E’wao Kagoshima

E'wao Kagoshima (born 1945 in Japan) is a Japanese artist whose varying media includes painting, sculpture and collage. Kagoshima's work is known through the canon of Japanese Pop Art, and he has had solo exhibitions at the Nagai Gallery, Tokyo; Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York; The New Museum, New York; Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York; and Algus Greenspon, New York. Kagoshima has been included in exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; The Asian American Art Center, New York; The Laforet Museum, Tokyo and Osaka; Marlborough Gallery, New York; MoMA PS1, New York; White Columns, New York; Martos Gallery, New York; Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; and Sculpture Center, New York.

Kagoshima is currently represented by Greenspon Gallery in New York.

Background and Education

Kagoshima was born in Niigata, Japan in 1945. He received his MFA from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts in 1969, before moving to New York City in 1976 where he now lives and works in Queens.[1]

Work

Kagoshima emerged as an artist in Tokyo, Japan in the late 1960s with his Pop-Art inspired and appropriated sculptures of paint cans and cups, captured in frozen moments of spilling.[2] Upon his arrival in New York in 1976, Kagoshima soon found himself part of the East Village's burgeoning art scene where he began producing hyper-imaginative and erotic paintings borrowing visual elements from Picasso, Klossowski and Baldessari.[3] His paintings, collages and sculptures soon included caricatures as kitsch grew in his art to meet explorations of art history and traditional Japanese culture, expressed through his particular brand of Pop Surrealism.[4]

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

Press

References

  1. ↑ Algus Greenspon. "E'wao Kagoshima: Bio". Algus Greenspon. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
  2. ↑ Kley, Elizabeth (8 February 2011). "E'wao Kagoshima" (PDF). Time Out New York. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
  3. ↑ Neil, Jonathan T.D. (April 2011). "E'wao Kagoshima" (PDF). ArtReview. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
  4. ↑ Diaz, Eva (March 2011). "E'wao Kagoshima" (PDF). Artforum: 268. Retrieved 11 July 2013.


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