Kenjiro Okazaki
Exhibition at TSCA
- Special feature exhibition | Kenjiro Okazaki, Enrico Isamu Oyama, Rafaël Rozendaal 6 March - 3 April, 2021
- Kenjiro Okazaki | TOPICA PICTUS Tennoz 31 October - 12 December, 2020
- A Decade Or So Ago・As Tears Go By | Kenjiro Okazaki 4 August - 29 August, 2020
- Kenjiro Okazaki 9 July - 24 August, 2019
- Drawing: Manner | Kenjiro Okazaki, Enrico Isamu Oyama, Aya Kawato, Hideki Makiguchi, Goro Murayama 20 April - 25 May, 2019
- Kenjiro Okazaki 10 November - 11 December, 2016
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Kenjiro Okazaki | Kenjiro Okazaki (b. 1955) is a Japanese visual artist whose works span over several genres, including painting, sculpture, as well as landscape and architecture. Many of his works have been featured in public collections throughout Japan and in various exhibitions around the world. In 2002, Okazaki was selected as the director of the Japanese pavilion of the International Architecture Exhibition in Venice Biennale. His works include a collaborative performance ‘I Love my Robot’ with the choreographer Trisha Brown, premiered in early 2007. He received a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG) in 2014. Okazaki is an active theoretician and critic, and has authored several books, including Renaissance: Condition of Experience (Bunshun Gakugei Library, 2015) featuring his analysis of Filippo Brunelleschi, and Abstract Art as Impact: The Concrete Genealogy of Abstract Art (Akishobo, 2018) which received the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts in 2019. |
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Awards
2014 | Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG) |
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2007 | "I love my robots," Dance work co-created with the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Grant from Japan Foundation and Asian Cultural Council |
1992 | Triangle Artists’ Workshop (Pine Plains, New York), Grant from Japan Foundation |
1986 | Grant from Asian Cultural Council Fellowship to study in New York |
Solo Exhibitions
2021 | TOPICA PICTUS, galerie frank elbaz, Paris TOPICA PICTUS, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles |
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2020 | TOPICA PICTUS, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi TOPICA PICTUS, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo TOPICA PICTUS, Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo A Decade or So Ago・As Tears Go By, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
2019 | Kenjiro Okazaki - Retrospective Strata, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi Solo exhibition, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
2018 | Solo exhibition, Galleria Finarte, Nagoya |
2017 | 'Things’ never die. It only changes its form., A-things, Tokyo |
2016 | Solo exhibition, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo Solo exhibition, Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo POST / UMUM = OCT / OPUS, Kazenosawa Museum, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan |
2015 | Solo exhibition, Galleria Finarte, Nagoya |
2014 | B-things and C-things @ A-things, A-things, Tokyo Hand painted Ceramic Tile / Painting, Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo |
2011 | Solo exhibition, Galleria, Finarte, Nagoya |
2010 | Solo exhibition, Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo |
2009 | MOT Collection Special Exhibition: Kenjiro Okazaki, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Solo exhibition, Galleria Finarte, Nagoya |
2008 | Solo exhibition, Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo |
2007 | ZERO THUMBNAIL, A-things, Tokyo |
Group Exhibition
2021 | Kenjiro OKAZAKI & Hisao MATSUURA exhibition, Galleria Finarte, Nagoya Special feature exhibition | Kenjiro Okazaki, Enrico Isamu Oyama, Rafaël Rozendaal, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
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2020 | 5,471 miles, Blum & Poe, Tokyo -Inside the Collector’s Vault, vol.1- Takahashi Collection, WHAT museum, Tokyo |
2019 | Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles Abstractions in Asia: from 1960 to nowadays, Vazieux - Art Gallery Paris, Paris Drawing: Manner | Kenjiro Okazaki, Enrico Isamu Oyama, Aya Kawato, Hideki Makiguchi, Goro Murayama, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
2018 | Starting Points: Japanese Art of the '80s, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture |
2015 | An Art Exhibition for Children: Whose place is this?, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo Shunsuke Imai, Kenjiro Okazaki, Enrico Isamu Oyama, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
2014 | Articulating Form, BankART1929, Kanagawa Prefecture |
2007 | Europera 5, Suntory Hall, Tokyo Painting As Forest: Artist as Thinker, Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi Prefecture |
Publication
2021 | Collection of Critical Essays, vol. 1: Sensorial Eden, Akishobo |
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2020 | TOPICA PICTUS, Nanarokusha Publishing Inc. |
2018 | Abstract Art as Impact: The Analysis of Modern Art, Akishobo. |
2014 | Renaissance: Condition of Experience, Bungeishunju Ltd. |
2004 | Little Lellolello, Shogakukan Inc. |
2004 | Popahhpe Popipappu, Crayon House. |
Collection
Agency for Cultural Affairs Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art Benesse Art Site Naoshima Chiba City Museum of Art Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art Iwaki City Art Museum Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art Mitaka City Arts Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Museum of Modern Art, Toyama National Museum of Art, Osaka National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo Ohara Museum of Art Oita Art Museum Okazaki City Mindscape Museum Osaka City Museum of Modern Art Setagaya Art Museum Sezon Museum of Modern Art Taguchi Art Collection Takahashi Collection Takamatsu City Museum of Art Toyota Municipal Museum of Art | |
Faret Tachikawa(Tachikawa City) | Fukuyama City Hiroshima Prefectural Women's University Yumeooka Art Project(Yokohama City) |
Others
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2017 | Art Basel Miami Art Stage Singapore |
2016 | Art Fair Tokyo |
2014 | Art Basel Hong Kong |
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2019 | Kazuo Sakata: Recoup Lost Ground, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo |
2017 | The Insight of Kenjiro Okazaki - Abstract Art as Impact -How Abstract Arts can become Concrete Tools, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi Prefecture |