Hana Usui (*1974 , Tokyo / JP) studied art history at Waseda University and calligraphy in Tokyo. Her abstract drawings are made with white or black oil paint, which she overlays onto inkwash or photographs. Since 2014 she has been using her...
Read MoreHana Usui (*1974 , Tokyo / JP) studied art history at Waseda University and calligraphy in Tokyo. Her abstract drawings are made with white or black oil paint, which she overlays onto inkwash or photographs. Since 2014 she has been using her artistic vocabulary mainly to address injustices in the environmental, political and social fields and has become increasingly multimedial and installational.
Exhibitions (selected): ‘A Human Desert Made by Humans’, Neuer Kunstverein Wien @ Foto Wien (solo, 2022), ‘Fukushima – 10 Years Later’, Club of polish failures @ Berlin Art Week and ‘House of Losing Control’ @ Vienna Art Week (2021); ‘Japan Unlimited’, frei_raum Q21 / MuseumsQuartier Vienna (2019); ‘Show Me Your Wound’, Dom Museum Vienna (2018–19); Works on paper from the collection, Kunsthalle Bremen (2017); Drawing Biennial, City Museum of Rimini (2016); ‘At the Nexus of Painting and Writing’, Seoul Arts Center (2013); ‘Japanese Contemporary Art on Paper’, Dresden State Art Collections (2010); ‘The Esprit of Gestures’, The National Museum in Berlin (2010); ‘Sensai’, Museum Residenzgalerie Salzburg (2009); ‘Works on Paper’, Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Cracow (solo, 2009); ‘Keisei-ten’, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (1994-1998).
Collections (selected): Albertina Vienna, Berlinische Galerie, Dresden State Art Collections, Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Kunsthalle Bremen, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology Krakow, Otto Mauer Contemporary – Dom Museum Vienna, The National Museums in Berlin, and Wien Museum.
