Biography

Exhibitions

Selected Exhibitions

2015
Ruiko Imai Solo Exhibition, Gallery Ten, Kanazawa, Japan
2016
Solo Exhibition -Reminiscence-, Gallery Prism Plus, Tokyo, Japan
2017
Solo Exhibition, Gallery DiEGO, Tokyo, Japan

Duet Exhibition – Hidenori Tsumori and Ruiko Imai, arflex, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Palm Beach M+C, USA

Reminiscence – Memories in Glass, Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Seattle Art Fair, USA (’19)

Exhibition of Imai Ruiko, Kurodatoen, Tokyo, Japan

Art Miami, USA
2019
TEFAF Maastricht, The Netherlands

Group Exhibition, Rakusui-tei Museum of Art, Toyama prefecture, Japan

“Juunin Toiro” ten people, ten colors – Glass exhibition, Yokohama red brick warehouse, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan

Awards

2014　Award of Excellence, Toyama City Institute of Glass Art Graduation Exhibition
2015　Selected, 72nd Kanazawa City Art Craft Competition
　　　Selected, Glass ’15 in Japan (’18)
2016　Award of Meitetsu M’za, 73rd Kanazawa City Art Craft Competition
2017　Selected, TALENTE
　　　Award of Excellence, 73rd Kanazawa City Art Craft Competition
　　　Selected, Award of Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop
　　　Award of Excellence, Ecchu Art Festa, Toyama Prefectural Artistic and Cultural Association
2018　New Glass Review 39, USA
　　　Selected, 7th Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition in Sanyoonoda
　　　Selected, Toyama International Glass Exhibition

Public Collections

Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop, Japan

今井瑠衣子 Ruiko
Imai Ruiko
Imai

reminiscence -kendo mask-　｜　Glass, brass wire

H29 x W62.5 x D43 cm

Ruiko
Imai

Profile

1991 Born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
2014 Tama Art University Graduate School
2017 Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan

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About
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The fragile memories of youth, captured within the ephemeral beauty of glass, glittering softly like snow underneath moonlit skies. Ruiko Imai (1991- ) is a fascinating new artist to emerge onto the contemporary glass scene, recreating found objects of one’s childhood from sewed brass wire mesh and powdered glass. It is the warmth of the family home, the sights and sounds of growing up surrounded by the beauty of things and who and where they belong to, the protection, security and comfort of everyday life, that Imai has so poetically encapsulated in elegant fragility. Like soft snow covering her objects with a gentle glow, Imai’s works are odes to family, warmth and the beauty within where we have been and where we are now, the music of youth and growing up. Memories may fade, yet her works will remain, entrapped for eternity in the warmth of Imai’s white glass.