Hana Usui (笛吹 花, Usui Hana, born April 17, 1974 in Tokyo) is a Japanese artist.
Hana Usui was born in Tokyo in 1974 and studied art history at Waseda University and Japanese calligraphy. In 2000, she moved to Vienna to start a career as a free visual artist. In the years that followed she primarily worked in Berlin. Since 2011, Hana Usui has lived and worked in Vienna and Bolzano-Bozen (Italy). Her drawings are made of black or white oil paint, which she carves into paper with a screwdriver and often embeds into ink washes.
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2013 Galerie Dittmar, Berlin, DE
2013 Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, KR, Catalogue (Group Exhibition)
2013 Kit Schulte Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE, Catalogue (Group Exhibition)
2011 Hans Hartung, Informel and Its Impact, Gut Altenkamp, Papenburg, DE (Group Exhibition)
2010 Hans Hartung, Informel and Its Impact, Kupferstichkabinett – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, DE (Group Exhibition),
2010 Kupferstich-Kabinett – Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, DE (Group Exhibition)
2010 Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Berlin, DE (Group Exhibition)
2009 Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Crakow, PL
2009 Sensai, Museum Residenzgalerie Salzburg, AT, Catalogue (Group Exhibition)
2009 Galerie Waidspeicher, municipal gallery in Erfurt, DE
2008 Schwartzsche Villa, municipal gallery in Berlin, DE, Catalogue
2008 Parallel event to Manifesta7, municipal gallery of Bolzano-Bozen, IT (Group Exhibition)
2008 41 artecontemporanea, Turin, IT
2007 Galerie oko, Berlin, DE
2006 Kunstkontor Rampoldt, Berlin, DE, Catalogue
2005 Galerie oko, Berlin, DE,
2002 Kuso Galleria, Tokio, JP
1998 Kuso Galleria, Tokio, JP
1994–98 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, JP (Group Exhibition)
Sources:
Angermuseum Erfurt, DE
Berlinische Galerie (State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture Berlin), DE
Kupferstichkabinett – Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien (The Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), AT
Kupferstichkabinett – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Museum of Prints and Drawings - The National Museums in Berlin), DE
Kupferstich-Kabinett – Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Collection of Prints, Drawings and Photographs - Dresden State Art Collections), DE
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, AT
Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Crakow, PL
Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery), Berlin, DE
