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Minako Iwamura

Born 1967
Australia

Minako Iwamura CV

With their biomorphic forms, Minako Iwamura’s paintings exist in a liminal state that feels both abstract and corporeal. She combines curvilinear forms and subtle shifts in color to produce compositions that radiate a kind of energetic pulse.

Minako Iwamura, Tear, 2023, Oil and white charcoal on cradled wood panel, 40 x 30 in

(Left) Minako Iwamura, Forty Six, 2024, Oil and white charcoal on cradled wood panel, 10 × 8 in. (Right) Minako Iwamura, Fifty, 2024, Oil and white charcoal on cradled wood panel, 10 × 8 in.

Iwamura’s paintings use geometry, color, and pattern to explore the psychological undertones conveyed by their juxtapositions.

Minako Iwamura, Nexus, 2024, Oil and white charcoal on cradled wood
40 x 30 in

Minako Iwamura, Forty Three, 2023, Oil and white charcoal on cradled wood panel, 10 x 8 in

Her site specific installations combine small-scale paintings with an intricate web of fractal-like drawings made with gossamer-thin lines of white charcoal.

Transcendence, Installation View, 2023

Minako Iwamura, Thirty Nine, 2023, Oil and white charcoal on cradled wood panel, 10 x 8 in

Iwamura’s interest lies in the exploration of dualities—geometry and nature, the singular and the collective, premeditated delineation and intuitive movement—and the slippage between them.

Minako Iwamura, Esse, 2023, Oil and white charcoal on cradled wood, 40 x 30 in

Minako Iwamura, Lune, 2023, Oil and white charcoal on cradled wood, 40 x 30 in

Minako Iwamura

Minako Iwamura (b. 1967, Australia, lives and works in New York, NY) received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has recently been exhibited at JDJ in the gallery’s inaugural exhibition of its newest location in New York City. Iwamura's work has also recently been exhibited at COL Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Anderson Contemporary, New York, NY; White Box, New York, NY among others.
Minako Iwamura CV

Education

Rhode Island School of Design

1989

BFA

Solo Exhibitions

2023

State of Being, Hawk + Hive, Andes, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

Transcendence, JDJ, New York, NY
Becoming, COL Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2022

ALL IN ONE, Anderson Contemporary, New York, NY

2020

A Moment In Time, Anderson Contemporary, New York, NY
AESTHETICS IN THE POLITICAL, White Box, New York, NY
Fracture in Serenity: Minako Iwamura and Habby Osk, Lorimoto Gallery, Ridgewood, NY

2019

Flat File 2020, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY


2016

Persistent Nature of Urgency, Mayson Gallery, New York, NY

2015

Metropolitan Suite, Mayson Gallery, New York, NY


2014

Systematic Paradox, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT

2013

Vital Signs, Mayson Gallery, New York, NY


2008

Panorama Projects 2, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York, NY

2007

Small Works, 80 Washington Park East Gallery, Curated by Richard Witter, New York, NY

2006

A Piece Apart, Aidan Savoy Gallery, New York, NY

2005

Naked Singularities, NIX Gallery, New York, NY
Mystery Meat, Future Projects Space, Quezon, Philippines

2003

Grand Union, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
 Assembly, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2002

Painting as Paradox, Artist Space, Curated by Lauri Firstenberg, New York, NY

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