Artists

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Born in Nara, Japan in 1988
Lives and works in Kanagawa, Japan
【Education】
2020 Finished Doctorate at Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Nihonga
2017 Received Master’s degree at Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate school of Fine Arts, Department of Nihonga
2015 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, School of Fine Art, Major in Nihonga
【Selected Solo Exhibitions】
2024 Kei Sugiyama: Collect and Arrange (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo)
2022 Kei Sugiyama: Isu wo Naraberu (twililight, Tokyo)
2021 Kei Sugiyama: Shinrin ni tsuite (NADiff modern, Tokyo)
2020 Kei Sugiyama-ten (Art space Rashinban, Tokyo)
2019 L’espoir-ten Kei Sugiyama (Ginza Surugadai Gallery, Tokyo)
【Selected Group Exhibitions】
2024 Ebisu and Daikoku (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo)
2023 Art Taipei 2023 (Taipei World Trade Center, SEIZAN Gallery Booth, Taiwan)
2022 MITSUKOSHI Art Week (Nihombashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo)
PLAY (NADiff modern, Tokyo)
Three Person’s Nihonga Exhibitin: MONJYU (Niigata Isetan, Niigata)
2021 New Wave: Jidai wo Hiraku Artist-tachi (Niigata Isetan, Niigata)
Three Person’s Nihonga Exhibitin (Takamatsu Mitsukoshi, Kagawa)
JOKER (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo)
2020 Flower and Bud Exhibition (Geidai Art Plaza, Tokyo)
2019 Something Precious (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, continued in 2023)
2018 Shun-ki Soga-kai (Seibu Ikebukuro, Tokyo, continued until 2022)
Mitsukoshi x Geidai, Natsu no Geijutsusai 2018 (Nihombashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo)
2017 Soga-kai (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, continued until 2022)
2016 Spaceless: A collaborative exhibition in South Korea (Seoul University, South Korea)
2015 Drawings: Japanese Painting Lab II (Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo, continued until 2018)
【Public Collections】
The Sato Museum of Art (Tokyo), Taito Ward Office (Tokyo), Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo)
【Publications】
2021 Picture book “Portraits of Absence” Published by PINHOLE BOOKS
【Awards】
2023 Souga-kai Award at the 50th Souga-ten
2019  Shunki-ten Award for the 45th Tokyo Spring Soga-ten
2017 Ikuo Hirayama Scholarship Award
2016 Honorable Mention for the Shouhaku Nihonga Award Exhibition
2015 Taitō-ku Award
Salon de printemps Award
Heisei Geijutsu Award