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Artists > YAMAWAKI Kosuke

山脇 紘資

2014 MFA, Oil Painting Course, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo

2012 BFA, Oil Painting Course, Musashino Art University, Tokyo

Kosuke Yamawaki was born in Abiko City, Chiba prefecture, in 1985. He graduated from the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the Tokyo University of the Arts. He creates paintings as an artist and has held many exhibitions in Japan and abroad. He exhibited at BEYOND THE BORDER, Tangram Art Center (SHANGHAI) with internationally acclaimed artists Zhou Tiehai, Yuki Onodera, Toeko Tatsuno, Miyako Ishiuchi, and others. In June 2018, he supervised the art for Isshin Inudo’s film “Neko wa Dakumono.” The following year, he showcased his solo exhibition at the Kasumigaseki Building, 31 Builedge, Kasumigaseki Plaza Hall. In 2021, he participated in a group exhibition that included Daido Moriyama and Tomoo Gokita. From 2023, he will permanently exhibit his first public artwork at the “HOKKAIDO BALLPARK F VILLAGE,” an area that includes the new Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters baseball stadium.

“Seeing is being seen; being seen is the only way to see.” Looking at an object means that the object is looking at one physically and psychologically, and it is a raw act that establishes an intimate relationship between one and the object. The purpose of appreciation is to discover new perceptions, or “blank spaces,” that emerge in the repetitive motion of seeing and being seen through the object itself. In this process, the object becomes a trigger for our discovery and a mirror reflecting our newfound perceptions. It is important to note that the discovery for us lies not in gazing at the object itself but in the blank space that the object creates. One is gazed at through seeing, and through being gazed at, one sees. The “what one sees” is what the artist truly desires to understand and pursue.

Solo Exhibition

2024

Space / TODA BUILDING,Tokyo

2023

Halo / Ginza Tsutaya Books, Tokyo

Grace / HIRO OKAMOTO Gallery, Tokyo

2021

twin animals / KITTE Marunouchi, Tokyo

2019

Kosuke Yamawaki Exhibition / Kasumigaseki Building, Tokyo

2016

ookk / H.P.FRANCE WINDOW GALLERY, Tokyo

2010

WORLD IS MINE!!! / ZEIT FOTO SALON, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 A Self That Comes Around: A Glance of F Collection / N&A Art SITE, Tokyo

Group Exhibition curated by O JUN “World of Bliss and Misery : Dat + ISHII Yuuka + YAMAWAKI Kosuke + O JUN” / MIZUMA ART GALLERY, Tokyo

2023

ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2023 / Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh

2022

Global Gift Gala in Tokyo 2022 / Grand Hyatt Tokyo, Tokyo

WHAT CAFE × WHYNOT. TOKYO EXHIBITION / WHAT CAFE, Tokyo

Untitled / KAIKA HOTEL, Tokyo

2021

estate / ZEIT-FOTO Kunitachi, Tokyo

REAL by ArtSticker DAIKANYAMA ART WEEK / Hillside Forum Daikanyama, Tokyo

2019

Gensho Sugawara and Kosuke Yamawaki / Yahoo!, Tokyo

2018

NAKAMA de ART / Imperial Hotel, Tokyo puzz-le / falo, Tokyo

2014

Graduation Works Exhibition / Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo

Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2011 / Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery, Tokyo

Supernatural / MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY, Tokyo

2013

Group Exhibition curated by Kosuke Yamawaki “PORTRAIT” / MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY, Tokyo

2012

Graduation Works Exhibition / Musashino Art University, Tokyo

Excellence / Musashino Art University, Tokyo

Taro or Alice / Oil-Painting Gallery of Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo

Geronimo / Turner Gallery, Tokyo

2011

The Fruits of Adventures / ZEIT-FOTO SALON, Tokyo

2010

BEYOND THE BORDER / Tangram Art Center, Shanghai

MY FAVORITE 4 ARTISTS: Yuichi Higashionna, Kosuke Yamawaki, Masaki Okuten, Tomoko Maeda / ZEIT-FOTO SALON, Tokyo

2009

Jeong Ja Young, Yu Kiwanami, Kosuke Yamawaki Exhibition / NODA Contemporary, Beijing

The Phoenix and the turtle / CASHI, Tokyo

Asian Young Artist / space355, Tokyo

Three Man Show / Shengling Gallery, Shanghai

Award

2023

Grand Prix at HOKKAIDO BALLPARK ART PRIZE 2023

2010

GEISAI #10 / Jury Award

Media

2024

ARToVILLA /Serial Article

2022

THE ART HOUSE #15 / TV show

2021

Masamichi Toyama & Yoshio Suzuki “Let’s talk about art today” vol.7 / Serial Article

Official website

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