Biography
KANEKO Shinichi Tokyo-based Japanese contemporary artist. 1974: Born. 1999: Graduated from the Department of Design, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. 2001: Majored in design, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts.
In 2013, Kaneko started production of the Couple Series with the theme of “relationships” and since then has expanded the series in broad-ranging media including sculpture, paintings, and drawings. He captures relationships as the “change triggered by the connection between things or events,” and visualizes such complicated states as “entanglement.” The entanglement manifested in the Couple Series was inspired by the sexual loving so sensuously depicted in shunga woodblock prints. Shunga, literally spring pictures, is a type of erotic ukiyo-e and a traditional Japanese art. The artist has particularly directed his attention to the entangled limbs so characteristic of shunga. He jubilantly quotes the entanglement of hands and feet, and limbs and bodies in shunga, and reconsiders the magnificent meaning contained in “relationship” and thereby continues exploring the beauty of the word.
Main exhibition venues: Solo shows: Gallery Miyasaka (from 2005); JR Yufuin Station Art Hall (2011); Kondo residence, a tangible cultural property registered by the Japanese government (2013). Group exhibitions in many galleries. His works were also exhibited in Fresh Air, a sculpture exhibition in the UK (2013); and Art Fair Tokyo (2016). A drawing was used for the graphics of a magazine advert for iichiko (shōchū distilled spirit) (from June 2018).
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1974 | Born in Aichi, Japan | |
Education |
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1999 | Tokyo University of the Arts, BFA in design | |
2001 | Tokyo University of the Arts, MFA in design |
TEACHING POSITIONS |
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2001 -2015 |
Lecturer, Department of Design Tokyo University of the Arts (formerly Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music) |
Solo Exhibitions |
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2019 | "the Couple vol.5 - Dance of entanglement", GALLERY MIYASAKA, Tokyo, Japan | |
2018 | "10 Seconds Drawing", Akane Lounge, Tokyo, Japan | |
2017 | "the Couple vol.4", GALLERY MIYASAKA, Tokyo, Japan | |
2017 | "the Couple vol.3", OKANO YAYOI SHOUTEN × KASUTORI SHOBOU, Tokyo, Japan | |
2016 | "the Couple vol.2 -MUSUBITO", GALLERY MIYASAKA, Tokyo, Japan | |
2014 | "the Couple vol.1 -Mazarimazaru-hito", GALLERY MIYASAKA, Tokyo, Japan | |
2014 | "Forest of the Mind", CREATIVE SPACE HAYASHI, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan | |
2013 | "Floating body", KYU-KONDO-TEI (Registered Tangible Cultural Properties), Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan | |
2012 | "- Teleport -", GALLERY MIYASAKA, Tokyo, Japan | |
2011 | "The things seen between blinks", JR YUFUIN STATION ART HALL, Oita Prefecture, Japan | |
2011 | "Memory of the most attractive world before given a name and meaning", GALLERY MIYASAKA, Tokyo, Japan | |
2010 | "The things seen between blinks", GALLERY KINGYO, Tokyo, Japan | |
2009 | "Residents in me", GALLERY MIYASAKA, Tokyo, Japan | |
2008 | "Animals and the metaphor", GALLERY MIYASAKA, Tokyo, Japan | |
2006 | "KANEKO Shinichi", GALLERY MIYASAKA, Tokyo, Japan | |
2005 | "KANEKO Shinichi", GALLERY MIYASAKA, Tokyo, Japan | |
2004 | "KANEKO Shinichi", ICHY'S GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan |
Group Exhibitions |
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2013 | "Fresh Air 2013", Biennale, Quenington Old Rectory England | |
2013 | "The Form", TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTSIKEDA LABORATORY, Tokyo, Japan | |
2012 | "Mitsukoshi × Tokyo University of the Arts, Summer Arts Festival 2012-Young Artists lead the next generation-", MITSUKOSHI, Tokyo, Japan | |
2011 | "Mitsukoshi × Tokyo University of the Arts, Summer Arts Festival 2011-Young Artists lead the next generation-", MITSUKOSHI, Tokyo, Japan | |
2011 | "SHOWCASE SHOW", MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY SHOWCASE, Tokyo, Japan | |
2008 | "DAIYA RING", GALLERY MIYASAKA, Tokyo, Japan | |
2007 | "Leif.designpark with KANEKO Shinichi", TOKYO DESIGN CENTER, Tokyo, Japan [Produced sculptures and furniture] | |
2007 | "Leif.designpark with KANEKO Shinichi", MILANO SALONE SATELLITE, Milan, Italy | |
2005 | "Our room Shinji Hongo × Shinichi Kaneko", ICHYES GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan | |
2000 | "Little Sculpture", JPAN CITY CENTER RYOKUDO GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan | |
2000 -2005 |
"The Form", TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS IKEDA LABORATORY, Tokyo, Japan |
Art Fair |
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2016 | "ART FAIR TOKYO 2016", Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan (Gallery: CREATIVESPACE HAYASHI) |
Awards |
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2018 | Honorable Mention award / The 9th Kiyosu City Haruhi Painting Triennale, Aichi, Japan | |
2005 | Prize winner / CONCRETE ART MUSEUM VOL.2, AICHI Prefecture, Japan |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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2012 | Japanese Magazine, "Gallery 2012 vol.9", (Gallery Station Co.,Ltd, Tokyo) |
Others |
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2018 | A drawing was used for the graphics of a magazine advert for iichiko (shōchū distilled spirit) (from June 2018) |