Eugene Kangawa
Life and career. Eugene Kangawa was born in 1989 in the United States. He is known for his conceptual and self-reductive paintings and installations. His solo exhibition “EUGENE STUDIO After the rainbow” (2021-22), held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, made him the youngest artist to hold a solo exhibition at the museum, where only a few Japanese artists including Yayoi Kusama,Takashi Murakami, Yoko Ono, and the others have held solo exhibitions in the past. The exhibition attracted a great deal of attention, with queues of more than 3,000 visitors per day waiting for  up to 2 hours to see the works. It was an epoch-making exhibition including the fact that it was the first time for an artist born in the Heisei era to hold a solo exhibition. His past exhibitions include de-sport: at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2020), 89+ at Serpentine Gallery, London (2014), and “Shikkoku-Noh” (pitch darkness-Noh) at The National Art Center, Tokyo (2019). He is known for many paintings and installation works and was featured as one of the four leading Japanese artists, along with teamLab and others, in the 2017 book  “The Age of Art x Technology” (written by Daisuke Miyatsu).As previous works, a commission work with an American science-fiction writer, Ken Liu.