Akihiro Funahashi

Through art, I have pursued the essence of things.
What I found was frequency, wave, and elementary particle.
Nature is unstable and indeterminate.
Within that indeterminacy, something dwells that cannot be put into words.
I give it form — in the state of Naka-Ima, the eternal now.
Working across painting, photography, and sculpture, I do not plan my compositions in advance. I work in a state where thought cannot keep up with the hand — where the body moves before the mind can intervene. This is Naka-Ima: not the past, not the future, but the perpetually renewed present of Japanese spiritual tradition.
The frequency series explores the invisible vibrations that exist beneath the surface of all things — skin, light, color, silence. Each work is a record of a moment when something that cannot be named passed through the body and left a trace.
Nature is always changing. Unstable. Indeterminate. I do not resist this. I work with it.

Graduated from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts majored in Sculpture

[Solo Exhibition] (Painting)
September 1993, Art Space X, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya

February 1998, Nabisu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

March 2000, Exhibition Room 2, Haruhi Museum, Haruhi-town, Aichi

December 2003, HEART FIELD GALLERY, Nagoya, Japan

August 2004, Gallery APA, Nagoya

July, 2005, Gallery GA-RAKU, Nagoya

September 2007, Gallery GA-RAKU, Nagoya

November 2007 Galleria Finarte, Nagoya

November 2009, Galleria Finarte, Nagoya

November 2024,Galerie Tokyo Humanité bis,Tokyo

[Solo Exhibition] (Photography)
September 2017 GALLERY ART POINT,Tokyo



[Other Exhibitions]

October 1990, “MITO October Exhibition” Mito Museum

July 1998, the 3rd Shell Art Award Exhibition, Tokyo.

April 1999, the 1st Haruhi Painting Competition (candidate of Encouragement Prize) , Haruhi-gun, Aichi

April 2001, the 2nd Haruhi Painting Biennale, Haruhi-gun, Aichi

March 2001, Painting Comepetition of Nagakute Cultural Center, Nagakute, Aichi

April 2002, Painting Competition of Nagakute Cultural Center, Grand Prize, Nagakute, Aichi

April 2003, Five people Exhibition of Painting Competition of Nagakute Cultural Center, Nagakute, Aichi

April 2005, the 4th Haruhi Painting Biennale, Haruhi, Aichi.

December 2005, Miniature Exhibition, Gallery GA-RAK...