

Born in 1982 in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, Kinoshita graduated from the oil painting course at Musashino Art University's Graduate School of Art and Design in 2009. Kinoshita's paintings explore the boundary between human intent and the unconscious by utilising wrinkles and folds, light-sensitisation and ageing due to sun exposure. Kinoshita's paintings are created by spraying the paint onto the canvas rather than using a traditional brush technique. In recent years, Kinoshita has been contemplating the question, "Is it possible to capture the passage of time itself in a painting?" and to create works that continue to change after their completion by utilising the shape memory of the object itself. Major solo exhibitions include; "KEI-distant" Crossing/Gifu (2019), "There is evening and there is the morning" LOOP HOLE/Tokyo (2018), "Day behavior" HAGISO/Tokyo (2017), "Fluent device" Switch Point/Tokyo (2017), "Daylight hours" Komagome1-14ca/Tokyo (2016), "A spot in the sun" Kiyosu Haruhi Museum of Art/Aichi (2015), etc. Other exhibitions include "Utsusu" Duo Exhibition - Second2/Tokyo (2020), "Spring-Fever" group exhibition at Komagome Soko/Tokyo (2017), and Kinoshita was the 27th Holbein Scholarship Student in 2012.
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PROFILE
1982 | Born in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan. |
2007 | Graduated from Musashino Art University, BA in Department of oil painting |
2004 | Graduated from Musashino Art University, MA in Department of painting, painting course. |
Currently, based in Tokyo, Japan |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 | KEI -distant-” Gallery crossing, Gifu |
2018 | “There was evening and there was morning” LOOP HOLE, Tokyo |
2017 | “Day behavior” HAGISO, Tokyo “Fluent device” switch point, Tokyo |
2016 | “Daylight hours” komagome1-14ca, Tokyo |
2015 | “A spot in the sun” Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum, Aichi |
2014 | “Follow the fold : Artist Residence ProjectVol.11” HOTEL&RESIDENCE ROPPONGI, Tokyo “Fish under the float” Gallery Barco, Tokyo |
2012 | “Whispered in the noise” LOOP HOLE, Tokyo “Why is there something rather than nothing?” Shinjuku Ophthalmologist Gallery, Tokyo |
2010 | “Ambiguous outline” Shinjuku Ophthalmologist Gallery, Tokyo |
2006 | “Tokyo scenery” hair salon-kief, Tokyo |
2005 | “For the boat to float” loft gallery, Tokyo “String Figure AYATORI” KURA Gallery, Tokyo |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 | “Utsusu” Duo Exhibition, Second2., Tokyo “LOOP HOLE 15th Anniversary Exhibition” LOOP HOLE, Tokyo |
2017 | “Spring Fever” Komagome SOKO, Tokyo |
2015 | “LOOP HOLE 10th anniversary exhibition” Fuchu Green Plaza Annex Gallery, Tokyo |
2014 | “FUCHU OF MADNESS” LOOP HOLE, Tokyo “Eclipse” Pinacoteca Sao Caetano do sul, Sao Caetano, Brazil |
2013 | “DAI CHU SHOW – today’s abstract” Citizen’ s Gallery of Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo “Imago Mundi” Fondazione Querini Stampali, Venetia |
2012 | “CHOCOLATS DES FUCHU (-2010)” LOOPHOLE, Tokyo “The 7th Kiyosu City Haruhi Painting Triennale” Kiyosu City Haruhi Arti Museum, Aichi “WONDER SEED 2012(-2011)” Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo “Visible gift / Invisible gift” ROGOS GALLERY, Tokyo |
2011 | “TOKYO WONDER WALL Contest 2012” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo |
2009 | “Other Painting” WAH CENTER, NY |
2008 | “YONG ARTISTS BOOK FAIR” KINOKUNIYA BOOK STORE, Printed Matter, NY “OTHER PAINTING” Supreme Trading, NY “World Rhythm Summit” LE DECO, Tokyo “The Drawing Exhibition JOY” Pax Arts Asia, Beijing “Sustainable art project connections” Former Sakamoto Elementary School, Tokyo |
ACCOLADES
2013 | The 7th Kiyosu Haruhi Painting Triennale Award of Excellence |
2012 | The 22nd Holbein Scholarship |
COLLECTIONS
Kiyosu City Haruhi Arti Museum, Aichi