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Contemporary Art Gallery specializing in Japanese Kogei art since 1996.

10/10/2026

Someya’s themes of impermanence, memory, transformation, and the eternal shifting dance of light are expressed as changing seasons and unfixed shadows. Vibrantly patterned kimono tell hidden stories of the characters. Kimono patterns derived from her late mother's handwork recur as depictions of "life backgrounds" — interior worlds made visible. Employing ijidōzuhō, the classical Japanese technique of rendering multiple moments within a single continuous scene, she imbues intense emotion—grief and renewal— into sweeping still images.

Visit Kaori Someya: The Light Within, the Nihonga painter’s debut solo exhibition at Ippodo Gallery in TriBeCa, New York from September 10 to October 17, 2026.

10/08/2026

Someya represents the resilience demanded of modern life and the tireless march forward of society. Situating the viewer behind the folding screen, Someya deploys silver leaf using the back-mounting urahaku technique for the surface of the screen to emphasize the Japanese concept of “ura” or the hidden world and private life of each individual. At one break between the zig-zagging walls, the snail creeps along an unpaved path. The time-honored motif serves as a messenger: continue on the uncharted course. All of these symbols highlight the key concepts in Someya’s oeuvre: women face many challenges, but maintain the perseverance required to reach meaningful change.

Slow and Steady Progress 徐行漸進（じょこうぜんしん）, 2026
Four-Panel Folding Screen: Silver Leaf, Mineral Pigments, Platinum Powder, Washi Paper, and Animal Glue
H59 1/2 x W119 3/4 x D3/4 in overall
H151 x W304 x D2 cm overall

Visit Kaori Someya: The Light Within, the Nihonga painter’s debut solo exhibition at Ippodo Gallery in TriBeCa, New York from September 10 to October 17, 2026.

10/04/2026

Someya’s work explores the tension between preserving tradition and embracing cultural innovation. By depicting her figures upside down, she invites viewers to shift their perspectives, challenging conventional ways of seeing and opening up new possibilities for discovery.

Visit Kaori Someya: The Light Within, the Nihonga painter’s debut solo exhibition at Ippodo Gallery in TriBeCa, New York from September 10 to October 17, 2026.

Reflected Landscape 倒景（とうけい, 2026
Gold Leaf, Mineral Pigments, Dye, Washi Paper, and Animal Glue
H46 1/2 x W36 1/4 x D3 1/8 in
H118 x W92 x D8 cm

10/02/2026

During our recent studio visit, Kaori Someya reflected on the delicate balance between continuing tradition and embracing new possibilities. Influenced by her time in New York, she continues to explore how to incorporate new perspectives into her work while remaining deeply rooted in her Japanese culture.

Visit Kaori Someya: The Light Within, the Nihonga painter’s debut solo exhibition at Ippodo Gallery in TriBeCa, New York from September 10 to October 17, 2026.

09/30/2026

Nihonga today is more expansive than ever before. Someya classically prepares the Nihonga paints from rare azurite (gunjō) and malachite (rokushō) among many others precious and rare minerals, as well as enji and indigo dyes, and the shells of insects and oysters combined with Nikawa glue to achieve brilliantly layered and vivid colors. To her, the rare element of Nihonga is chowa no bi, the beauty in harmonizing disparate mediums, materials, and themes.

Visit Kaori Someya: The Light Within, the Nihonga painter’s debut solo exhibition at Ippodo Gallery in TriBeCa, New York from September 10 to October 17, 2026.

09/26/2026

Thank you Japan Contemporaries for the feature review of Kaori Someya: The Light Within, the current solo exhibition on view at Ippodo Gallery.

“The light Someya seeks to paint is not an external illumination cast upon a woman to enhance the beauty of her appearance. It comes, rather, from within: from those dimensions of human existence that ordinarily remain invisible to others—will, memory, pain, endurance, desire, hope, and the determination to remain oneself. In Someya’s paintings, these intangible forces seem to gather beneath the visible surface and quietly radiate outward.”

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Visit Kaori Someya: The Light Within, the Nihonga painter’s debut solo exhibition at Ippodo Gallery in TriBeCa, New York from September 10 to October 17, 2026.

09/24/2026

Thank you for joining us at Fine Art Paris. The works of our Japanese contemporary artists have deeply moved visitors day after day, sparking countless wonderful conversations and exchanges. After returning to Paris for the first time in 20 years, Ippodo Gallery will continue to serve as a “Cultural Bridge” around the globe, delivering the finest, most authentic works and stories.

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09/23/2026

Adrift deep beneath the water, Someya imbues the figure with the negative emotions that bubble to the surface as a contemporary woman in Japanese society. During the pandemic, she spent much time isolated in her studio parsing these feelings. The kimono is devoid of color, calling into question whether the wearer really exists at all. Diving deep into the source of her happiness, Someya realized, through the creative process, the wonder of interpersonal relationships and the trivial talk that may otherwise go disregarded. Goldfish may speak to the short-mindedness with which people conduct themselves in modern society as attention is divided ever further, but they have positive connotations, too, as symbols of good fortune.

Return 帰還, 2025
Platinum Leaf, Mineral Pigments, Dye, Washi Paper, and Animal Glue
H51 1/4 x W76 3/8 x D3/4 in
H130.3 x W194 x D2 cm

Visit Kaori Someya: The Light Within, the Nihonga painter’s debut solo exhibition at Ippodo Gallery in TriBeCa, New York from September 10 to October 17, 2026.

09/22/2026

The master doll maker Junko Narita creates fantastical dolls that look like the protagonists of stories from Chinese and Japanese mythology descending from the sky. Enveloped in beautiful costumes, each seems like a visitor from an unknown land.

Narita’s work will be featured at our booth during Fine Arts Paris 2026.

Baku 獏, 2025
Doll (ceramic, textile, metal)
H18 1/8 x W17 3/4 x D9 1/2 in
H46x W45 x D24 cm

09/21/2026

S***a Suzuki seamlessly emulates the falling gingko leaves of Autumn in his latest works. Drawing upon rich natural colors, Suzuki imagines plant life from brass alloy and other metals such as gold, silver, copper, and nickel. Hammering flat sheets and long fibers, Suzuki manipulates the hot metal with forging, soldering, and hand-sculpting techniques until the plant structure is a perfect mimicry of its living counterpart.

Suzuki’s work will be featured at our booth during Fine Arts Paris 2026. He will be present at the fair today, September 21, through the 22.

Blowing Leaves Ginkgo, 2026
Brass, gold powder
H20 1/8 x W11 3/4 x D11 3/8 in

The Tiny Piece of Autumn Ginkgo, 2025
Brass, gold powder
H3 1/2 x W3 1/2 x D4 in

The Tiny Piece of Autumn Ginkgo, 2025
Brass, gold powder
H5 1/2 x W3 1/2 x D2 3/4 in

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Monday	10:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	10:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	10:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday	10:30am - 5:30pm
Friday	10:30am - 5:30pm
Saturday	11am - 5pm
Sunday	11am - 5pm

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