"Quartet" 200×200cm　 Acrylic on Canvas （Man playing the violin is Fukashi Miyama himself）

"In remembrance of Mr.F.S.in Japan" 100×100cm　 OIL and Acrylic on Cotton Canvas

Just keep on doing the best you can, and whatever will be will be...

The young fiddling life, starting at the age of two, created an artist who believes in "eating, culture and having fun."

A violin player (instructor), a violin craftsman, a painter, a former chef, and a former photographer ... these are all the vocations that he once held or holds today.

Playing the violin as a young boy, enduring hard lessons and practices, must have bestowed upon him the skill to find a way to overcome hardships in life.

Playing the violin is a process of enhancing the treasure hidden deep inside his own heart that he truly loves.

Because he is fully aware of his limited life (time), he would throw himself on his internal voice, and the panoramic synapse, for achieving the goals that he believes in.

When facing a hardship of his life (slump), he would spend time preserving his works for the brighter moments in the future.

As a violin craftsman, Miyama often visits France where he would physically touch the wood in search for the ultimate matching between the player (software) and the instrument (hardware). He says he can choose wood, by touching it, which will produce the ideal sounds when made into a violin.

As an artist, Miyama's internal chord is tense although he is a quite lighthearted, positive-minded, sociable person.

As a musician, Miyama fascinates the audience with his paletteful sounds.

His sounds are like the blossoms of his talents as a painter.

His paintings do not suggest any sign of "ending" as they are full of everlasting happiness, utopia, paradise, and the joy of harmony of life.

They present an atmosphere of amusing musical notes dancing and toasting.

His atelier is crowded with his paintings, ready to produce a melody (or an avalanche, maybe), and visitors will find food at the door that Miyama had fed to stray cats. Indeed, the stray cats are the motif of a picture that he is working on. He has just finished painting the base in a happy pink color.

The stray cats may be guided from nowhere by the melody played by Miyama's violin to the dinner table with his paintings dancing by ...

One may be tempted to describe Miyama as the Goddess of Mercy with a thousand hands. To Miyama himself, playing the violin and cooking are in a synergic relation. Footwork is a major part of his cooking as he believes it helps to vitalize his brain and the rhythm guides him through the cooking.

Guests coming to Miyama's solo exhibition will also enjoy his violin performance. Sometimes he prepares food (for 120 to 130 people).

The guests really get to fully appreciate Miyama's total art and happy spirit.

His works well exceed 5,000 pieces in terms of number. They are displayed on a global scale in solo exhibitions in various countries, at Art Fair EXPO, and Venice Biennale. Miyama is looking for dealer agencies from around the world for his prints, silk screens (production and distribution), etc.

You are cordially invited to take a look also at the article titled "happiness is a perpetual musical and visual art theme in Fukashi Miyama's Flatterland" written by Koichi Nakai (design critique), in the September 1993 issue of Sign & Display, published by Mass Communication Institute.


■Brief history of the artist

Fukashi Miyama

Born on in Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture on October 10, 1953
Blood type: AB

Started painting at the influence of Hanjiro Sakamoto, a famed painter related to Miyama's mother. Learned calligraphy and ink paintings from Meizan Yukutake, water paintings and oils from the late Mitsuki Koba, material selection and preparation from Yuji Miyama, oils, sketches and modern paintings from Tadashi Hamada, and colors and compositions from Yoshio Aoyama.


