Profile
Born in Tokyo in 1998
2025 Completed the Doctor’s Doctoral Program in Fine Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Received Ph.D. in Fine Arts
Currently Teaching Research Assistant, Japanese Painting Laboratory, Tokyo University of the Arts
Exhibitions
2021
47th Tokyo Spring Creative Painting Exhibition Inaugural Selection (Subsequently selected every year)
48th Creative Painting Exhibition Inaugural Selection (Subsequently selected every year)
2022
Completion Work Acquired by Tokyo University of the Arts Ikuo Hirayama Scholarship Award
40th Ueno Forest Museum Grand Prize Exhibition Selection
9th Seison Maeda Memorial Grand Prize Exhibition Selection
Two-Person Exhibition “姿と遠” Gallery Shichimenzaka Tochuu/Tokyo
2023
L’Espoir Exhibition “Killi Okaji Solo Exhibition” Ginza Suruga-dai Gallery/Tokyo
Tokyo Geidai Japan Art Week in NY Blue Gallery, NY
“Japanese Painting Three-Person Exhibition” Ginza Suzuga Gallery/Tokyo
Solo Exhibition “transition” Art Gallery Meiji-yama/Kanagawa
2024
3rd Mitsukoshi Isetan・Hiroshi Senjyu Japanese Painting Grand Prize Selection
Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School Doctoral Examination Exhibition
2025
Three-Person Exhibition “Silhouette” Ueno Forest Museum Annex Gallery/Tokyo
6th Painting Tsukuba Award Grand Prize
Bankart Yokohama Gate Tower Start Gallery Jurors’ Special Award
Concept
To capture the unique existence inherent in matter and the non-existence that reflects, transmits, and floats.
With the window serving as a filter, the subject whose contours are deconstructed becomes part of the exhibition space as an abstracted pattern.
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