Kanaria "Pages from a Bestiary" | ZEN FOTO GALLERY - A photography gallery and publisher based in Tokyo specialized in Asian photography.

We detect Javascript is currently disabled on your browser, please enable Javascript for the best possible user experience. How to enable Javascript?

About 20 new paintings and 6 ceramic pieces that were created by Kanaria this year will be shown in this exhibition.

*Bestiaries introduce and classify animals and plants that we all know about - yet what is more interesting to me about bestiaries is how they include both the realistic and the imaginary, as if they all exist together in the nature. Reality and imagination, hopes and fears. Real beings, together with stories of fantasies take us to another world.

ーKanaria

Inquiry for details

　

Kanaria "Pages from a Bestiary", Colour pencils, Oil painting on Canvas, 92x65cm, 2017 © Kanaria
Kanaria "Pages from a Bestiary", Oil painting on Canvas, 81x65cm, 2017 © Kanaria
Kanaria "Pages from a Bestiary", Ceramic, 2017 © Kanaria

Artist Profile

Kanaria

Born in Osaka, in 1987, Kanaria graduated from Tama Art University Tokyo in 2011, specializing in oil painting. She moved to Paris in 2014 and obtained her postgraduate diploma at the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2017. After participating in the artist residency programme at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris and Cabane Georgina, Marseille, she moved back to Japan in 2020. Kanaria has been actively participating in exhibitions in Japan and abroad. Since her first solo exhibition at Zen Foto Gallery in August 2011, Kanaria has held solo exhibitions at the gallery every summer. This year marks the 14th year of our collaboration.