The 39th Shutai (Individual) Exhibition is held on September 1 - 15, 2003 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
The exhibition is organized by the Shutai Bijustsu Kyokai (Individual Artists' Association) annualy since 1964.
Like Dokuritsu Exhbition, it is also devoted only to oil paintings.

This year around 400 painters submitted their paintings (usually 2 - 3 paintings per artist) to the exhibition. From them,
the Jury, which consists of 123 members of the Shutai Bijutsu Kyokai (Society of Invidual Artists),
has selected around 174 authors for the show. Together with 123 members the shows represents paintings of 297 artists.

The show also named 16 artists as "Fine-Work Authors", and I'm one of them. My work at the show is "The Threshold".
After the Tokyo exhbition, the works by 16 Fine-Work Artists and 123 members of Shutai Society will be exhibited
at the Aichi prefecture's Art Museum in Nagoya on September 23 - 28,
and Kyoto City's Art Museum in Kyoto on October 11 - 19, 2003.


My wife next to my painting at the 39th Shutai exhibition