Collection Highlights

This exhibition features artworks by leading modern and contemporary artists from Japan and abroad, including Chagall, Dali, Warhol, and Kusama Yayoi. Through a variety of works from the museum’s collection, this offers an opportunity to discover the expansion of themes and means of expression in visual art after the 20th century.

Image: SHIOTA Chiharu, The Ship of Memories, 2023
©JASPAR, Tokyo, 2024 and Chiharu Shiota

Children’s Art Museum during Summer Vacation 2024

Roads: What Lies Ahead?

Roads that stretch to faraway landscapes, ordinary roads that we take every day, or roads that lead to the past, the future, or someone’s heart. This exhibition focuses on “roads,” a motif that connotes a range of extensions and developments. Workshops are also to be held during the course of the exhibition.

Image: YOKOO Tadanori, Anya Kouro: Traveler’s Night, 2001

The Legacy of Nomiyama Gyoji

Painter Nomiyama Gyoji, who passed away in June 2023, was based in Tokyo and Fukuoka and faced expressions and paintings throughout 102 years of his life. To introduce his legacy, this exhibition displays thirty-four works from the museum’s collection and long-term loans.

Image: NOMIYAMA Gyoji, Figure, 1961

Tanaka Chisato: Living Mural

This mural was painted by Fukuoka-based artist Tanaka Chisato as part of the special exhibition Tanaka Chisato: Horizon and Road (5 January – 21 March 2023). The first phase of this mural painting was completed at the end of January 2023. Subsequently, the artist will retouch it in January 2024 and January 2025, making alterations to the painting each time. Thereafter, the mural will be on view until the end of December 2025.

About the artist
Tanaka Chisato (born in 1980)
After graduating from the Oil Painting Course at the Tama Art University, Tokyo in 2005, Tanaka started her career as an artist in Fukuoka the following year. She has established her own style using acrylic paints to create smooth black backgrounds in which subjects in front are brilliantly painted with oil paints. Tanaka’s paintings give viewers a vivid impression and stimulate their imagination through combining contrasting elements, such as figures who look smiling and angry at the same time, or glittering landscapes in the pitch-black darkness. Nowadays, she has become one of the leading artists in Fukuoka through a wide range of creative activities, including many solo and group exhibitions, book-cover design, and a large-scale mural on the new building of SHOGAKUKAN Inc., a publishing company.