Miki Wanibuchi

Miki Wanibuchi is a fine artist who pursues the boundary. Her work explores the origin of a painting, using a form of landscape painting as a starting point. She chooses only one action of it: reproducing the colours in landscape. She believes, as a result, it would reveal the (un-)necessity of a painting viewed by the people living in today's society.

2012 MA Fine Art, Arts University Bournemouth, UK.
2004 BFA Arts, Kindai University, Japan.
The 27th HOLBEIN Scholarship (2012-2013)


I have always intended to do “landscape painting” in a broad sense through my artistic career. This is because landscape painting has been my starting point since I was a child (when I was only 7 years old).

In my creating process, the recorded photos of the scenery are digitally and automatically processed into mosaic. Then I try to reproduce the colour faithfully with analogue using paints. This is the work that comes to the centre. While focusing on the single aspect as extracting colour from the landscape, I use another canvas as a palette to mix and create colours for painting. This creates an unconscious, innocent body of work of "mixing colour", and another pure body of work of "painting colour". The third one is produced to see if we can redefine the word "depict", the etymology of picture and painting, ending up forming a triptych.

I try disassembling the elements and focusing on only simple ones, in a painting in which various elements are intertwined. In addition, I create a simple structure consisting of only cloth and paint to reexamine the fundamentals of painting. It's lik...

EXHIBITIONs ///
2022
"AGO Exhibition Session 3", CASO, Osaka (Planning : #ARTGOESON, Selector : Masari Eno from gekilin. Art Gallery)

“[ Meta-Conceputual ] The 49th IBARAKI Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Ibaraki City Lifelong Learning Center, Osaka

“ART for Art’s Sake 7°”, Virtual Artists, Metaverse / London [UK]

2021
SOLO SHOW "REVIVE ii", gekilin., Osaka
“Hospital Art in Gallery III”, enoco, Osaka (Planning : HITO-IRO Project)

“Transposing Outlook”, cumonos, Osaka (Planning : cumonos)
“SHITAMACHI Art Festival”, Sobani Omusubi, Kobe (Organizer : Shin-nagata Art Commons Executive Committee)

2020
"AGO Exhibition Session 1", Studio Diffuse Make+, Osaka (Planning : #ARTGOESON)
SOLO SHOW "REVIVE", gekilin., Osaka

2019
SOLO SHOW "DESK - Return to my roots.", Gallery OUT of PLACE, Nara
“ART EXPO MALAYSIA 2019”, MATRADE Exhibition and Convention Centre (MECC), Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia] (galarie bruno massa)
"Mines and Roads Art Festival", Mikobata Mining Station ruins / the former Mikobata Junior School, Asago-city Hyogo Pref. (Organizer : Japan Heritage “Gin no Bashamichi and Koseki no Michi” Promotion Council)

2018
SOLO SHOW “WHO PURSUES THE BOUNDARY.”, REIJINSHA GALLERY, Tokyo

2017
SOLO SHOW “Stay beyond (...