CV - Kyoko Imazu
Education
2007Bachelor Degree of Fine Art (Printmaking)RMITUniversity
2005Diploma of Arts (Visual Art)RMITUniversity
2003Foundation Studies,Art, Design and CommunicationRMITUniversity
Solo Exhibition
2013AdoreBird’s gallery, Kew
Mammals from MelbourneMuseumConsulate General of Japan, Melbourne
2011In the NeighbourhoodBrunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy
2011Six RealmsPort Jackson Press, Fitzroy
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013New BestiarumBoom Gallery, Geelong
5 Press on!Printmaker Gallery, Fitzroy
Editions Tacit Contemporary Art, Abbotsford
Meet in the middle (two persons)Sofitel Hotel, Melbourne
2012Fremantle Print AwardFremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
Calacas International Print ExchangeExpressions Graphics, Illinois,USA
Flora, Fauna, and Fantasy Gordon Edgerton Gallery, Gordon
Other WorldsDaley Gallery, TrinityGrammar School,
Kew
100 Works on Paper Kentler Gallery, New YorkUSA
Talking of a Chameleon (two persons)Perimeter Books, Thornbury
7th Annual Artist Book ExhibitionArtisan Books, Fitzroy
Recent prints in Japan (two persons)Consulate General of Japan, Melbourne
Pursuit DelhiIndia Art Fair
Collaborate (two persons)Japan Foundation Gallery, Sydney
2011Installation and Exhibition (two persons)Aesop Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
A Happy Medium Solander Works on Paper
Public Hanging XIVMethodistLadiesCollege, Melbourne
BSG Art Prize Show Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
Damon Kowarsky & Kyoko Imazu CollaboratePort Jackson Press, Melbourne
(two persons)
Manly Library Artist Book AwardManly Library, Sydney
2010Carbon Co-DependencePlatform, Melbourne
Insert Coin HereCBD, Melbourne
2009Geelong Acquisitive Print AwardsGeelong Gallery, Geelong
35th Anniversary Showa Bijutsu-kaiKyoto Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Art MiraiNational Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan
Second NatureBus Projects, Melbourne
2008ImaginationWayside Chapel, Sydney
Port Jackson Press Graduate Printmaking AwardPort Jackson Press
2007ImpressionFirst Site Gallery, Melbourne
Book. 07 Works of ImaginationNoosa Regional Gallery, Noosa
The Animal ShowCarlisle Health Practice, Melbourne
The Mary and Lou Senini Student AwardMcClelland Gallery, Melbourne
2006Exchange Folio ShowRMITUniversity
CurtinUniversity
SydneyCollege of Arts
2005DetailsFitzroy Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Awards
2012 selected for Fremantle Print Award
2011 Japan Foundation Sydney Facetnate! New Visual Artists Grant
2011selected for Manly Library Artist Book Award
2009selected for Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, short-listed, selected for Art Mirai Award
2008Firestation Print Studio Award
Collections
RMITUniversity
CurtinUniversity
SydneyCollege of Arts
State Library of Queensland
National Gallery of Australia
Port Jackson Press
Australian Print Workshop
Private collections in Melbourne, Sydney, Finland, Netherland, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong and Japan
Biography
‘Drawn in by Kyoto’, Stonnington Review, March 6 2013
Noriko, T ‘ “Stuffed with love” and “Appropriate Vandalism”’ GoGo Melbourne/Japan in Melbourne February 2013
Rule, D ‘Aesop. A Quiet Empire’, Broadsheet, Melbourne, March 2012
Hagger, D. "Appropriate Vandalism'. IMPRINT Autumn 2012
Ando, A ‘Collaborate’ The-One. Sydney April 2012
‘Collaborate’ JamsTV. February 24, 2012
‘Street level with Damon Kowarsky and Kyoko Imazu’ The Brag, Sydney. February 22 2012
Finch, SJ [Ed] Dotdotdash 08 "Gambit" Summer 2011 pp16-17, 65
Korp, M Golem and the Sufi New York November 2011
Studio Voice, October 2011
Guiguis, J 'Downtown' Inner FM 96.5 Melbourne October 4 2011
Guiguis, J 'Downtown' Inner FM 96.5 Melbourne June 29 2011
Coson, M ‘Printmakers heart Aesop’ Broadsheet Melbourne June 23 2011
Nagao, H Interview on SBS Japanese Radio MelbourneJune 21 2011
Kohchi, Y ‘Damon Kowarsky and Kyoko Imazu Collaborate’ GoGo Melbourne May 2011