ghost flowers

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. 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 ーーー 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 ーーー 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 ーーー 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