Ronin Globus Onbeat Artist-in-Residence Program

Welcome Noboru Tsubaki to this year's esteemed panel of judges! Noboru Tsubaki is the director of ARTISTS' FAIR KYOTO, Aomori Triennale, and Setouchi Intl Art Festival. He is also a contemporary artist and professor in the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Graduate School, at the Kyoto University of the Arts. Tsubaki has helped promote the Ronin Globus Onbeat AIR for several years as a program ambassador.

Welcome Joni Waka, director of The Art Foundation Tokyo, to this year's esteemed panel of judges!
The Art Foundation, in an effort to keep alive the tradition of Japanese influence in contemporary arts and architecture has for thirty years provided spaces for exhibitions, film screenings, performances, book launches, promotional events, and residencies. The Art Foundation has produced events with little known names and institutions to such names as Gilbert and George, Francesco Clemente, Joseph Kosuth, Tracey Emin, Tracey Moat, Jenny Holzer, Yayoi Kusama, the Guggenheim Museum, the Los Angeles Country Museum, the Tate Gallery, Kunsthalle Wein, the Power Plant in Toronto, the Asia-Pacific Triennial in Brisbane, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Venice Biennale.

Welcome Dr. Michele Bambling to this year's esteemed panel of judges! Raised in Tokyo and a fluent speaker of Japanese, Dr. Michele Bambling brings more than three decades of expertise with Japanese art as well as extensive international curatorial experience to her role as director of Japan Society Gallery. She is currently Visiting Associate Professor of Art History at New York University Abu Dhabi, with a research and teaching focus on Japanese art history and design.

AIR Judging Panel member Chelsea Foxwell is an Associate Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College at the University of Chicago. Foxwell received her PhD in 2008 from Columbia University and her BA from Harvard University. She is the author of Making Modern Japanese Painting: Kano Hōgai and the Search for Images (2015) and co-author and co-curator (with Anne Leonard) of Awash in Color: French and Japanese Prints (Smart Museum of Art, 2012). Foxwell has recently co-edited (with Wu Hung) a volume of essays on East Asian photography and is currently at work on a book that examines the origins of modern Japanese art in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

AIR Judging Panel member Bradley Bailey is the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Curator of Asian Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Bradley Bailey is an expert in Japanese art, with a special interest in arts of the Meiji, Taisho, and early Showa Periods. In the past he has curated exhibitions of Japanese painting, Meiji war prints, Asian ceramics, and global contemporary artwork, holding positions as a curator and adjunct professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and Amherst College. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in the History of Art from Yale University and holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Judging panel member Johnny Waldman is the founder of Spoon & Tamago , an international blog that is based out of New York City and Tokyo, Japan. Waldman was born in Brooklyn but moved to Tokyo a year later. He spent the first 18 years of his life growing up in Tokyo where his parents taught English. He returned, for the first time, to the United States to attend college where he earned his bachelor’s degree in Art Education and his BFA in Art and Visual Technology. Waldman founded Spoon & Tamago in 2007. Using a unique background and international perspective, Spoon & Tamago attempts to comprehensively cover all aspects of Japanese design from fine art and architecture to product and graphic design with an emphasis on authentically communicating Japanese arts and crafts to the world.

While applications are currently being reviewed, we'd like to introduce the members of this year's judging panel!

As Managing Director of Christie’s Japan and International Director of Christie’s Asian Art departments, Katsura Yamaguchi has been a fundamental player in securing business deals and relationships in East Asia and New York. Yamaguchi has always had an important presence in Asia and was crucial to the growth of Christie’s offices in Tokyo, Japan. In addition to his business development role, as a former Senior Specialist of Japanese and Korean art he acts as a top-level client liaison worldwide. A native of Japan, Yamaguchi earned his B.A. at Rikkyo (St. Paul’s) University in Tokyo. He is currently guest professor for Kyoto University of Art & Design, a member of Japanese Art Society of America, Director for The Adachi Foundation and a Director for the International Ukiyo-e Society.