* The 6th ART BOX Exhibition award (by Takashi Ito, judge)
* Prova '96 AWARDS "Heart-warming" award
* The 28th DAISAN BUNMEI ART Exhibition (chosen for the cover of official book)
* The 29th DAISAN BUNMEI ART Exhibition award
* The 13th Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prizw Exhibition award candidate
* The 9th Hashino Art Museum award (Sakaide Civic Art Museum, Kagawa)
* The 4th F4 Grand Prix in Nishi Azabu award
* The 16th International Exhibition of Gallery Fine-Arts award (chosen for display at Paris Salon de Mai)
* The 4th Plywood Paintings Contest award
* The 11th ARTEX-TOKYO '99 award (Meguro Art Museum)
* The 1st Uni-Glavas 00 award

* Solo exhibition: Paintings by Fukashi Miyama ('96), "Yusuke Kawazu's Lala no Su," OZ Oizumi Seibu
* Solo exhibition: Fukashi Miyama ('97), "ART BOX GRAND Prix Exhibition award," Roppongi ART BOX GALLERY
* Solo exhibition: Fukashi Miyama ('98), Gallery Miharaya (Ginza)
* Solo exhibition: Fukashi Miyama ('98), Gallery B-One (Kyobashi)
* Solo exhibition: Fukashi Miyama ('98), Kikkoman KCC Gallery (Toranomon)
* Solo exhibition: Fukashi Miyama ('98), BEN'S CAFE (Takadanobaba), Phone: 3402-2445
* Solo exhibition: Fukashi Miyama ('99), CHIMENKANOYA (Nakano Numabukuro), Phone: 3386-3910
* Solo exhibition: Fukashi Miyama ('99), Galleria Prova (Minami Aoyama), Phone: 5225-1268
* Solo exhibition: Fukashi Miyama ('99), Comesta, Phone: 0471-23-0077
* Solo exhibition: Fukashi Miyama ('00), Ginza Gallery House
* Solo exhibition: Fukashi Miyama ('00), Livin OZ Oizumi Seibu
* Solo exhibition: Fukashi Miyama ('00), Art Gallery "C'est l'art"
* Solo exhibition: Fukashi Miyama ('00~), Gallery Misono
* Solo exhibition: Fukashi Miyama ('98~), Ono Gallery Ginza
* Fukashi Miyama ('98~), CAFENOVEL (Oizumi Gakuen), Phone: 3978-6766
* Fukashi Miyama ('98~), Aqua Pazza Mangia Pesce (Harajuku/Aoyama), Phone: 3403-7735
* Fukashi Miyama ('99~), Asahi Beer Pizza Studio Coccolino (Sangenjaya), Phone: 3552-8001
* Fukashi Miyama ('01~), GARLIEONE-HEART

* The 3rd ARTEX-TOKYO '94 entry, Seibu Ikebukuro LOFT Dept. Store
* The 4th ARTEX-PARIS '96 entry, Galerie Etienne de Causans, Paris
* The 2nd ARTEX-STRASBOURG '96 entry, UFOARTGALLERY, France
* '96 Spanish Art Award entry, by Tharrats Graphic Arts Foundation (Pineda de Mar, Spain)
* '96 Japan-South Korea Modern Art Exhibition entry, Gallery Yaesu, Tokyo
* '98 Japan-South Korea Modern Art Exhibition entry, Gallery Yaesu, Tokyo
* The 1st Tulip Exhibition '95 Asahi Art Gallery award
* The 2nd Tulip Exhibition '96 Asahi Art Gallery award
* The 4th Asahi Tulip Exhibition '98 Asahi Sun Tours award
* Asian Art Now 2004 entry, Las Vegas Art Museum, U.S.A.
* Ginza Bungu 2004 work display, Phone 3542-9395

* A.D. 2000 - Tokyo Environment and Health Fair poster, by Tokyo Coffee Shops Environment and Health trade association
* Cover art for "Daisan Bunmei" magazine, by Daisan Bunmei Sha
* Work owned by Yosuke Yamashita, a jazz pianist
* Work owned by Hayama Heart Center, a cardiac surgery, etc.

Miyama's works are owned by Mrs. Catherine Trautmann, French Minister for Culture and Communication and other individual and corporate collectors.

A permanent committee of Artist Friendship Association of Asia, Committee, a member of Japan Contemporary Art Association(JCAA), a member of NPO Asian Culture Exchange Association and a former member of ART BOX Grand Prix Exhibition.