OSAKA CHIKA
Born 1984 Tokyo. Attended Tokyo University of Arts gaining Bachelors of Arts and Masters Degrees. Studied under printmaker Azumaya Takemi.
Osaka is a young but well-established as a lithographer and painter. She works with both stone and metal plate lithography, with beautifully coloured and detailed images most often of humans, each picture telling a story. Unusually for an artist, she starts by writing a sentence or a paragraph taken from every day occurrences, and each of her images are inspired by something in her written words. Her images have sense of humour as well as being thought-provoking. Osaka made her London debut in 2019 with Hanga Ten, and won the inaugural Jerwood Printmaking Today Prize for younger print makers at the London Original Print Exhibition at the Royal Academy.
Permanent Collections: Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts,Tokyo; Zhejiang Art Museum China; Peninsula Art Museum, Shanghai
Title: 4:00 PM - SOLD OUT
Date: 2011
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: 26
Image size: 25 x 17 cm
Title: Boil - SOLD OUT
Date: 2018
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: 24
Image size: 30.5 x 21.5 cm
Title: Happy Forever - SOLD OUT
Date: 2016
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: 20
Image size: 40 x 70 cm
Title: Hey - SOLD OUT
Date: 2018
Medium: Lithograph and embossing
Edition: 17
Image size: 39.5 x 45.5 cm
Title: I have a thousand freckles - SOLD OUT
Date: 2018
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: 17
Image size: 81.5 x 61.5 cm
Title: The rice that just served - Winner of The Jerwood Printmaking Today Prize 2019 - SOLD OUT
Date: 2015
Medium: Lithograph and embossing
Edition: 20
Image size: 54.5 x 87 cm
Title: We left behind, and this is the world. - SOLD OUT
Date: 2016
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: 30
Image size: 61.5 x 52 cm
Title: Without letting the shrimp notice
Date: 2012
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: 20
Image size: 20 x 29 cm
Title: Friends stepped down from
Date: 2018
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: 10
Image size: 55 x 38 cm
Title: Because there is love
Date: 2018
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: 20
Image size: 34 x 50 cm
Title: Keep to own it as a memory
Date: 2019
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: 27
Image size: 21.5 x 30
Title: Blaming me in the piece of type
Date: 2019
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: 14
Image size: 30 x 22
Title: Who was she before she became me
Date: 2019
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: 14
Image size: 42 x 28
Title: Goodbye with Smile - SOLD OUT
Date: 2019
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: 30
Image size: 99 x 77
Title: The Play Called Peeping
Date: 2019
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: 16
Image size: 38 x 29
Title: I Can Only Understand Their Feeling
Date: 2020
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: 22
Image size: 23 x 15
Title: Your Own Eyes
Date: 2020
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: 33
Image size: 51 x 36
Title: Give Up Everything and Run Away
Date: 2020
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: 10
Image size: 20 x 13
Title: I was staring at the wood grain on the floor - SOLD OUT
Date: 2021
Medium: LIthograph
Edition: 85
Image size: 43 x 32 cm
