Hebime
Hebime is a self-taught artist who started painting after leaving high school due to depressive disorder in 1997. He had difficulty in communicating with people and went to social withdrawal, staying in his house, only fascinated with keeping reptiles, such as snakes, lizards and chameleons. He painted figures mixed with strange animals in pen markers and moved to more abstract paintings in acrylic after 2008. He began posting his paintings online with the artist name Hebime (snake eyes in Japanese), and was eventually introduced to galleries and started exhibiting his work.
In Hebime’s recent works, he carves a surface consisting of many layers of acrylic paints using a chisel, resembling a Japanese traditional lacquer decoration technique. This unique method is called "acrylic scratch" and it creates a strong and unforgettable impression on the viewer. His works are identified by his eccentric color variations. They give us a chance to interpret them in many ways. By changing the way of displaying his works, his abstract works generate new senses each time they are viewed.
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1983 Born in Hyogo
<Selected Solo Exhibitions>
2019 Solo Exhibition in Buburindo, Kobe
Solo Exhibition in The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Tokyo
2018 Solo Exhibition in TS4312, Tokyo
2016 Solo Exhibition “Lab Work”, TS4312, Tokyo
Solo Exhibition “Lab work”, Gallery Buburindo , Kobe
Solo Exhibition in Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano
2015 Solo Exhibition in Outsider Art Fair, YOD Gallery, NY
Solo Exhibition in Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano
Solo Exhibition in Gallery Buburindo, Kobe
2014 Solo Exhibition in TS4312, Tokyo
Solo Exhibition in Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano
Solo Exhibition in Atelier annex for Okanoyama Museum of Art Nishiwaki, Nishiwaki,
Hyogo
Solo Exhibition in Gallery Buburindo, Kobe
2013 Solo Exhibition in Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano
Solo Exhibition in Gallery Buburindo, Kobe
2012 Solo Exhibition in ART COCKTAIL, Osaka
Solo Exhibition in Gallery Buburindo, Kobe
2011 Solo Exhibition in Art Space Aband, Osaka
Solo Exhibition in Gallery Buburindo, Kobe
Solo Exhibition in Art Space Aband, Osaka
2010 Solo Exhibition in Factory Kyoto, Kyoto
2009 Solo Exhibition in VIVANTANNEXE, Ginza, Tokyo
2008 Solo Exhibition in Art Space Aband, Osaka
<Selected Group Exhibitions>
2019 “Border”, Atelier Sangatsu, Osaka
2018 “Art Brut du Japon, Another Look” Collection De L’art Brut Lausanne, Switzerland
YOD Gallery 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, YOD Gallery, Osaka
“Stories of Abstract Art” Art Complex Center, Tokyo
“Show Case vol.6”, Atelier Sangetsu, Osaka
Two-person Exhibition with Manji Madara “Archetype”, Karuizawa New Art Museum,Nagano
“Form and Material”, Sunaba Gallery, Osaka
2017 “Intermixture”, Whitestone Gallery, Hong Kong
"repetitive motion", YOD Gallery, Osaka
“Radical;Exquisite”, Whitestone Gallery, Hong Kong
2016 “Expressive Abstract Paintings”, Tokyo Art Complex
2015 “amavivant2015”, Tokyo Parthenon Tama
2013 Group Exhibition in Art Space Aband, Osaka
Group Exhibition in Gallery OUT of PLACE, Nara
“Wonder Seed”, Wonder Hall, Tokyo
“Kyoto Current 2013”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art Annex
2012 “A New Mystery Has Arrived” Kadoma Lumiere Hall, Osaka
2011 “Tennendai” in Factory Kyoto, Kyoto
2010 “Self-Taught Art”, YOD Gallery, Osaka
<Awards>
2009 Awarded YOD Gallery prize in ART Stream at Suntory Museum, Osaka
2011 Awarded Tezukayama Gallery prize in ART stream at Shinsaibashi, Osaka
2012 9th Nishiwaki Thumb Hole Award, first prize, Okanoyama Museum of Art Nishiwaki, Hyogo
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