NEW EXHIBITION
Summer Symphony: Work from Ippodo Gallery’s Archive
June 18 – August 8, 2026
Opening Reception with Live Jazz: Thursday, June 18, 5-8pm (kindly RSVP)
We are pleased to present Summer Symphony: Work from Ippodo Gallery’s Archive, a new curation of artworks from the Ippodo Gallery collection, from June 18 to August 8, 2026. The exhibition will include special offerings on artworks both which were exhibited previously and also never before seen works.
As summer comes to New York, we welcome the season as a time of light, beauty, and discovery; themes that resonate through the Summer Symphony curation. Celebrating the diversity of kogei (Japanese fine art craft), the exhibition strikes a rhythm between mediums: ceramic, painting, metal, calligraphy, photography, and glass. Spanning across generations, artistic practices, and origins, each work contributes its own note to create a carefully composed arrangement.
Evoking the atmosphere of the most lively and warm season, Summer Symphony moves between moments of vibrancy and reflection. Mitsukuni Misaki’s blue vessels conjure serene ocean horizons; KAKU’s carefully folded washi spirals resemble white seashells, shaped by the wind and tide; YMER&MALTA’s lamps bring to mind shards of sunlit seaglass; Ken Matsubara’s Nihonga paintings capture crashing waves on a warm summer night. Together, the works invite viewers to experience the senses of the season through the richness of Ippodo Gallery’s contemporary world of fine art and craft.
The presentation unfolds in two movements; new artworks will be featured in mid-July.
We warmly invite you to the opening reception with a special jazz performance by Takenori Nishiuchi Band. Kindly RSVP here.
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UPCOMING ART FAIR
Aspen Art Fair 2026
Transforming Nature
July 29 – August 1, 2026
Hotel Jerome | Room 121
We are pleased to return to the Aspen Art Fair at the historic Hotel Jerome for the second year in Room 121 from July 29 – August 1, 2026. The presentation Transforming Nature draws the splendor of the organic world into the realm of the decorated interior. Surrounded by the Rocky Mountains, the raw essences of nature convene within the home-style setting in the form of stone, regional clays of Japan, forged iron, Venetian blown glass, carved & lacquered wood, washi paper, bamboo, traditionally dyed textiles, and precious mineral pigment paints. The ensemble of works by more than twenty artists, primarily hailing from Japan, invites new considerations about the relationship between people and the earth: a living medium capable of profound beauty and metamorphosis.
Through a diverse range of textures and forms—from the delicate, metal-worked petals of silver violas and golden ginkgoes by Shota Suzuki to the subconsciously moving white marble sculptures of Kan Yasuda —the featured artists capture the ephemeral cycles of growth, decay, and rebirth. Each piece serves as a bridge between the physical and spiritual. Light, form, and human touch can elevate organic matter into the iconic. Transforming Nature is an invitation to witness the alchemy of the natural world as it is distilled through Japanese craft traditions.
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RECENTLY CLOSED EXHIBITION
Shimijimi: Dyed and Inlaid Textiles by Shigeki Fukumoto
April 30 – June 6, 2026
Opening Reception with Artist: Thursday, April 30, 5-8pm (kindly RSVP)
Artist Talk: Saturday, May 2, 1:30-3pm (kindly RSVP)
We are pleased to present Shimijimi: Dyed and Inlaid Textiles by Shigeki Fukumoto, the master Japanese textile dyer’s debut solo exhibition from April 30 to June 6, 2026.
The exhibition of dyed Japanese cloth features more than twenty two-dimensional works and folding screens from across three decades of his distinguished career. Blurring the line between painting and the traditions of Japanese textile, Fukumoto’s unique wax resist (rozome) and cloth inlay (nunozoukan) techniques, using precious Turpan cotton, explore expressions of color, light, and layering within the long-established language of dyeing (senshoku).
Shigeki Fukumoto (b. 1946) provides a philosophy and process that cannot be defined by classical ideas of textile. His sensational dyes permeate beyond the surface of the fabric and sink into the fibers in contrast to the interwoven picture-making of Western textile arts. Fukumoto hails from Kyoto, where textile dyeing is more rich in history and there is a greater density of traditional cloth dyers than anywhere else in Japan. Fukumoto took up the mantle of his family’s kimono dyeing business from the mid 1960s until 1987 after studying oil painting at university. Mastering the strict techniques of wax-resist cloth dyeing—a cultural heritage dating back one-thousand years—Fukumoto began to share his constantly expanding expertise as a professor at Osaka University of Art.
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ONLINE VIDEO
Kan Yasuda Artist Talk
Kan Yasuda’s 2025 artist talk for his solo exhibition Kan Yasuda: Forms of the Unconscious is available now. See it on YouTube, Vimeo, or our website.
Kan Yasuda’s exhibition, Isole del Silenzio (Islands of Silence), will be presented by the Fondation d’Entreprise Wilmotte as an official Collateral Event of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia from 9 May to 22 November 2026.
Watch it here now!
About the Gallery
Ippodo Gallery is a cultural bridge to Japan’s living master artists. Founded in Tokyo (1996-), the New York gallery (2008-) presents fine handcrafted and rare works created using traditional materials and methods. Each piece selected embodies Japanese aesthetic sensitivity that is born of a spiritual bond with nature. Ippodo’s exhibition program features unique objects — fine ceramics, lacquerware, metal crafts, sculpture, paintings, and works on paper — that celebrate human invention, the natural world, and sublime beauty.
