Ken Matsubara

Works created by Ken Matsubara

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has decided to add "Chaos" to its collection. Seigo Matsuoka said of the work, "...This is how a vision should appear. It made me want it to be that way. Whether this is a Buddhist painting or a contemporary painting, or wherever it is hung, this work will transport the viewer from "here" to "there."
In his youth, Ken Matsubara was inspired by Inoue Sanko and started to paint abstract Japanese paintings. One day, the late Hayashiya Seizo asked him to paint a picture of plum blossoms in the Rinpa style, and the painting looked just like Maruyama Okyo's.

Ken Matsubara

Biography
1948 Born in Kamiichi Town, Toyama Prefecture
1973 Independent Art (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)
1976 Studied under Inoue Mitsutsuna
1977 Daiichi Art Exhibition Daiichi Art Award (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)
1987: Won the Special Excellence Award at the Ueno Royal Museum Painting Grand Prize Exhibition (Ueno Royal Museum)
1990 "Exhibition of Artists Carrying on the Next Generation" (Hakone Open-Air Museum)
1991 "Art of Toyama '91" (Toyama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art)
2001 "Tochigi Prefectural Art of the 20th Century II: The Door of a Millennium" (Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art)
2006 "Ken Matsubara Exhibition" (Espace Bertin Poiret Gallery/Paris, France, TKW20 Gallery/Cologne, Germany)
2008 "Ken Matsubara - The Transience of Life" (Organized by Toyama Museum of Modern Art/Toyama Prefecture)
2015 Solo Exhibition "Kei" (Ginza Ippodo)
2016 Solo Exhibition “A Solo Exhibition of Japanese Painter Ken Matsubara -Distillation-” (Ippodo New York)
2019 Solo Exhibition "Ken Matsubara -Sun, Moon, Sky, Sea" (Wako Hall)
Ippodo New York 67th Opening Event "KUKAI - Sun and Moon -"
The Philadelphia Museum of Art's sliding door painting "Sun, Moon, Sky, and Sea" is housed here.
2020 Solo Exhibition "Nichigetsukukai" (Ginza Ippodo)
2021 Solo Exhibition "Ken Matsubara Paints 'Wisteria'" (Ginza Ippodo)
2022 Solo Exhibition "Chaos to the Cosmos" (Ippodo Gallery New York)
"Chaos" folding screen, Minneapolis Institute of Art
In addition, he has held numerous solo and group exhibitions around the country.

Exhibitions

Past Exhibitions / Events

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Ken Matsubara's Monumental Work Exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Art

List of works by Ken Matsubara

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