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Taro KITAGAWA

Rokko Musical Box Museum & Gardens MORINONE

The World of Hand Thinking,"DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow Exhibition" (The National Art Center, Tokyo), 2014-2022
photo:Yamamoto Tadasu

Received an award for KODAI (2020), The Kajima Sculpture Competition

Space-time pyramid (2017), UBE Biennale, 2017

Taro KITAGAWA

Born 1976 in Hyogo, Live in Kyoto.

2007  MA Sculpture, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts graduate school, Japan

His numerous achievements and diverse range of awards include being selected as a fellow in the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Overseas Study Program for Upcoming Artists and sent to South America. In 2010, he also held a solo exhibition at the Museo Pedro de Osma in Lima, Peru. He has developed a variety of approaches to shed light on the allure of stone, and participated in many exhibitions that serve as a wake-up call to the contemporary age with series such as Quietness, which draws on the charms of non-existent things, Space-time pyramid, which attempts to visualize time, and The World of Hand Thinking, which focuses on tactile sensations.

Major Exhibitions

"DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow" Exhibition (The National Art Center, Tokyo), 2022

"Mottainai Plaza by Kitagawa Taro" (exhibited in the 29th UBE Biennale, UBE Tokiwa Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan), 2022

"Can I Touch This?: Exhibition of Touchable Sculptures from the Museum Collection" (The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura Annex, Kanagawa, Japan), 2022

Major Awards

16th Kajima Sculpture Competition, Silver Award, 2020

27th UBE Biennale, Ube Chamber of Commerce and Industry Prize, 2017

Art Town Miyoshi Sculpture Festa 2001, Grand prize, 2001

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