Ishigaki Katsuko, Kishaba Housing District, US Marine Corps Facility Ⅰ, 2018, Oil on canvas, 72.7×90.8 cm
石垣克子 Ishigaki Katsuko
Born in Okinawa in 1967, where she continues to live and work, Ishigaki Katsuko graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Painting Course, at Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts. Ishigaki is an artist who attempt to capture the shifting landscapes of Okinawa, including U.S. military bases, military housing, and postwar architecture and cityscapes. For a generation who grow up seeing U.S. military bases as an integral part of life, these landscapes coexist in parallel with the pristine natural scenery of Ishigaki Island’s lagoons, where the artist spent her early childhood.
Her major exhibitions include Uncertain Landscape at Azamino Civic Art Gallery (Kanagawa, 2018), Mabuni Peace Project (Okinawa, 2019), the Okinawa Asia International Peace Art Festival (Okinawa, 2020), Portraits of Ryukyu at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum (Okinawa, 2021), Fukki-ato-watashitachi-no-nichijou-wa-doko-ni-kaetta-no-ka (After “Coming Back”: Where Did Our Everyday Lives Return To?) at Sakima Art Museum (Okinawa, 2022), Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going at Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2022), Ocean, Islands and Mountains: Living with Chitsuzuki at Tsunagi Art Museum (Kumamoto, 2023), and The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (Brisbane, Australia, 2024).
EXHIBITIONS
PARADISE OKINAWA
Teruya Yuken, Ishigaki Katsuko, Iha Linda, Uehara Sayaka
Jun 23 – Aug 6, 2022
Familiar Landscapes
Ishigaki Katsuko
Feb 22 – Mar 22, 2025
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1967, Okinawa, Japan
Lives and works in Okinawa
Education
1991 B.A. Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 Familiar Landscapes, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2024 From the South Scenery, Gallery Atos, Okinawa, Japan
2023 Landscape with Base III, eitoeiko, Tokyo, Japan
Michi-koruku-mo-iroiro-atte, rat&sheep, Okinawa, Japan
Ocean, Islands and Mountains: Living with Chitsuzuki, Tsunagi Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
2022 From the South Scenery, Gallery Atos, Okinawa, Japan
2021 Views of Times, rat and sheep, Okinawa, Japan
2019 Landscape with Base II, eitoeiko, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Landscape with Base, eitoeiko, Tokyo, Japan
Cork fun days 2018, rat&sheep, Okinawa, Japan
2017 -Far and near-, WHITE SPACE ONE, Fukuoka, Japan
2016 Longing the spring, gallery rougheryet, Okinawa, Japan
2014 Introducing Katsuko Ishigaki, eitoeiko, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 The Asia Pacific Triennial, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
The History of Okinawa’s Fine Arts, Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
2023 Futari-no-fuukei, MB Gallery Chatan, Okinawa, Japan
2022 Fukki-ato-watashitachi-no-nichijou-wa-doko-ni-kaetta-no-ka, Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Art We Happy?, zenzai marginal gallery, Kagoshima, Japan
Paradise Okinawa, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
The Okinawan, gallery rougheryet, Okinawa, Japan
A viewpoint to share, Poetic Scape, Tokyo, Japan
Roppongi Crossing, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2021 Portraits of Ryukyu: Turnover from Models to Artists, Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
2020 Okinawa Asia International Peace Art Project, Naha Civic Gallery, Okinawa, Japan
2019 EAPAP East Asia Peace Art Project, Jeju, South Korea
2018 3331 Art Fair, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Uncertain Landscape, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Kanagawa, Japan
Mabuni-peace project Okinawa 2018, Okinawa Peace Memorial Park and other venues in Okinawa, Japan
2016 Art Festival Hnarart, Nara, Japan
Ichinari Art Project+1, Okinawa, Japan
2015 Mabuni-peace Project, Okinawa, Japan
2014 Gallery Atos, Okinawa, Japan
2013 Our Posthuman Future: the Prtraits of the Last Man in Postwar Japan, eitoeiko, Tokyo, Japan
Junetic Art Exhibition in Ikei Island, Okinawa, Japan
2012 Mugendai, art exhibition, Hamada Children’s Museum of Art, Shimane, Japan
2009 Aqua Metropolis Osaka 2009, Osaka, Japan
2008 Koganeho Bazaar 2008, Kanagawa, Japan
Ano Week in Koza, Okinawa, Japan
Ueki, Okinawa, Japan
Passage and Space, Gallery Artlier, Fukuoka, Japan