Daisuke Fukunaga

  • Fertile break 2022 oil on canvas 194.0 x 259.0 cm ©︎Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Sleeping guys 2022 oil on canvas 130.3 x 194.0 cm ©︎Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Intimacy talking 2022 oil on canvas 65.2 x 100.0 cm ©︎Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Installation view from “Labor” at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2020 ©Daisuke Fukunaga photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation view from “Labor” at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2020 ©Daisuke Fukunaga photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation view from “Labor” at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2020 ©Daisuke Fukunaga photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation view from “Labor” at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2020 ©Daisuke Fukunaga photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • 街を這う男 Crawler in the City 2020 oil on canvas 194.0 x 225.9 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • 福永大介 Daisuke Fukunaga Night work 2020 oil on canvas 194.0 x 225.9 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Daydream 2020 oil on canvas 112.3 x 162.3 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Sleeping man 2020 oil on canvas 80.3 x 100.2 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Charge 2020 oil on canvas 162.2 x 227.3 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Under the fragrant olive 2020 oil on canvas 50.0 x 65.5 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Not downer 2020 oil on canvas 145.6 x 112.2 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Installation view from "Documenting Senses - From Cats'Eyes, Not Dogs -" at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2015 ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Installation view from "Documenting Senses - From Cats'Eyes, Not Dogs -" at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2015 ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Installation view from "Documenting Senses - From Cats'Eyes, Not Dogs -" at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2015 ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Installation view from "Documenting Senses - From Cats'Eyes, Not Dogs -" at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2015 ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Blooming at a factory 2015 oil on canvas 182.5 × 259.0 cm @Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Sky 2015 oil on canvas 194 × 97 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Sculpture on a street 2015 oil on canvas 162.0 × 194.0 cm @Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Flexible Containers Bag 2015 oil on canvas 97.0 × 162.0 cm @Daisuke Fukunaga
  • ◯△□ 2013 oil on canvas 65.0 × 80.5 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Flowers 2012 oil on canvas 227.3 × 181.8 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • crackers 2012-2013 oil on canvas 162.0 × 194.0 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Installation view from "Nostalgia" at Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto, Japan, 2013 ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Installation view from "Nostalgia" at Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto, Japan, 2013 ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • MATE 2010 oil on canvas 193.8 × 162.5 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • HoTEL Woman 2009-2010 oil on canvas 220.2 × 173.8 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • ECSTASY 2010 oil on canvas 227.5 × 182.0 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Locker room 2009 oil on canvas 194.0 × 130.5 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • PLAY 2009 oil on canvas 194.0 × 194.0 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • underground(にらめっこ staring game) 2009 oil on canvas 167.5 × 80.0 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • untitled 2008 oil on canvas 162.0 × 130.5 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Workers 4 2008 oil on canvas 227.5 × 182.0 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • The Light 2008 oil on canvas 116.5 × 91.0 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • a sunny place 2008 oil on canvas 194.0 × 259.0 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • back ground 2008 oil on canvas 259.0 × 194.0 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Tough guys 2008 oil on canvas 259.0 × 194.0 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • local emotion 2007-2008 oil on canva 259.0 × 194.0cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Installation view from "Local Emotion" at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2008 ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Installation view from "Local Emotion" at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2008 ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Installation view from "Local Emotion" at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2008 ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Have a break ! 2007 oil on canvas 259.0 × 194.0 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • neighbourhood garden 2006 oil on canvas 227.5 × 227.5 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • in the room 2006 oil on canvas 80.3 × 62.5 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • LEISURE LAND 2006 oil on canvas 41.0 × 31.8 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • scrap 2006 oil on canvas 130.3 × 162.0 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Installation view from "Daisuke Fukunaga" at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2006 ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • Installation view from "Daisuke Fukunaga" at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2006 ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • The garden made by ordinary people artist 2005 oil on canvas 194.0 × 194.0 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • U.O. 2005 oil on canvas 97.0 × 130.3 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • TAKOCHUU park −the garden made by outsider− 2004 oil on canvas 130.3 × 194.0 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • pansy fish bomb 2004 oil on canvas 162.0 × 130.0 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • a water a reservoir 2004 oil on canva 162.0 × 130.0 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga
  • a lovely garden 2004 oil on canva 194.0 × 112.0 cm ©Daisuke Fukunaga

