
ShugoArts is pleased to present ShugoArts Show, a group exhibition of our artists including Yukio Fujimoto, Masato Kobayashi, Aki Kondo, Naofumi Maruyama, Anju Michele, Ritsue Mishima and Yoriko Takabatake, from Saturday June 26, 2021 to Saturday July 31, 2021. In this exhibition, Anju Michele will present his new series of works Ray for the first time, which has become the basis of creating a new scarf, as an inspiration source to Italian fashion brand Loro Piana. Loro Piana will release its new scarf Ray in a limited quantity this July, whose design is inspired by one of the works from Anjuʼs series.
We will also showcase Yukio Fujimoto who put together the traces of his forty-year long art practice into an online exhibition themed around ‘sound’ last year. In addition, this exhibition will be orchestrated with some of the best works of other participating artists including Masato Kobayashi, who will have a solo exhibition at ShugoArts this September, Aki Kondo, who just published her first critically acclaimed monograph _The Happiness that Exists Here _and will also have a solo exhibition at the Yamagata Museum of Art this November, along with the painters Naofumi Maruyama and Yoriko Takabatake and Ritsue Mishima who works with transparent Venetian-glass. Many artworks will be shown for the first time in the gallery space including, but not limited to, paintings by Masato Kobayashi and drawings by Aki Kondo.










ShugoArts, established by Shugo Satani in 2000, values its locality, selects its artists regardless of their time and place, and sends out its activities from Tokyo.
Today, it has gotten much easier to appreciate various artworks of all times and places and their meanings, as well as spaces exhibiting artworks, need to be redefined, including contemporary art galleries. ShugoArts prioritises how to realise artists’ own growth as artists or make the most of their accomplishments. In order to nurture their abilities and possibilities, we provide our space for artists to express themselves freely and follow their artistic journeys side by side. Under any circumstances, our mission is to work and grow together with artists who ceaselessly create artworks, which shine a light on life and give it validation.
ShugoArts holds about 7 exhibitions a year and participates in national and international art fairs while simultaneously managing commissions for public spaces and organising performance and talk events. In addition, we also would like to be a part of art histories at large by creating invaluable archives and assisting art institutions.

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