Misa FUNAI
Utopia/Dystopia(2020)
photo:Keizo Kioku
SUPERNOVA(2017)
(We +138) "KAKEGAWA CHAENNALE 2017"
Mountain/Mother(2014)
(MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO)
photo:Keizo Kioku
Misa FUNAI
Born 1974 in Kyoto, Live in Tokyo.
2001 MFA, Art and Design, University of Tsukuba
Misa Funai creates paintings and installations based on the themes of "paradise" and "boundaries.
Her series of improvised line drawings and spaces composed of shaped canvases and mirrors create a space in which the viewer enters the boundary of images. She gives form to the invisible, and crossing two and three dimensions, imagination and reality, past and future. She feels that the power of people's imagination will open up a new future.
Major Exhibitions
“From the museum collection 2020: fourth period” (Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi), 2021
Solo exhibition “Paradise/Boundary, where we were once” (Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori), 2017
“VOCA:The Vision of Contemporary Art” (The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo), 2010/2009
Major Awards
The Grand Prize at "The 13th Sekiguchi Art Foundation Prize Exhibition"(Kashiwa city Bunka Forum, Chiba), （Collection of Kashiwa City）Studied in New York under the scholarship of Sekiguchi Art Foundation, 2002
The Prize of Director in Master Course of Art at "University of Tsukuba Master Course Exhibition"(Tsukuba Museum, Ibaraki),（Collection of University of Tsukuba）, 2001