小左 誠一郎

Seiichiro Koza was born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1985. After completing his studies in oil painting at Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts in 2011, he has held exhibitions both domestically and internationally, focusing on his paintings. Since then, he has been working on abstract paintings that repeatedly depict motifs such as 〇△□, which are composed of minimal and fundamental elements. The production process, which involves facing head-on the mediums of canvas and paint, creates arbitrariness and chance, autonomy and heteronomy, and the unrestrained strokes give a sense of expansion outside the rectangle. The time spent wielding the paintbrush in competition with the canvas in front of him appears in front of the viewer as a work of art, as traces and reverberations of the process that Kosa calls ``the match.''
Major exhibitions in recent years include “Yuri Circle” (2023, Yutaka Kikutake Gallery), “NEW VISION SAITAMA Protruding Body” (2016, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama), and “The Place of Painting” (2015, Tokyo). "SLASH / square" (2014, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery gallery 5, Tokyo), "JAPANESE PAINTING NOW!" (2014, Kunstverein Letschebach, Karlsruhe).

Yutaka Kikutake Gallery_Seiichiro Osa

Seiichiro Koza_CV

Portrait：Photo by Hidetoshi Surikabe