So TAKAI

Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Architecture. Completed the Department of Architecture at the same graduate school. Currently, he is enrolled in the Oil Painting Research Area doctoral program at the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the same graduate school. His practice takes the exhibition room—a site where the visual conventions of painting intersect with the spatial conventions of architecture—as its point of departure. He creates works that investigate how people look and move within a room. Defining his works as “Jig for Seeing”—devices that guide the viewer’s gaze within an exhibition space—he uses site-responsive installations to critically examine and redefine the spatial qualities of each site.

2021 B.A. in Architecture Department, Tokyo University of the Arts

2024 M.A. in Architecture, Tokyo University of the Arts

2026 Enrolled in the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Research Area Doctoral Program