Naoji Ishiyama
1965 Born in Niihama Ehime, Japan
2003- live and work in Jyväskylä, Finland
Studies:
1989/3 Completed bachelor course at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Art1991/3 Completed Master course at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Art
1992/3 Completed Trainee course at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Art
Membership:
1992-2003 a member of the Art College's Print Association in Japan1998-2014 a member of the Japan Print Association
since 2004 a member of Jyväskylä Artist’s Association
since 2006 a member of The Association of Finnish Printmakers
Awards:
1990 The 15th Annual Exhibition of the Art College's Print Association in JapanPurchase Prize
1991 The 16th Annual Exhibition of the Art College's Print Association in Japan
Purchase Prize
1994 The 67th Exhibition of Japan Print Association (Japan)
Yamaguti Gen Newcomer's Prize
1996 The 3rd Sapporo International Print Biennale Exhibition (Japan)
Sponsor's Prize
The 14th Exhibition of Izu Art Festival(Japan)
Grand Prize
1997 International Miniature Print Competition 1997(U.S.A.)
Purchase Prize.
1998 The 66th Exhibition of Japan Print Association (Japan)
Quasi-Members Prize
International Print Triennial in kanagawa. (Japan)
First Prize
2001 International Miniature Print Exhibition 2001(U.S.A.)
Purchase Prize and Cash Prize
2003 International Print Triennial - Krakow 2003 (Poland)
Award of Mayor of the City of Katowice
2008 1st Printmaking Triennial -BRIDGES OVER MEDITERRANIAN AND BALTIC
(Printmaking Centre Helios, Greece)
Honourable Mention
2009 Biennale internationale d´estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières (Quèbec, Kanada)
National Bank Award (Second Price)
2021 The 6th Tallinn International Drawing Triennial IMPULSE (Estonia)
Honourable Mention
Exhibitions:
1994 Osaka Triennale 1994-Print/ 5th International Contemporary Art Competition (Japan)1996 The 3rd Sapporo International Print Biennale Exhibition (Japan)
The 3rd kochi International triennial Exhibition of Japan (Japan)
The 10th Seoul International Print Biennale (Korea)
1997 Portland Art Museum International Print Exhibition (America)
International Miniature Print Competition 1997 (Connecticut Graphic Arts Center, America)
International Print Triennial '97-Cracow (Poland)
Intergrafia '97 - World Award Winners Gallery - Katowice (Poland)
1998 International Print Triennial in kanagawa. (Japan)
1999 Premio Internazionale 1999 Biella per l'incisione (Italy)
German International Exhibition of Graphic Art (German)
2000 Y2K International Exhibition of Prints (Taiwan)
Millennium Grafica International Print Exhibition in Yokohama 2000 (Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery)
International Print Exhibition "East meets West" Opole 2000 (Poland)
International Print Exhibition "Graphic Constellation" Szczecin 2000 (Poland)
2001 International Print Triennial in Kanagawa 2001 (Kanagawa Arts Foundation)
Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Print-Art-2001 (India)
Graphic Art in Japan (Slovakia)
2002 The 5th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints (Japan)
Grand Prix of the Public International Print Triennial - 2000 (Poland)
KOREA INTERNATIONAL PRINT ART FESTIVAL (Korea)
Zeichen der Gegenwart (Austria)
2003 International Print Triennial - Krakow 2003 (Poland)
2004 "ICE AND FLOWERS" Solo Exhibition (Galleria Harmonia, Finland)
