Gallery SEIZAN Booth No.N-08
The individuals live in the slightly distorted world.
Those who be reviled as deformed or strange and seen as repelling and unpleasant,
but have accepted their own fate.
Wondered what they are looking at, and thinking of.
The odd, but also comfortable feeling leads you to the intimate world, to find the real voice.
Listening to their voices, I cherish the images that arise and try to create simple and honest representations.
Kaz Watabe
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】 | |
2022 | Kaz Watabe: For All that Lives (SEIZAN Gallery Tokyo 凸, Tokyo) 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】 | |
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 ) |
2009 | Kitai no Shinjin Sakka-ten (Art Space Rashinban, Tokyo) |
12/05/2016(thu) - 14/05/2016(sat)
12/05/2016(thu) - 14/05/2016(sat)May 12 Thu. 14:00-21:00 May 13 Fri. 12:00-21:00 May 14 Sat. 10:30-17:00
※Last admittance: 30 min. before closing.