Lives and works in Kyoto, Japan
“I often draw humans. We say humans, but there are many people. I portray drunken locals, clergy, or sometimes myself. Each person has something contradictory, such as sacred/vulgar, or beautiful/ugly, but they are equivalent inside a painting - all beings depicted by material paint”.
Shinya Azuma
Azuma graduated from the Faculty of Art and Design from Kyoto University in 2020. He has presented six individual exhibitions: YOROSHIKU (Galerie Marguo, Paris, France, 2024), Anonymous collection (Zero Base Jingumae, Tokyo, 2023), Shame: Inevitable Man (COHJU Contemporary Art, Kyoto, 2022), Throw a knuckleball from the jungle (EUKARYOTE, Tokyo, 2021), Joint technique (Seibu Shibuya Art Gallery, Tokyo, 2020) y Human. Human? Human! (COHJU Contemporary Art, Kyoto, 2020). He has also participated in various collective exhibitions, including: The Echoes of East Kyoto (WHAT CAFE, Tokyo, 2024), MtK satellite Vol.2 (MtK satellite, Aichi, Japan, 2023), Welcome to the Painting Jungle (Biscuit Gallery, Tokyo, 2021), Jet Stream Logic (COHJU Contemporary Art, Kyoto, 2021), Young okazaki vol.01 (MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto, 2021), Nine colors XV (Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo, 2021), KANSAI VOICES (Nichido Contemporary Art, Toyo, 2020), Social insurance and the Sphinx (Yuge, Kyoto, 2020), God’s left hand, Devil’s right hand (EUKARYOTE, Tokyo, 2020) y YAE (Eukaryote, Tokyo, 2019). He has also participated in art fairs Untitled Art (Miami, USA, 2023 - 2021), ART021 Contemporary Art Fair (Shanghai, China, 2023), Art Collaboration Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan, 2023 - 2022), Art Paris (Paris, France, 2023), Art Fair Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan, 2022 - 2021) and Art Osaka (Osaka, Japan, 2021). His work is part of the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art Collection, Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Anonymous Collection and Miyashita Park. Azuma is represented by SAENGER GALERÍA.
