Kengo Kito
Artist
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
2008-2009 Stayed in New York with a grant from the Gotoh Memorial Foundation
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
Currently resides in Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture. Professor at Kyoto University of the Arts Graduate School.
Artworks
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Profile
Biography
Selected Solo Exhibition
2025
Stone Lines MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo
Wa and Circle KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Tokyo
2024
buoyancy of color anonymous collection, Zero Base JINGU, Tokyo
Ishi to Hoshi MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto
2023
sen wo hakaru rin art association, Gunma
Unity on the Hudson Hudson River Museum, New York, USA
broken flowers MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto
2022
Kengo KITO Lines KAAT Kanagawa Art Theatre <atrium>, Kanagawa
2021
big rip rin art association, Gunma
Kengo KITO Untitled (hula hoop) Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
Reconnecting JAPAN HOUSE Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2020
Full Lightness Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto
2019
Light in Emptiness rin art association, Gunma
2018
cartwheel galaxy GATEAU FESTA HARADA GALLERY, Gumma
color color color color color color GATEAU FESTA HARADA GALLERY, Gumma
2017
MULTIPLE STAR I-III Hara Museum ARC Gallery A,gunma
cart wheel galaxyrin art association.Takasaki
Kengo KitoYCC Temporary.yokohama
2016
KENGO KITO Solo Exhibitionseibu 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
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
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Selected Group Exhibition
2024
revise Maebashi Galleria, Gunma
Landscape with a hole in it MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto
2023
The Hints 12 perspectives on the present and future Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation East Bldg, Tokyo
ceremony, Miya ANDO, Kengo KITO, Makiko KUDO, Vik Muniz Maebashi Galleria, Gunma
2022-2023
MASATO KOBAYASHI + KENGO KITO MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto
2022
N/World MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto
Study:Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2022 Grand front Osaka, Osaka
POLYPHONY ARARIO GALLERY, Shanghai
2021-2022
Traces of Life ART MAEBASHI, Gunma
2021
Taiyou MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto
Where is a place for us ? Chinretsukan gallery, The university Art Museum, Tokyo University of Arts, Tokyo
constellation #02 rin art association, Gunma
DOMANI 2021 The National Art Center, Tokyo
2020
HAMAMATSU SESSION vol.2 Hirano Art Gallery, Shizuoka
Looing At Pictures The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
constellation#01 rin art association, Gunma
2019
Aichi Art Chronicle 1919-2019 Aichi Arts Center, Aichi
The Secrets of Techniques Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa
Conect and Compare Tomioka City Museum, Gunma
2018
Roppongi Art Night 2018 The National Art Center, Tokyo
2017
Art is Science Karuizawa New Art Museum, Aichi
2016
Worm Hole Travel-Domani Plus Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
2015-2016
Think Tank lab Triennale – International Festival of Contemporary Drawings BARBARA, Wroctlaw, Poland
2015
COSMOS/INTIME La Collection Takahashi Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, France
2014-2015
Esprit Dior-The world of 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 – ALTHOUGH I AM STILL ALIVE Kunsthaus Betanien, Berlin, Germany
LADY DIOR AS SEEN BY WAKO NAMIKI KAN, Tokyo/ La Triennale Di Milano, Milano, Italy
2011
ARTIST FILE 2011: The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art 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, UK
2008
The Echo ZAIM, Kanagawa
Twenty Dazed and Confused, London, UK
Gallery Group Show Gallery Koyanagi,Tokyo
March Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2007-2008
Roppongi Crossing 2007: Future Beats in Japanese Contemporary Art Mori Museum,Tokyo
2007
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
2004-2005
On Flowering Images; Contemporary Japanese Photography Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
2004
jardin 2 jaune MORI YU GALLERY, Kyoto
2002
snow white Dohjidai gallery, Kyoto
Garden Gallery Suzuki, Kyoto
Accretion Disk MORI YU GALLERY, Kyoto
2001
Contemporary Art 2001, NAGOYA Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery Yada, Aichi
1999
cosmic flavor Art space dot, Aichi
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Others
2024
Reconnection Taoyuan/National Taiwan Sport University, Taoyuan Land Art Festival 2024, Taiwan
anonymous art project, Tokyo Gendai 2024, Tokyo
anonymous art project, Art Düsseldorf 2024, Düsseldorf, Germany
anonymous art project, Art Fair Tokyo 2024, Tokyo
2021
Art Illumination, Shiraiya Hotel, Gunma
2020
The 7th Children’s Art Exhibition, Ichihara Lakeside Art Museum, Chiba
2018
Hankyu Umeda Main Store Wind Installation, Hankyu Umeda, Osaka
Art Project Takasaki, Gunma
2017
Art Project Takasaki, Gunma
2016
Art Project Takasaki THE ECHO Takasaki City Gallery Exhibition Room 1, Gunma
Seibu Shibuya Whole Building Promotion, Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo
Tokyo Design Week 2016 Installation at the main venue in Meiji Jingu Gaien, Meiji Jingu Gaien, Tokyo
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
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Selected collection
Okazaki City Museum of Art, Aichi
Vanji Sculpture Garden Museum, Nagaizumi-cho, Shizuoka
Gunma Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
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, New York, USA
Toyota Motor Corporation, Aichi
TAKAHASHI COLLECTION, Tokyo
GATEAU FESTA HARADA, Takasaki



