NEW is pleased to present *The Quiver of Nonhuman Life*, a solo exhibition by painter Chisako Fukuyama, on view from Wednesday, September 2 through Sunday, September 13, 2026.

Throughout her practice, Fukuyama has responded to subtle signs of small, overlooked, and abandoned forms of life, tracing, for instance, the temporal processes through which plants wilt, wither, and decay. A graduate of Musashino Art University, her practice extends beyond the field of painting, and has been profoundly influenced by Kazuo Ohno, Yukio Nakagawa, and Isamu Wakabayashi.

At her first solo exhibition in 1998, the poet Gozo Yoshimasu contributed an introductory text on the artist, while Kazuo Ohno, inspired by Fukuyama’s paintings, performed a dance in front of her works. Since then, she has continued to exhibit primarily through solo exhibitions. In recent years, her works have also been featured in exhibitions at the Ashikaga Museum of Art, where a number of her works are now held in the collection.

The Japanese title of this exhibition, *Isei no Sendō*, centers on the word *sendō* (顫動), meaning a faint, subtle trembling or quivering. Fukuyama turns her attention toward forms of nonhuman life that can never be fully subsumed within human systems of value and meaning—to the very existence of the minute quivering of such other forms of life.

How far can painting respond to the signs of small lives that are trampled underfoot and disappear without ever being named? The accumulated layers of paint and paper emerge on the surface as the very embodiment of the time Fukuyama has devoted to this question.

We invite you to visit the exhibition and experience *The Quiver of Nonhuman Life* as rendered through the paintings of Chisako Fukuyama.