Kanji Hasegawa

Kanji Hasegawa was born in 1990 in Mie Prefecture, Japan. He received a B.F.A. at Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture in 2014 and an M.F.A. at Tokyo University of the Arts, the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture in 2016. The same year, he completed his training at Daihonzan Eiheiji, one of the main temples of the Soto sect of Buddhism, and became a monk.

His major solo exhibitions include “decay, remains” (2023, KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY, Tokyo), “My Sútra” (2019, KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY, Tokyo), “ALLDAY TODAY” (2018, Gallery HIROUMI, Tokyo), and “RESEARCH & DESTROY” (2015, CC4441, Tokyo).

Group exhibitions include “AMATEUR vol.3” (2024, H BEAUTY&YOUTH, Kyoto), “Visionaries: Making Another Perspective” (2023, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art), “Têmporas KUROOBIANACONDA #4” (2022, Sokyo Lisbon Gallery, Portugal), “Some Kinda Freedom” (2021, KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY, Tokyo), and “CC NIGHT -PLAY ANARCHY-” (2015, CC4441, Tokyo).

Hasegawa was shortlisted for “sanwacompany Art Award / Art in The House 2019” and received the Yuji Akimoto Prize at “Maebashi Art Compe Live 2012.”