Untitled Document

KENGO KITO

Born in 1977 - Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

For exhibition, BAROCK PLASTIK, 2008

For exhibition, SARCOPHAGUS OF KINGDOM, 2010

ARTIST STATEMENT
Hula-hoops, laces, chains, threads, mirrors, and other things I have been using in my works are all daily things. I play around with such ordinary ready-made materials and assemble them into works in a broad range of formats, such as two- and three-dimensional objects, installations, and videos. The basic images in my mind are those of microorganisms that are infinitely reproducing themselves through repeated cell divisions.

I aspire to express complexity, variety, chaos, and vitality of nature and the biological world that can be identified with jungle trees, nebulae, and viruses. Life is maintained by the constantly working nervous system; this sense of movement and of being afloat, and the negation of stasis are the key concepts of my work.

EDUCATION
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 Music

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 “Sagittarius” αm gallery, Tokyo
------- COSMIC DUST, Daiwa Foundation, London
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 EXHIBITIONS
2010 “Gallery Group Show” Gallery Koyanagi,Tokyo
------- "three japanese', Maddox Fine Art, London
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

AWARDS
2010- Japan Agency For Cultural Affairs Scholarship
2008-2009 Gotoh Foundation Scholarship
2008 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

PUBLIC COLLECTION
- Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
- Takamatsu City Museum of Art
- The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka
- Herbert F.Johnson Museum of Cornell University (NY)