
Kineta Kunimatsu
Born in 1977 in Hokkaido. After graduating from the Sculpture Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tama Art University, has been based at the Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi Town, Hokkaido) since 2002 for creative activities. In recent years, has been creating works such as sculptures, paintings, and installations focusing on contours (boundaries) present in landscapes like horizons, horizontal lines, mountain ranges, and caves. Also continues fieldwork of the land mainly in the area called Ayoro as part of the activities of "Ayoro Laboratory" (2015-). Continues activities as a member of the artist collective "THE SNOWFLAKES" (2020-) formed at the Tobiu Art Community.
PROFILE
BIOGRAPHY
Biography
Born in Hokkaido in 1977
2001 Graduated from the Department of Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tama Art University
In 2002, began creative activities at the Tobiu Art Community.
2010 Hokkaido University of Education Graduate School, Department of Education, Major in Subject Education, Specialization in Art Education completed
Solo Exhibitions
2024 "Kunimatsu Kineda Exhibition TERRA" t.gallery (Tokyo)
2024 "Kunimatsu Kineda Exhibition in Shiraoi" brew gallery (Shiraoi)
2022 "Kunimatsu Kineda Exhibition Toward the Light," t.gallery (Tokyo)
2022 "Kunitake Kineda Exhibition: Engraving the Landscape" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi)
2021 "Kunimatsu Kineda Exhibition" t.gallery (Tokyo)
2019 "Kunimatsu Kineda Exhibition" t.gallery (Tokyo)
2017 "Kunimatsu Kineda Exhibition" t.gallery (Tokyo)
2017 "Echigo-Tsumari Art Field Northern Horizon" Matsudai "Nobutai Gallery" (Tokamachi)
2016 "Afterimage of Time" Hokkaido Cultural Foundation Art Space (Sapporo)
2016 "TIMESCAPE" Granvista Gallery Sapporo (Sapporo)
2015 "24th Dōgin Arts and Culture Encouragement Award Commemorative Kenta Kunimatsu Exhibition" Lilac Gallery (Sapporo)
2014 "FLEXFORM × Kineta Kunimatsu Art Exhibition" FLEXFORM TOKYO (Tokyo)
2014 "Kunimatsu Kineda Exhibition" t.gallery (Tokyo)
2014 "The scenery seen at Tobiu" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi)
2014 "BEYOND THE HORIZON" Gallery So (Sapporo)
2014 "material" Spiral Garden (Tokyo)
2012 "KINETA KUNIMATSU EXHIBITION 2002-2012" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi)
2012 "Kineta Kunimatsu Exhibition" STV North 2nd Avenue Building (Sapporo)
2011 "HORIZON PART IV" Salon Houyuu (Sapporo)
2010 "HORIZON PART III" Kobundo Gallery (Obihiro)
2010 "HORIZON PART II" Rokkatei Fukuzumi Store (Sapporo)
2009 "HORIZON" Gallery Creation (Sapporo)
2008 "RAINY DAYS" Gallery Benten 17 (Hong Kong)
2006 "ALLURE" Cafe Esquisse (Sapporo)
2006 "Kineta Kunimatsu Exhibition" SOSO (Sapporo)
2004 "Something In The Water" Café Esquisse (Sapporo)
2004 "Kineta Kunimatsu Exhibition" Continental Gallery (Sapporo)
Group Exhibition
2025 "ART for EXPO 2025" Yumeshima (Osaka)
2025 "Beauty in remains and transience" | Duo Show" AIFA (Verbier, Switzerland)
2024 "Snow Mountain Climb -YUKIYAMANOBORU-" KIYOE GALLERY NISEKO (Niseko)
2024 "Sasameki Amaki Banshō no Mori" Yutaka Kikutake Kyobashi (Tokyo)
2024 "Contemporary Art Around Us II -Scenery-" Daitokuji Zuihoin (Kyoto)
2024 "* folding cosmos NEW YORK" The Noguchi Museum (New York, USA)
2024 "Contemporary Japanese Art Private View: Ryutaro Takahashi Collection" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo)
2024 "Sapporo International Art Festival 2024" Future Theater [Higashi 1-chome Theater Facility] (Sapporo)
2023 "THE SNOWFLAKES" Tomakomai City Art Museum (Tomakomai) *THE SNOWFLAKES
2023 "TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2023" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo)
2023 "Contemporary Art at One's Side" Daitokuji Zuihoin (Kyoto)
