Eugene Kangawa
Eugene Kangawa (寒川 裕人, Kangawa Eugene, born in 1989) is an American-born Japanese contemporary artist. He is known for his conceptual and self-reductive paintings and installations.
Life and career
[edit]Eugene Kangawa is a Japanese artist. He was born in 1989 in the United States.
His solo exhibition “EUGENE STUDIO After the rainbow” (2021–22), held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, made him the youngest artist to hold a solo exhibition at the museum, where only a few Japanese artists including Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami, Yoko Ono, and the others have held solo exhibitions in the past. The exhibition attracted a great deal of attention, with queues of more than 3,000 visitors per day waiting for up to 2 hours to see the works. He was also the first artist born during Japan's Heisei era to hold a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.
His past exhibitions include de-sport: at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2020), 89+ at Serpentine Gallery, London (2014), and Phantosia (Shikkoku-Noh (EN: pitchdarkness)-noh) at The National Art Center, Tokyo (2019).[1]
In 2017, he was featured in The Age of Art × Technology (written by Daisuke Miyatsu, Kobunsha Shinsho) as one of the four leading artists in Japan, along with TeamLab and others.
Exhibitions and projects
[edit]- “TRANS-PLEX”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts,Taipei (2012)
- “89plus Project”, Serpentine Gallery, London (2013)
- "Agriculture Revolution3.0",Tsuruoka art forum,Yamagata,(2016)
- "THE EUGENE Studio 1/2 Century later .",SHISEIDO GALLERY,Tokyo (2017)
- "Shikkoku-Noh” (pitch darkness-Noh)", The National Art Center, Tokyo (2019)
- "AOMORI EARTH 2019"Aomori Museum of Art,Aomori (2019)
- "de-sport: The Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Sports through Art",21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2020)[2]
- "EUGENE STUDIO After the rainbow",Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo,Tokyo(2021–2022)[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO | EUGENE STUDIO / Eugene Kangawa | ユージーン・スタジオ / 寒川裕人". the-eugene-studio.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-04-23.
- ^ "金沢21世紀美術館". 金沢21世紀美術館. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
- ^ "EUGENE STUDIO After the rainbow | Exhibitions". MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO. Retrieved 2022-04-23.