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Kanji Hasegawa
長谷川寛示
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Born in 1990, currently living in Mie Prefecture. Graduated from the Department of Sculpture at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2014, and completed a graduate course in sculpture at the same university's Graduate School of Fine Arts in 2016.
In the same year, he completed training at Eiheiji Temple, the head temple of the Soto sect, and became a monk. In 2024, he will return to secular life and explore the transformation of time, history, and culture through sculptural expression. His works, which combine transience and universality, question changing values and the meaning of existence itself.
His major solo exhibitions include "decay, remains" (2023, KANA KAWANISHI ALL, Tokyo), and group exhibitions include "Têmporas/Tempura Kuroobianaconda #4" (2022, Sokyo Lisbon Gallery, Portugal), "Leaping Creators: Art, Design, and Technology Looking to the Future of People and Nature" (2023, Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art, Kyoto), and "Equilibrium World: Japanese Art, From the Postwar to Today" (2023, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo).
Profile image: Photo by Ryuhei Yokoyama
Born in 1990, currently resides in Mie Prefecture, Japan. He received a BFA at Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture in 2014, and an MFA at Tokyo
University of the Arts, the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture in 2016. In the same year, after ascetic training at Daihonzan Eiheiji, the principal temple of the Soto Zen school, he became a monk. This unique intersection of artistic education and monastic discipline deeply informs his creative practice.
In 2024, he returned to secular life and continues to explore the transformation of time, history, and culture through his sculptural expression. His works, which fuse fragility and universality, question shifting values and the very meaning of existence.
Major solo exhibitions include decay, remains (2023, Kana Kawanishi Gallery, Tokyo). Group exhibitions include Têmporas KUROOBIANACONDA #4 (2022, Sokyo Lisbon Gallery, Lisbon),
Visionaries: Making Another Perspective(2023, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art), and
WORLDS IN BALANCE: ART IN JAPAN FROM THE POSTWAR TO THE PRESENT (2023, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo).
Profile credit: Photo by Ryuhei Yokoyama
Hiroshi Hasegawa_CV(JP)
Kanji Hasegawa_CV(EN)
In the same year, he completed training at Eiheiji Temple, the head temple of the Soto sect, and became a monk. In 2024, he will return to secular life and explore the transformation of time, history, and culture through sculptural expression. His works, which combine transience and universality, question changing values and the meaning of existence itself.
His major solo exhibitions include "decay, remains" (2023, KANA KAWANISHI ALL, Tokyo), and group exhibitions include "Têmporas/Tempura Kuroobianaconda #4" (2022, Sokyo Lisbon Gallery, Portugal), "Leaping Creators: Art, Design, and Technology Looking to the Future of People and Nature" (2023, Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art, Kyoto), and "Equilibrium World: Japanese Art, From the Postwar to Today" (2023, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo).
Profile image: Photo by Ryuhei Yokoyama
Born in 1990, currently resides in Mie Prefecture, Japan. He received a BFA at Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture in 2014, and an MFA at Tokyo
University of the Arts, the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture in 2016. In the same year, after ascetic training at Daihonzan Eiheiji, the principal temple of the Soto Zen school, he became a monk. This unique intersection of artistic education and monastic discipline deeply informs his creative practice.
In 2024, he returned to secular life and continues to explore the transformation of time, history, and culture through his sculptural expression. His works, which fuse fragility and universality, question shifting values and the very meaning of existence.
Major solo exhibitions include decay, remains (2023, Kana Kawanishi Gallery, Tokyo). Group exhibitions include Têmporas KUROOBIANACONDA #4 (2022, Sokyo Lisbon Gallery, Lisbon),
Visionaries: Making Another Perspective(2023, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art), and
WORLDS IN BALANCE: ART IN JAPAN FROM THE POSTWAR TO THE PRESENT (2023, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo).
Profile credit: Photo by Ryuhei Yokoyama
Hiroshi Hasegawa_CV(JP)
Kanji Hasegawa_CV(EN)
