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Tomoo Gokita, “Housewife,” 2020
$15,000
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Tomoo Gokita
Housewife, 2020 
Stenciled pulp painting
21.5 x 18.25 inches
Printed by Pace Prints
Edition of 40
$15,000

About Tomoo Gokita:
Born in 1969 in Tokyo. In the late 1990s, Tomoo Gokita received acclaim for drawings made with charcoal and ink on paper. His first book Lingerie Wrestling was published in 2000. Starting with a show in New York in 2006, Gokita has exhibited his works in solo exhibitions internationally. In recent years, he has produced abstract paintings alongside figurative works made in black and white. In 2012, his work was included in “The Unseen Relationship: Form and Abstraction” held at Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art. In 2014, his solo exhibition “THE GREAT CIRCUS” was held at the same. In April 2018, his solo exhibition “PEEKABOO” was held at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery. His books and exhibition catalogues include Shuffle Tetsudō Shōka (Tokyo: Tennen Bunko, 2010); 777 (Tokyo: 888 Books, 2015); Holy Cow (Tokyo: Taka Ishii Gallery, 2017); and PEEKABOO (Tokyo: Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation, 2018). He is currently based in Tokyo and has had solo exhibitions at Taka Ishii Gallery in 2008, 2012, and 2017.