Thank you to all the talented artists who have applied to this year's Ronin Globus OnBeat Artist-in-Residence Program! We will be reviewing all of the applications in the coming weeks and will hopefully announce this year's winner at the end of the month!

Hurry, last day to apply to this year's program is March 24th! The chosen artist will receive round-trip airfare and stipend, solo exhibition at Ronin Gallery, studio and residence at Globus Wash*tsu, and a dedicated editorial in ONBEAT Magazine.

Learn more and apply here: https://www.roningallery.com/air

Application Period Extended to March 24th! 応募締切を３月２４日まで延長しました！Open to Japanese artists, this annual program seeks to stimulate cross-cultural dialogue by providing the opportunity for Japanese visual artists to live, work, and exhibit in New York City. Submit your application and learn more here:
https://www.roningallery.com/air

#アーティストインレジデンス

[募集締め切りまであと一ヶ月！]Only one more month to apply! Open to Japanese artists, the Ronin Globus Onbeat Artist-in-residence program seeks to stimulate cross-cultural dialogue by providing the opportunity for Japanese visual artists to live, work, and exhibit in New York City. The program will provide the chosen artist with a multiple weeks stay at Globus Wash*tsu, a solo exhibition at Ronin Gallery, a dedicated editorial in ONBEAT Magazine, a modest studio space, a $1000 cash stipend, and round-trip airfare between Tokyo and New York.

"The gleam of light which flashes across our mind from within" by Katsutoshi Yuasa, 2017 Ronin Globus Onbeat Artist-in-Residence. Oil-based ink, hand-made Japanese paper.

#アーティストインレジデンスプログラム

[参加者募集中！]OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS! Open to Japanese artists, the Ronin Globus Onbeat Artist-in-residence program seeks to stimulate cross-cultural dialogue by providing the opportunity for Japanese visual artists to live, work, and exhibit in New York City. The program will provide the chosen artist with a multiple weeks stay at Globus Wash*tsu, a solo exhibition at Ronin Gallery, a dedicated editorial in ONBEAT Magazine, a modest studio space, a $1000 cash stipend, and round-trip airfare between Tokyo and New York.

"A Day in Manhattan" by 2023 artist-in-residence Hayaki Nishigaki, completed during his time in New York.

Learn more and apply here: https://www.roningallery.com/air

Following five highly successful programs, Ronin Gallery, Globus Wash*tsu, and OnBeat Magazine are excited to announce that they are now accepting applications for the 6th annual Ronin Globus OnBeat Artist-in-Residence Program‼️

https://www.roningallery.com/air

“It’s not a matter of right and left, or up and down” by Hayaki Nishigaki. Summer 2023. The painting is sumi on washi, mounted on board, fusing traditional sansuiga (paintings of idealized landscapes) with contemporary Japanese pop-culture monsters. Hayaki Nishigaki was named the fifth annual winner of the Ronin Globus OnBeat Artist-in-Residence Program. Based at Studio Haidenban in Kyoto since 2015, Hayaki Nishigaki holds an MFA in painting from Kyoto University of Art and Design. He directed the Kyoto Sento Arts Festival in 2014 and completed a residency program at the Qatar Museum in Doha in 2022.

View this work and more here: https://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/Hayaki-Nishigaki%3A-A-Monster-of-Our-Own-Making?order=onlinecustomerprice:desc&show=48

Thank you to all who came to Hayaki’s Artist Residency yesterday to watch him paint and ask him questions. He will be back next Wednesday (Aug. 2nd), so make sure to mark your calendars so you don’t miss it!

Artist-in-Residence Hayaki Nishigaki will be at Ronin Gallery from 12pm-4pm tomorrow working on another new work. We hope to see you there to view the exhibition and say hello to the artist himself!

