Natsuko Kiura

Born in Kagoshima, Japan in 1985. Lives and works in Kagoshima. She earned an MFA from Onomichi City University in Art & Design in 2010.
She has had solo exhibitions, including at Takashi Somemiya Gallery (Tokyo, 2022) and EUREKA (Fukuoka, Japan, 2022). In 2019, she received the 45th Kagoshima City Newcomer Award, Spring and held her solo exhibition Umi to Koen to, (Sea, Park and) in this honor (Kagoshima City Museum of Art, Japan, 2021). She has participated in group exhibitions including VOCA: The Vision of Contemporary Art (The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, 2022).

Kiura consistently paints landscapes, especially everyday scenes, in oil. Her paintings, which are based on scenes in her surrounding environment captured by her camera, are executed simply and softly, but have a sense of otherworldly charm. Through familiar landscapes such as Sea, Park and Mountain, she captures the unchanging essence of our lives.