Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Mio Akashi “Hagakure – Behind the Leaves”
ISE Cultural Foundation presents “Hagakure – Behind the Leaves” a solo exhibition by Mio Akashi curated by Alison Bradley at the Front Space. Mio Akashi’s photographs evoke a deep respect of nature,...More »
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“The Right Amount of Wrong” Exhibition
“Right” and “wrong” are subjective terms. Decided by cultural norms; actions, behaviors, even markings are regarded as “good or bad” according to these standards in their particular place and time. This...More »
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Ōyama Enrico Isamu Letter “Letterscape”
ISE Cultural Foundation presents Letterscape, a solo exhibition by Tokyo-born NYC-based artist Ōyama Enrico Isamu Letter at the Front Space. For more than a decade, Ōyama’s practice has been centered...More »
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Nicolas Fleming “Time Would Not Diminish Their Strength But Add Wisdom To It”
Using the four columns of the venue as a departure point, Fleming builds walls on the perimeter formed by the four pillars, resulting in a rectangular enclosure with rounded corners. Light emerges from...More »
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Astro Nuts and Cinnamon Wills Exhibition
Astro nuts, who calls himself “Stuffed animal artist”, creates various lively animals with his own new technique and expression. After passing through a background of fashion design, he cuts fabric freely...More »
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“ISE NY Art Search 2013 Award Winners Exhibition”
ISE Cultural Foundation presents “ISE NY Art Search 2013 Award Winners Exhibition” featuring Isa Ho, Yutaka Kamiyama, Tomoo Nitta, Shu Ohno, Manju Shandler, and Mayu Shiomi. Taiwanese artist, Isa Ho...More »
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“I’m Your Man” Exhibition
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Maho Kino “Peanuts in Wonderland”
The peanut has been a long time subject in my work. Two nuts in one shell. On one hand the peanut characters appear playful. Acting out their little tableaux. But underneath there are other stories.....More »
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“Fiction in Reality” Exhibition
ISE Cultural Foundation presents “Fiction in Reality” a group exhibition, artists by Sequoyah Aono, Peter Feigenbaum, and Jonathan Podwil. As information technology rapidly grows, we are surrounded by...More »
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Adehla Lee “Nirvana”
[Image: Adehla Lee “Magic Volcano” (2014) Acrylic on Canvas, 44″x 60″]More »
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“Relic” Exhibition
ISE Cultural Foundation presents “Relic” a group exhibition curated by Ginger Shulick Porcella. “Relic” is a three-person exhibition featuring the work of NYC-based artists Seth Cohen, Colette Robbins,...More »
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“Shifting Space” Exhibition
ISE Cultural Foundation presents Shifting Space, a site-specific installation by Lisa Pressman and Krista Svalbonas, curated by Lisbeth Murray at the Front Space. Shifting Space is a collaborative site-specific...More »
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Michele Beck and Jorge Calvo “Passage”
ISE Cultural Foundation presents an installation by Michele Beck and Jorge Calvo titled “Passage”, curated by Marie N. Guex. Passage is an immersive installation composed of 4-video projections, sound...More »
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“Underneath it all: Desire, power, memory & lingerie” Exhibition
ISE Cultural Foundation presents a group exhibition, “Underneath it all: Desire, power, memory & lingerie”, by Diane Bronstein. “Underneath it all” is a nationally touring exhibit showcasing the...More »
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“ISE NY Art Search 2013” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-07-09 - 2013-08-23
ISE Cultural Foundation gallery presents an open call exhibition, the ISE NY Art Search Exhibition 2013, for summer. We have received total of 198 artists submission and the following 51 artists were selected...More »
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“Connecting The Dots….” Exhibition
ISE Cultural Foundation presents a group exhibition “Connecting The Dots…..” curated by Lovina Purple at the Front Space. Connections can be physical, sentimental, metaphorical or technological. The...More »
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Babs Reingold “The Last Tree”
The Last Tree is a monumental installation of 193 tree stump sculptures encased in metal pails and placed in a grid formation to transform the gallery space into a barren landscape. The number of stumps...More »
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Meisai Okamoto “Sketches of the Sun”
ISE Cultural Foundation presents solo exhibition “Sketches of the Sun” by Meisai Okamoto curated by Rie Sakaguchi at the Front Space. Meisai Okamoto (b. 1971 in Kochi Prefecture, Japan) has been taking...More »
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"Intangible Transportations" Exhibition
