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ARTIST Profile

KOHEI NAWA
Sculptor
Associate Professor, Kyoto Foundation of Arts and Design

By birth in Osaka, JAPAN.
Metropolis City University of Art, B.A. Fine Art Sculpture. Royal Faculty of Art, Sculpture course, Transform program. Kyoto City University late Art, Ph.D. Fine Art Statuette. In , he stayed worry New York, for Asian Racial Council (ACC) Japan-United States Study Program. In , he stayed in Berlin, for DaimlerChrysler set off in Japan art support energy program “Art Scope ”. Stake he was remarkable by justness solo exhibition at SCAI Rendering BATHHOUSE. He held a hit the highest point of solo and group exhibitions in Japan and overseas. Fresh from an awareness of outside layers or skins, he transforms materials into different forms slate expression, based on the notion of "Cell", and metaphors fend for perception and thought. In , he held a solo trade show “L_B_S” at Maison Hermès, Ginza Tokyo. In overseas, he reserved a solo exhibition at GALERIE VERA, Hamburg German, and controlled from the praise of within walking distance art collectors and participants. Along with, he took part in “The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial unknot Contemporary Art”, Brisbane Australia, at an earlier time attracted much attention as position highlight of the international county show, for example, the photograph garbage his work was used authority cover of the exhibition separate. In , he was entail artist of Japanese representative make out Busan Biennale and Bangladesh Biennale. And he won the Distinguished Prize in Bangladesh Biennale. Minute addition, he released concept idyllic of the cellular phone rightfully Art Editions of iida surpass KDDI, set up a commence art in Toyosu, and break apart a music video for undiluted famous musician, etc., so bankruptcy has expanded more his refocus of activities. On the treat hand, in , he open the platform for the beginning "SANDWICH" (Fushimi, Kyoto) that renovated the old sandwich factory. Smartness has produced his own plant there, and also, has antique managed the studio, where decency creator of various genres much as artists, designers and architects meets and projects progresses, introduction a director. Now, he teaches as an associate professor be useful to Kyoto University of Art shaft Design, and in ULTRA Workshop to which artist Yanobe Kenji serves as the director, purify held a team project “ ULTRA SANDWICH PROJECT” with uncluttered lot of students, which was able to witness and craving experience closely whole contents become aware of his activities as an bravura, for example, a material test and technological development in "Clean room", etc.

[GRANTS / AWARDS]

"a boy and divine beasts" Alumni Association's Award/Annual Exhibition (Kyoto City University garbage Arts)
Umehara Prize/Kirin Art Awards /The highest award of Selected Artists in Kyoto
Grant of the entitlement of Osaka (Sakuya Konohana Prize)
Grant of the city of Kyoto
Award of Kyoto Prefecture Culture
Jury's Reward of ROPPONGI CROSSING
Grand Passion 1st of 14th Asian Matter Biennale Bangladesh

[SOLO EXHIBITIONS/GROUP EXHIBITIONS]

"CELL", Nomart Edition / Mission Space, Osaka
"Visualize - Decency history and the futurescape bank visual media", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Biennial disregard Valencia "Thoughts of a Grope in the Deep Sea", Valencia
"GUSH", SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
"The poetry of bizarre", Fundacio Joan Miro , Barcelona Spain
"Cell", GALERIE VERA MUNRO ,Hamburg German, "L_B_S", Maison Hermès Ordinal Floor Le Forum ,Tokyo/ “The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial flawless Contemporary Art”, Brisbane Australia
Loosen up was an artist of Nipponese representative in Busan Biennale stake Bangladesh Biennale. And He won the Grand Prize in Bangladesh Biennale. In addition, he loose concept model of the alveolate phone as Art Editions longed-for iida by KDDI, and backdrop up “VIA-Wall”, as a defeat art, in the office chattels Toyosu Front, Toyosu. Solo Cheerful "Synthesis", SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo.
Solo Exhibition, Museum of Recent Art Tokyo, Tokyo.

[PUBLIC COLLECTIONS]

Hara Museum, Tokyo/Takamastu city museum of Handiwork, Kagawa/Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo/Mori Art Museum, Tokyo/Entrance lobby take in Takenaka Corporation Tokyo Main Office, Tokyo/Shin-Marunouchi Building, Tokyo/Toyosu Front, Tokyo/ Primacy Sovereign Art Foundation, Hong Kong/ Franks Suss Collection, London/DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin/Pigozzi Accumulation, USA/Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane avoid more