Profile

Karen Shiozawa

塩沢かれん

Born in Kanagawa in 1998, Karen Shiozawa spent several years of her childhood in the Netherlands and graduated Major in Fine Arts Graduate School of Tokyo Zokei University. Shiozawa is consistently seeking to expand the realm of communication mediated through her work. While projecting her childhood memories and everyday feelings into the two-dimensional works, she is also aiming to represent a world that is perceived through means other than sight by pursuing the phenomenon like sound and light. She was awarded the Best Formative Art Prize at the Asian Creative Art Exhibition 2018 held at The National Art Center, Tokyo.
She was also awarded the Outstanding Performance Prize at the 48th Art Festival Tokyo-ten Exhibition 2022 held at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. In 2020, her works are acquired by Deji Art Museum in China.

"Real，true world - it would be the memory of the world which could once exist or the appearance of the future that I have not seen yet."
"People who saw my artworks recognize the worlds which could exist countlessly and can feel an admiration or nostalgia for the bright and unfathomable extent of space which can be seen through the gap of those worlds, then they can open many doors of imagination." "Connecting people’s consciousness and sense, realization and recognition, I would like to create artworks which could catch the heat and sound which could not be noticed in the real world.

― Karen Shiozawa

Awards

2021 "The 47th Art Festival -Tokyo Exhibition-" (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum) Excellence Award

2019"45th Art Festival -Tokyo Exhibition-(Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum) Encouragement Award

2018 "Asian Creative Art Exhibition 2018" (The National Art Center, Tokyo) Best Art Award

2017 "Five Art University Exchange Exhibition 2017" (Musashino Art University) & nbsp; Asian Imaginative Art Exhibition Award Special Excellence Award

MAJOR EXHIBITIONS, COLLECTIONS

solo exhibitions

2022 Beyond the sea of melody”( Karuizawa New Art Museum/ Karuizawa)

2022 "Residents of leap second" (GALLERY AND LINKS81/Ginza)

2022 "starry skyKanenhua -Galaxy Carnival-" (Shiraishi Gallery/Taiwan)

2020 "Music Box of Light" (Whitestone Ginza New gallery/Ginza)

2019 "Leap Second Resident" (Gallery Canon / Ginza)

Group Shows

2022 "The 48th Art Festival - Tokyo Exhibition" (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum/Ueno)

2022 "Contrasting Confluences" (Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong / Hong Kong)

2021"The 47th Art Festival -Tokyo Exhibition-" (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)
2021 "Dimensions" (Whitestone Gallery / Ginza)
2021 "ART POINT Selection Ⅳ" (GALLERY ART POINT/ Ginza)
2021 "Tokyo Art Association Small Works Exhibition" (Gallery Seiko Do/Ginza)

2020 "San Ninten" (Gallery Niiku / Omotesando)
2020 "Little Fables" (Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong / Hong Kong)
2020 "ART POINT selection I" (GALLERY ART POINT/ Ginza)

2019 "GALLERY ART POINT Grand Prize Exhibition KIZUNA2019" (GALLERY ART POINT/Ginza)

2019 "45th Tokyo Exhibition" (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)

2019 "The Power of Art" (Isetan Shinjuku)
2019 "Konjaku Izu Exhibition" (GINZA SIX/ Ginza)

2018"Futari ~Unique multi-talented~ (Double exhibition)" (Gallery Niiku / Omotesando)

2018"The 44th Tokyo Exhibition" (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)

2018"Visit" (Tokyo Metropolitan Theater)

2018"The Resonant World (Four Artists Exhibition)" (Gallery Canon / Ginza)

2018"Things from Another World" (Ginza Mitsukoshi)

2018"Miniature Painting Exhibition" (Gallery Canon/Ginza)

2018"Tokyo Exhibition Fresh Exhibition" (Art Space Ginza One / Ginza)

2018 "Asian Creative Art Exhibition" (The National Art Center, Tokyo)

2017"The 43rd Tokyo Exhibition" (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)

2017"My Thoughts Book Exhibition" (Gallery Canon / Ginza)

2017"99 People Exhibition" (Gallery Q/Ginza)

2017"Five Art Universities Exchange Exhibition 2017" (Musashino Art University)

2017“Five Art Universities Exchange Exhibition Small Works Exhibition” (Ginza Modern Art Gallery/Ginza)

COLLECTIONS

Deji Art Museum (China)

1998年神奈川生まれ。東京造形大学大学院造形研究科美術研究領域修了。幼少期の数年間をオランダで過ごした塩沢かれんは、作品を媒介としたコミュニケーション領域の拡張を一貫して模索。幼少期の記憶や日々の生活のなかでの感覚を平面に落とし込むほか、視覚以外で認識できる世界を表象するため、音や光などの現象を追求することで鑑賞者の五感に語りかけるような表現を模索してきた。
国立新美術館で開催されたアジア創造美術展2018にて、最優秀造形賞受賞。東京都美術館で開催された第48回美術の祭典-東京展-(2022)にて優秀賞受賞。2020年中国のDeji Art Museum に作品が収蔵された。

「現実の本当の世界」。それはかつてあったかもしれない世界の記憶かもしれないし、まだ見たことのない未来の姿なのかもしれない。私の作品に触れた人は、無数にあるかもしれない世界を認識し、その世界の隙間から見え隠れする眩しくて計り知れない広がりに憧れや懐かしさを抱きながらいくつもの想像の扉を開くことができる。人々の意識と意識、認識と認識の橋渡し的な働きをしながら、現実社会の中で気づかない心の声を拾い上げるような作品を生み出していきたい。

―　塩沢かれん