Teppei KANEUJI

Accumulating small phenomena and lead those to a larger phenomenon.I move between contrary situations; e.g. cities and the outskirts, necessity and accident, light and shadow, two- and three-dimensions, illusion and reality, and so on. Or I create opportunities to blend them.Those phenomena turn into a mass at a certain point in the processes of meaningful things losing meanings, and meaningless things taking on meanings.  Then I capture the mass.Imagining happenings at neglected void space and time in cities or enigmas of which I am unaware.I am thinking about this kind of things when I create my artworks.

• 1978 Born in Kyoto, Japan
• Now lives and works in Kyoto, Japan

EDUCATION

2001
• Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts, Major in Sculpture, Kyoto, Japan
• Exchange program at Royal College of Art, London, UK

2003
• Completed the Master Course in Sculpture at Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018
• “Romantic Barricade”, ESLITE GALLERY, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Summer Fiction”, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2017
• “Spook in the Hot Pot”, Star Gallery, Beijing, China
• “Symbols are not Symbols”, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2016
• “Teppei Kaneuji's Zones”, Marugame Geniciro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA), Kagawa, Japan
• “Day Dream with Gravity”, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2015
• “DEEP FRIED GHOST”, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, USA
• “Sweet Pickled Phantom”, One and J. Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2014
• “Endless, Nameless (Constructions)”, STPI, Singapore
• “DEEP FRIED GHOST / HARD BOILED DAYDREAM”, ShugoArts, Tokyo, Japan

2013-2014
• “Towering Something”, chi K11 art space, Shanghai, China

2013
• “Something in the air”, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
• “Towering Something”, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2012
• “Something on the Planet”, ShugoArts, Tokyo, Japan

2011
• “POST-NOTHING”, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
• “Ghost in the City Lights”, ESLITE GALLERY, Taipei, Taiwan

2010
• Recent Works ”Post Something”, ShugoArts, Tokyo, Japan
• ”Ghost in the Museum”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan

2009
• “Teppei KANEUJI: Melting City / Empty Forest”, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
• “Tower”, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
• “METAMORPHOSIS- objects today”, gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan

2008
• “TEAM 10 Teppei Kaneuji ‘Ghost In The City Lights’ ”, TWS shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
• “Great Escape”, project room sasao, Akita, Japan

2007
• “splash & flake”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Museum Studio), Hiroshima, Japan
• “smoke & fog”, Kodama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• “hole & all”, Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2006
• “splash and flakes”, Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan
• “liquid collage”, TAKEFLOOR, Tokyo, Japan
• “phenomenon”, Kodama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2004
• “small animals and great flood”, Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan
• “ghost in the white nights”, Kodama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2003
• “smoke/ heavy fog”, Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2002
• “White/ Drift”, Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018
• Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018, Niigata, Japan
• “Playtime”, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA

2017
• Open Storage 2017 “Crispy storage / Creamy room”, MASK, Osaka, Japan
• “The Other Face of The Moon”, Asia Culture Centre, Kwangju, Korea
• “Japanorama: New Vision of JAPAN from 1970”, Pompidou Centre Mets, Mets, France
• Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2017 “Multiple Future”,  Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
• OpenArt Biennale 2017, Orebro Lans Museum, Orebro, Sweden
• Reborn-Art Festival 2017, Ishinomaki, Japan
• “Forms and Effects: Ukiyo-e to Anime”, The Berrie Center Art Galleries, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, USA

2016
• “Lucky Transformer”, Teppei KANEUJI + Toshiki OKADA, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
• “stir, stir, stir…”, Statements, Tokyo, Japan
• “Even if contemporary art is ended”, Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
• “Arrangement of Things”, Kiyotsu Warehouse Museum, Niigata, Japan

2015-2016
• ALL NIGHT HAPS 2015, Kyoto, Japan

2015
• “I am, Because of You”, Yuan Space, Beijing, China
• 2015 Asian Art Biennial “Artist Making Movement”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taichung, Taiwan
• “GLASSTRESS 2015 GOTIKA”, Fondazione Berengo, Venice, Italy
• “The Contemporary 1, In Our Time: Art in Post-Industrial Japan 21st Century”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
• “Moving Light, Roving Sight”, Ikkan Art Gallery, Singapore

2014-2015
• “DAYDREAM with GRAVITY”, Hotel Anteroom Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
• “Logical Emotion-Contemporary Art from Japan”, Museum Haus Konstructiv, Zurich, Switzerland / Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow, Poland / Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle (Saale), Germany

2014
• Open Storage 2014, MASK (MEGA ART STORAGE KITAKAGAYA), Osaka, Japan
• “A blurry stage on the horizon”, Kyoto City University of Arts ART GALLERY @ KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
• “Piling Lines”, FAL Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
• “My God | Your God”, SEIAN ART CENTER, Shiga, Japan
• “Tokyo Art Meeting V, Seeking New Gnealogies – Bodies / Leaps / Traces”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
• “Rokko Meets Art 2014”, Kobe, Japan
• “SOCCER: What lies ahead of our imageries”, Urawa Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
• “500 meters’ project 001 Re: Would you please send it?”, Sapporo Odori500-m Underground Wallkway Gallery, Sapporo, Japan
• “Shape of Picture”, ShugoArts, Tokyo, Japan

