EXPO CHICAGO | BOOTH 125 (April 24 – 27, 2025)
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- Apr 10
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Updated: Apr 24
SEIZAN Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in EXPO CHICAGO 2025, presenting a group exhibition featuring works by Hiroyoshi Asaka, Toshiyuki Kajioka, and Danielle Winger at Booth 125. Each artist demonstrates extraordinary dedication to their chosen medium and subject, creating immersive encounters that invite viewers to contemplate time, process, and transcendence.
Hiroyoshi Asaka (b. 1977, Osaka, Japan) meticulously hand-carves marble - his sole chosen material - into uncanny sculptures resembling Styrofoam objects. By transforming a medium historically synonymous with permanence, power, and prestige into what appears as its disposable antithesis, Asaka creates a compelling dialogue between the monumental and the mundane. His KASHOUMON series prompts deeper questions about value, labor, and time.
Asaka’s works were exhibited at EXPO CHICAGO 2024, Art Miami 2024 and other international venues. At SEIZAN Gallery, he has been featured in ROCK, PAPER, SALT (2024, New York) and The Truth of Illusions (2024, Tokyo). His works are included in major public collections such as Osaka City, Oharayama Shrine (Fukuoka, Japan), and Fujitsu Karuizawa-sou (Nagano, Japan). He lives and works in Osaka, Japan.
Toshiyuki Kajioka (b. 1978, Tokyo, Japan) has devoted the past twenty years to painting a single subject: the surface of flowing rivers at night. Using only sumi ink and graphite pencil on Japanese paper, Kajioka captures water's shifting states between wildness and tranquility, transforming fleeting moments into timeless, immersive experiences. For EXPO CHICAGO, Kajioka will present a monumental work from his signature "Waterscape" series.
Kajioka's recent presentations include EXPO CHICAGO 2024, Unconscious River (SEIZAN Gallery New York, 2023) and Edge of Night (SEIZAN Gallery Tokyo, 2021). His works are in the permanent collections of Toyohashi City Museum of Art & History, Kyoto University of the Arts, and Aizu Museum in Tokyo. He lives and works in Shiga, Japan.
Danielle Winger (b. 1986, Nevada, USA) creates contemplative landscapes with bold brushstrokes and striking colors that evoke both physical places and emotional states. Drawing inspiration from German Romantic traditions, she approaches landscape as both subject and metaphor—where mountains become paths to transcendence, deserts embody profound solitude, and moonlit forests take on human qualities. Her deeply personal meditative spaces invite viewers to explore themes of sublimity and the divine.
Winger’s works have been shown at König Bergson in Munich (2025), Lamb Gallery in London (2024), and Red Arrow Gallery in Nashville (2021, 2023). At SEIZAN Gallery, she has exhibited in The Shape of Water (2024, Tokyo) and participated in Art Taipei (2024) and Art Tokyo (2024). Her work has been published in ArtMaze Magazine and New American Paintings Midwest #173 (2024). She lives and works in La Fontaine, Indiana.
EXPO CHICAGO | BOOTH 125
Navy Pier's Festival Hall
600 E. Grand Ave. Chicago, IL
Thursday, April 24, 12:00pm–8:00pm (VIP Preview)
Friday, April 25, 11:00am–7:00pm
Saturday, April 26, 11:00am–7:00pm
Sunday, April 27, 11:00am–6:00pm
For press inquiries and further information, please contact manager@seizan-gallery.com.
Photos by Silvia Ros
Hiroyoshi Asaka, KASHOUMON - The Box of Truth -2, 2023. Marble, Styrofoam. 7.1 x 13.8 x 11.8 in (18 x 35 x 30 cm). Photo by GION.
Toshiyuki Kajioka, Current, 2011. Sumi ink, pencil on Japanese paper (Kochi Mashi) mounted on wood panel. 89.5 x 143.1 x 1.4 in (227.3 x 363.6 x 3.5 cm). Photo by Thomas Barratt.
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