Riusuke Fukahori The Painted Breath
The Painted Breath marks Yokohama-based artist Riusuke Fukahori’s debut solo exhibition in New York, presenting new resin works and paintings centered on his lifelong fascination with goldfish. Transforming everyday Japanese household vessels into intimate, illusionistic environments, Fukahori builds each work through painstaking layers of resin and paint, creating hyperreal, three-dimensional forms that blur sculpture and painting. Rooted in memory, ritual, and observation, the exhibition reflects on fragility, care, and the quiet parallels between goldfish and modern human life.
Riusuke Fukahori (b. 1973, Aichi Prefecture, Japan) lives and works in Yokohama and is best known for his meticulously layered resin works depicting goldfish contained within domestic Japanese objects. He has presented solo exhibitions internationally, including Goldfish Salvation at ICN Gallery, London (2011), The SOLO Project in Basel (2011), and Galerie an der Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2010). Fukahori’s work has also been featured in group exhibitions at Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, and is distinguished by its technical precision, personal symbolism, and deep commitment to observation and memory.
Aizuitsu, 2013 Vintage Aizu-Nuri lacquerware, resin, acrylic 15.75 x 16.5 x 3.75 in (40 x 41.9 x 9.5 cm)
Hishaku ni Ake, 2013 Ladle, resin, acrylic 8.25 x 3.5 x 2.5 in (21 x 8.9 x 6.4 cm)
Karemoni, 2013 Ceramic bowl, resin, acrylic 3 x 7 x 5.5 in (7.6 x 17.8 x 14 cm)
Kingyo-sake Edoko, 2013 Japanese cypress sake cup, resin, acrylic 2.15 x 3.35 x 3.35 in (5.5 x 8.5 x 8.5 cm)
The Sun, 2013 Japanese sushi oke, resin, acrylic 16.25 x 16.25 x 4 in (41.3 x 41.3 x 10.2 cm)
Warewan ni Byaku, 2013 Wood bowl, resin, acrylic 3 x 3.5 x 4 in (7.6 x 8.9 x 10.2 cm)