ART FAIR TOKYO 2026
LURF GALLERY will exhibit at Art Fair Tokyo 2026 to be held at Tokyo International Forum.
The fair will feature a group of works by five artists active in Japan and abroad: Shinpei Arima, Oscar Oiwa, Isshin Tanizaki, Iori Nagashima, and Shinpei Yoshida, who will exhibit their newest works.
Shinpei Arima (b. 1979, Saga Prefecture, Japan) creates works that connect the viewer's imagination to the memories of time and nature carved in the annual rings of trees through the texture of the materials. Oiwa Oscar (born in 1965 in Sao Paulo, Brazil) presents paintings that construct an imaginary narrative of social and environmental issues from his own memories. Isshin Tanizaki (b. 1974, Fukuoka, Japan) depicts the imagination that opens from the memory of nature and landscape to the starting point of life. Iori Nagashima (b. 1997, Osaka) explores the temporality and position of existence between things and people, starting from everyday memories. Shinpei Yoshida (b. 1992, Nara) overlaps the experiences of others and himself through the medium of photographic memory.
We look forward to seeing you at the exhibition.
ART FAIR TOKYO 2026
Friday, March 13, 2026 - Sunday, March 15, 2026
LURF GALLERY Booth: L001
OVERVIEW
| Meeting Period | Friday, March 13, 2026 - Sunday, March 15, 2026 |
| Venue | Tokyo International Forum, Hall E / Lobby Gallery (3-5-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) |
| Booth No. | L001 (B1F Lobby Gallery) |
| Exhibiting Artists | Shinpei Arima, Oscar Oiwa, Isshin Tanizaki, Iori Nagashima, Shinpei Yoshida |
| VIP (by invitation only) | |
| Thursday, March 12 | |
| 11:00 - 19:00 | VIP (First Choice) |
| 13:00 - 19:00 | VIP |
| read permission | |
| Friday, March 13 | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Saturday, March 14 | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| March 15 (Sunday) | 11:00 - 17:00 |
ARTISTS
SHIMPEI ARIMA
1979 Born in Saga Prefecture, Japan. Lives and works in Oita City, Oita Prefecture.
2004 Completed Master’s Program in Art Education, Graduate School of Education, Oita University.
Shimpei Arima began his artistic practice while in graduate school, creating sculptural works using sugi (Japanese cedar) found throughout Japan.
His signature series, titled "Sugicodama," is carved from cedar and emerges from a dialogue with the human-like spirit he senses within the wood. Arima has exhibited both in Japan and abroad, and his works are installed in various cultural institutions.
OSCAR OIWA
1965 Born in São Paulo, Brazil.
1989 Graduated from School of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo.
1991 Moved to Tokyo
2002 Moved to New York City.
Currently lives and works in New York City.
I am an artist living in the "world in between". Born in Sao Paulo to Japanese parents, I now work internationally. My practice is born from the experience of moving between cultures, landscapes, and psychological states...
ISSHIN TANISAKI
1974 Born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
Isshin Tanisaki works with the theme of "life's energy and circulation," painting vortices—combinations of color and texture that symbolize energetic motion—to embody vital force on the canvas.
Since the early 2000s he has shown landscapes made from dense fields of fine dots, the very origin of his vortex motif. By positioning the vortex as a primordial form underlying all phenomena, and rendering vortex worlds in a minimalist way, Tanisaki reflects on the energy that generates life itself and on the formation of our everyday world and the cosmos.
IORI NAGASHIMA
1997 Born in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
2020 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Oil Painting, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Iori Nagashima paints everyday life. Working primarily with figures, still lives, and landscapes, he captures fleeting moments of quiet time on canvas. While pursuing the forms of his subjects and the light that falls on them, his brushwork—emerging from the body—and the accumulated decisions of when to paint and when to hold back bring into view a psychological distance from the motif, a temporal distance from memory, and a shifting relationship with the viewer.
SHIMPEI YOSHIDA
1992 Born in Nara Prefecture, Japan.
2014 Graduated from the Oil Painting Course at Kyoto University of the Arts (formerly Kyoto University of Art and Design).
Working primarily with painting, the artist is currently based in Tokyo. Prompted by the experience surrounding the death of his grandmother, he began a portrait series that marked a turning point in his practice. In 2018, he participated in an artist-in-residence program at the artist-run space FRISE in Hamburg, Germany.
Engaging with themes such as existence and absence, and memory and forgetting, his work questions the fragility and significance of what is difficult to perceive, what has been forgotten, and what remains invisible—within a contemporary society that often assumes everything that is "seen" can be shared universally with others.
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