Kikuchi Kazuaki

Born in 1993 in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, he completed the conceptual design class at Kyoto City University of Art Graduate School of Fine Arts in 2018. After completing graduate school, he joined Fukunaga Seisakusho Co., Ltd. in Kyoto. He works as an artist while running a metal precision processing business, which is a family business.

An image taken from art history is created with a self-made device that involves a large load and effort in operation.　

Awards

2021

LUMINE MEETS ART AWARD 2020-2021 Grand Prix Winner

2020

Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2020 — Kyoto Prefecture Emerging Artists Selection Exhibition — Received the Excellence Award

2018

Kyoto City University of Art Works Exhibition/Kyoto City University of Art (Kyoto) Graduate School Mayor's Award

2016

Seian University of Art and Design Graduation Exhibition/Received the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (Kyoto) Excellence Award

Fair

2026 Art Affair Kyoto/ Fujii Daimaru Black Storage/ (Kyoto)

2022 HIBIYA OKUROJI ART FAIR 2022/THE THIRD GALLERY AYA/ (TOKYO)

2021 DELTA 2021/SEASIDE STUDIO CASO /THE THIRD GALLERY AYA/ (OSAKA)

2021 ART OSAKA 2021 /+1 art/ (Osaka)

Exhibitions

Solo

2026

Solo exhibition STUCK³ Muddy Cubism/ +1art/ (Osaka)

2024

Kikuchi Kazuaki Solo Exhibition: Evil Avoidance Composition/ Kono House (Osaka)

2022

Kikuchi Kazuaki Solo Exhibition Creativity/+1 art (Osaka)

2021

Kikuchi Kazuaki solo exhibition CUT/The Third Gallery Aya (Osaka)

Kikuchi Kazuaki solo exhibition Draw/+2art (Osaka)

2020

Kikuchi Kazuaki solo exhibition Draw the City/KUNST ARZT (Kyoto)

Kikuchi Kazuaki solo exhibition Draw a Circle/The Third Gallery Aya (Osaka)

2019

Kikuchi Kazuaki solo exhibition Muscle/The Third Gallery Aya (Osaka)

2016

Kikuchi Kazuaki + Nishina Natsumi solo exhibition KISS/KUNST ARZT (Kyoto)

2014

Relay solo exhibition on the surface in the box/ Seian University of Art and Design Gallery Cube (Shiga)

Group

2025

vVk41 Voice Art/KUNST ARZT/ (Kyoto)

Charity & Auction 2025 Safe Day /+1 art/ (Osaka)

New Location -To Breathe in and Exhale- /Toji-no-Sato Cultural Arts Hall/ (Shiga)

Chronoscape | Accumulated Time, Continued Activities/ Seian University of Art and Design/ (Shiga)

KANSAI ART ANNUAL 2025 CO/ SHINSAIBASHI PARCO/ (OSAKA)

Creation of a New Playground vol.13 Speaker Exhibition | Sound Box Exhibition/Shinkaichi Art Plaza/(Hyogo)

2024

Charity Auction Exhibition: Not a Dream/ +1art (Osaka)

2023

Charity Auction Exhibition Music/+1art (Osaka)

Minimal art/ KUNST ARZT (Kyoto)

Hand Taking Exhibition/ +1art (Osaka)

2022

Charity Auction Exhibition Onomatopoie/ +1art (Osaka)

Meta Mall “Alter” Market vol.03/ bNA Alter Museum (Kyoto)

2021

Charity Auction Exhibition “10 Years Later ~ Ten Years Later”/+1art (Osaka)

ACK Special Programs Kyoto Next Framing Physical/ Kyoto International Conference Hall (Kyoto)

Kawakita Yu, Oyagi Natsuo, Kikuchi Kazuaki “New Phase”/SUNDAY (Tokyo)

LUMINE MEETS ART AWARD 2020-2021/LUMINE SHINJUKU LUMINE 2 STUNNING LURE SIDE SIDE SHOW WINDOW (Tokyo)

KYOTO ART LOUNGE EXHIBITION Front and Back Bypass/ Fujii Daimaru Black Storage (Kyoto)

2020

Charity Auction Exhibition “Invisible World Invisible World”/+1 art (Osaka)

ART KYOTO 2020 YOUNG ARTISTS' EXHIBITION A LINKAGE/ART ENGAGE (KYOTO)

New Mutation #3. Kikuchi Kazuaki, Kurokawadake, Yanase Anri/Kyoto Art Center (Kyoto)

Kyogei Transmit Program 2020/ Kyoto City University of Art Gallery @KCUA (Kyoto)

Time Lake - Single Screen/ Surrounding Moment of Breathing -/The Third Gallery Aya (Osaka)

Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2020 — Kyoto Prefecture Emerging Artists Selection Exhibition —/Kyoto Culture Museum (Kyoto)

2019

Super Violence Exhibition/ Yamashita Building (Aichi)

2018

Kyoto City University of Art Exhibition/Kyoto City University of Art (Kyoto)

Alias Sukorei Gainosbette/ +1art (Osaka)

From the heart to the “body”, I'll try it for the first time/Borderless Art Museum NO-MA (Shiga)

2018 Fall Art Month SEIAN ARTS ATTENTION 11 PLAYERING BODY PLAYER/ Seian University of Art and Design (Shiga)

2017

Kyoto City University of Art Exhibition/Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (Kyoto)

Young Artist Support Project 1floor2017 Appropriate Immorality Theory/Kobe Art Village Center (Hyogo)

VvK20 Warhol Art/KUNST ARZT (Kyoto)

2016

Seian University of Art and Design Graduation Exhibition/ Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (Kyoto)

SELECTION Graduation Exhibition/Seian University of Art and Design Gallery Cube (Shiga)

9th Otera Happn! “Yorimichi”/(Shiga)

2015

Seian University of Art and Design Graduation and Promotion Exhibition/ Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (Kyoto)

#8 Otera Happn! ~Infinity~/ Toko-ji Temple (Shiga)

Performance Art Today, Nipah's Present Nipagen Osaka (Osaka)

18th Nipahu Asian Performance Art Series Exhibition: Asian Fever, Freedom, and Art (Tokyo, Osaka)

Nishimura Remi Makeup Photo Project Remake Exhibition/Seian University of Art Gallery Art Site (Shiga)

Merry Culture Day! Here is Ohyama./SUBTERRANEAN (Tokyo)

2014

The surface inside the box/ gallery ARTISLONG (Kyoto)

Assert/gallery ARTISLONG (Kyoto)

2013

NEXT STAGE/ Seian University of Art & Design Gallery Forest (Shiga)

Hanayama Observatory Galleryweek/Hanayama Observatory (Kyoto)

Yogo Marugoto Satoyama Art Village 2013/Yogo Elementary School (Shiga)

Scum Exhibition/Seian University of Art and Design Bus Stop Gallery (Shiga)