As time marches on, the ability to travel to an incredible range of destinations becomes increasingly easier. The Internet has brought this facility of transportation to a new level. With a quick click,...More »
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"Weird World" Exhibition
ISE Cultural Foundation presents a three-person exhibition, “Weird World” featuring Toru Ishii, Don Porcella and Tom Sanford. Mass consumer society manipulated by global economic strategy of the corporation,...More »
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Yasutaka Kojima "Tokyo"
ISE Cultural Foundation present ssolo exhibition “Tokyo” by Yasutaka Kojima at the Front Space. I have been recording cityscape of Tokyo since 2008. The city gives me a sense of evanescence. All the...More »
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Shyu Ruey Shiann "Poetic Rationality, Warm Coldness"
ISE Cultural Foundation presents solo exhibition “SHYU Ruey Shiann: Poetic Rationality, Warm Coldness”, curated by Sean C. S. Hu. Poetic Rationality, Warm Coldness is an exhibition of three kinetic...More »
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"Art Student Exhibition 2012 Award Winners" Exhibition
SE Cultural Foundation presents “Art Student Exhibition 2012 Award Winners” at the front space. This exhibition will showcase the award winning works from ISE’s “Art Student Exhibition in NY 2012” as...More »
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Akira Ikezoe "Drawing"
ISE Cultural Foundation presents a solo exhibition "Drawing" by Akira Ikezoe at the Front Space Gallery. Artist Statement: My drawing is based on my personal and intimate experiences, and it is a consequence...More »
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Katsutoshi Yuasa "Miraculous"
ISE Cultural Foundation presents solo exhibition "Katsutoshi Yuasa: Miraculous", curated by Diana Ewer. His first one-man show in a New York based arts institution, Yuasa exhibits a new series of woodcuts...More »
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Minseop Yoon "Life Drawing"
ISE Cultural Foundation presents a solo exhibition "Life Drawing" by Minseop Yoon at the Front Space Gallery. Artist Statement by Minseop Yoon: Interiors that I am mostly interested in my drawings...More »
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"No Trans-national -Liquid borders and Empty Promises" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2012-09-07 - 2012-10-26
ISE Cultural Foundation is pleased to present "No Trans-national -Liquid borders and Empty Promises," curated by Eleanor Heartney. Long a city of trade and finance, Hong Kong is now discovering a new...More »
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Yu Goto and Jill Pucciarelli "Girls Talk"
ISE Cultural Foundation presents two-person exhibition "Girls Talk" by Yu Goto and Jill Pucciarelli at the Front Space Gallery. Using century old Japanese traditional materials and technique, Yu Goto...More »
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"Art Student Exhibition In NY 2012"
This exhibition offers art students a place to exhibit their artwork in SOHO. We are exhibiting all submitted artworks by art students from all over the world. We will invite the celebrated art professionals...More »
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Yashua Klos "Banners"
During the mid-twentieth century, woodblock printing was, for many African American artists, an activist as well as artistic process. Printing multiples allowed for the work to be circulated outside of...More »
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Jenny Chen "Without End"
ISE Cultural Foundation presents Without End, an exhibition of works by New York-based artist Jenny Chen, curated by Joanne W. Chen. In a global village, "hometown" is no longer defined by a region. So...More »
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Robert Hendrickson "Serene City"
ISE Cultural Foundation presents solo exhibition "SERENE CITY" by Robert Hendrickson at the Front Space. Robert Hendrickson has been painting landscape in the New York/ New Jersey region for many years....More »
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Toru Ishii "Contemporary Life"
ISE Cultural Foundation presents "Contempirary Life", solo exhibition by Toru Ishii at the Front Space. In this exhibition, "Contempirary Life" deals with visualizations of bodies (company employees)...More »
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"Making Landscapes Speak" Exhibition
ISE Cultural Foundation presents "Making Landscapes Speak," curated by Saori Kashio. The exhibition features five artists, Naoko Ito, Anne Percoco, Yukihiro Taguchi, Louis Lim, and Caroline Burghardt whose...More »
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"Why I Draw" Exhibition
ISE Cultural Foundation presents "Why I Draw" a drawing group exhibition by three female artists, Stephanie Franks, Rumiko Hosoki and Shoshanna Weinberger at the Front Space. In this exhibition, three...More »
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Jan Staller "Heavy Duty Landscapes"
This exhibition features sixteen large format photographs selected from projects completed during the past seven years. Regarding this work, The New York Times observed, "These images portray an otherworldly...More »
