Hana Usui

Hana Usui (笛吹 花, Usui Hana, born April 17, 1974 in Tokyo) is a Japanese artist.

Hana Usui was born in Tokyo in 1974 and studied art history at Waseda University and Japanese calligraphy. In 2000, she moved to Vienna to start a career as a free visual artist. In the years that followed she primarily worked in Berlin. Since 2011, Hana Usui has lived and worked in Vienna and Bolzano-Bozen (Italy). Her drawings are made of black or white oil paint, which she carves into paper with a screwdriver and often embeds into ink washes.

Sources:

• 2013 Galerie Dittmar, Berlin, DE
• 2013 Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, KR, Catalogue (Group Exhibition)
• 2013 Kit Schulte Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE, Catalogue (Group Exhibition)
• 2011 Hans Hartung, Informel and Its Impact, Gut Altenkamp, Papenburg, DE (Group Exhibition)
• 2010 Hans Hartung, Informel and Its Impact, Kupferstichkabinett – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, DE (Group Exhibition),
• 2010 Kupferstich-Kabinett – Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, DE (Group Exhibition)
• 2010 Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Berlin, DE (Group Exhibition)
• 2009 Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Crakow, PL
• 2009 Sensai, Museum Residenzgalerie Salzburg, AT, Catalogue (Group Exhibition)
• 2009 Galerie Waidspeicher, municipal gallery in Erfurt, DE
• 2008 Schwartzsche Villa, municipal gallery in Berlin, DE, Catalogue
• 2008 Parallel event to Manifesta7, municipal gallery of Bolzano-Bozen, IT (Group Exhibition)
• 2008 41 artecontemporanea, Turin, IT
• 2007 Galerie oko, Berlin, DE
• 2006 Kunstkontor Rampoldt, Berlin, DE, Catalogue
• 2005 Galerie oko, Berlin, DE,
• 2002 Kuso Galleria, Tokio, JP
• 1998 Kuso Galleria, Tokio, JP
• 1994–98 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, JP (Group Exhibition)

Sources:

• Angermuseum Erfurt, DE
• Berlinische Galerie (State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture Berlin), DE
• Kupferstichkabinett – Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien (The Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), AT
• Kupferstichkabinett – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Museum of Prints and Drawings - The National Museums in Berlin), DE
• Kupferstich-Kabinett – Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Collection of Prints, Drawings and Photographs - Dresden State Art Collections), DE
• Museum der Moderne Salzburg, AT
• Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Crakow, PL
• Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery), Berlin, DE

• Niklas Maak: The Japanese painter Hana Usui at Oko in Berlin, [1] Review in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2006 February 26
• Marcello Farabegoli: From Japanese Calligraphy to free Art - Works on paper by Hana Usui, In: Hana Usui, Exhibition Catalogue of Schwartzsche Villa, Publisher Office for Culture of Berlin-Steglitz-Zehlendorf, 2008,
• Niklas Maak: Lines Leading into the Future, [2] Review in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2010 August 26
• Bernhard Maaz: Hana Usui - Affective Stroke and Explosive Sheet, In: Hana Usui - Drawings on paper 2006–2012, Publisher Marcello Farabegoli, Vienna, 2012,
• Andreas Schalhorn: Tracing the Line - On the Drawings by Hana Usui, In: Hana Usui - Drawings on paper 2006–2012, Publisher Marcello Farabegoli, Vienna, 2012,
• Literature by and about Hana Usui in the German National Library catalogue
• Literature by and about Hana Usui in the Austrian National Library catalogue