Noriko Ambe
Born Saitama, Japan, 1967
Currently lives and works in New York
Education
1990
BFA / Oil Painting, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
Solo Exhibitions
2012
• The Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse University, NY (forthcoming)
2010
• キル - Artist Books, Linear-Actions Cutting Project" The FLAG Art
Foundation, New York
2009
• キル - Cut Artist Books, Linear-Actions Cutting Project, curated by Glenn Fuhrman, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
2007
• Flat Globe 2007, d.e.n contemporary gallery, Culver City, CA.
2006
• Flat Globe, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
2004
• Was it a ghost?, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
2003
• Voyage, Vermont Studio Center, VT
• Dear Lucy — Ten Elements: Focusing on a New Generation in Tokyo’03, Gallery Natsuka, Tokyo [catalogue]
• Lands of emptiness, PIEROGI, Brooklyn, NY
2002
• Details, Gallery Natsuka b.p.Tokyo
2001
• Works of Linear-Actions, Makii Masaru Fine Arts, Tokyo
1999
• Like a Running River, Fukaya Station Gallery & Hiraka-ya, Saitama
1995
• With the Continuously Current, J2 GALLERY, Tokyo
1994
• The Romanesque in the Wild, J2 GALLERY, Tokyo
1993
• On the Road to the Circle, Gallery Natsuka, Tokyo
1992
• Beyond the Landscape” Gallery Q, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions
2011
• Asia Unspecific, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY
• Mappa Mundi, Museum Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
2010
• Touched, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
• Holland Paper Biennial 2010, Museum Rijswijk/ CODA Museum, Rijswijk, The
Netherlands
• Open Book- An International Survey of Experimental Books, Eastern Michigan
University, MI
• PaperCut, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI, USA
• Recent Works, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
2009
• Mark-Making: Dots, Lines and Curves, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
• Volcano Lovers, Ise Foundations, New York, NY
• Slash - Paper under the knife, The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (Oct.7 - Jan.10, 2010)
• A House is not a Home, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo (June 26~ July 25)
• Commune, Black & White Gallery, New York, NY (May 26~)
• Cutters, The Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY / Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ [catalogue]
• The Book Borrowers, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA [catalogue]
2008
• Exhibition 4 Tokujin Yoshioka Direction “Second Nature”, 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT Tokyo [catalogue]
• WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and ED. Ruscha, FLAG Art Foundation, New York [catalogue]
• CUT: Making of Removal, Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, CA
• Uncoordinated: Mapping cartography in contemporary art, The Contemporary Arts Center/ Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH [catalogue]
• Paper City, Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, NY
• Mei Guo (The Beau Monde), Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China [catalogue]
• Flow: Noriko Ambe, Ulrike Heydenreich, and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN [catalogue]
2007
• Making a Home - Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York, Japan Society, New York, NY [catalogue]
• (Un) Contained Vessels, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY [catalogue]
• Sumazo project, kunstMARKE, Vienna, Austria
• Force of Nature Documentary Exhibition in Japan, Kyoto University of Art and Design
2006
• Art on Paper Biannual 2006, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
• Dialogue with a Tree – Force of Nature Project, Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, SC [catalogue]
• Trans-boundary Experience, an exhibition from China, Korea and Japan, Spool mfg., Johnson City, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY [catalogue]
• New World Orders, The Experimental Space, New York
• Block Party – Art & Design in the New Urban Home, 14 Townhouses, Brooklyn, NY [catalogue]
• Tokyo-Ikebukuro International Art Festival, Takamura Building, Ikebukuro, Tokyo [catalogue]
2005
• Winter Session, Gallery Jin, Tokyo
• Bonds, Ise foundation, New York, NY, Spanish Embassy in Miami, FL
• To an Uncharted Landscape –Small works from 4 artists, Boubi-rou Gallery, Tokyo
• Pulp –Paper Sculptures, Produce Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
• Ground Work, d.e.n. Contemporary art, Culver City, CA
2004
• Microwave, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas
• Talespinning-Selection Fall 2004, The Drawing Center, New York, NY [catalogue]
• Troy Stories, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Newpapers, Cristinerose/Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
2003
• Terrarium, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
• JAPAN:RISING, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, FL [catalogue]
