KENTA TAKAHASHI 高橋健太
1996
Born in Aichi, Japan
Lives and works in Chiba, Japan
Kenta Takahashi (b.1996 in Aichi, Japan) completed new works from his signature "diamond steel plate” series. Takahashi recreates ubiquitous urban scenes with traditional painting materials of mineral pigment, silver leaf and washi paper. They defy expectation and present new approaches to concepts of abstraction and figurative, East and West, craftsmanship and industrialism.
Portrait by GION
EDUCATION
2023
MFA Program (printmaking) candidate, currently attending Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2021
BFA in Nihonga, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
KENTA TAKAHASHI: Save as, SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022
KENTA TAKAHASHI: RASTER IN FLUX, Ginza Tsutaya Books Art Wall Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2021
FILTER 1MG, MEDEL GALLERY SHU, Tokyo, Japan
2019
SAVE NOW, Tokyo Kudan Yoh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Summer Group Show, SEIZAN Gallery, New York
Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo International Forum, Biscuit gallery booth, Tokyo, Japan
2022
HAKU: The Art of Gold and Silver Leafing, SEIZAN Gallery, New York
Art on Paper, SEIZAN Gallery booth, New York
Art Taipei, MEDEL GALLERY SHU booth. Taipei, Taiwan
2021
SCOPE Miami, SEIZAN Gallery Booth, Miami Beach, FL
Art Taipei, MEDEL GALLERY SHU booth, Taipei, Taiwan
Rabbit Hole Peeps, ANAGRA, Tokyo, Japan
2020
MIND THE GAP, The Blank Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2019
ATOM ART AWARD 2018, Courtyard Hiroo, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Geidai Arts in Marunouchi, Marunouchi Building, Tokyo, Japan
AWARDS
2021
Tawara Award, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2019
Ataka Award, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Grand Prize, Atom Art Award 2018
EXHIBITIONS
SUMMER GROUP SHOW 2023
HAKU: THE ART OF GOLD AND SILVER LEAFING