“From one direction to different directions“ by Hayaki Nishigaki. Summer 2023. Hayaki Nishigaki was named the fifth annual winner of the Ronin Globus OnBeat Artist-in-Residence Program. Based at Studio Haidenban in Kyoto since 2015, Hayaki Nishigaki holds an MFA in painting from Kyoto University of Art and Design. He directed the Kyoto Sento Arts Festival in 2014 and completed a residency program at the Qatar Museum in Doha in 2022.

View this work and more here: https://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/Hayaki-Nishigaki%3A-A-Monster-of-Our-Own-Making?order=onlinecustomerprice:desc&show=48

Tomorrow is the first of Hayaki Nishigaki’s in-gallery Artist Residency days! Hayaki will be at Ronin Gallery from 12pm-4pm painting a new piece. We hope to see you there to view the artwork and say hello to the artist himself!

“Figure_7219830” by Toru Ishii. Summer 2023. Based in Tokyo, Toru Ishii is a contemporary Japanese textile artist working in Yuzen, a resist-dyeing technique that uses a rice-paste resist to establish the composition and separate the different dyes. Born in Shizuoka, Ishii received a Ph.D in Textile Arts from Tokyo University of the Arts. In his work, he is most interested in a subgenre of Yuzen known as Itome Yuzen. Developed in the 18th century by silk producers of Kyoto's Nishijin textile district, this technique allowed rich color and highly complex designs of birds, flowers, figures and landscapes to bloom across kimono and obi of the day. Today, Ishii captures contemporary life in vivid color through this same technique.

View this work and more: https://www.roningallery.com/artists/Ishii%2C-Toru

“I Painted a Landscape Without Realizing It“ by Hayaki Nishigaki. Summer 2023. Hayaki Nishigaki was named the fifth annual winner of the Ronin Globus OnBeat Artist-in-Residence Program. Based at Studio Haidenban in Kyoto since 2015, Hayaki Nishigaki holds an MFA in painting from Kyoto University of Art and Design. He directed the Kyoto Sento Arts Festival in 2014 and completed a residency program at the Qatar Museum in Doha in 2022. Rendered in monochrome sansuiga (paintings of idealized landscapes), Nishigaki uses Godzilla to bring “to light what is internalized in society” with a touch of irony.

View this work and more at https://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/Hayaki-Nishigaki%3A-A-Monster-of-Our-Own-Making?order=onlinecustomerprice:desc&show=48

Thank you to all who attended the opening of “A Monster of Our Own Making” last night! We had a tremendous turnout including institutional attendees from the Japanese Consulate, Japan Foundation, Asia Cultural Council, Japan Society, art collectors and members of the press/media. If you were unable to make it, the exhibition is now on view in-person until August 18th or online at RoninGallery.com.

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Join us tonight at Ronin Gallery from 5pm-7pm for the opening of “A Monster of Our Own Making." This exhibition features the paintings of Hayaki Nishigaki, this year’s Ronin Globus Onbeat Artist-in-Residence program winner.

Tomorrow is the opening of “A Monster of Our Own Making”, an exhibition of Hayaki Nishigaki’s contemporary nihonga and sansuiga paintings that infuse traditional Japanese painting techniques with modern pop culture titans. We are pleased to provide a schedule of events for the upcoming weeks, and we hope to see you all throughout the duration of the program!

"A Monster of Our Own Making"Exhibition Opening
Ronin Gallery , 32 West. 40th Street New York, NY 10018
5pm-7pm

We are excited to announce the opening of “A Monster of Our Own Making,” featuring the works of Hayaki Nishigaki (b. 1985) that fuse traditional painting techniques with contemporary Japanese pop-culture icons such as Godzilla. Rendered in both gold-embellished nihonga (Japanese-style painting) and monochrome sansuiga (paintings of idealized landscapes), Hayaki uses the King of Monsters to bring to light “what is internalized in society” with a touch of irony. Join us Tuesday, July 11th, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. for an opening reception with Hayaki, this year’s Ronin Globus Onbeat artist-in-residence.