Kaito Itsuki

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View works. KAITO Itsuki, Tiger Poet (Yellow shower), 2022
Tiger Poet (Yellow shower), 2022
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KAITO Itsuki collects her references everywhere from the street to museums - her current tenure in London providing a fresh database to pull from. She embarks from a place of curiosity, paying mind to the unique patterns of medical illustrations and the ways they connect to the sensing body. These paintings contain specific stories as Itsuki seeks to create work that deals with the system of identification. However, she maintains that it is not necessary for these narratives to be clear to the viewer, and that she encourages disparate understandings of her visual forms. Itsuki's content is auto-generated as she moves between her paintings, carrying aspects from previous works to new ones. Her intuitive color selection places the onus on contrasting tones rather than gradation. Grotesque shades of brown collide with candy pinks and blues to a satisfying effect. Itsuki ensures that the compositions are tonally resolved despite their unlikely color arrangements.
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View works. KAITO Itsuki, Tiger Poet (Yellow shower), 2022
Tiger Poet (Yellow shower), 2022
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Kaito Itsuki (b.1993 Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan) lives and works in Tokyo. Kaito Itsuki obtained her BFA from Tōhoku University of Art & Design (TUAD) in 2016 and MFA from Kyoto city university of arts (KCUA) in 2019. 
 
Recent solo exhibitions include: Treed Codependancy, Gallery Meme, Seoul, South Korea (2024); The Elastic Edges, Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2023); Looming digits, Blue velvet, Zürich (2023); The Monopolistic Sweet Spots, MAMOTH, London, UK (2022); Tools are validated, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok (2022); Blacken, Hive Centre For Contemporary Art, Beijing (2022); Restricted Action, Psychofilm, Hua Art Space, Beijing (2022); No excuses for showing up, LEESAYA, Tokyo (2021); Hierarchy of Beasts, Gallery MEME, Seoul (2021); In search of..., 14a, Hamburg (2020); Unsatisfied animals of the cycle, GINZA TSUTAYA, Tokyo (2019); IDÉE FIXE, Tong Gallery + Project, Beijing (2019); Tiger Poet, CLEAR GALLERY, Tokyo (2018); THE WOMEN FROM THE GROUND, DNA, N's art project, Osaka (2017); Jungle -7,000,000, MORI YU GALLERY, Kyoto (2017); Tiger Technique, KCUA, Kyoto (2017).
 
Recent group exhibitions include: FLYFLYFLY, Kenna Xu Artistic Center, Shenzhen, China (2023); The Tale of Tales, G Museum, Nanjing (2022); Cope, No Gallery, New York (2022); Temple, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne (2022); Couple of, Hive contemporary art Centre, Beijing (2021); Slow Culture, KCUA, Kyoto (2021); Low Fever, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong (2021); Collection As Poem in the Age of Ephemerality, X Museum, Beijing (2020); Y-generation artists, GINZA TSUTAYA ATRIUM, Tokyo (2020); A Delinquent Child Having An Out Of Body Experience, The Residence Gallery, London (2020); Complete Metamorphosis, Super Dutches, New York (2019); Scaffolds of Meaning, MINE PROJECT, Hong Kong (2019); Feelings for a spider, 4646, Tokyo (2019); Amazondom, Pulp, Osaka (2019); KUMA EXHIBITION 2019, Spiral, Tokyo (2019); Encounters, PDX Contemporary Arts, Portland (2018); KUMA EXHIBITION, Spiral, Tokyo (2018); KAISEI, Pehu, Osaka, Japan, Galerie P38,Paris,Frense,  KG, Tokyo, Japan (2018); The 4th CAF prize exhibition, Hillside terrace, Tokyo (2018).
 
Kaito Itsuki's work has been acquired by collections including He art museum, Guangdong, China; X museum, Beijing, China; Tōhoku University of Art & Design, Yamagata, China.
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