鬼頭健吾 Kengo KITO
Artist / Director of MtK Contemporary Art
Born in 1977, Aichi Japan. Earned MFA in painting at Kyoto City University of the Arts in 2003.
Kengo KITO has incorporated fragments of daily lives through “ready-made” materials such as hula-hoops, fabrics, ribbons, strings, and mirrors—— no matter the medium, the artist creates works from mass-scale installation works to paintings and sculptures reminding us of a complex, chaotic and vibrant galaxy.
In March of 2021, he has founded MtK Contemporary Art, a commercial gallery, where he is also the director.
1977- Born in Aichi, Japan2001- BFA in painting at Nagoya University of the Arts
2003- MFA in painting at Kyoto City University of the Arts
Recent Solo Exhibitions
2023
Unity on the Hudson, Hudson River Museum, NY, U.S.
2022
KAAT EXHIBITION 2022 Kengo Kito Exhibition-Lines, KAAT Kanagawa Art Theatre
2021
RECONNECTING, Japan House, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.
Untitled (hula-hoop), The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2020
Full Lightness, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
"Kengo Kito: Full Lightness" Exhibition Catalog
Published by Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, 2020
2017MULTIPLE STAR I-III, Hara Museum ARC Gallery A, Gunma, Japan
YCC Temporary KENGO KITO, Yokohama Creativecity Center, Kanagawa, Japan
N/World, MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan
Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2022, Grand Front Osaka, Osaka, Japan
2021
Kyoto Perspective, ANB Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow Exhibition 2021,The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Looking at Pictures: 5 Artists and the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
2019
The Secrets of Techniques: With O JUN, Kengo Kito, & Taro Tabuchi, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Aichi Art Chronicle 1919-2019, Aichi Arts Center, Aichi, Japan
Artists Fair Kyoto 2018, The Museum of Kyoto Annex, Kyoto, Japan 2017 Art is Science, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano, Japan
