KAITO Itsuki
KAITO Itsuki, Amazones Hand, Oil on canvas, 35.5cm x 25.4cm, 2019
KAITO Itsuki, Bijous (dog with swords), Oil on canvas, 28cm x 35.6cm, 2020
KAITO Itsuki, Tight Intelligence (brushing time), Oil on canvas, 40.6 x 30.5 cm, 2020
KAITO Itsuki, Amazones Boot (never be selected), Oil on canvas, 30.5cm x 23cm, 2020
Biography
KAITO Itsuki
Born 1993, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Based in Tokyo, Kyoto, Japan
Education
2019 MFA Kyoto city university of arts (KCUA), Painting Department, Kyoto, Japan
2016 BFA Tōhoku University of Art & Design (TUAD), Fine arts Department, Yamagata, Japan
Solo Exhibitions
2021
現れるのに勝手はない/ No excuses for showing up LEESAYA, Tokyo, Japan
Hierarchy of Beasts GALLERY MEME, Seoul, S.Korea
2020
In Search of…, 14a, Hamburg, Germany
2019
たりない循獣 / Unsatisfied animals of the cycle, GINZA TSUTAYA, Tokyo, Japan
IDÉE FIXE, Tong Gallery + Project, Beijing, China
2018
Tiger Poet, CLEAR GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2017
THE WOMEN FROM THE GROUND, DNA, N’s art project, Osaka, Japan
Jungle -7,000,000, MORI YU GALLERY, Kyoto, Japan
Tiger Technique, KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
COPE, Narrative strategies in Japanese figurative painting, Curated by Sven Loven, No Gallery, New York, USA
2021
Slow Culture @KCUA, Kyoto,Japan
Low Fever Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
2020
COLLECTION AS POEM IN THE AGE OF EPHEMERALITY X museum, Beijing,China
Y -generation artists GINZA TSUTAYA ATRIUM, Tokyo
A Delinquent Child Having an Out of Body Experience, The Residence Gallery, London, UK
2019
Complete Metamorphosis, Super Dutchess Gallery, New York, USA
Scaffolds of Meaning / 懶音, MINE PROJECT, Hong Kong
Feelings for a spider, 4646, Tokyo, Japan
Amazondom, Pulp, Osaka, Japan
KUMA EXHIBITION 2019, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Encounters, PDX CONTEMPORARY ARTS, Portland, Oregon, USA
KUMA EXHIBITION, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan
KAISEI, Pehu, Osaka, Japan, Galerie P38, Paris, France, KG, Tokyo, Japan
2017
The 4th CAF prize exhibition, Hillside Terrace, Tokyo, Japan
Artist program
2017
Feldstärke International, Hunan University, China, Daegu Art Factory, S.Korea, Kyoto Art Center, Japan
2016
End of summer, Yale union Contemporary Art Center, Portland, USA
Others
2018
ARTIST’S FAIR KYOTO, Kyoto, Japan
KUMA Foundation, Student Scholarship
2017
KUMA Foundation, Student Scholarship
Selected Media
2021
Bijututecho Feb 2021/ニューカマー・アーティスト100
2020
Elephant - Hybrid Humans Run Wild in the Otherworldly Paintings of Kaito Itsuki https://elephant.art/hybrid-humans-run-wild-otherworldly-paintings-kaito-itsuki-21022020/
2019
GLAMCULT - #132 (PARA)NORMAL Issue https://shop.glamcult.com/products/132-the-paranormal-issue
VICE China http://thecreatorsproject.vice.cn/read/creator-of-the-week-009-Itsuki-Kaito
2018
Forbes Japan web https://forbesjapan.com/articles/detail/24355
Bijututecho web https://bijutsutecho.com/interview/11650/
2017
Kansai Art Beat http://www.kansaiartbeat.com/kablog/entries.ja/2017/08/mori-yu-gallery_itsuki-kaito.html