Megumi Ishibashi
Lives and works in Tokyo. Since graduating from Joshibi College of Art & Design in 1996, Megumi Ishibashi has been working with a variety of media to create colourful figurative objects which often populate her installations. Her practice is concerned with making visible the intangible, feelings such as hope, wish, sadness and fear based on her own experience and memories.
She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in art galleries and museums, outdoor spaces and department stores, as well as taking part in artist in residence programmes both in Japan and abroad. She has also worked in collaboration with businesses to exhibit works in public spaces and has facilitated numerous workshops including in Paris, as she worked on an art project in a hospital there.
In 2009, she was awarded the 10th Fumiko Omura Foundation, Paris Award and stayed in Paris for a year.
Selected solo show
2022 NAMEKO and KIKURAGE/TAKASHIMAYA Nihombashi store
from/ Orie Art Gallery
2020 TENTEKOMAI/TAKASHIMAYA Osaka store
2019 inside and outside unification/ Court Gallery KUNITACHI
2017 once upon a time /TAKASHIMAYA Osaka store
2015 Once upon a time/TAKASHIMAYA Nihombashi store
2014 Dream U Reality U Phantom/Gallery SEIHO (Tokyo)
Shape of meGUMI/Sagamihara Citizen's Gallery Art Spot(Kanagawa)
2013 OnomaTpoia/Stripe house gallery(Tokyo)
2012 Fairyland/Gallery SEIHO(Tokyo)
2011 Lutins des Villes/L'Espace Aliés Guinard (France)
2010 It- urban insiders- /Gallery Arakawa (Tokyo)
Open studio/Cité internationale des Arts(France)
2008 Fantasy Planet/Paris(France)
2005 Gallery Hiroba(Tokyo)
2003 Gallery Space Yu(Kanagawa)
2001 Key Gallery(Tokyo)
Selected other program
2022 彫刻になった生き物たち（ジェイアール名古屋タカシマヤ）
2021 YEAR-END EXHIBITION OF MINI SCULPTURES（ギャラリーせいほう・東京）
クリスマスフェスタ（あらかわ画廊・東京）
十二支彫刻展（ジェイアール名古屋タカシマヤ・愛知）
ワークショップ「大地の恵み芸術祭」（福島）
生き物になった彫刻たち展(名古屋高島屋）
動画制作「天空と大地」
Open Studio(クンストハウス・神奈川県）
2020 干支展（大阪高島屋）
作品集「MEGUMI ISHIBASHI WORKS」発行
チョイ怖い絵展Ⅲ(あらかわ画廊）
2019 彫刻になった生き物たち大阪高島屋
SEOUL ART EXPO（ソウル／韓国）
Cute Sculpture-女流作家４人展（名古屋高島屋、髙島屋京都店）
2018
彫刻になった生き物たち（ジェイアール名古屋高島屋・愛知）
2017 ]ギャラリーせいほう（銀座／東京
Fantastic Sculptures-女流作家による-（日本橋三越本店・東京）
International Art Meet（Pilani・India）
2016 YEAR-END EXHIBITION OF MINI SCULPTURES/gallery SEIHO (2016~) 生き物のいる風景展 （あらかわ画廊・東京）
企業コラボ東京プロジェクト2016（東京）
2015 wonder creatures/TAKASHIMAYA Nihombashi store(Tokyo)
Female times/ Bunkamura Box Gallery ( Tokyo)
Connect to the future/Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo)
New collections and artists of Paris Award/ JAM ( Kanagawa)
2013 KANAYA Art Crossing/ KANAYA Art Museum (Chiba)
2012 TOUCH ART! 2-First contact with Art- /Kawagoe CITY ART MUSEUM(Saitama)
2010 VIVRE ET CREER A PARIS/ JAM(Kanagawa)
2009 Hommage à Osamu tezuka(France)
International Environment Art Festival ‘2009(Busan,S.KOREA,Tokyo, Japan.)
2008 AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE 2008/Ibaraki ('06)
Symposium with stone/ Stone Plaza Nasu(Nasu,Tochigi)
2007 Search an Image on Sand (INDIA)
Fine Arts fair Exhibition(INDIA)
2005 Animal Wonderland/Sagamihara Citizen's Gallery
2003 Cow Parade Tokyo in Marunouchi 2003(Tokyo)
2002 Abiko Open Air Exhibition 2002(Chiba)
2001 The 37th Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition/Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2009 Joshibi Paris Award, Grant given by the Omura Fumiko Foundation which supposed a stage during one year at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.
2001 The Hamagin Foundation Award given in occasion of the 37th Kanagawa Prefecture Art Exhibition.