Ryoki KURASAKI

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.

1995         Born in Fukuoka

2016         Graduated from Kyushu Designer Gakuin

Solo/Duo Exhibitions

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

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