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Many of Ouyoshi Akeyama’s major paintings exceed two metres in height or width.
These photographs, dating from the mid-1980s to the present, document the scale of the works and their relationship to the artist’s body and the spaces in which they are made and displayed.
The Artist and the Canvas
Photographs of Akeyama beside his completed paintings show the scale on which he has depicted figures and landscapes, as well as the varied formats of the works—from oval and horizontal canvases to monumental vertical compositions.
Ouyoshi Akeyama with his completed painting Nobi (Wildfire)-C in his studio, 2024.
Ouyoshi Akeyama with his completed painting Brother and Sister, 2013.
Ouyoshi Akeyama with his completed painting Nobi (Wildfire) / Cogito, ergo sum in his studio, 2025.
In the Studio
Akeyama’s current studio was designed specifically for the production of large-scale works. Working on this scale was already well established in Akeyama’s practice by the time the archival photograph reproduced here was taken in 1988.
Ouyoshi Akeyama making further additions to Woman of Siberia in his current studio, 2016.
Ouyoshi Akeyama working on Boy - B in his current studio, 2018.
Ouyoshi Akeyama working on a painting from the Nobi (Wildfire) series in the studio he designed for large-scale work, viewed from behind the canvas, 2024.
Ouyoshi Akeyama guiding Nobi (Wildfire)-A, the largest painting he had completed to date, as it is lowered from the second-floor workspace through the studio’s purpose-built opening for transport, 2022 (197.0 × 333.3 cm).
Ouyoshi Akeyama working among large paintings stored upright in the purpose-built ground-floor storage area of his studio, 2026.
Ouyoshi Akeyama working on a large-scale painting from the Mother and Child series in his former studio, 1988.
In Public and Exhibition Spaces
Many of Akeyama’s large-scale works are installed in public institutions, particularly in Towada. Others have been presented to wider audiences through solo and group exhibitions.
Road to the Hill installed at Towada City Library, 2013.
Installation view of Ouyoshi Akeyama’s solo exhibition Hachinohe Art Museum, 2024.
Gallery view 1.
Installation view of Ouyoshi Akeyama’s solo exhibition Hachinohe Art Museum, 2024.
Gallery view 2.
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