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John Small "Field Collection"
"Field Collection" is an assembly of artifacts from John Small's ongoing installation practice. Based on the historical practices of early explorers, searching and discovering, "Field Collection" ties...More »
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Hiroshi Sumiyama "Path"
Hiroshi Sumiyama is a landscape photographer born in Kyoto, Japan. The images in the series Path (2009-) were photographed with the photographer's handmade large format pinhole camera. Sumiyama was inspired...More »
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"Home and Away" Exhibition
Join international artists Ting-Ting Cheng, Alexandra Wolkowicz, Joanna Zylinska and Chong Boon Pok in a discussion of their work. The participants will reflect on the role of art and wider cultural expression...More »
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Koh Murao "The Other Stories"
ISE Cultural Foundation presents "The Other Stories" at Front Space by Koh Murao. Murao explains about his work and his exhibition as following: "I think that making a painting is creating a story...More »
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"Moment –Kinetic Works" Exhibition
ISE Cultural Foundation presents “MOMENT” a group exhibition by kinetic artists, Arthur Ganson, Theo Jansen, Daniel Wapner and Daniel Wurtzel. Most of kinetic sculpture today was conceived in the industrial...More »
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Patrick Krzyzanowski "Smell The Blood"
ISE Cultural Foundation presents "Smell The Brood" at Front Space by Patrick Krzyzanowski. Krzyzanowski was born in Toronto, Canada, and graduated University of Guelph in 2011 after he end the summer...More »
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"Art Student Exhibition 2011"
ISE CULTURAL FOUNDATION presents the exhibition, "Art Student Exhibition 2011". We are exhibiting artworks by art students in the United States, Japan and all over the world. ISE Cultural Foundation will...More »
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"Nature Within" Exhibition
Nature Within features the recent works of twenty photographers from diverse backgrounds comprising ten different countries. Their photographic genre ranges from documentary and photojournalism to conceptual...More »
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"Accidental Form -ceramic works" Exhibition
ISE Cultural Foundation is pleased to present "Accidental Form -ceramic works-" at Front Space by Lenka Curtin, Stephen Gayler, and Makiko Hanafusa. Unconventional beauty of LENKA CURTIN¡Çs work is...More »
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Hisanori Mae "The insight for ordeal in life –the true existence in the dim"
ISE Cultural Foundation presents solo exhibition "Hisanori Mae: The insight for ordeal in life –the true existence in the dim" curated by Fumiaki Mae. Since the ancient time in Japan, there is a symbolic...More »
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"Sharing Same Time -Photo Project between New York City USA and Fujisawa-shi Japan since 2006" Exhibition
ISE Cultural Foundation presents "Sharing Same Time -Photo Project between New York City USA and Fujiswa-shi Japan since 2006-" at Front Space by Masayo Nabeshima and Akemi Takeda. Artist statement...More »
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"Art For Japan" Exhibition
On March 11, the massive earthquake of magnitude 9,0 and the huge Tsunami hit Northeast of Japan and caused catastrophic damages. Thousands of people were killed and many more are still missing. ISE...More »
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"Roku" Exhibition
ISE Cultural Foundation presents a group exhibition by three Japanese female artists and three American male artists, "ROKU", curated by Koan Jeff Baysa. The origins of the exhibition "Roku" that graphic...More »
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"Between Ink and Paper -Three Printmakers' Vision" Exhibition
As computer and communication technology is progressing day by day, a lot of printed material such as newspapers, magazines and books are being taken over by the new media. Today we live in the "paper...More »
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Hai-hsin Huang "For Your Own Good"
ISE Cultural Foundation presents "FOR YOUR OWN GOOD" curated by Fan-en Zoe Chiu at Front Space. Artist statement by Hai-hsin Huang: “It’s all for your own good ah...” In the movie “I Not Stupid” (Singapore,...More »
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Keiko Miyamori "Bird Cages and the Gilded Boat"
Bird Cages and the Gilded Boat is a new installation of Miyamori's recent sculptures and works on paper. Bird Cages Without Roofs consists of altered bird cage sculptures with open tops, implying a basic...More »
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Hirotake Takagi and Mituo Tsuji "Miracle of One Second"
Art statement by Hirotake Takagi and Mituo Tsuji: "The boxes are made by many lattices called Senbon Gooshi, which is from traditional Japanese architecture. It reflects the spirit of the Japanese people...More »
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"Another Roadside Attraction" Exhibition
