition by Belladonna Art Association Tokyo Japan
2023　accepted at juried exhibition by Modern Artists Association, Genten Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto
2023 accepted and won prizes at Juried exhibition by International Cultural Academy, Nichibi, Tokyo
2023 accepted at juried exhibition for New Arts Prospect : Artist From Japan Series X 2023 by NY Art Wave Project in New York
2023 accepted at juried exhibition for Kansai Art Competition
2023 joined Viridian Gallery New York, Holiday Show
2024 joined Genten Spring Art Fair in the GALERIE SIMON in Ginza Tokyo
2024 joined Viridian Gallery New York, Spring Art Show
2024 accepted at juried exhibition by New Art Zero Association Kansai Japan
2024 accepted at juried 80th anniversary exhibition and invited to be a fellow member by Modern Artists Association, Genten Tokyo, Nagoya and Kyoto
2024 joined Genten 80th anniversary Art Fair at Gallery Kokoan in Higashiyama, Kyoto
2025 joined Genten Spring Art Fair in the GALERIE SIMON in Ginza Tokyo
2025 joined Genten AXIS 2025 WEST in the Gallery Kaori in Dotonbori Osaka
2025 joined Genten 81th exhibition in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto
2025 joined 4-person exhibition at GALERIE SIMON in Ginza Tokyo

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