Yuji Suga/Masada Masuda Two-person Exhibition

Scheduled for spring 2025
*The dates will be announced on this page as soon as they are decided.

YUGEN Gallery will hold a two-person exhibition by Yuji Suga and Masahiro Masuda in spring 2025.

Exhibition Information

Venue

YUGEN Gallery
KD Minami Aoyama Building 4F, 3-1-31 Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Dates

Scheduled for spring 2025
*The dates will be announced on this page as soon as they are decided.

Opening Hours

Weekdays: 13:00-19:00
Weekends and holidays: 13:00-20:00
*Ends at 17:00 on the final day only

Closed Days

None

Date of presence

to be decided

Admission Fee

free

Notes

*Please note that the dates and opening hours may change without notice depending on the situation.

Exhibited works images

ACT (Artists Contemporary TOKAS) Vol. 6 "Menisuru" (Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, 2024) Photo: Ken Kato Image courtesy of Tokyo Arts and Space

Masahiro Masuda "Moment's #66"

Masahiro Masuda "Moment's #109"

Statement

YUGEN Gallery will hold a two-person exhibition by Yuji Suga and Masahiro Masuda in spring 2025.

Picking out cutting-edge artists from the Japanese contemporary art scene

Yuji Suga, an artist affiliated with MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY, is known for his technique of applying paint evenly to a mirrored screen, then scraping off some of the paint to create a work. In recent years, he has been highly praised for his "Liminal Paint" series, which uses different base coats on the same panel.

Masahiro Masuda is known to have works by Yusaku Maezawa, a well-known art collector, in his collection. He photographs the space and projects the image onto the same spot using a projector, repeating this process several times, and then silk-screening the resulting image onto a canvas. This unique technique has also attracted attention.

Yuji Suga and Masahiro Masuda share a common bond as they both work at Studio Kodai (Toride City, Ibaraki Prefecture), one of the largest art studios in the Kanto region that brings together up-and-coming artists. Although they have appeared together in group exhibitions before, this is their first exhibition together as just the two of them.

In a time when "images" are overflowing and drifting uncontrollably, Suga Yuji and Masuda Masahiro are presenting works that explore the reason for the existence of painting. Don't miss this exhibition by this notable pair.

About sales of artworks

At the same time as the exhibition, the works will be available to view and purchase on the YUGEN Gallery official online store.

Yuji Suga

Yushi Suga

Suga Yushi / Born in Nagasaki Prefecture in 1988. After studying abroad at the University of the Arts Stuttgart in Germany, he graduated from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, majoring in oil painting, in 2017. His exhibitions include "Scraped painting" (WHITESPACE ONE, Fukuoka, 2017) and "Spring fever" (Komagome Warehouse, Tokyo, 2017). He has received awards such as the 4th CAF Award and the Saito Seiichi Award (2017). His works are included in the collections of the "JAPIGOZZI Collection" and the "Sasa Makoto Collection". He is a member of MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY.

To the artist page

Masahiro Masuda

Masuda Masahiro / Born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1991. Completed his doctoral program at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2020. Awards include being selected for the TERADA ART AWARD (2015) and the Tokyo University of the Arts Ueno Geiyu Award (2017). Selected as one of the "100 Newcomer Artists" in the magazine Bijutsu Techo (December 2016 issue). His works are held in the collections of the Contemporary Art Foundation's Maezawa Yusaku Collection and Richmond Hotel Premier Tokyo Scuola.