Kaz Watabe got the attention of visitors from all over the world at Art Fair Tokyo 2016.
He depicts monstrous creatures that have no voice.
Where are they stare at and what are they thinking ?
It’s the ephemeral and mysterious world with full of love.
Kaz WatabeProfile
| Born in Chiba, Japan in 1975 Lives and works in Chiba, Japan |
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| 【Education】 | |
| 2006 | Graduated from Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, Faculty of Arts and Crafts, Department of Fine Arts, Painting major, Oil painting course |
| 【Selected Solo Exhibition】 | |
| 2023 | Kaz Watabe: Sakuhin-ten (Sendai Mitsukoshi, Miyagi) Kaz Watabe: For All that Lives (SEIZAN Gallery Tokyo 凸, Tokyo) |
| 2022 | Kaz Watabe: Bucket Boy & Inchworm (SEIZAN Gallery, New York) |
| 2020 | Kaz Watabe: Hitsuji-bito no Sekai (Sendai Mitsukoshi, Miyagi) |
| 2019 | Kaz Watabe: Kaiga-ten (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo) |
| 2017 | Kaz Watabe: Kaiga-ten (Sendai Mitsukoshi, Miyagi) Kaz Watabe (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 2016 | Art Fair Tokyo 2016 “Kaz Watabe” (Tokyo International Forum, SEIZAN Gallery Booth, Tokyo) |
| 2015 | Kaz Watabe Kaiga-ten: Melancholy days (Sendai Mitsukoshi, Miyagi) |
| 2014 | Kaz Watabe Kaiga-ten: Yume miru mono tachi (Ikebukuro Tobu, Tokyo) |
| 2013 | Kaz Watabe Artworks (Daimaru Shinsaibashi, Osaka) Kaz Watabe: Yume miru mono tachi (Sendai Mitsukoshi, Miyagi) |
| 2012 | Kaz Watabe-ten (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) Kaz Watabe Sakuhin-ten: Mellowly (Sendai Mitsukoshi, Miyagi) Kaz Watabe-ten (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 2011 | Kaz Watabe-ten (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) Art Space ∞ “Kaz Watabe Tokushu” (Ginza Mitsukoshi, Tokyo) Kaz Watabe-ten (Daimaru Shinsaibashi, Osaka) |
| 【Selected Group Exhibition】 | |
| 2023 | WINTER GROUP SHOW: TRAVELING (SEIZAN Gallery, New York) Art Taipei (SEIZAN Gallery Booth, Taipei World Trade Center, Taiwan) |
| 2022 | Summer Group Show (SEIZAN Gallery, New York) |
| 2021 | JOKER (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 2020 | Sparkle-ten: Ninki sakka no kagayaki (Daimaru Shinsaibashi, Osaka) A SINGLE ANT BITE (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo; SEIZAN GALLERY TOKYO 凸, Tokyo) |
| 2018 | Rin: Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Art Fair 2018 (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo) |
| 2016 | Yokai Tea Ceremony (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) SEIZAN Gallery 20th Anniversary Special Exhibition (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 2014 | Kaiga-ichi (Funabashi Tobu, Chiba) |
| 2011 | Polka dot: Yayoi Kusama and Shinei Sakka-ten (Sendai Mitsukoshi, Miyagi) |
| 2010 | Yuga no Kanousei (Art Space Rashinban, Tokyo) Two Persons Exhibition “Hikojiro Fujisawa and Kaz Watabe” (Sapporo Daimaru, Hokkaido) Something Precious (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, continued in 2011, 2014-2019, 2023 ) |
| 2009 | Kitai no Shinjin Sakka-ten (Art Space Rashinban, Tokyo) |
10/10/2017(tue) - 20/10/2017(fri)
open 11:00- close 19:00 ※Closed on Sunday and public holidayThe gallery will be closed at 17:00 just only on Saturday and the last day.