Biography
TAKAFUMI ASAKURA
Carrier
1978 Born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
2002 Tama Art University Graduate School
2016 Worked in artistic design during name succession ceremony of Nakamura Shikan Ⅷ('17)
2017 Votive lantern at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, Kamakura, Japan
Selected Awards
2002 Nitten Japan Fine Arts Exhibition (selected every year since)
2003 Nisshun Fine Arts Exhibition (selected every year since)
2010 Special Selection Award, Nitten Japan Fine Arts Exhibition(’12)
2013 Work awarded Special Selection, Nisshun Fine Arts Exhibition
2015 Juror, Nitten Japan Fine Arts Exhibition('19)
Achievements
Selected Exhibitions
2003 Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Yoshida-machi Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
2010 Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan(’11, ’12)
2012 Air Fair Tokyo, Japan(’13)
Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Collect, London, UK(’14,’15)
TEFAF Maastricht, The Netherlands(’14,’15,’16,’17,’18,’19)
2014 Art Stage Singapore, Singapore(’15,’16,’17)
Asia Week New York, USA
Resonances, Galerie Pierre Bonnefille, Paris, France
Art Miami, USA(’15,’16,’17,’18)
2016 Spring Masters New York, USA
EAF Monaco, Monaco
Art Taipei, Taiwan
2017 TEFAF New York Spring, USA
Of Legends and Lore - Japanese Ink Paintings by Takafumi Asakura, Serindia Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2018 Seattle Art Fair, USA
Takafumi Asakusa, Taimei, Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Nihonga Now, Masterpiece London 2019 (Yufuku Gallery)
Masterpiece Pavilion at Fine Art Asia, China, Hong Kong
West Bund Art and Design, China, Shanghai
Public Collection
Spencer Museum of Art - University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Centre - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, USA
The Kennedy Theatre, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA
Okamura Tenmangu Shrine, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Osannomiya Hie Shrine, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Takaoten Shrine, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
Jujusan Asakawa Kotohira Daigongen Shrine, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan