ABOUT ELLIE OMIYA
Ellie Omiya was born in 1975 in Osaka. She graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. After working at an advertising agency, she achieved popularity for her essays about daily life. Besides her career as a writer, she works as a radio personality as well as a host of TV programs, a screenwriter and director. From 2012, she started holding interactive solo exhibitions in which works are completed by the viewers' participation. She started to paint on the occasion of her Live Drawing "Celebration Melody: Naoshima" in Ueno in 2012, and continues to explore the medium of painting. She held a solo exhibition "emotional journey" at Daikanyama Hillside Terrace in 2015. In a solo exhibition "Sincerely Yours" at Towada Modern Art Center, she also exhibited in the city center arcade, which received attention.
Ellie Omiya’s work has the energy of life overflowing from the canvas and filling the space. As a creator she has various expressions, and her liberated imagination pushes the possibilities of art without constraints. Flowers, trees and different landscapes are vividly depicted through the artist’s emotion, moving the viewer into an active experience beyond the mere act of viewing. Omiya also often performs live paintings with live music. She says, "My live drawings are stories. They continue and constantly develop." Arising from a horizon on a canvas, they evoke tangible sensations such as the buzz of particular places; lights, sounds and scents. Because Ellie’s artwork is a direct representation of what is felt by the artist, they invite the audience to a rich world of artistic resonances.
(Artist)
1975
Born in Osaka, Japan. Graduated Tokyo University Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. After working at an advertising agency, she gained popularity through a series of essays about daily life. Aside from writing, her profession expands to other media including radio personality, TV host, and screenwriter and director.
2012
Interactive solo exhibition called “To Convey Emotions” at PARCO Museum.
2012 was the year in which she started exploring medium of painting.
2013
Art installation exhibitions including “A House of Love” at the GYRE,
“Ellie Omiya Exhibition” at ggg gallery, Tokyo and ddd gallery, Kyoto,
“A Ceremony of Love” at Nakanoshima Banks “de sign de” gallery.
Interactive exhibitions including “To Be Alive” at PARCO Museum,
“To Convey Emotions” at Sendai Mediatheque and Kyoto Foil Gallery,
“Message from the Starry Sky” at Mitsubishi Jisho Artium.
2015
Feb First painting exhibition “Emotional Journey” at Hillside Terrace, Tokyo
Apr “Painting Dreams” at 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2016
May-Sep First solo exhibition in a museum “Sincerely Yours” at Towada City Museum of Modern Art, Aomori
2017
Jan “Tree ! Tree ! Tree !” at Hillside Terrace, Tokyo
Feb-Mar “Tomio Koyama works from the gallery artist 2” at 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo (Group exhibition)
Apr-Jun “Hello, This is Forest Speaking” at Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui
Jul Photo exhibition “Spirit Charge” at CAPSULE／SUNDAY, Tokyo
Aug “Secret Garden” at 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Nov “Art, anything to access a world” at Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Tokyo (Group exhibition)
2018
Apr-Feb “Dogo ONSENART 2018” at Dogo Onsen, Ehime (Group exhibition)
May-July “Mt.ROKKO PHOTOGRAPHIC GARDEN” at Mt. Rokko, Kobe (Group exhibition)
Apr-Jun Photo exhibition “a day, camellia” at SUNDAY, Tokyo
Jul Photo exhibition “Spirit Charge 2” at CAPSULE, Tokyo
2019
Jan “beautiful days” at Hillside Terrace, Tokyo
Feb “les beaux jour” at cafe INEKO, Paris
Mar “Wonderful Forest” at Ticolatttamura (Art Advidory in Modern and Contemporary Art)、Hong Kong
Apr Live painting “Cardboard Art Expression” at Anteprima Galleria, Milan
May-Jun “Peace within you” at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2020
Apr “To the animals of nature”at Roppongi Hils, Tokyo
Jul “My Favorite Resort”at ISETAN SALONE ART WALL, Tokyo
Nov Live painting at Billbord live Osaka,Osaka
2021
Mar “Big pictures” at Hillside Terrace, Tokyo
Apr “new world for you!” at Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo
Agu “SUMMER ART ZOO” Wall Art at Tokyo Midtown, Tokyo
Nov Live painting at The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art,Okayama
2022
Mar Hospital art, Tottori
Mar “Lounging Around” at Galerie Boulakia, London
May “ART HANKYU 2022” at Hankyu Umeda, Osaka
May “Flower fairy dancers” at Inujima, Okayama
2023
Jul “Dreamy Island” , TokyoJul “ Love from the Sea” at Spialal , Tokyo
Aug “We Love Forest” at Otemachi no mori, Tokyo
Dec “A Wonderful Garden” at Hankyu Umeda, Osaka