Starting Saturday, June 14, Salon Onikai presents a special exhibition featuring works by Kaoru Usukubo, Yoshié Masuda, and Mai Miyake.

Set in a quiet room overlooking the Kyoto cityscape, the exhibition offers a uniquely intimate viewing experience, available by advance reservation only.

We invite you to spend a quiet moment with these works, each evoking the subtle signs of early summer, in a serene and contemplative setting.

Advance reservations can be made here.

Salon Onikai | Special Exhibition

Kaoru Usukubo, Kae Masuda, and Mai Miyake

June 14 (Sat) – August 2 (Sat), 2025 | 10:00–18:00

Venue: Salon Onikai | 2F, MtK Contemporary Art

 

Kaoru Usukubo

Born in Tochigi, Japan. Received her PhD in Fine Arts (Oil Painting) from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2010. Currently resides in Kyoto.Major exhibitions include “Kaoru Usukubo and Daisuke Ohba – Enlil and Enki” LOOCK Galerie (Berlin, 2020), “Experiment According to the Law of Chance” taimatz (Tokyo, 2018), “Wabi Sabi Shima” Thalie Art Foundation (Brussels, 2015),
“Minimal / Postminimal: Painting and Sculpture Since the 1970s” Utsunomiya Museum of Art (Utsunomiya, 2013).

Kae Masuda

Born in Kyoto, Japan. Completed her MFA in Painting at Kyoto City University of Arts in 2004. Currently lives and works in Kyoto.
Major exhibitions include “Bridging the Rainbow: The Hara Museum / Hara Rokuro Collection” Hara Museum ARC (Gunma, 2021), “The Artists Who Will Carry the Future: 20th DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow Exhibition” The National Art Center, Tokyo (Tokyo, 2018), “Phantom Prospects: Exchanging Visions of Landscape” North Campus Research Complex (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2014), “PATHOS AND SMALL NARRATIVES” Gana Art Center (Seoul, 2011) and “Art in an Office” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (Aichi, 2011).

Mai Miyake

Born in Kanagawa, Japan. Studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2008. Currently lives and works in Ōtsu, Japan. Major exhibitions include “The Beginning of a Tale” at FOAM CONTEMPORARY (Tokyo, 2024), “Summer Vacation at a Certain Museum” Chiba City Museum of Art (Chiba, 2022), “Mai Miyake × Kasetsu: Forms of Words, Words of Forms”  Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery (Yokohama, 2021), “The EM District Japan Week 2015 – Thing that Reminds” at The EM District (Bangkok, 2015), “Heaven Helps Those Who Help Themselves” Pola Museum of Art (Kanagawa, 2013), “Transforming House: East Asian Cultural City 2018 Kanazawa” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Ishikawa, 2018) and “BOTANICA” Busan Museum of Art (South Korea, 2018).