Artist

KAIHATSU Yoshiaki

Space White Cafe "Rokko Meets Art 2017" (Hyogo), 2017

#[span.italic "At Yuba” in the bathroom,] (Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design), 2020

Exam wall (2019), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, 2019

KAIHATSU Yoshiaki

Born in Yamanashi Prefecture in 1966, lives in Yamanashi Prefecture

1991: Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tama Art University with a major in oil painting.

1993: Completed a master’s course at Tama Art University.

He has focused on audience-participation art works and exhibited at the Venice Biennale’s 9th International Architecture Exhibition in 2004 and the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale in 2006. In 2016, he held an exhibition entitled “Chunibyo” at the Ichihara Lakeside Museum. Outside of Japan, he has participated in exhibitions such as Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, exhibiting both in Japan and internationally. Since 2011, he has organized the Daylily Art Circus, holding exhibitions and workshops at schools damaged by the earthquake and temporary housing facilities. His solo exhibition was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo from August 3 to November 10, 2024.

Major Exhibitions

“Yoshiaki Kaihatsu: ART IS LIVE―Welcome to One Person Democracy,” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo), 2024

Yoshiaki KAIHATSU exhibition (ANOMALY, Tokyo), 2019

Echigo Tsumari art Triennial 2009 (Echigo Tsumari / Niigata), 2009

Major Awards

The 4th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, excellence Award (Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa), 2001

Object exhibition Parco Award (Shibuya Parco,Tokyo), 1989

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