2023 "lab in the forest vol.5" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi) *Ayoro Laboratory
2023 "Tobi Art Festival 2023" Tobi Art Community (Shiraoi)
2022 "Snowflakes #4 jam" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi) *THE SNOWFLAKES
2022 "lab in the forest vol.4" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi) *Ayoro Laboratory
2022 "Tobiu Art Festival 2022" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi)
2022 "Art and Peace: Let Us Begin Again from Zero o’Clock" Ulsan Art Museum (Ulsan, South Korea) ※THE SNOWFLAKES
2021 "Yanbaru Art Festival 2021-2022" Ogimi Village Former Shioya Elementary School (Ogimi) *THE SNOWFLAKES
2021 "Hokkaido Bank 70th Anniversary, Dogin Cultural Foundation 30th Anniversary Commemorative Art Exhibition, Dogin Arts and Culture Encouragement Award Winning Artists Exhibition" Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo)
2021 "lab in the forest vol.3" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi) *Ayoro Laboratory
2021 "Tobiu Art Festival 2021" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi)
2021 "Door to Contemporary Art" Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store (Tokyo)
2020 "lab in the forest vol.2" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi) *Ayoro Laboratory
2020 "Tobiu Art Festival 2020" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi)
2019 "lab in the forest" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi) *Ayoro Laboratory
2019 "Tobiu Art Festival 2019" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi)
2019 "Shinano no Kuni Primitive Sensory Art Festival 2019 Water's Virgin Sand" Lakeside of Lake Kizaki (Shinano Omachi)
2019 "* folding cosmos | "Maison Louis Carré" Louis Carré House (Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France)
2019 "Nameless landscape" Sapporo Cultural Arts Exchange Center SCARTS Court, Studio (Sapporo)
2018 "Yanbaru Art Festival 2018-2019" Ogimi Village Former Shioya Elementary School (Ogimi) * Tobiu Art Community
2018 "Ayoro Landscape" THE NORTH FACE STANDARD FUTAKOTAMAGAWA (Tokyo) *Ayoro Laboratory
2018 "Niseko Summer Art Festival 2018" KIYOE GALLERY NISEKO (Niseko)
2018 "Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale" Echigo-Tsumari Region [Tokamachi City, Niigata Prefecture, Tsunan Town] (Tokamachi)
2018 "* folding cosmos Villa « Le Lac » Le Corbusier" Small house (Corsier, Switzerland)
2018 "Tobiu Art Festival 10th Anniversary Project 'Exhibition of Artists Gathering at Tobiu' - Charity Exhibition for School Building Repairs" TO OV cafe/gallery (Sapporo)
2017 "* folding cosmos BARCELONA | Mies van der Rohe Pavilion. "Mies van der Rohe Pavilion (Barcelona, Spain)"
2017 "Scenes of Memory" Gallery Monma (Sapporo)
2017 "Tobiu Art Festival 2017" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi)
2017 "Sapporo International Art Festival 2017" Sapporo Miyanomori Art Museum Main Building (Sapporo) *Ayoro Laboratory
2017 "GALLERY So 10th Anniversary Exhibition 'Red +'" GALLERY So (Sapporo)
2017 "IFDA ASAHIKAWA 2017" Asahikawa Design Center (Asahikawa)
2017 "VOCA Exhibition 2017 Outlook on Contemporary Art - Artists of the New Plane" Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo)
2016 "* folding cosmos TOKYO" Keio University Mita Campus "Old Noguchi Room" (Tokyo)
2016 "Ayoro Parallel World" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi) *Ayoro Laboratory
2016 "Tobiu Art Festival 2016" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi)
2016 "Being Together, Existing Together" Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo)
2016 "500m Art Museum vol.18 My Collection" Sapporo Odori Underground Gallery 500m Art Museum (Sapporo)
2015 "PS Kitafushiko Open Studio" PS. Kitafushiko ART STUDIOS (Memuro)
2015 "* folding cosmos HIROSHIMA" Oriental Design Gallery (Hiroshima)
