KAITO Itsuki 

KAITO Itsuki, Amazones Hand, Oil on canvas, 35.5cm x 25.4cm, 2019

 

KAITO Itsuki, Bijous (dog with swords), Oil on canvas, 28cm x 35.6cm, 2020

 

KAITO Itsuki, Tight Intelligence (brushing time), Oil on canvas, 40.6 x 30.5 cm, 2020

 

KAITO Itsuki, Amazones Boot (never be selected), Oil on canvas, 30.5cm x 23cm, 2020

 

Biography

KAITO Itsuki 

Born 1993, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Based in Tokyo, Kyoto, Japan

Education

2019 MFA Kyoto city university of arts (KCUA), Painting Department, Kyoto, Japan  

2016 BFA Tōhoku University of Art & Design (TUAD), Fine arts Department, Yamagata, Japan

Solo Exhibitions

2021

現れるのに勝手はない/ No excuses for showing up LEESAYA, Tokyo, Japan

Hierarchy of Beasts GALLERY MEME, Seoul, S.Korea

2020 

In Search of…, 14a, Hamburg, Germany

2019

たりない循獣 / Unsatisfied animals of the cycle, GINZA TSUTAYA, Tokyo, Japan

IDÉE FIXE, Tong Gallery + Project, Beijing, China

2018

Tiger Poet, CLEAR GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

2017

THE WOMEN FROM THE GROUND, DNA, N’s art project, Osaka, Japan

Jungle -7,000,000, MORI YU GALLERY, Kyoto, Japan

Tiger Technique, KCUA, Kyoto, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022

COPE, Narrative strategies in Japanese figurative painting, Curated by Sven Loven, No Gallery, New York, USA

2021

Slow Culture @KCUA, Kyoto,Japan

Low Fever Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong

2020

COLLECTION AS POEM IN THE AGE OF EPHEMERALITY X museum, Beijing,China

Y -generation artists GINZA TSUTAYA ATRIUM, Tokyo

A Delinquent Child Having an Out of Body Experience, The Residence Gallery, London, UK

2019

Complete Metamorphosis, Super Dutchess Gallery, New York, USA

Scaffolds of Meaning / 懶音, MINE PROJECT, Hong Kong

Feelings for a spider, 4646, Tokyo, Japan

Amazondom, Pulp, Osaka, Japan

KUMA EXHIBITION 2019, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan

2018 

Encounters, PDX CONTEMPORARY ARTS, Portland, Oregon, USA

KUMA EXHIBITION, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan

KAISEI, Pehu, Osaka, Japan, Galerie P38, Paris, France, KG, Tokyo, Japan

2017 

The 4th CAF prize exhibition, Hillside Terrace, Tokyo, Japan

Artist program 

2017

Feldstärke International, Hunan University, China, Daegu Art Factory, S.Korea, Kyoto Art Center, Japan

2016 

End of summer, Yale union Contemporary Art Center, Portland, USA

Others

2018 

ARTIST’S FAIR KYOTO, Kyoto, Japan

KUMA Foundation, Student Scholarship

2017

KUMA Foundation, Student Scholarship

Selected Media 

2021

Bijututecho Feb 2021/ニューカマー・アーティスト100

2020

Elephant - Hybrid Humans Run Wild in the Otherworldly Paintings of Kaito Itsuki https://elephant.art/hybrid-humans-run-wild-otherworldly-paintings-kaito-itsuki-21022020/

2019

GLAMCULT - #132 (PARA)NORMAL Issue https://shop.glamcult.com/products/132-the-paranormal-issue

VICE China  http://thecreatorsproject.vice.cn/read/creator-of-the-week-009-Itsuki-Kaito

2018 

Forbes Japan web https://forbesjapan.com/articles/detail/24355

Bijututecho web  https://bijutsutecho.com/interview/11650/

2017

Kansai Art Beat  http://www.kansaiartbeat.com/kablog/entries.ja/2017/08/mori-yu-gallery_itsuki-kaito.html