Kohei Nawa

(Japanese, born 1975)

Kohei Nawa is a Japanese sculptor exploring digital culture and contemporary spirituality. Perhaps best known for his PixCell series, he creates works by covering found objects such as taxidermied deer with an intricate layer of glass beads, prisms, glue, plaster, and spray foam. Nawa’s transparent husk is then removed, ultimately creating a light-filled facsimile of the original object. “The approach of making sculpture from granular materials eventually emerged when I was searching for my own means of expression, and is associated with the concept that the whole world is made from cells and cellular structures,” he has explained. “At the molecular level, all natural and man-made articles are groups of particles.” The artist is inspired in part by digital pixels—which use light to construct images—as a conceptual gesture, thereby making his sculptures a real life analogue to the digital image. He also cites artists such as Katsuhiro Otomo and Antony Gormley and the architect Antoni Gaudi as lasting sources of inspiration for his practice. Born in 1975 in Osaka, Japan, Nawa studied at the Kyoto City University of Art where he received his BFA and PHD in fine arts, and also spent one term as an exchange student at the Royal College of Art in London. His works can be found in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the National Gallery Victoria in Melbourne, among others. Nawa lives and works in Kyoto, Japan.

Kohei Nawa Artworks

Kohei Nawa (498 results)
PixCell-Tabasco #5, 2014

Kohei Nawa

PixCell-Tabasco #5, 2014

Sale Date: November 25, 2018

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PIXCELL-DEER (MICA), 2013

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PIXCELL-DEER (MICA), 2013

Sale Date: November 15, 2018

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PIXCELL (TOY-STEALTH #6), 2007

Kohei Nawa

PIXCELL (TOY-STEALTH #6), 2007

Sale Date: November 25, 2018

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PIXCELL-TOY-FERRARI, 2006

Kohei Nawa

PIXCELL-TOY-FERRARI, 2006

Sale Date: November 25, 2018

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Parameter #4 - C,1600,900,800,450,1500,6500, 2016

Kohei Nawa

Parameter #4 - C,1600,900,800,450,1500,6500, 2016

Sale Date: October 27, 2018

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Direction #80, 2013

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Direction #80, 2013

Sale Date: October 27, 2018

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PIXCELL - DEER NO. 27, 2012

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PIXCELL - DEER NO. 27, 2012

Sale Date: September 30, 2018

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PixCell-Toy-Sushi#23(Sayori), 2006

Kohei Nawa

PixCell-Toy-Sushi#23(Sayori), 2006

Sale Date: September 19, 2018

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PixCell-Toy-Stealth, 2003

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PixCell-Toy-Stealth, 2003

Sale Date: July 14, 2018

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PixCell [Toy-Minnie Mouse (Comic Ver.), 2009

Kohei Nawa

PixCell [Toy-Minnie Mouse (Comic Ver.), 2009

Sale Date: July 14, 2018

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PixCell [Toy-Mickey Mouse (from Mickey's..., 2009

Kohei Nawa

PixCell [Toy-Mickey Mouse (from Mickey's..., 2009

Sale Date: July 14, 2018

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PixCell-Deer #39, 2007

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PixCell-Deer #39, 2007

Sale Date: May 26, 2018

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Direction #30, 2012

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Direction #30, 2012

Sale Date: May 27, 2018

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PIXCELL-LEMON, 2006

Kohei Nawa

PIXCELL-LEMON, 2006

Sale Date: May 27, 2018

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PIXCELL-TOY-PISTOL

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PIXCELL-TOY-PISTOL

Sale Date: May 27, 2018

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PIXCELL-TOY-PINGU

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PIXCELL-TOY-PINGU

Sale Date: May 27, 2018

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PIXCELL-MARIA #3, 2009

Kohei Nawa

PIXCELL-MARIA #3, 2009

Sale Date: May 27, 2018

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Trans - Speaking, 2014

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Trans - Speaking, 2014

Sale Date: May 17, 2018

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PixCell - Cell Phone #3, 2006

Kohei Nawa

PixCell - Cell Phone #3, 2006

Sale Date: April 20, 2018

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Line-Fragment#62, 2008

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Line-Fragment#62, 2008

Sale Date: April 20, 2018

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Untitled, 2017

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Untitled, 2017

Sale Date: April 20, 2018

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Transfer #1, 2002

Kohei Nawa

Transfer #1, 2002

Sale Date: April 20, 2018

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Trans-Speaking, 2014

Kohei Nawa

Trans-Speaking, 2014

Sale Date: April 20, 2018

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Dot-Array_B, 2008

Kohei Nawa

Dot-Array_B, 2008

Sale Date: April 20, 2018

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