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山田 康平｜Kohei Yamada

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山田康平 / Kohei Yamada

Born in Osaka in 1997
Graduated from Musashino Art University Department of Oil Painting in 2020
Completed Master’s Program in Fine Arts and Crafts, Oil Painting Specialization at Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2022

Awards

2024　BUG Art Award Finalist
2020　CAF Award Selected

Solo Exhibitions

2025
“The Lightness of Support” Sukima (Tokyo)
“Borderline” Arario Gallery Seoul (Seoul)

2023
“Strikethrough” Taka Ishii Gallery (Tokyo)

2022
“As If Concealing It” biscuit gallery (Tokyo)
“The Way Lines Enter” MtK Contemporary Art (Kyoto), Kyoto Okazaki Tsutaya Bookstore Gallery Space (Kyoto)

2021
“road” Daikanyama Hillside Terrace Annex A (Tokyo)

2020
“Rising, Descending” Gallery Bi no Sha (Tokyo)

Major Group Exhibitions

2025
“Fluid in Forms” Arario Gallery Shanghai (Shanghai)

2024
“Everywhere It Goes” Mai 36 Galerie (Zurich)

“Japanese Contemporary Art: My Perspective: The Ryutaro Takahashi Collection” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo)

“Collection Exhibition: Introduction of Newly Acquired Works” Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art (Gunma)

“Here and There and Back Again, Japanese Art 1964 – 2024” Nicolas Krupp Gallery (Basel)

“Abstraction (re)creation―20 under 40－” Le Consortium (Dijon)

Concept

When I paint, I generously drip oil onto the canvas surface before I begin moving my brush. By doing this, while maintaining noise within the image, the paint seeps, drips, and blends together, bringing forth various memories and symbols. Within the square canvas, I move back and forth between what does and does not become form in order to create the painting.

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