Objects depicted in Daisuke Fukunaga’s painting are something too ordinary for us to pay attention everyday – places or objects we have forgotten, such as a shabby vacant lot, a dark basement of the construction building without wiring, old cleaning tools like mops, tires, and wastes. With his “representationalism” approach, these objects seem to throw off its functional meanings attached to them and wriggle like animals, as if they had emotions and personalities.
Personified objects against the dramatic backgrounds in Fukunaga’s paintings evoke strongly and theatrically, emphasized by being depicted on large canvases. The senses of endless depth and presence as materials attract viewers.

Fukunaga Daisuke was born in Tokyo, in 1981. He graduated from the oil painting course of Tama Art University in 2004, lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. He has participated in group shows such as “AFTER THE REALITY 2” curated by Hiromi Yoshii (Daichi Projects, New York, 2008), “VOCA Exhibition 2009” (The Ueno Royal Museum), and “The Way of Painting” (Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, 2014). Also as a member of the artist group MIHOKANNO, he participated in group exhibitions “Hello MIHOKANNO” (Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, 2009) and “GOOD NIGHT MIHOKANNO” (Akibatamabi 21, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, 2011). He won the first Kinutani Koji Award sponsored by the Mainichi Shimbun in 2009. At Tomio Koyama Gallery, Fukunaga has held solo exhibitions in 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013 and 2015.

Solo Exhibitions

2024 “Self Meditation” High Art, Paris, France
2022 “Fertile Break” Antenna Space, Shanghai, China
“Beautiful Work” Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Labor” Tomio Koyama Gallley, Tokyo, Japan
2015 “Documenting Senses – From Cats’Eyes, Not Dogs –” Tomio Koyama Gallley, Tokyo, Japan
2013 “Nostalgia” Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto, Japan
2011 “To have something as support” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008 “Local Emotion” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2006 Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibitions

2024 “Mon Cherie CoCo” Institut français de Tokyo, Japan
“Let's See” ArtSpace@HeluTrans, Singapore
2023 “Some Stools” TACOSUAVE, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
“BLUE WIND” HIGH ART ARLES, Arles, France
2021 “Natsuyasumi: In the Beginning Was Love” Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles, CA
“Fifteen Painters” Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
2020 “The Alpha and the Omega” Uriwari Sekitei Park, Yamagata, Japan
2019 “island” Art Laboratory Hashimoto, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
2018 “SUPER OPEN STUDIO 2018” LUCKY HAPPY STUDIO, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
“Satoshi Ohno Studio Exhibition” Satoshi Ohno Studio, Yamanashi, Japan
2017 “waiting in vain” statements, Tokyo, Japan
“COOL INVITATIONS 4” XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan
“Sayonara Jupiter” 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA
2015 “SOMETHINKS: Daisuke Fukunaga, Keisuke Yamamoto” Art Laboratory Hashimoto, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
“Taguchi Hiroshi Art Collection A Walk around the Contemporary Art World after Paradigm Shift” The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
2014 “Group exhibition by Tomio Koyama Gallery” TOLOT/heuristic SHINONOME, Tokyo, Japan

“The Way of Painting” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013 “The Storm for Art and Popular Culture” Nagoya Citizens' Gallery Yada, Aichi, Japan
2011 “GOOD NIGHT MIHOKANNO” Akiba Tamabi21, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

“FM 'REISSUED WOMEN'” Sprout Curation, Tokyo, Japan
2010 “Painting by Four Artists” Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto, Japan
2009 “VOCA 2009” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan

TEAM 15 MIHOKANNO “Hello! MIHOKANNO” Tokyo Wondersite Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
2008 “AFTER THE REALITY 2” Deitch projects, New York, NY

“Vrishaba through Mithuna” Curated by Soshiro Matsubara, hiromiyoshii, Tokyo, Japan

Public Collections

The Taguchi Art Collection
Ryutaro Takahashi Collection

Awards

2009 The 1st Koji Kinutani Prize, The Mainichi Newspapers