Standing Pine was founded in 2009 in Nagoya, Japan, and opened an additional new space in Tokyo in 2023. The gallery mainly supports emerging Japanese artists and focuses on promoting an emerging value of various media including sound, video, photography, textile, installation and so on. It represents works which themselves contain an aesthetic beauty
and an intrinsic attention to fine detail and technique that is seen as typically Japanese, yet with a strong concept and significant messages to the modern society, hidden and embedded behind it.
Represented artists of the gallery are Noritoshi Hirakawa, who creates works in various media including photography and video to extend the capacity of human perception for furthering the culture in which we live; Kenji Sugiyama, who produces three-dimensional pieces represents his own private museum by using visual tricks; Youki Hirakawa, who has presented works with various media including video and installation by unravelling history and structure of things and manipulating the relationship between them, and etc.
Now with two spaces in Nagoya and Tokyo, through curated exhibitions, international art fairs and various projects, it has been devoted to promoting innovative and talented artists to the wide audience in the global art scene.