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Takahide Koike is a Japanese artist and abstract painter. He was born in Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture, in 1960. In 1988, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts. In 1990, he completed his postgraduate studies in oil painting at the Graduate School of Fine Arts of Tokyo University of the Arts.

Style and technique
Takahide Koike focuses on the relationship of colors in his paintings, creating abstract artworks that rely on hues rather than concrete images.

His works consist of layers upon layers of thinly diluted acrylic paint, constructing the canvas solely through the presence of color without the use of any specific motifs or symbols. However, they are never purely two-dimensional. The relationship between colors, the interplay of color and form, and the interaction of color and texture unfold a unique spatial expression. A technique called 'staining', where acrylic paint is allowed to soak into cotton fabric, is frequently employed.

From the late 1980s to around 1992, he applied acrylic paint over a base coat made with a white pigment from glue, and in his earliest works, he sometimes also utilized oil paints. After his first solo exhibition in 1992, he stopped using the glue-based undercoat. By doing away with this, he shifted towards creating works that capitalized on the permeability and fluidity of acrylic paint.

The reason he incorporated staining was due to his discovery of Morris Louis, which sometimes leads to his association with Color Field painting. However, this influence is strictly limited to technique; his work is more rooted in a uniquely Japanese aesthetic sensibility. Koike's paintings, where water-diluted paint permeates the canvas, evoke the delicacy and fluctuation of nature in areas where colors harmonize and in others where they clash. These evoke sensations that are esteemed within traditional Japanese values.

One man exhibitions

 * 1992 Hino Gallery, Tokyo
 * 1993 Hino Gallery, Tokyo
 * 1995 Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo
 * 1996 Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Kanagawa
 * 1997 Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya
 * 1999 Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Kanagawa
 * 1999 Gallery αM, Tokyo
 * 2002 Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin
 * 2003 Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Kanagawa
 * 2006 Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, "LANDSCAPE IS NOW"
 * 2006 Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Kanagawa "New Works"
 * 2008 Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, "LANDSCAPE IS NOW" (New Works)
 * 2011 Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, "New Works"
 * 2013 Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, "New Works"
 * 2013 Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo
 * 2013-2014 Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata, "TAKAHIDE KOIKE: Paintings"
 * 2014 Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York　"TAKAHIDE KOIKE Drawings"
 * 2015 Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo
 * 2015 Gallery of The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
 * 2016-2017 IKEDA GALLERY, New York, "New Works"
 * 2018 IKEDA GALLERY Tokyo, "New Works"
 * 2018 IKEDA GALLERY Tokyo,  TAKAHIDE KOIKE "Beyond Color I  1987 - 1992" June 8 - Sep. 7
 * 2018 IKEDA GALLERY Tokyo,  TAKAHIDE KOIKE "Beyond Color II  1999 - 2015" Sep. 13 - Dec. 22
 * 2019 IKEDA GALLERY Tokyo,  TAKAHIDE KOIKE  "Watercolors" Oct.10 -Dec.28
 * 2020 Gallery KTO (Tokyo),  TAKAHIDE KOIKE "Small works"
 * 2021 IKEDA GALLERY Tokyo, TAKAHIDE KOIKE Recent Works "Berlin / New York" May 13 - July 17
 * 2021 IKEDA GALLERY Tokyo, TAKAHIDE KOIKE "New Works" Sept. 10 - Nov. 11

Group exhibitions

 * 1990 "Presentation", Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo
 * 1990 "Vision and Embodiment", Megro Art Museum, Tokyo
 * 1991 "Drawing, Four Artists", Hino Gallery, Tokyo
 * 1993 "Painting Now---Osaka ’93", Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka
 * 1994 "Two-Parsons Show: Takahide Koike, Tsuyoshi Higashijima", Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Kanagawa
 * 1994 "Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair", Nagoya City Gallery, Nagoya
 * 1994 "VOCA", The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
 * 1995 "Art Garden #2", Spiral Garden, Tokyo
 * 1995 "Kyoubashi Kaiwai ‘95 <3K Exhibition>", Hino Gallery, Tokyo
 * 1995 "The Nostalgia of Future: Same Era Artist of Yamagata", Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata
 * 1995 "Allegory of Seeing 1995: Painting and Sculpture in Contemporary Japan", Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo
 * 1995 "Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair", Nagoya City Gallery, Nagoya
 * 1995 "Summer Show", Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya
 * 1996 "Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair", Nagoya City Gallery, Nagoya
 * 1997 "Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair", Nagoya City Gallery, Nagoya
 * 1997 "VOCA '97", The Ueno Royal Art Museum, Tokyo
 * 1999 "Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair", Nagoya City Gallery, Nagoya
 * 1999 "Kyoubashi Kaiwai '99 ", Hino Gallery, Tokyo
 * 2000 "Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair", Nagoya City Gallery, Nagoya
 * 2001 "Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair", Nagoya City Gallery, Nagoya
 * 2002 "Contemporary Japanese Watercolor", The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo
 * 2004 Korea International Art Fair (KIAF) 2004, Seoul, Korea
 * 2004 Special exhibition: "Japanese Contemporary Art"
 * 2004 Special invited gallery: AKIRA IKEDA GALLERY Booth
 * 2004 VOCA 1994-2003, Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Okayama
 * 2006 "The present age projected on the VOCA exhibition", Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi
 * 2009 Toyota Municipal Museum, Toyota, Aichi (Museum Collection Exhibition)
 * 2009-2010 "Stillness into color Inframince of Moonlight", Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum, Sakura, Chiba
 * 2011 Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi (Museum New Collection Exhibition)
 * 2011-2012 Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi (Museum Collection Exhibition)
 * 2013 Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi (Museum Collection Exhibition)
 * 2016 Yonezawa Citizen Gallery, Yamagata (Opening Memorial Exhibition)
 * 2019 Iwami Art Museum, Shimane (Groupe show : "Art of traveling with the stars")
 * 2021 "Pictorially yours", Curated by Tetsuya Oshima, Omotesando Gallery, Tokyo
 * 2023 "Takahide Koike / Kana Sakai" (Two persons show), IKEDA GALLERY Tokyo

Awards

 * 1997 Received the VOCA Prize (The Ueno Royal Art Museum, Tokyo)
 * 2013 Yonezawa Principle Art Cultural Society Prize

Public collections

 * Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
 * Yamagata Museum of Art, Japan
 * Toyota Municipal Museum, Japan
 * Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
 * Tendo City Comprehensive Welfare Center, Japan