Scramble Square #smudge

Born in 1992 in Kanagawa. He works as a photographer and artist based in Tokyo and Shonan. The #smudge series, which uses image editing software to transform part of a photograph taken by oneself into a stroke (brushstroke) of a painting, is known as a masterpiece. It aims to expand photographic expression across media such as stereoscopic, performance, CG, VR, AI, and fashion. In 2019, Dunhill, led by Mark Weston, collaborated with the 2020 spring/summer collection, and worked on a campaign image for Louis Vuitton, led by Virgil Abloh, for the Men's Fall/Winter Collection 2019. His works are in the San Francisco Asian Art Museum (USA) and the Amana Collection (Japan). solo exhibition 2025 #copycat, WAITINGROOM (Tokyo) 2022 EDGE, Agnes Bay Gallery Boutique (Tokyo) THE PAST EXISTS, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Honten Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery (Tokyo) TOKYO DE BLISS, WAITINGROOM (Tokyo) Space-Time Continuum, Seibu Shibuya (Tokyo) 2021 #smudge, ANB Tokyo (Tokyo) 2020 CALENDAR, People (Tokyo) Live in Memories, Little Big Man Gallery (Los Angeles, USA) 2019 The Magician's Nephew, Rin Art Association (Gunma) Kenta Cobayashi. Portraits, Nonostante Marras, Vogue Photo Festival (Milan, Italy) Photographic Universe, Fotografia Europea 2019 (Reggio Neremilia Italy) Rapid Eye Movement, IMA Gallery (Tokyo) 2017 Car Insect Theory/What is Beauty, G/P gallery (Tokyo) 2016 #photo, G/P gallery (Tokyo) Group Exhibitions 2025 AI/POST PHOTO, Art Golden Gai, NOX Gallery (Tokyo) 2024 Art Squiggle Yokohama 2024, Yamashita Pier (Yokohama) 2023 HYPER_IMAGE_SCAPE, Boogie Woogie Art Museum [Ulsan Art Museum] (Ulsan, Korea) RE:FACTORY — Meet Your Art Festival 2023, w/ WAITINGROOM, Warehouse Terada (Tokyo) EAST EAST_, w/ TAV Gallery, Science and Technology Museum (Tokyo) Elective Affinities Part 1, Agnes Bay Gallery Boutique (Tokyo) 2022 Human Behaviour, Teppei Kaneuji × Kenta Kobayashi, Teppei Kaneuji × Kenta Cobayashi, RICOH ART GALLERY (Tokyo) Asama International Photo Festival 2022 — PHOTO MIYOTA, MMoP (Nagano) COMING OF AGE, Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris, France) Opening Reception, TAV GALLERY (Tokyo) Structure of a Flow, Metronome (Modena, Italy) ART FAIR TOKYO 2022, w/ WAITINGROOM, Tokyo International Forum (Tokyo) Shibuya Fashion Week 2022 Spring, Shibuya Scramble Square (Tokyo) SPRING SHOW, WAITINGROOM (Tokyo) 2021 I am here by WAITINGROOM, CADAN Yurakucho (Tokyo) Constellation #02, Rin Art Association (Gunma) The Shape of a Gaze. 02, WAITINGROOM (Tokyo) New Existentialism, Unbelievable Gallery (online) · HULIC & New UDAGAWA (Tokyo) Photo 2021: The Truth, Franklin St East (Melbourne, Australia) 2020 SOURCE/ADIT: Studio TOKYO PHOTOGRAPHIC RESEARCH, ENCOUNTS, ANB TOKYO (Tokyo) Nature is Not Your Household (online) Constellation #01, Rin Art Association (Gunma) 2019 The World to Come: Science and Technology, AI, and Humanity, Aoyama Gakuin University Aoyama Campus (Tokyo) Asama International Photo Festival 2019 — Photo MIYOTA, MMoP (Nagano) NEWFSH, The Light Factory (North Carolina, USA) TENNOZ ART FESTIVAL 2019, Tennoz Area Fureai Bridge (Tokyo) PHOTO PLAYGROUND, Ginza Sony Park (Tokyo) Arte Fiera 2019, Bologna Exhibition Center (Bologna, Italy) 2018 2018 SEOUL PHOTO FESTIVAL — BRAVE NEW WORLD, Buk Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea) Unseen Amsterdam 2018 (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Breda Photo Festival (Breda, Netherlands) Asama International Photo Festival 2018 — Photo MIYOTA, Former Mercian Karuizawa Museum Area (Nagano) From My Point of View, Metronom (Modena, Italy) Hello World: Towards a Post-Human Era, Art Tower Mito (Ibaraki) Tokyo Before/After, The Japan Foundation (Toronto, Canada) 2017 Forever Fornever, Bannister Gallery (Providence, USA) Unseen Amsterdam 2017 (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Guangzhou Image Triennial 2017, Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou, China) FORMAT International Photography Festival (Derby, England) 2016 GIVE ME YESTERDAY, Fondantzine Prada Milan Ossavatorio (Milan, Italy) asdfghjkl; 'x lol lol drftgy fujiko LP, 3331 Arts Chiyoda (Tokyo) New Rube Goldberg Machine, KAYOKOYUKI (Tokyo), Komagome Warehouse (Tokyo) New Material, Casemore Kirkeby (San Francisco, USA) Close to the Edge: New Photography from Japan, MIYAKO YOSHINAGA (New York, USA) NEW VISIONS #2, G/P GALLERY SHINONOME (Tokyo) 2015 Trans-Tokyo/ Trans-Photo, Jimei×Arles East West Encounters International Photo Festival (Xiamen, China) Gestalt Kreis—Guided Body/Transboundary Plane-, HAGISO (Tokyo) The Devil May Care, Noorderlicht Photogallery (Groningen, Netherlands) Key collaborations/campaigns 2022 Adidas 'Kenta Cobayashi x adidas SPORTSWEAR' (collaboration) - Tokyo Louis Vuitton 'LV DREAM' (wallpaper) - Paris France SUMER SONIC 2022 (MAIN GATE) - TOKYO GINZA SIX (window display campaign image) - Tokyo Seibu Shibuya Store (window display campaign image) - Tokyo 2021 TOYOTA Corolla Cross (TV commercial/campaign image) - Tokyo 2020 Dunhill 'Blue Capsule Collection' by Mark Weston (collaboration) — London, England 2019 Dunhill Spring/Summer 2020 Collection (collaboration) — London, UK Louis Vuitton Men's Fall/Winter Collection 2019 (campaign image) — Paris France 2018 Unseen Amsterdam 2018 (campaign image) — Amsterdam Netherlands awards 2015 TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD 2015 Grand Prix Key Publications FROM CAMERA ROLL, Newfave, 2020 BROKEN MIRRORS DRAWING AND SPLITTING, ART BEAT PUBLISHERS SUPPORTED BY FUJIXEROX, 2020 Everything_2, Newfave, 2020 Everything_1, Newfave, 2016 public collections San Francisco Asian Art Museum Tokyo Before/After — Foundation for International Exchange Amana Collection TAKAHASHI COLLECTION