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Threshold of Emergence — New Solo Exhibition at Tokyo International Gallery, Tennoz
SEPTEMBER 08, 2026In recent years, Takaya's interest has deepened from the expression of color itself toward the behavior of the materials that give rise to it. How matter reveals different phases — and transforms the experience of seeing — within its relations to light, environment, viewpoint, and body: this is the question that runs through her current practice. The "threshold" named in the exhibition's title is not a simple boundary. It is a critical site that appears in the moment just before meaning takes hold, or in the passage through which dissolved meaning begins to reconstitute itself into another order. We invite you to shift your position before the works, yield to the conditions of light, and encounter a pictorial space that emerges differently each time. Dates: Wednesday, September 9 – Saturday, October 24, 2026 Hours: 10:00 – 19:00 Closed: Sundays, Mondays, and Holidays (Tuesdays by appointment) Venue: Tokyo International Gallery Address: TERRADA ART COMPLEX II 2F, 1-32-8 Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 9, 2026, 18:00 – 21:00(Free admission / No reservation required) Contact: info@tokyointernationalgallery.co.jp
Cover Artwork for the Shin Seisen Series of High School Japanese Language Textbooks (Meiji Shoin)
MARCH 31, 2026Towa Takaya has provided the cover artwork for all six volumes of the
Solo Exhibition ”Within Transience” in Ginza
MARCH 08, 2026Ginza Mitsukoshi Main Building, 7th Floor GalleryArtist’s attendance: To be confirmedThis exhibition will feature new works from Towa Takaya’s highly acclaimed Sakura series, which has become one of the artist’s most iconic and beloved bodies of work.Capturing fleeting moments of beauty that dwell within the flow of time, the exhibition presents a striking selection of cherry blossom works that evoke both transience and quiet intensity.In addition, at the Chandelier Sky space, a wristwatch created through a collaborative project with the Japanese watch brand MINASE will also be on display. This timepiece was developed over the course of approximately one year and embodies a shared exploration of craftsmanship and the perception of time.We invite you to experience these works, each offering a contemplative encounter with the passage of time, on this special occasion.Within Transience invites viewers to attune themselves once again to the subtle presences and cycles that quietly exist within nature. Through phenomena that resist fixed form—light, color, and fleeting sensations—the flow of time between nature and human perception gently emerges. 〈Mizuha〉, imbued with the memory of water; 〈Moss〉, as an accumulation of time; and 〈Cherry Blossoms〉, which bloom brilliantly only to fall—each series shifts in form while remaining interconnected, reflecting the changing aspects of a world in constant motion. The cherry blossom works presented in 2022, along with Ranman (2025), capture moments in which the radiance of life and its fragility appear simultaneously. When we place ourselves within the midst of change, we may, for the first time, come into contact with a vivid sense of being alive here and now. The light that rises from within fluctuation and impermanence becomes a quiet blessing toward life itself, gently accompanying the viewer’s own time. This exhibition is conceived as a space in which such a quiet blessing may come into awareness.
Solo Exhibition ”Timelessness” in Osaka
FEBRUARY 24, 2026Up coming exhibition2026.2.25 (Wed.) ー 3.9 (Mon.) HANKYU MENS Contemporary Art Gallery *Artist Attendance 2.25 (Wed.)
Collaboration with Japanese Watch Brand MINASE: "Yusai Dials" Series Announcement
SEPTEMBER 16, 2025Towa Takaya has announced a new JAPAN ART COLLECTION in collaboration with MINASE (KYOWA Co., Ltd.), a Japanese watch brand based in Akita Prefecture: the "Yusai Dials" (悠彩文字盤) series. For this collection, Takaya hand-paints each individual watch dial using the same techniques and pigments as her painting practice. The name "Yusai" combines two concepts: "Yuu" (悠), evoking the unhurried, eternal depth of time as a gently cyclical experience, and "Sai" (彩), referring to the layered, shifting quality of colour that changes with light and environment. Together they give rise to a world in which art — expressing time and phenomena — co-creates with the mechanical watch. The works were developed over approximately one year of research into new modes of expression, drawing on both Eastern and Western aesthetic sensibilities and inspired by the distinctive cultural traditions and craft of Japan. Released to mark the 20th anniversary of the MINASE brand, the collection comprises three models. SEVEN WINDOWS — Otherwise Than Being FIVE WINDOWS — Mid Pluralist Garden Venue: Ginza Mitsukoshi, New Building 4th Floor, Watch Section Exhibition & Pre-order Period: 17–30 September 2025 (From 3 October 2025, the collection continues at the MINASE flagship store "K CRAFTWORK JAPAN" in Akihabara.) Product details: https://minase-watches.com/yusai
Joining to the 3rd Japan International Arts Festival 2025 (Japan International Expo, Osaka, Kansai Expo site EXPO Messe ‘WASSE’)
JUNE 29, 2025Up coming exhibition3rd Japan International Arts Festival Venue: EXPO Messe ‘WASSE’, Osaka, Kansai Expo site Dates: 2 - 6 July 2025 Booth: B-6 & 7 We are pleased to present a new exhibition of meditative, immersive paintings by artist Towa Takaya. Celebrated both in Japan and overseas, her distinctive pictorial spaces—defined by mystical colors and subtly shifting vibrations—invite deep, contemplative viewing. Drawing on meticulous research into traditional Western painting methods and collected pigments by her own based on the field reach , Takayaʼs unique and original techniques summon shimmering light that echoes our inner landscapes and evokes the vast cycles of the Earth, and indeed the cosmos. We warmly invite you to experience this remarkable body of work. ______________________ About Japan International Art Festival - Organiser - Yumeshima New Industry and City Creation Organisation - Sponsors - <Platinum Sponsor> Hankyu Corporation <Gold Sponsor> Omron Corporation / Iwai Cosmo Securities / Takenaka Corporation <Silver Sponsor> Haseko Corporation / Union Corporation - Supported by - Kyoto Prefecture / Kyoto City / Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Kinki Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry / Kansai Association of Corporate Executives ‘Osaka-Kansai Expo’ Kyoto Support Council / Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry / Kansai Economic Federation / Japan Association for the International Exposition, 2025 / Consulate-General of Kansai / With the 2025 Japan International Exposition, The Coalition of Leaders for Creating the Future Society of the Region / Consulate-General of Canada in Nagoya / Consulate-General of the People's Republic of China in Osaka / Consulate-General of the Kingdom of Thailand in Osaka / Consulate-General of the Republic of Korea in Osaka / Consulate-General of the Mongolian State in Osaka / Consulate-General of India in Osaka-Kobe / Consulate-General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Osaka-Kobe / Consulate-General of the Republic of Indonesia in Osaka / Consulate-General of the Philippines in Osaka Consulate-General of the Philippines in Osaka / Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands / Consulate-General of Switzerland in Osaka / Italian Cultural Institute - Osaka / Consulate-General of Hungary in Osaka / Consulate-General of the United States in Osaka-Kobe / British Consulate-General / Consulate-General of France in Kyoto - Special cooperation - World Heritage Site Shingon Omuroha Ninna-ji Temple / World Heritage Site To-ji Temple (Kyo-o Gokoku-ji Temple), head temple of the Shingon sect / Shogo-in Monzeki, head temple of the Honzan Shugen sect / Kennin-ji Temple, head temple of the Rinzai sect / Senyuji Temple, head temple of the Senyuji sect of the Shingon sect / Ryukoku-zan Honganji Temple (Nishi Honganji Temple), head temple of the Honganji sect of the Jodo Shin sect / World Heritage Site Hieizan Enryaku-ji Temple, head temple of the Tendai sect