Statement
Tadahiro Gunji explores the territory between painting and sculpture. His current body of work centers on a series titled Collectivity. Each work is composed of multiple parts. Yet what draws Gunji's attention is not the parts themselves, but the gaps that emerge between them. These gaps become contours, giving form to the work. He calls this condition in-between. The idea is rooted in the Japanese concept of ma — a sense of space that is not emptiness, but something alive with relation and presence: the interval between objects, between people, between time and space.
Gunji was born in Japan and continues to work between New York and Japan. Moving back and forth between different cultures has turned his attention away from boundaries themselves, toward the relationships that arise in the space between them. Within his works, geometric and organic lines, painting and sculpture, the man-made and the natural coexist. Rather than resolving these oppositions, he attends to the tension and balance that live between them. His materials are resin and vintage paper, yellowed by the passage of time. The resin absorbs its surroundings, drawing the viewer and the space into the work itself. The vintage paper already holds the traces of time, and the resin too will continue to change as years pass. Gunji's work is an attempt to make visible the relationships that arise between objects, between a person and a work, between the past and the present. He believes that meaning and beauty do not reside in completed forms — but appear in the in-between, and within time.
Exhibitions:
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2026 COLLECTIVITY 085, 111–127 ARCHIVES at Galería en blanco MEXICO
2025 COLLECTIVITY 129 on “PROXIMITIES” at TAPPAN’s POP-UP NEW YORK gallery
2024 COLLECTIVITY 093–128 “Between summer and fall” B1 Storage
2024 Group show “PARAGON OF WONDER” TAPPAN
2023 COLLECTIVITY082–093 “In-between” NEPENTHES NYC
2023 Group show “APEIRON” TAPPAN
2020– TAPPAN Launch
2019 “ASCULPTURE” RAD HOURANI FOUNDATION AUGUST 7TH - SEPTEMBER 7TH 2019 exhibition
2019 “SALAD DAYS” a young space online exhibition
2017 “Collectivity 026–034” hpgrp Gallery NYC
2016 “Collectivity 015–025” hanare NON-GRID Inc.
“Collectivity 000–014” BATSU ART GALLERY
2015 “DIESEL ART GALLERY INSTALLATION”
“Here is Zine Tokyo 10th”
TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS
2014 “VISIBLE WIND” SHANGHAI ONE GALLERY
2013 COMMON Presents “NEW END MARKET vol.2”
Cool Japan Fund “JAPAN CREATIVE PLATFORM”
2012 The 10th International Poster Triennial in Toyama
REDonePRESS product show “NEW END MARKET”
2010 TABLOID
2009 The 9th International Poster Triennial in Toyama
DAIDO MORIYAMA “RECORD” ON THE ROAD
COLLABORATION WITH EIGHT CREATORS
2008 IID IID GREEN DAY
2007 X展－07GDC “平面设计在中国”国际评审提名展”
2006 The 8th International Poster Triennial in Toyama
2004 International Triennale of Contemporary Art
2003 onedotzero Extended Play 03 RESFEST RESMIX SHORTS
2002 Tokyo National University of Arts Graduation works Exhibition
Work collected at:
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SOHOHOUSE TOKYO
Capital one Landing LaGuardia Airport
The Peninsula New York
Rad Hourani Art Foundation
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
Italy Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa
Publishing:
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CONTEMPORARY COLLAGE BOOK 01 2026
CONTEMPORARY COLLAGE BOOK #3 2025