Art Basel in Basel 2026
June 18 - 21, 2026
The Third Gallery Aya is pleased to announce participation in the Art Basel in Basel 2026.
We will present the works of Ei-Q, AMANO Ryuichi and IWAMIYA Takeji.
Please join us.
June 18 – 21, 2026
http://www.artbasele.com/basel
The ThirdGallery Aya presents works by Ei-Q, Amano Ryuichi and IWAMIYA Takeji, exploring Japanese avant-garde photography of the 1950s. Linked by the Democrat Artists Association, founded in Osaka in 1951, the three advances experimental practices outside established art institutions. Ei-Q pioneered photo-dessin and made a mark on postwar discourse through both art and writing. Amano, of the Tanpei Photography Club, pursued photograms, while Iwamiya produced the Forms series and founded the influential Iwamiya Photos studio. At a time when Japanese photography was dominated by documentary approaches rejecting prewar modes, their work reveals contrasting avant-garde currents still little known internationally.
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Ei-Q
Biography
| 1911 | Born in Miyazaki |
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| 1960 | Dies in Tokyo |
Selected solo exhibitions
| 1960 | Ei-Q,Ginza Kabutoya Gallery, Tokyo |
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| 1957 | Ei-Q, Miyazaki City Library Gallery, Miyazaki |
| 1957 | Ei-Q,Takemiya Gallery,Tokyo |
| 1957 | Ei-Q Recent Works, Pensee, Miyazaki |
| 1956 | Ei-Q,Koga Dapartment Store, Miyazaki |
| 1955 | Ei-Q, Miyazaki City Library Gallery, Miyazaki |
| 1955 | Ei-Q Photo-dessins, Takashimaya Department Store,Tokyo |
| 1954 | Ei-Q Painting, Kanda Bonbodo , Tokyo |
| 1954 | Ei-Q, Cobalt Gallery, Urawa |
| 1953 | Ei-Q Etching, Takemiya Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1953 | Ei-Q, Nobeoka City Central Community Center, Nobeoka |
| 1952 | Ei-Q, Miyazaki City Library Gallery, Miyazaki |
| 1952 | Ei-Q, Takemiya Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1952 | Ei-Q Photo-dessins,Takemiya Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1951 | Ei-Q,Ei-Q, Miyazaki City Library Gallery, Miyazaki |
| 1951 | Ei-Q Photo-dessins,Umeda Gallery, Osaka |
| 1951 | Ei-Q Photo-dessins,the Miyazaki City Chamber of Commerce and Industry,Miyazaki |
| 1950 | Ei-Q Photo-dessins,Matsuzakaya Department Store,Tokyo |
| 1939 | Ei-Q, Miyazaki |
| 1936 | Ei-Q Photo-dessins,Nishimura Gakki,Miyazaki |
| 1936 | Sankaku-do, Osaka |
Selected Group exhibitions
| 1960 | Four Artists-HISHIDA Shunso, Ei-Q, KOSAKA Gajin and TAKAMURA Kotaro,National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo, Tokyo |
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| 1957 | Contemporary Print Artists Exhibition, Fukui Bank Katsuyama Branch Hall, Katsuyama |
| 1957 | 3rd Etching exhibition, Takemiya Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1956 | The West and Japan-Kubo collection,Honma Museum, Sakata |
| 1956 | Print exhibition,Katoya Bunbogu store, Tokyo |
| 1956 | 6th Tokyo Demokrato (Democrat Artists Association) exhibition, Matsumura Gallery,Tokyo |
| 1956 | 2nd Etching exhibition, Takemiya Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1955 | 5th Tokyo Demokrato (Democrat Artists Association) exhibition, Mimatsu Shobo Gallery,Tokyo |
| 1955 | 7th Nihon Independent exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum |
| 1955 | Etching 6 Artists Exhibition, Takemiya Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1954 | The exhibition by Demokrato (Democrat Artists Association) exhibition,Kanda Bonbodo, Tokyo |
| 1954 | Demokrato Etching Exhibition, Hankyu Gallery, Osaka |
| 1954 | 3rd Tokyo Demokrato (Democrat Artists Association) exhibition, Maruzen Gallery,Tokyo |
| 1954 | 5th Selected Masterpieces Art exhibition, Mitsukoshi Department,Tokyo |
| 1953 | Abstraction and Surrealism ,National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo,Tokyo |
| 1953 | Contemporary Photography ,National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo,Tokyo |
| 1953 | 2nd Tokyo Demokrato (Democrat Artists Association) exhibition, Maruzen Gallery,Tokyo |
| 1952 | 1st Tokyo Demokrato (Democrat Artists Association) exhibition, Matsushima Gallery,Tokyo |
| 1952 | 3rd Osaka Demokrato (Democrat Artists Association) exhibition, Hankyu Gallery,Osaka |
| 1951 | 2nd Osaka Demokrato (Democrat Artists Association) exhibition, Hankyu Gallery,Osaka |
| 1951 | 5th The Shinjukai, Tokyo |
| 1951 | 1st Osaka Demokrato (Democrat Artists Association) exhibition, Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts,Osaka |
| 1951 | Ei-Q and KATSUDA Hirokazu, Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Osaka |
| 1950 | 14st Liberal Artists Association exhibition ,Tokyo |
| 1939 | Liberal Artists Association exhibition ,Tokyo |
| 1937 | 2nd Liberal Artists Association exhibition, Brützke Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1937 | 1st Liberal Artists Association exhibition,Tokyo |
| 1937 | Ei-Q Photo-dessins and KITAO Junichiro Real Photo, Brützke Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1935 | Furusatosha October exhibition, Nishimura Gakki,Miyazaki 1937 |
| 1935 | 1st Furusatosha exhibition, Nishimura Gakki,Miyazaki |