1980 Born in Tokyo,
2002 During college, took black and white photographs and printed them in a darkroom.
2004 Graduated from college (not in art)
2007 Independently researched Japanese decorative art on the walls of concrete buildings.
2021 Realized the concept that "construction sites are art" and started creating works.
Main exhibition history
2025 4th Makurazaki International Art Award Exhibition
Main awards
2025 4th Makurazaki International Art Award Sponsorship Award
2025 4th Makurazaki International Art Award Selected
Artist Statement
I was studying Japanese decorative art and planning the production of Concrete Mural on walls for over 15 years. In the meantime, the world situation became unstable, and around 2021, I decided to aim to become an artisan working at construction sites so that I could work in any country. During this process, I came to have the concept those construction sites are art. At that place, I found the art of consciousness that came out by chance from an artisan’s act of “making.” And the art was intrinsically close to the form of artistic expression called “abstractionism” in art history. During the same period, I was inspired by GUTAI and gradually devoted myself to creating abstract works in my own way. I let accidental formation emerge on the material, thereby producing artwork out of chance in an exhibition space.
Activity
I went into the world without attending professional art school. When speaking of my only art experience before I became a working adult, I had an experience during my university days when I started taking photographs with a single-lens reflex camera and printed out black-and-white pictures in a darkroom.
After that, I became a working adult, and around 2007, when I was looking at a book about making figurines, I came up with the idea of creating three-dimensional figurative works made of concrete. In 2010 or so, after a series of trial and error, I decided to use Japanese decorative art as the platform for my expression. I also considered concrete architecture to be precisely the cornerstone of modern architecture and planned relief-like mural decorations using specific motifs. Although my work did not sell at that time, I continued trial and error while saving money.
Around 2021, since the international situation became unstable, I determined to aim to become an artisan working at construction sites so that I could work in any country. In addition, the Japanese economic growth was slowing down, so I decided to add contemporary art to my assets. I then came across the works of Yayoi Kusama ,GUTAI ,Mono-ha and Takashi Murakami artists in galleries, which made me painfully aware of the depth of artistic expression, and I began devoting myself to innovative production methods and works with a consciousness of space, in which materials play the leading roles. Also, out of my experience of planning murals on concrete walls, I came up with a mode of work, which is a concrete plate that can be hung on a wall. On the construction site, diverse kinds of materials are left lying around, and when I found a long, narrow board, I created a bar-shaped work (CANVAS-C).
The construction site gives a glimpse of art created on an unconscious level. However, in the course of economic activity, no one turns their attention to it, and the glimpse of art is obscured, construction work makes progress, and houses are completed. When people work single-mindedly, because of this state of mind, geometric and accidental patterns are created unknowingly. I thought that these accidentally produced patterns contained something close to abstract works found in art history. I discover various kinds of accidental formation from such a glimpse of art and produce and exhibit my works; with this approach, I create artwork out of chance in an exhibition space.
