Kanako Noda

Born 1980 in Kitakyushu, Japan.
 After graduating in cultural anthropology at Osaka University (Japan), Kanako Noda studied Art in Italy. Enrolling in the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, she studied paintings under contemporary Italian artists. Soon after the graduation from Accademia, she moved to Canada. Now she lives and works in Montreal.


“My art work sets out to explore the potentiality of place and space.
 Through site-specific works, I create a series of constantly shifting 
and unexpected visual experiences using a sparse visual vocabulary.
 Limiting the range of elements that go to make up each piece allows 
for a kind of structured improvisation, something like a visual jazz 
that, within the logic implied by its self-imposed rules, frees the
 elements to dance sensuously through their spaces. My goal is to 
configure the work not as an intervention of its space, but rather as
 an imaginative dialogue with the place it inhabits.”

Exhibitions and art projects

Solo shows
2010 “Drawings in the 2.5th dimension”, curated by Natlie Finkelstein, Galerie Nota  Bene, Montreal, Canada

2010 “Casa”, curated by Alessandro Mangiarotti, Galerie YellowFishArt, Montreal, Canada

2009 “Seesaw”, text by Chanky Matsumoto, Gallery Tsukiyo-to-Shonen, Osaka, Japan.

2009 wall drawing project “Trame” for Assoc. Bottega Bologna, Bologna, Italy

2009 “Yellow Project” curated by Marta Papini, Il Post, Bologna, Italy

2006 solo show “Stagione Arte #4” curated by P-gruppe, 100dieci cafe, Perugia, Italy

Group shows
2009 “At-test”, curated by aimaime, Yokohama red brick warehouse Gallery, Yokohama, Japan

2008 “Premio di incisione Giorgio Morandi XXIII edition”, Morandi museum, Bologna, Italy

2008 Two artists show “Crune” curated by Sabrina Foschini, Imperfetto Gallery, Gambettola, Italy

2008 “Maggio Fiorito Premio di Pittura”, La Rocca Castle, Cento, Italy

2008 “Documentare la giovane creatività -Pittura”, Gragnani Palace, curated by Comune di Crespellano, Crespellano, Italy

2007 “Uso pratico cotemplativo” curated by Lellio Aiello, Gallery Neon Campobase, Bologna, Italy

2006 “racine d’origine -programme vidéo-” curated by Emma Garzaro/Charles-Éric Billard, Museé d’Art modrne et contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

2005 “P.U.F.S”, flou gallery, Osaka, Japan