An Exploration into the Contemporary Art Genre of the Neo-Grotesque curated by Samantha Levin and Danielle Ezzo The grotesque in the fine arts has continued to gain momentum over the past couple of...More »
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Alex Blau "Paintings and Prints"
ISE Cultural Foundation presents "Paintings and Prints by Alex Blau" at Front Space. Alex Blau's geometric paintings draw from a variety of sources and have unexpected associations. Their intricate...More »
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Takafumi Ide "Emotional Echo: Separation"
ISE Cultural Foundation presents a solo exhibition, "Emotional Echo: Separation -- sound and light installation by Takafumi Ide--". "Quietly intense and beautifully realized, Takafumi Ide's exhibitions...More »
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Justin Waldstein "Intimations of Mortality"
ISE Cultural Foundation presents "Intimations of Mortality" by Justin Waldstein. Dreamlike images of bodies in motion, jumping, flying, fleeting moments with intimations of mortality. An unwanted phone...More »
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"Art Student Exhibition 2010" Juried Exhibition
Ise Cultural Foundation presents the exhibition, "Art Student Exhibition 2010." We are exhibiting artworks by art students in the United States, Japan and all over the world. ISE Cultural Foundation will...More »
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Harumi Ori "I am here"
"This series of sculptures, entitled I am here, is based on a poem of the same name by Japanese poet Michio Mado, which speaks of the concept that being is meaning. There is truth in any moment, however...More »
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"observant Exhibition" Artist Talk
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"observant" Exhibition
ISE Cultural Foundation is presents a group exhibition, "observant", curated by Vicki Sher. The artists participating in observant turn masterful technique toward a new source material: the digitalized...More »
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Erica Harris "now see here"
ISE Cultural Foundation presents "now see here" by Erica Harris at Front Space. The artist writes: "I am a collage artist, and I also teach art to children. In recent years I have facilitated projects...More »
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"Ouroboros Exhibition" Artist Talk
Ouroboros tells the history of cosmic evolution by animating more than 30,000 found images in custom software that generates a holographic 3D environment. Compiling and processing the images requires hundreds...More »
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Takashi Usui "Recent works: Creature in the pink world”
ISE Cultural Foundation presents the exhibition "Takashi Usui Recent works: Creature in the pink world” by the Japanese artist Takashi Usui at the front project space. "The sexual instinct sways human...More »
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"Ouroboros: The History of the Universe" Exhibition
ISE Cultural Foundation presents the exhibition, "Ouroboros: The History of the Universe", curated by Koan Jeff Baysa, MD. Video artist Ali Hossaini teams up with artists Blake Shaw and Bruno Levy, aka...More »
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Kan Asakura "Green"
"Though my profession of handling plants, I have seen many beautiful flowers. At the same time I have seen many leaves being discarded. As well as flowers, leaves have their own character and expression...More »
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"Across Dimensions" Exhibition
ISE Cultural Foundation presents a group exhibition "Across dimensions" curated by Sayaka Ashidate. In the Across Dimensions exhibit two-dimensional surfaces were selected as the creative means for...More »
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¨HAPPY HOUR !!¨ Exhibision
ISE Cultural Foundationo presents ¨HAPPY HOUR !!¨ at the Front Space. This exhibition is created by 40 artists who have shown at ISE. They are from emerging to professional artist live in New York and...More »
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"Volcano Lovers - From Iceland and Japan" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2009-11-13 - 2010-01-02
One view of catastrophe. This had happened. Who would have expected such a thing. Never, never. No one. It is the worst. And if the worst, then unique. Which means unrepeatable. Let's put it behind us....More »
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Susana Gaudencio "Houyhnhnm"
The ISE Cultural Foundation presents ¨Houyhnhnm¨by Portuguese artist, Susana Gaudencio at the Front Space. Gaudencio creates and exhibits intricate animations. Her work is made by altering collage,...More »
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"Light In Motion" Exhibition
The artists in this exhibition assemble action, shape, and texture in Kinetic Art. They depict light and shadow evolving in space. Each artist has their own theme and process to explore the relationship...More »
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Brett Littman "Art Career or Art Careen?"