Contemporary Art from Central Finland -58th annual exhibition of the Jyväskylä
Artists' Association (Jyväskylä Art Museum)
2005 KIAF Korea International Art Fair(Korea)
4th Lessedra World Art Print Annual (Bulgaria)
Jyväskylä Artists Association’s exhibition (Artgallery Pöllölä, Jämsänkoski)
Graphica Creativa ’05 (Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland)
SIPA 2005/ Seoul International Print, Photo, Editionworks Art Fair (Seoul Arts Center, Korea)
2006 Annual exhibition of the Jyväskylä Artists´Association (Keski-Suomen museo, Finland)
Further; Artists from Printmaking at the Edge (Salem Fine Arts Center, USA)
Further; Artists from Printmaking at the Edge (Galleria Harmonia, Finland)
2007 Prints Tokyo 2007 (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan)
Jyväskylä Grafiikkakeskuks exchanging exhibition (Joella Galleria, Finland)
Falun Triennial (Sweden)
Hong Kong Graphic Art Fiesta (Hong Kong)
2008 Printmaking Exhibition (5IVE & 40RTY, USA)
The 7th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints (Ino-cho Paper Museum, JAPAN)
Group exhibition (Uuden Polven Museo, Jyväskylä)
Our Artist -Jyväskylä print workshop 30 years anniversary exhibition (Galleria Harmonia, Jyväskylä)
1st Printmaking Triennial -BRIDGES OVER MEDITERRANIAN AND BALTIC (Printmaking Centre Helios, Greece)
63rd Annual Exhibition of Jyväskylä Artists' Association (Central Finland Museum)
2009 Biennale internationale d´estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières (Quèbec, Canada)
International Print Triennial PrintArt Kraków-Katwice 2009 (Katwice, Poland)
International Print Triennial - Kraków 2009 (Kraków, Poland)
The Annual Exhibition of Jyväskylä Artists´ Association (Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland)
2010 8 Contemporary Artists (Ehime Prefectural Art Museum, Japan)
"Lähde" Jyväskylä Artists´ Association 65th Anniversary Exhibition (Keski-Suomen museo, Finland)
Solo Exhibition "Drawings and Polyester Lithographs" (Laajan Galleria, Finland)
2011 7th International Engraving Exhibition – Cremona 2011 (invited)
(Cremona, Civic Museum Ala Ponzone-Stradivariano, Italy)
The Annual Exhibition of Jyväskylä Artist`s Association (Jyväskylä Art Museum)
7th Evora Printmaking Festival – International Biennial (invited, Portugal)
2012 4 printmakers from Finland (St. Mark's School, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
TAIDETTA, haittaakse? (Höyry-Galleria, Korpilahti, Finland)
Solo Exhibition “ SENSE OF DISTANCE” (Galleria Mältinranta, Tampere, Finland)
INNOSTAA/INSPIRE Connections North (Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, England)
The Annual Exhibition of Jyväskylä Artist`s Association (Central Finland Museum)
SKjL(Union of Finnish Art Associations) Annual Exhibition (Hyvinkää Art Museum, Finland)
2013 COASTIVAL: INNOSTAA/INSPIRE (Woodend Art Gallery, Scarborough, England)
CONNECTION NORTH (Galleria Ratamo, Finland)
PERIFERI (Saarijärven Museo, Finland) invited
SYNOPSIS (Galleria Ratamo, Jyväskylä, Finland)
Solo Exhibition (Galleria Matriz, Porto, Portugal)
Consonance Mami Higuchi + Naoji Ishiyama (Galeria dos Leões, Porto, Portugal)
2014 Naoji Ishiyama x New Waters (Record shop X, Jyväskylä, Finland)
Project: Critical Mass (Little Art Parlour, Novi Sad, Serbia)
The Ratamo 6 Pack (VGAC gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania)
Solo exhibition (Cork Printmakers showroom, Cork, Ireland)