2013
• “Mono No Aware. Beauty of Things. Japanese Contemporary Art”, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
• “MOT Collection”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
• “Now Japan; Exhibition with 37 contemporary Japanese artist”, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Nederland
• “Roppongi Crossing 2013: OUT OF DOUBT”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
• Dojima River Biennale 2013, Dojima River Forum, Osaka, Japan
• “Why not live for Art? II”, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• “what (n) ever”, Coop Kitakagaya, Osaka, Japan
• “Re: Quest Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s”, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

2012
• “Her name is Abstra”, Daido Soko, Kyoto, Japan
• “Japan Media Arts Festival in Hong Kong 2012 Parade: Invisibles In Japanese Media Arts” From "Night Parade of One Hundred Demons" to "IS Parade", ArtisTree, Hong Kong, China
• “Sculpture by Other Means”, One and J Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• “CPUE 2012”, LE DECO, Tokyo, Japan
• “Building: Art in Relation to Architecture”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

2011
• “Ways of World making”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
• “Making is Thinking”, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• “JAPANCONGO”, Le Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
• Singapore Biennale 2011 “Open House”, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore
• “Extra Schicht 2011”, Dortmunder U, Dortmunder , Germany
• “Rokko Meets Arts 2011”, Kobe, Japan

2010
• “Contemporary airy crafts from Japan to Taiwan”, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
• “RESONANCE”, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan
• “ONE AND J. GALLERY at PIERRE KOENIG”, Pierre Koenig Case Study House #21, Los Angeles, USA
• “Yellow Gate”, Sangrok Gallery, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea

2009
• “Re: Membering”, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
• “MOT Collection: Summer Play Ground”, Museum Of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
• “WARM UP” Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
• “Platform in KIMUSA 2009”, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
• “Hiroshima Art Project 2009 Kippo Maru: Exploring inside the ship!”, Hiroshima, Japan
• “City-net Asia 2009”, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
• “Twist and Shout”, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

2008
• “MOT annual 2008 Unraveling and Revealing”, Museum Of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

2007
• “Mixed Signals”, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, USA
• “All About Laughter: Humor in Contemporary Art”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
• “ignore your perspective 3”, Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan
• “VOCA 2007: The Vision of Contemporary Art”, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
• “Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan”, Long March Space, Inter Arts Center, TOKYO GALLERY＋BTAP, Beijing／Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
• “Exhibition as media”, Kobe Art Village Center, Kobe, Japan

2006
• “ignore your perspective 2”, Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan
• “With Marcel Duchamp”, Kodama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• “DAIWA RADIATOR FACTORY VIEWING ROOM vol.1”, Daiwa Radiator Factory Viewing Room, Hiroshima, Japan
• “ALLLOOKSAME?/ TUTTTUGUALE?: Arte Cina Giappone Corea Arte”, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Trino, Italy

2005
• “Table Tennis Players” (as a member of artist unit ‘COUMA’), art project room ARTZONE, Kyoto, Japan
• “ignore your perspective”, Kodama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• “YOKOHAMA 2005: International Triennale of Contemporary Art” (as a member of artist unit ‘COUMA’), Yamashita Wharf, Yokohama, Japan

2004
• “Art Court Frontier 2004 #2”, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, Japan
• “Art in Transit Vol.6”, The Palace Side Hotel, Kyoto, Japan
• “Re SPORTS (Pre-event of Re OLYMPIC)”, STUDIO EARKA, Osaka, Japan

2003
• “NICHIJYU”, Gallery Sowaka, Kyoto, Japan
• “KOBE ART ANNUAL 2003: Grip the Gap”, Kobe Art Village Center, Kobe, Japan

2002
• “Fukankei”, neutron, Kyoto, Japan

2001
• “Shuchou Ten”, gallery ARTISLONG, Kyoto, Japan

THEATER EXPERIENCES

2017
• Director / Stage Designer, tower, KYOTO EXPERIMENT 2017, ROHM Theatre Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
• Director / Stage Designer, TOWER, TPAM 2017, Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan

AWARDS

2016
• Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong, China

2014
• Encouragement Prize, Kyoto Cultural Award 2014, Kyoto, Japan

2013
• Best Young Artist Award, Kyoto, Japan

2010
• Sakuya-konohana Award, Osaka, Japan

2002
• Encouragement Prize, Kyoto City University of Arts Works Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

• Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
• Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
• Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
• Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
• The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
• Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbanem, Australia
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
• Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
• 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
• Ullens Foundation Collection, Beijing, China
• KADIST, Paris, France / San Francisco, USA