Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1985. Graduated from Musashino Art University in 2008. Artist.
By reconstructing images scattered on the Internet, he expresses the sensation of being confronted with an overwhelming amount of information on a chaotic screen. Belongs to CASHI.
The main exhibits include:
2023 "Beyond the Windows" (NADiff a/p/a/r/t / Tokyo)
"Everlasting Particle CORE" HARMONY ART G ALL ERY / Shanghai)
2020 "Black Dream" (CASHI / Tokyo)
2021 "Image, Aroundscape, Particle" (RICOH ART G ALL ERY / Tokyo)
2019 "One Hundred Years of Weavers: Modern and Contemporary Art in a Moving Japan" (Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art),
"Tokyo Pop Underground" (Jeffrey Dyche Gallery / Los Angeles, New York)
2018 "Hyper Landscape Kazuki Umezawa ×Taku Obata" (Watari Museum of Art, Tokyo)
He has held many solo and group exhibitions.
It is in the collections of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, etc.
Artist. Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1985. Graduated from Musashino Art University,
Department of Imaging Arts and Sciences, in 2008.
He creates a bricolage of web-scattered images and data, reworking by hand upon color
prints where characters, photos, texts, and icons all combine to form complex, decorative,
and chaotic vivid scenes that reflect the digital and analogue of the contemporary world. He
belongs to CASHI.
Key exhibitions:
2023 " Beyond the Windows" NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo
" Everlasting Particle CORE" HARMONY ART G ALL ERY, Shanghai
2021 " Image, Aroundscape, Particle" RICOH ART G ALL ERY, Tokyo
2020 " BLACK OMEN" CASHI, Tokyo
2019 " Weavers of Worlds - A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art -"
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
" Tokyo Pop Underground" Jeffrey Deitch, New York
2018 " HYPER LANDSCAPE KAZUKI UMEZAWA x TAKU OBATA" Watari-Um Museum,
Tokyo
among numerous solo and group exhibitions.
Held in collections at the Mori Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, etc.
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