KAZUHITO KAWAI
Ceramic artist
Lives and works in Ibaraki, Japan
1984 Born in Ibaraki
Education
2018 Kasama College of Ceramic Art
2007 University of the Arts London,
2007 Chelsea College of Art and Design,
2007 Fine Art, B.A.(HONS)
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Precious Time,
KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo
2024 Today's Close-up Ceramics
2024 -Even if I Become an "Ojisan",
2024 ZeroBase Jingumae, Tokyo
2022 Hold me close, a grain at a time,
2022 KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo
2022 I Gotta Feeling,
2022 Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
2021 Riding for a fall, Sokyo Lisbon, Lisbon
2021 Like a Virgin, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
2019 The Kitsch, t.gallery, Tokyo
2019 Or impressionism, rusu, Meguro, Tokyo
2018 Naughty Loneliness, SOZO Salon, Tokyo
2017 Freaks, House in Kasama, Ibaraki
Group Exhibitions
2025 Garbage, Pencils and Art Exhibition,
2025 UNKNOWN HARAJUKU, Tokyo
2025 Picturesque Pottry: Ceramics Enjoying Art
2025 from Mingei to the Present,
2025 Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art, Tokyo
2024 Fellow Travelers of the Canvas
2024 A Perspective on Contemporary Art of Japan
2024 from the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection,
2024 Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata
2024 When I Kiss You, I Can Taste Your Soul,
2024. KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo
2024 Electric Disorder, Andrea Festa Fine Arts, Rome
2024 Tea ceremony at Rosanjin's former residence,
2024 Shunpu Banri-so, Kasama Nichido Museum of Art 2024 Annex Shunpu Banri-so, Ibaraki
2024 Love Dream, KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo
2023 GO FOR KOGEI “Material Imagination and
Etiological Narrative-Material, Date, Fantasy”,
Rakusui-tei Museum of Art, Toyama
2023 “MEMORIES 02” selected by Tomio Koyama,
CADAN YURAKUCHO, Tokyo
2023 FOOLISH FIRE, NEWCHILD, Antwerp
2022 UNIVERSES 5, The Hole, NYC
2022 The Fourth Dimension,
2022 Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Tochigi
2021 FLUX, Odem Atelier, Sotheby's Stockholm
2020 HCN, Tokyo International Gallery, Tokyo
2020 Full Freon Tal nude,
2020 MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo
2020 "SHOW ME" [TSUCHIKURE] with "LOOP FEELING",
2020 Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto
2019 ±8- A Group Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramics,
2019 SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong
2019 Life as Present, L’Arbre à Plumes, Brussels
Art Fairs
2025 ART FAIR TOKYO 19, KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo
2025 Taipei Dangdai 2025, KOTARO NUKAGA, Taipei
2024 THE ARMORY SHOW 2024,
2024 KOTARO NUKAGA, NewYork
2024 KOGEI Art Fair Kanazawa,
2024 KOTARO NUKAGA, Ishikawa
2022 TAIPEI DANGDAI, KOTARO NUKAGA, Taipei
Art Fair Tokyo, KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo
2021 Untitled Art Fair in Miami Beach,
2021 Steve Turner Gallery, Miami
2021 Art Fair Tokyo, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2020 Art Basel, Taka Ishii Gallery, Basel (online)
2020 Taipei Connections, Sokyo Gallery, Taipei (online)
2020 Frieze Los Angeles, Taka Ishii Gallery, Los Angeles
2019 Art Basel in Miami Beach, Taka Ishii Gallery, Miami
2019 Design Miami, Sokyo Gallery, Miami
2019 Art Kyoto, Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto
2018 Shu-Shu-Shu-Show, Spiral, t. gallery, Tokyo
Awards
2018 Shibuya Awards 2018
Collection
V&A Collection
Loewe Collection
Oketa Collection
Takahashi Collection