2015 "Tobiu Art Festival 2015" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi)
2015 "* folding cosmos VILLA SAVOYE" Villa Savoye (Poissy, France)
2015 "* folding cosmos HELSINKI" Annantalo Arts Center (Helsinki, Finland)
2014 "Object Matters: Exploring Concepts and Materials in Contemporary Japanese Expression" gallery VOICE (Tajimi)
2014 "Ezotic Caravan - From the North of the Country -" Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (Tokyo)
2014 "Children and Adults Art Exhibition: Let's Play with Wood and Stone" Tomakomai City Museum of Art and History (Tomakomai)
2014 "Hiyuki Art Festival 2014" Hiyuki Art Community (Shiraoi)
2014 "'The Trees Speak' Exhibition" Gallery Monma & ANNEX (Sapporo)
2014 "* folding cosmos 2014 - 2015 | plus KITAHAMA Alley Edition "Kitahama alley (Takamatsu)"
2014 "500m Art Museum vol.11 'North Pulse -North Line-'" Sapporo Odori Underground Gallery 500m Art Museum (Sapporo)
2014 "Grand Opening & Charity Exhibition 'HOPE'" Kita:Kara gallery (Sapporo)
2014 "Obihiro Contemporary Art 2014" Obihiro Civic Gallery (Obihiro)
2013 "* folding cosmos 2013 Takamatsu" Kagawa Prefectural Museum Annex (Takamatsu)
2013 "Sapporo Art Exhibition Aqua-Line" Sapporo Art Park Museum (Sapporo)
2013 "* folding cosmos 2013" Daisetsu Suzuki Museum (Kanazawa)
2013 "Asuka Kunimatsu & Kinta Exhibition" Daimaru Sapporo Store 8th Floor Art Gallery (Sapporo)
2013 "* folding cosmos 2013" Moerenuma Park Glass Pyramid (Sapporo)
2013 "Tobiu Art Festival 2013" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi)
2013 "* folding cosmos 2013" Dahlem Museum Center (Berlin, Germany)
2013 "Doto University Faculty of Fine Arts Department of Design Faculty Exhibition" Kitahiroshima City Arts and Culture Hall Gallery (Kitahiroshima)
2013 "ACROSS" MORIHICO Plantation (Sapporo)
2013 "PARC 1 [ Biotope ]" Sapporo Station Front Underground Walkway|Kita 1-jo Event Space (Sapporo)
2013 "New Point vol.10" Daido Gallery (Sapporo)
2012 "Forest Art Festival 2012" Jozankei Tsuruga Resort Spa Mori no Uta (Sapporo)
2012 "Tobiu Art Festival 2012" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi)
2012 "New Point vol.9" Daido Gallery (Sapporo)
2011 "Forest Art Festival" Jozankei Tsuruga Resort Spa Mori no Uta (Sapporo)
2011 "Tobiu Art Festival 2011" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi)
2011 "Tarumae arty 2011" Gallery LEO (Tomakomai)
2011 "Noboru Kunimatsu, Asuka, Kineda Exhibition - Three Generations -" Campana Rokkatei Gallery "Garden Where Gods Play" (Furano)
2011 "New Point vol.8" Daido Gallery (Sapporo)
2010 "Artizing the Archive." Sapporo Archive (Sapporo)
2010 "Art Stage 2010 500m Art Museum" Underground concourse from Subway Tozai Line "Bus Center-mae Station" to "Odori Station" (Sapporo)
2010 "Buddhism + Contemporary Art -zero-" Culture Hub UNIVAS (Sapporo)
2010 "Kasumi kasuminimum" MORUE (Morue) Nakajima (Muroran)
2010 "Northern Matchstick Art Exhibition 02." HIARATA ART STUDIO (Tomakomai)
2010 "Tobiu Art Festival 2010" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi)
2010 "RISING SUN ROCK FESTIVAL 2010 in EZO" Outdoor special stage next to Tarukawa Pier, Ishikari Bay New Port (Otaru)
2010 "Art in everyday life." Gallery Monma (Sapporo)
2010 "Art the Clock Tower." Clock Tower (Sapporo)
2010 "Hokkaido Three-Dimensional Expression Exhibition '10" Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hongo Shin Memorial Sapporo Sculpture Museum (Sapporo)
2010 "I want to buy art for myself -50,000 '10 Exhibition" CAI02 (Sapporo)
2010 "New Point vol.7" Daido Gallery (Sapporo)
2009 "Turning the archive into ART." Sapporo Archive Museum (Sapporo)
2009 "Chair Dream" Continental Gallery (Sapporo)
2009 "My Chairs Vol.3 Exhibition of Chairs by 16 Creators - Feeling the Material -" Gallery So (Sapporo)
2009 "Tobiu Art Festival" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi)