2015 Contemporary Japanese Printmakers (Davidson Galleries, Seattle, U.S.A.)
Connections North: Mirror Images
(Galleria Ratamo, Finland / Inspired by…gallery, England / Ålgården Gallery, Sweden)
“No Name” Matkalla maan keskipisteeseen, Galleria Jarska, Säärijärvi
Respect of Time, MUJI iapm, Shanghai, China
Naoji Ishiyama, Solo Exhibition, Gallery You, Oogaki, Japan
Connection North: Mirror Images (Caithness Horizons, Scotland)
Contemporary Japanese Prints (Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University, USA)
2016 NAOJI ISHIYAMA, SIZE AND DISTANCE, Galleria Seinä (Helsinki)
YOU MAKE MINE, I MAKE YOURS (C.I.T. Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork, Ireland)
2017 20 years anniversary exhibition of KASBA (Centre Culturel de Watermael-Boitsfort, Belgium)
High Recolution (Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Hungary)
Contemporary Japanese Printmakers (Davidson Galleries, USA)
Hovilantien Taiteilija Talon Asukkaat (Höyry Galleria, Finland)
PAPERMADE the 3rd International Biennale (Schio, Italy)
Ratamon Graafikot (Galleria Ratamo, Jyväskylä, Finland)
ART100+1, Exhibition of Jyväskylä Artists Association (Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland)
2018 Connecting Provincial Workshops and International Artists (Casa das Artes de Tavira Gallery, Portugal)
Connection Provincial Workshops and International Artists (Härnösands Konsthall, Sweden)
2019 Co-drawing with Kaisa Koljonen, Jyväskylän Sydän 24 (Jyväskylä City Theater)
2021 Terveydeksi! -Sairaala Novan taidetta (Jyväskylä Art Museum Galleria, Finland)
The 6th Tallinn International Drawing Triennial IMPULSE (ARS project space, Tallinn, Estonia)
2022 UNCHANGED ORIGINATION - Print Works of Naoji Ishiyama (Höyry-Galleria, Jyväskylä, Finland)
taidelainaamon kuukaudentaiteilija (Galleria Becker, Jyväskylä, Finland)
2023 Jyväskylän taiteilija seura, KES6Auml;KAVERIT (Galleria Hoppa, Jyväskylä, Finland)
KONSTRUNDAN 2023 (Jyv6auml;skylä, FInland)
NAOJI ISHIYAMA DRYPOINT WORKS -SPIRIT OF GHOST- (Galleria G, Helsinki, Finland)
Project Babel (Galleria Ratamo, Jyväskylä, Finland) as a organizer
2024 ME-YOU-WE The Jyväskylä Artists' Association's 74th annual exhibition (Aalto2, Jyväskylä, Finland)
Solo exhibitions
Since 1996Gallery Shin (Tokyo, Japan)
Nagoya garou (Nagoya, Japan)
Gallery You (Gifu, Japan)
Gallery Koichi (Tokyo, Japan)
Isezaki mall Koichi (Kanagawa, Japan)
Galleria Harmonia (Jyväskylä, Finland)
Galleria G (Helsinki, Finland)
Galleria Mältinranta (Tampere, Finland)
Galleria Martiz (Porto, Portugal)
Cork Printmakers showroom (Cork, Ireland)
Galleria Seinä (Helsinki, Finland)
Agua Forte (Lisbon, Portugal)
Galleria Becker (Jyväskylä, Finland)
Gallery Katsunoiin (Gifu, japan)
Höyry-galleria (Korpilahti, FInland)
Public collections:
Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts (Japan)A Board of Education of Numazu City (Japan)
Hikarinotani Art Museum (Japan)
An Executive Committee of Sapporo International Print Biennale (Japan)
Ito City Tourism Center (Japan)
Tosayamada City Art Museum (Japan)
Connecticut Graphic Arts Center (USA)
Kanagawa Arts Foundation (Japan)
State Gallery (Slovakia)
City of Katwice (Poland)
Jyväskylä Art Museum (Finland)
State of Finland
Sakima Art Museum (japan)
SMTG (Poland)
Ehime Prefectural Art Museum (Japan)
Cremona Civic Museum (Italy)
Keski-Suomen sairaanhoitopiiri (Finland)
Municipality of Schio (Italy)
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