• White, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
• Take Out, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
• Perforations, Valerie McKenzie Fine Arts, New York, NY
• Plastic Gardens, Cristinerose/Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
• Line Dancing, Islip Art Museum, NY [catalogue]
2002
• Dumbo Art Festival, (Open studio), Brooklyn, NY
• Looking East Looking West – Asian Artists at the Vermont Studio Center, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT [catalogue]
• Philip Morris Art Award 2002 – The First Move, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo [catalogue]
2001
• Hudson River Mural, Hudson River Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY
• 29 Artists of Manhattan Graphics Center NY, Gallery Delta, Paris, Gallery Slad in Elk, Poland
• The 20th Imadate Contemporary Paper Art Exhibition, Imadate Museum, Fukui [catalogue]
2000
• 1st Biennale International Miniature Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada
• The 5th Contest for the Best Contemporary Art Work 2001, SOKO Gallery, Tokyo
• Biennale Internationale d’estampes Miniatures de Montreal, Montreal, Canada [catalogue]
1999
• Participates in Summer Printmaking Program at Studio Camnitzer, Valdottavo, Lucca, Italy (also ‘97, ‘98)
• Mostra di Incisione, Barga, Italy (also ‘97, ‘98)
• Book Art Exhibition, Gallery, Asuka, Tokyo
1998
• The Gift to Children, Yurinkan, Gunma, Japan
1993
• The 22nd Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo (also ‘92) [catalogue]
AWARDS
2007
• The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, USA
2005
• Art Omi International Residency, USA
2004-2005
• Stayed in New York under fellowship of Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists, The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan
2003
• The Freeman Fellowship NY, stayed at the Vermont Studio Center, USA
1999-2000
• Stayed in New York and Italy under the Pola Art Foundation Overseas Program, Japan
1994
• The 8th scholar of Holbein Inc., Japan
Collections
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
• The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA
• The Francis J. Greenburger Collection, New York, NY, USA
• Urawa Museum, Saitama, Japan
• K.K. R Collection, Tokyo, Japan
• Yupo Corporation, Tokyo, Japan / Chesapeak, VA, USA
Publications
(Exhibition catalogues indicated by [catalogue] above.)
• Haruo Sanda, “The wind of Art [Toward Objects Exhibition]” Review, Mainichi
Newspaper, Jan.13, 2010
• Yuki Ogawa, “”Watching, feeling Books as Contemporary Art”, [text in
Japanese] Review, Asahi News Paper, evening edition, Dec. 2, 2009
• Noah Simblist, “Mark-Making, Dots, Lines and Curves”, Review, Art Papers,
Nov.-Dec. edition, 2009
• Lisa Movius, "Mei Guo" ARTnews, Art Reviews, January edition, 2009
• "Second Nature Exhibition" Nikkei Science, Art Reviews, January edition,
2009
• Ako Sugie, "Tokujin Yoshioka Direction, Second Nature" Nikkei Design, Art
Reviews, December edition, 2008
• "The place, thinking about the future of design" Mono Magazine, Art Reviews,
December 2, 2008
• Hideto Akasaka, "Confront to the earth, ask design" Pen, Art Reviews,
November 15, 2008
• "Design on the Future" Daily Yomiuri, Art Reviews, October 24, 2008
• Scarlet Chang, “Paper work? Bring it on” LA Times, Art Reviews, October 26, 2008
• Eric Bryant, “On the Cutting Edge” ARTnews, April edition, 2008
• Karen Rosemberg, “Willingly or Unwillingly, Calling New York Their Home” New York Times, Art Reviews, November 9, 2007
• Jonathan Goodman, “Flat Globe”, Sculpture, Reviews, November edition, 2006
• Stratton Lawrence,“Articulated Impermanence,” Charleston City Paper, November 8, 2006
• Kunie Sugiura, “Around the world from NY report”, [text in Japanese], BT, April edition, 2006
• Merrily Kerr, “New Paper Sculpture”, Art on Paper, March-April edition, 2005
• David Pagel, “New Vistas in Landscape Painting,” Los Angeles Times, February 11, 2005
• Kelly Klaasmeyer,“OCDelight”, Houston Press, October 14, 2004
• Grace Glueck, “Working Words Into Images, Artists Become Story Tellers - Talespinning at the Drawing Center”, New York Times, Art Reviews, Sept. 24, 2004
• Lena Nelson, “Mysterious Landscape”, Embrace Swedish magazine, winter edition 2003
• Seiichi Maeda, “Noriko Ambe: The ripple from the layers of 100 sheets” [text in Japanese], monthly art magazine Geijutsu shincho, Review, September edition 2003
• Wakahito Onishi, “Looking at the New Generation: Contemporary Art Galleries’s Simultaneous Transmission” [text in Japanese], Asahi Newspaper, evening edition, August 4, 2003
• Haruo Sanda, “Looking at the New Generation: Creative Younger Artists Who Eschew Trendy” [text in Japanese], Mainichi Newspaper, evening edition, August 5, 2003
• Elisa Turner, “Japanese Art: Less ‘whammo’ This Time Around”, Miami Herald, Review, October 26、2003
• Jessica Rosin, “Linear-Actions Cutting Project ‘02: Lands of Emptiness”, Art on Paper website, Review, February, 2003