From October 10 (Fri) to October 22 (Wed), 2025, GARDE Gallery will host “Garden of Lights,” a solo exhibition by artist Akira Inumaru.
Inumaru engages with the vast and universal theme of “light,” approaching it as a tangible substance through diverse forms of expression such as painting, drawing, performance, and installation. In recent years, his work has centered on two primary techniques: a series of drawings in which parts of images on paper are scorched using sunlight concentrated through a magnifying glass, and a series of paintings that reinterpret “color” as “light,” where pigments become “powder of light” and paints are imagined as “paste of light” by mixing pigments with acrylic resin.
We warmly invite you to take this opportunity to view the exhibition.
Artist Profile
Akira Inumaru
Born 1984, Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
2008 Completed Master’s Program in Oil Painting, Musashino Art University
2013 Completed Master Class at École Supérieure d’Art du Havre/Rouen
Currently based in Rouen and Paris, France
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Plantes, Witness of Light (Botanical Garden Greenhouse, Kraków, Poland)
2024 Chambres ardentes (Saint-Maclou Church, Rouen, France)
2023 Mon Cher Jardin (Château de Villandry, Villandry, France)
2022 Cimes et Racines (Church of Saint-Ouen, Rouen, France)
2022 Jardins flottants (Michel Ciry Museum, Varengeville-sur-Mer, France)
2018 Botanique (Luxembourg Garden Greenhouse, Paris, France)
2018 Langage des fleurs (MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Kraków, Poland)
2016 Portrait des plantes (Municipal Botanical Garden, Rouen, France)
2015 Kata – D’une lumière à l’autre (Yves Klein Archives, Paris, France)
Group Exhibitions
2024 Spleen of Paris (Tichauer Art Gallery, Tychy, Poland)
2021 Star Makers (Foro Boario Center for Contemporary Art, Oristano, Italy)
2021 ROOTS (FLORE Arts Gallery, Kobe, Japan)
2018 Tatsuno Art Project in Kraków (Manggha Museum, Kraków, Poland)
2018 Pharmakon II (Sonen-an, Kyoto, Japan)
2013 Tatsuno Art Project 2013 (Tatsuno, Hyogo, Japan)
2013 Kofukuji International Art Exhibition (Kofukuji Temple, Nagasaki, Japan)
Awards
2022 Grant: Bourse Arts Visuels (Seine-Maritime Prefecture, France)
2019 23rd Antoine Marin Prize / 3rd Place
2015 Grant: Aide à la création (DRAC Haute-Normandie, France)
Selected Artist Residencies
2025 Katsurao Collective (Katsurao, Fukushima, Japan)
2024 Michel Ciry Museum (Varengeville-sur-Mer, France)
2015 Villa Calderón (Louviers, France)
2013 Tatsuno Art Project (Tatsuno, Hyogo, Japan)
2012 Tatsuno Art Project (Tatsuno, Hyogo, Japan)
Exhibition Information
Akira Inumaru: “Garden of Lights”
Dates: October 10 (Fri) – October 22 (Wed), 2025
Hours: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Venue: GARDE Gallery, 4F ALLIANCE Building, 5-2-1 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Closed: October 18 (Sat), Sundays, and National Holidays