2009 "Rokka File" Rokka Bunko (Sapporo)
2009 "Tarumae arty 2009" Workshop LEO (Tomakomai)
2009 "MAGICAL CAMP 2009" Sapporo Teine Highland (Sapporo)
2009 "the IMAGIKAL vol.002" CAI02 (Sapporo)
2009 "the IMAGIKAL vol.001.5" MORROW ZONE (Sapporo)
2009 "Flowers of the Snow Country - Japanese Writers North of N40°" M50 building No.18 (Shanghai, China)
2009 "Kasumi" Muroran City Art Museum (Muroran)
2009 "Sculptor Creates Furniture, Applies Contemporary Lacquer Exhibition" PS. Kitafushiko ART STUDIOS (Obihiro)
2009 "the IMAGIKAL vol.001" CAI02 (Sapporo)
2009 "A Certain" CAI02 (Sapporo)
2009 "New Point vol.6" Daido Gallery (Sapporo)
2008 "WONDERLAND. art for all" Gallery Benten 17 (Hong Kong)
2008 "REWIND" Gallery Benten 17 (Hong Kong)
2008 "Ladder Exhibition" Kitahiroshima City Arts and Culture Hall (Kitahiroshima)
2008 "PLEASURE OF MONDAY -P.O.M-" DOG HOUSE & LIBIDO (Sapporo)
2008 "ART BOX 2008" Sapporo Art Park Outdoor Stage (Sapporo)
2008 "Extra Edition Tarumae Arty" Tomakomai City Cultural Exchange Center (Tomakomai)
2008 "Kasumi" Gallery Tapio (Sapporo)
2008 "Hong Kong ArtWalk 2008" Gallery Benten 17 (Hong Kong)
2008 "New Point vol.5" Daido Gallery (Sapporo)
2007 "Kasumi" Wanishi STUDIO (Muroran)
2007 "Dala Space Gallery Opening Exhibition" Dala Space (Otaru)
2007 "Rokka File" Rokka Bunko (Sapporo)
2007 "TOBIU meets OKI" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi)
2007 "Tarumae arty 2007" Workshop LEO (Tomakomai)
2007 "Kunimatsu Kineda Sakamoto Shotaro Sculpture Exhibition" Citizens' Association for Creating an Art Museum in Muroran SALON (Muroran)
2007 "New Point vol.4" Daido Gallery (Sapporo)
2006 "TANTRA Autumn Camp 2006" Tobiu Art Community (Shiraoi)
2006 "Kasumi" Shin-Nippon Steel Gymnasium (Muroran)
2006 "Tarumae arty 2006" Workshop LEO (Tomakomai)
2006 "RISING SUN ROCK FESTIVAL 2006 in EZO" Outdoor special stage next to Tarukawa Pier, Ishikari Bay New Port (Otaru)
2006 "2nd Kanbō Exhibition" Gallery Dorāru (Sapporo)
2006 "New Point vol.3" Daido Gallery (Sapporo)
2005 "I want to buy art for myself -50,000" CAI (Sapporo)
2005 "6th Conference of the Society for Environmental Arts" Sapporo Media Park Spica (Sapporo)
2005 "TOBIU 20th Anniversary Exhibition" Shiraoi Town Community Center (Shiraoi)
2005 "Tarumae arty 2005" Cafe Minatoya and others (Tomakomai)
2005 "Northern Art and Craft Exhibition" Continental Gallery (Sapporo)
2005 "New Point vol.2" Daido Gallery (Sapporo)
2004 "I want to buy art for myself -50,000" CAI (Sapporo)
2004 "1st Iron Festa" Muroran City Civic Hall (Muroran)
2004 "Sculpture Exhibition X" Continental Gallery (Sapporo)
2004 "New Point" Daido Gallery (Sapporo)
1999 "extracurricular" Gallery Space 21 (Tokyo)
Art Fair
2025 "Art Fair Tokyo 2025" Tokyo International Forum (Tokyo)
2024 "Art Fair Tokyo 2024" Tokyo International Forum (Tokyo)
2023 "Art Fair Tokyo 2023" Tokyo International Forum (Tokyo)
2022 "Art Fair Tokyo 2022" Tokyo International Forum (Tokyo)
2021 "Art Fair Tokyo 2021" Tokyo International Forum (Tokyo)
2019 "—Rin— Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Art Market 2019" Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store (Tokyo)
2019 "Art Fair Tokyo 2019" Tokyo International Forum (Tokyo)
2018 "Selected Art Fair 2018 'Collection of Many Merchants'" Spiral (Tokyo)
2018 "—Rin— Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Art Market 2018" Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store (Tokyo)
2018 "Art Fair Tokyo 2018" Tokyo International Forum (Tokyo)
2017 "spiral take art collection 2017 'Collection of Many Merchants'" Spiral (Tokyo)
2017 "Art Fair Tokyo 2017" Tokyo International Forum (Tokyo)
2016 "Art Fair Tokyo 2016" Tokyo International Forum (Tokyo)
2015 "Art Fair Tokyo 2015" Tokyo International Forum (Tokyo)
2013 "Emerging Directors Art Fair 'Ultra 006'" Spiral Garden (Tokyo)