Profile
1977 Born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
2001 Graduated from the Department of oil painting, Nagoya University of Fine Arts and Music
2003 Completed Postgraduate Studies, Kyoto City University of Fine Arts and Musiclives
2010-12 Lived and Worked in Berlin, Germany (with 2 year-grant of Program of Overseas Study Lives and works in Berlin
2015- Live and Work in Japan
Selected Solo Exhibition
2017 "MULTIPLE STAR I" Hara Museum ARC Gallery A,gunma
"cart wheel galaxy"rin art association.Takasaki
"Kengo Kito"YCC Temporary.yokohama
2016 "KENGO KITO Solo Exhibition"seibu shibuya,Tokyo
"KENGO KITO Interstellar",Kyoto University of Art and Design Galerye Aube.Kyoto
2015-2016 「Think Tank Lab Triennale - International Festival of Contemporary Drawings」
2015 Reflection, KENJI TAKI GALLERY TOKYO
[Goto memory culture Prize art rookie of the year title training returning home is commemorative]
Kengo Kito: Symbiosis , GATEAU FESTA HARADA GALLEY, Takasaki, Gumma
Migration, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki
[Goto memory culture Prize art rookie of the year title training returning home is commemorative]
2014 cosmic surface, KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Tokyo
Kengo Kito: active galaxy, GATEAU FESTA HARADA GALLEY, Takasaki, Gumma
SMULACRUM, WOOSON GALLERY, Daegu, Korea
2013 Kengo Kito: untitled (hula-hoop）, JOYCE GALLERY, Beijing, China
cosmic hill, A Sin Place, Berlin, Germany
2013 "untitled(Hula-Hoop)", Joyce Gallery, Beijing China
2012 “carousel” Kenji Taki Gallery, Aichi
2010 “Cosmic Surfing” Daiwa Foundation Japan House Gallery The Daiwa Anglo-JapaneseFoundation,London UK
“Sagittarius” αm gallery, Tokyo
“color colour” Kenji Taki Gallery, Aichi
2009 “Flimsy Royal” Humanities gallery, Long Island University Brooklyn NY
2008 “cosmic elements” Eaplanade, Singapore
2007 “luminary” Kenji Taki Gallery, Aichi
“PUBLIC’SPACE’PROJECT” Museum Of Contemporary Art Tokyo
2006 “shimmer” Kenji Taki Gallery, Aichi
2004 “New Works” Kenji Taki Gallery, Aichi
“quasar” Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
“cosmic dust” Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2003 “grains” mori yu gallery, Kyoto
1999 “star maker” Art space dot, Aichi
Selected Group Exhibition
2016 Worm Hole Travel-Domani Plus/Kyoto Art Center,Kyoto
2015-2016 Think Tank lab Triennale[international Festival of Contemporary Drawing],Wroctlaw, Poland
2015 Takahashi Collection, Cosmos/Intime, Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, France
2014-2015 Esprit Dior, Tamaya AS, Tokyo
2013-14 Now Japan; Exhibition with 37 contemporary Japanese artists, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Mono No Aware. Beauty of Things. Japanese Contemporary Art,The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2013 Daiwa Collection Ⅵ , Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa
Education, education and education Vol.1, The Painter of Modern Life, Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts, Zone, Okayama
THE ECHO – Sprending of Light [Exhibition and Organization],The Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne, Germany
2012 "Carpe Diem" Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
"THE ECHO" Kunsthaus Betanien, Berlin
"LADY DIOR AS SEEN BY" WAKO NAMIKI KAN, Tokyo/ La Triennale Di Milano, Milano
2011 “ARTIST FILE”, The National Art Center, Tokyo
“Ways of Warldmaking”, The National Museum of Art Center, Osaka
2010 “Gallery Group Show” Gallery Koyanagi,Tokyo
2009 “Barock Plastik” I-MYU Projects, London
2008 “The Echo” zaim,Yokohama
“Twenty” Dazed and Confused, London
“Gallery Group Show” Gallery Koyanagi,Tokyo
“March”, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2007 “ROPPONGI CROSSING”,Mori Museum,Tokyo
“HAPPY HOURS”, ZAIM, Kanagawa
2006 "Fukutake House in Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006” Former
Myoukayama Elementary School, Niigata
“Kengo Kito + Kouichi Tabata” Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
“VOCA 2006 - The Vision of Contemporary Art” Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
“Food and Contemporary Art part 2” BankART 1929 Yokohama, Kanagawa
“Kengo Kito + Robert Platt” Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
2005 “very very human” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
2004 “jardin 2 jaune” mori yu gallery, Kyoto
“On Flowering Images; Contemporary Japanese Photography” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
2003 “snow white” Dohjidai gallery, Kyoto
“Garden” Gallery Suzuki, Kyoto
2002 “Accretion Disk” mori yu gallery, Kyoto
2001 “Contemporary Art 2001, NAGOYA” Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery Yada, Aichi
1999 “cosmic flavor” Art space dot, Aichi
Others
2015 「LOVERY RIMPA」 ISETAN MITUKOSHI. KISS THE HEART. Art and Charity Programme
for East Japan Reconstruction Support,GINZA MITSUKOSHI show window,Tokyo
2014 Kengo Kito, New Town Plaza Phaze1, 3F Atrium, Hong Kong
2013 ISETAN MITUKOSHI. KISS THE HEART#2. Art and Charity Programme
for East Japan Reconstruction Support, GINZA MITSUKOSHI show window, Tokyo
2010- Japan Agency For Cultural Affairs Scholarship
2008-2009 Gotoh Foundation Scholarship
2008 I organized exhibition “The Echo” Yokohama
2004,2007 HERMES Japan Ginza window design, Tokyo
2003 Encouragement Prize, Kyoto City University of Fine Arts and Music,
1999-2001 Establish and run Art space dot as one of the members
Selected collection
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Cornell University, NY,
Toyota Motor Corporation, Aichi
TAKAHASHI COLLECTION, Tokyo
GATEAU FESTA HARADA, Takasaki