"Art Career or Art Careen?" by Brett Littman, Executive Director, The Drawing Center will offer his personal insights into a life in the art world. The Drawing Center has been a unique and dynamic part...More »
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Art Student Exhibition 2009
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Installation
- 2009-07-10 - 2009-08-29
ISE CULTURAL FOUNDATION presents the exhibition, "Art Student Exhibition 2009". On exhibit artworks by art students in the United States, Japan and all over the world. Awards are to be given to some...More »
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"With My Eyes Closed" Exhibition
"With your eyes closed there are many things you can see, even better than when you keep them open.." Referring to the short story by Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, the exhibition, "With My Eyes Closed,"...More »
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"Spatial Non-Fictions" Exhibition
ISE Cultural Foundation presents “spatial non-fictions”,a group exhibition curated by Susan Thompson, featuring work by Clare Churchouse, Jessie Henson, Miranda Maher, and Caitlin Masley. The works...More »
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Akiyuki Ina "Doubt the Doubts"
[Image: Akiyuki Ina "A Box of Facts" (2008) mixed media 4 x 4 x 2 in.]More »
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"The NYC Scholastic Art & Writing Awards" Exhibition
The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and ISE Cultural Foundation present award-winning photographs from The NYC Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. This year more than 800 teen photographers submitted...More »
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"Global Fabrics Common Threads" Exhibition
ISE Cultural Foundation presents Global Fabrics, Common Threads,a group exhibition co-curated by Jeanne Gerrity and Melissa Levin, and featuring work by Scott Andresen, Andrea Dezsö, Donna Huanca, Brece...More »
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"A Conflicted State" Exhibition
"A Conflicted State" is a group exhibition curated by Lauren Schell Dickens. Contemporary life is defined by conflict, and to a large extent, our identities are shaped by these pressures. In and of itself,...More »
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Yumiko Furukawa "Quotation"
Furukawa explains her work and exhibition as follows: ”My sculpture is an inspiration from my own reading experience, including my first novel "FLICKER". This book embodies my daily life between my art...More »
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"Once Upon A Time" Exhibition
"Once Upon A Time" pulls its viewers back into the awe and wonder we experienced while captivated by Cinderella, Momotaro, or any fantastical folk-tales. Like kids with flashlights under the covers, curled...More »
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"Ghosts in Kabul" Exhibition
ISE CULTURAL FOUNDATION will please to present "Ghosts in Kabul" curator by a non-profit organization, Like Water Press, at Front Space on the 1st floor of 555 Broadway between Prince and Spring Street....More »
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"One Third 1/3" Exhibition
Contemporary works of art are acts of imagination that express the modern world and simultaneously transmit the values of the past. They help to shape our understanding of time because our perceptions...More »
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Emerging Artist: Juried Screening
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Art Student Exhibition 2008
"Art Student Exhibition 2008" presents artworks by art students in Japan and the United States. Awards are to be given to some artists/artworks selected by jurors, the celebrated art professionals in New...More »
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"The Ideal Cloud" Artists Talk
This is an artists talk in connection with the current exhibition entitled "The Ideal Cloud"More »
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"The Ideal Cloud" Exhibition
ISE Cultural Foundation presents The Ideal Cloud, a group exhibition, featuring works by the artists Ian Burns, Miguel Palma and Emcee C.M., Master of None. These three artists contend with social awareness...More »
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"Detourned Menu: Food in the Form of Activism" Exhibition
The term "detournement" comes from the political and artistic movement Situationist International, which became known for the reuse of existing elements within well-known media in order to create new work...More »