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Misaki Kawai

(Japanese, born 1978)

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Misaki Kawai

untitled, 2006

900 USD

Biography

Timeline

1978
Born in Osaka Japan
1995
BA, Graphic Design, Tama Art University, Tokyo
1997 - 1999
Kyoto College of Art, Kyoto, Japan

Exhibitions

2016
Misaki Kawai Exhibitions in 2016
Greek Gotham, Dio Horia, Mykonos
Keep It Together, Flower Pepper Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2015
Misaki Kawai Exhibitions in 2015
Powerful Babies: Keith Haring’s Impact on Artists Today, Spritmuseum, Stockholm
Tiger Tiger, Salon 94, New York, NY
Outta Town Sh*t, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
She Sells Seashells by the Seashore, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Post-Analog Painting, The Hole, New York, NY
Woman House, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2014
Misaki Kawai Exhibitions in 2014
Playmaking, The Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa
This Is Not A Toy, The Design Exchange, Toronto
More Material, Salon 94, New York, New York, NY
Early Man, The Hole, New York, NY
Tee Pee Project, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2013
Misaki Kawai Exhibitions in 2013
Hair Show, The Hole, NYC (Solo Exhibition)
Where To Go, MUJI to go kitte, Tokyo
Area, The Hole, New York, NY (curated by Jeffrey Deitch)
Japanese Artists in New York, Marunouchi House, Tokyo
Anxiety, The NY Times, New York, NY
Draw Gym, 247365, Brooklyn, NY
Chicken Or Beef? A Transcontinental Survey of Figurative Painting, The Hole, New York, NY
2012
Misaki Kawai Exhibitions in 2012
Mt. Pom Pom, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY (Solo Exhibition)
The Big Bang, The Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY
Fun, Riihimäki Art Museum, Finland
Permanent Collection, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
Friends & Family, Kenny Schachter / ROVE Projects LLP, London
Casa de Empeno, Anonymous Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Misaki Kawai Exhibitions in 2011
Big Bubble, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (Solo Exhibition)
Wet Shiny Surprise, Galleri Loyal, Malmö (Solo Exhibition)
Nice Bang, Furnetto, Lucerne (Solo Exhibition)
Pencil Exercise, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo (Solo Exhibition)
75 Artists in 75 Years, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Status – Somewhere Between Position and Condition, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
In the Garden, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
Face Maker, Royal/T Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
International Exhibitions/Fumetto, Luzern
2010
Project N 43, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
2009
Homeland 2020, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo Kung Fu Forest, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, USA
2008
Outdoor Club - Paul Bright, Toronto, Canada
Fancy Pants - V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2004
Becoming Giants, curated by Camila Marambio, Le Roy Neiman Gallery / Columbia University
Community Park, Kenny Schachter conTEMPorary, London
Kuru Kuru Jet, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
Saturnalia, curated by Kathy Grayson, Deitch Projects, NYC
Majority Whip, curated by Kathy Grayson and Laura Tepper – White Box, NYC
The Hunt For Your Family, curated by Martin Lilja and Amy Giunta – Odd Number, Stockholm V-1 Gallery, Copenhagen

Literature

2010
Roberta Smith, “Make Room for Video, Performance and Paint,” The New York Times, January 3.
2009 - 2010
Raphael Michilis, “Good Sense Bad Technique,” Elephant, no. 1, Winter 2009-10.
2009
“Manifesto,” Art Review, no. 31, 2009.
“Wild Feature,” The New York Times, July 24, 2009.
2008
“The Fiction Issue,” Vice, December Issue, 2008.
“Tokyo’s Hottest Creators Misaki Kawai,” Harper’s BAZAAR, May, 2008
“Trouble At Play,” Modern Painters, November Issue , 2007.
Cate McQuaid, “In Her Whimsical Installation, She Plays with Dolls,” The Boston Globe, March 27, 2007.
“A Decade Of Art In Tokion,” Revisionaries, 2007.
2007
“Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York,” Japan Society, NYC
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