Bio

Kanako Noda (contemporary artist)
(b. 1980 in Kitakyushu, Japan)
After graduating in cultural anthropology at Osaka University (Japan), Kanako Noda studied Art in Italy. Enrolling in the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, she studied paintings under contemporary Italian artists. Soon after the graduation from Accademia, she moved to Canada. Now she lives and works in Montreal.

Artist statement
My work seeks to create projects that act as meeting points between Things and heterogenous beings; that is, to create a place for anthropological encounter. The project, for its part, becomes a bridge between the inner and the outer, the familiar and the strange, and the East and the West. Such a bridge can open up a passage without removing distance and diversity. So through artistic practice I set out to accept and inhabit this continuous oscillation through the space generated by diversity, and to play with it as a means of understanding it, composing it, decomposing it, redisposing it, destroying it and transforming it. (Oct 2009)

Exhibitions and art projects

Solo shows

2010  “Drawings in the 2.5th dimension”, curated by Natlie Finkelstein, Galerie Nota  Bene, Montreal, Canada (upcoming)
2010 “Casa”, curated by Alessandro Mangiarotti, Galerie YellowFishArt, Montreal, Canada
2009  “Seesaw”, text by Chanky Matsumoto, Gallery Tsukiyo-to-Shonen, Osaka, Japan.
2009 wall drawing project “Trame” for Assoc. Bottega Bologna, Bologna, Italy
2009 “Yellow Project” curated by Marta Papini, Il Post, Bologna, Italy
2008 two artists show “Crune” curated by Sabrina Foschini, Imperfetto Gallery, Gambettola, Italy
2006 solo show “Stagione Arte #4” curated by P-gruppe, 100dieci cafe, Perugia, Italy

Group shows

2009  “At-test”, curated by aimaime, Yokohama red brick warehouse Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
2008 “Premio di incisione Giorgio Morandi XXIII edition”, Morandi museum, Bologna, Italy
2008  “Maggio Fiorito Premio di Pittura”, La Rocca Castle, Cento, Italy
2008 “Documentare la giovane creatività -Pittura”, Gragnani Palace, curated by Comune di Crespellano, Crespellano, Italy
2007 “Uso pratico cotemplativo” curated by Lellio Aiello, Gallery Neon Campobase, Bologna, Italy
2006  “racine d’origine -programme vidéo-” curated by Emma Garzaro/Charles-Éric Billard, Museé d’Art modrne et contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
2005 “P.U.F.S”, flou gallery, Osaka, Japan