Overview

Ryoki KURASAKI was born in 1995 in Fukuoka, Japan. He concerns himself with the symbol of fire as the beginning and end of life and the ambiguity of its two sides. To put this interest into practice, he combines fire with portraits and still lifes in oil paintings. Through burning the eyes of the figures in his paintings, he expresses the blind sense of distance between life and death in today’s society, and attempts to approach the “values of the present” surrounding death. In recent years, he has continued his core creative concept by developing a series of three-dimensional works made of melted wax.

Works

Related Exhibitions

Press

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1995         Born in Fukuoka

2016         Graduated from Kyushu Designer Gakuin

Solo/Duo Exhibition

2022
“The Garden of Traces”, Hiro Hiro Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan

2020        
Ryoki KURASAKI, Kurumi KOTANI Duo exhibition: “there-was”, DMOARTS, Osaka, Japan

2019        
“Remains”, Gallery Kogure, Tokyo, Japan
“Traces Of The Soul”, DMOARTS, Osaka, Japan

2018        
“A SIGN OF EMOTION”, Masataka contemporary, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibitions

2021        
“3331 ART FAIR 2021”, Tokyo, Japan
“ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2021”, Fukuoka, Japan (Gallery Kogure, Tokyo, Japan)
“Kyushu New Art”, Fukuoka, Japan
“Art NAGOYA 2021”, Aichi, Japan (Gallery Kogure, Tokyo, Japan)
“ART FAIR TOKYO 2021”, Tokyo, Japan (Gallery Kogure, Tokyo, Japan)
“Art Osaka 2021”, Osaka, Japan (DMOARTS, Osaka, Japan)

2020        
“ART FAIR PHILIPPINES 2020”, Philippines (Gallery Kogure, Tokyo, Japan)
“AiPHT PLUS ART in PARK HOTEL TOKYO 2020 AiPHT PLUS”, Tokyo, Japan (DMOARTS, Osaka, Japan)
“artTNZ”, Tokyo, Japan (DMOARTS, Osaka, Japan)

2019        
“Taipei Dangdai 2019”, Taipei (Roentgenwerke AG, Tokyo, Japan)
“ART FAIR PHILIPPINES 2019”, Philippines (Gallery Kogure, Tokyo, Japan)
“ART FAIR TOKYO 2019”, Tokyo, Japan (Gallery Kogure, Tokyo, Japan)
“ART CENTRAL 2019”, Hong Kong (Gallery Kogure, Tokyo, Japan)
“VOLTA Basel 2019”, Switzerland (Gallery Kogure, Tokyo, Japan)
“–Rin–Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Art Fair 2019”, Tokyo, Japan (Gallery Kogure, Tokyo, Japan)
“rooms 39”, Tokyo, Japan (Gallery Kogure, Tokyo, Japan)
“ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2019”, Fukuoka, Japan (Gallery Kogure, Tokyo, Japan)
“ART MARKET BUDAPEST 2019”, Budapest, Hungary (Gallery Kogure, Tokyo, Japan)
“LUMINE ART FAIR”, Tokyo, Japan (Gallery Kogure, Tokyo, Japan)

2018        
“UNKNOWN ASIA 2018”, Osaka, Japan
“The 13^th TAGBOAT AWARD Nominations group exhibition” Tokyo
“ART OSAKA 2018”, Osaka, Japan (DMOARTS, Osaka, Japan)
“Art Expo Malaysia 2018”, Malaysia (LSD Booth)
“PARIS CONTEMPORARY ART SHOW” France (Gallery Kogure)
“ART ASIA 2018” Korea (Gallery Kogure)

2017        
“UNKNOWN ASIA 2017”, Osaka, Japan

Awards

The 13^th TAGBOAT AWARD　Nominated