Kaito Kawasaki河﨑海斗
Preserving fleeting life in metal.
身近に潜む
Kaito Kawasaki is not making goldfish. He is reconstructing what allows a goldfish to exist as a goldfish — water, light, vessel, material, and the memory of the one who looks.
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Kogei Realism工芸リアリズム
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Kogei (craft) is the practice of expressing an ecosystem that includes the human being.
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Within the relationship of material, environment, body, and perception, something actually rises into being. What is made is that emergence.
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This is not realism achieved through technical skill. It is an attitude that reconstructs the very conditions of existence itself.
Selected Works
REPRESENTATIVE WORKS
Exhibitions
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibition "Utsuroi, Tomeru"
Garari Showcase (Obuse, Nagano — next to the Hokusai-kan Museum) — free admission
Featuring "Gakyo no Kiku," a new cast-metal work reinterpreting the Tomoe-nishiki chrysanthemum depicted in Hokusai's Chrysanthemums (Kiku-zu), held in the Hokusai-kan collection.
Other Exhibitions
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Permanent DisplayThe Arts Fusion by Lecrin (Ueno, Tokyo) — featuring "Vermilion Wakin"
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KOGEI Art Fair Kanazawa 2026Hyatt Centric Kanazawa (Kanazawa, Ishikawa) — GALLERY KOGURE booth
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Solo ExhibitionMEDEL GALLERY SHU HIBIYA (Imperial Hotel Plaza, 1F)
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Two-person Exhibition(Planned)Kure Municipal Museum of Art (Kure, Hiroshima)
Past Exhibitions
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Kaito Kawasaki Exhibition(Ended)Shinjuku Takashimaya, 2F Special Venue (Shinjuku, Tokyo) — first solo exhibition at a department store
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Three-Person Exhibition "MATSURI INORU"(Ended)Spiral Garden, Shin-Marunouchi Building (Marunouchi, Tokyo)
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Solo Exhibition "Shutsuran no Homare"(Ended)TSUTAYA BOOKSTORE, Ebisu Garden Place (Ebisu, Tokyo)
Artist
KAITO KAWASAKI
Kaito Kawasaki is not an artist who imitates life. He is an artist who, through kogei (craft), creates the place where life rises up.
Born in 2000 in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture. Metal-casting artist (imono / chuukin). Completed the master's program in Metal Casting, Department of Crafts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, in 2026. Based in Tokyo.
A cast goldfish is placed inside a body of acrylic resin. The resin is neither an added material nor a protective shell — it functions as an environment: another form of water. Polishing, heat, oxygen, temperature. By precisely tuning these conditions, color is generated.
- AwardsSalon de Printemps Award (2026), 19th Geidai Art Plaza Art Award, Shogakukan Award (2025), among others
- ExhibitionsSolo exhibition "Utsuroi, Tomeru" (Garari Showcase, Obuse, Nagano), plus international art fairs
- GalleriesGALLERY KOGURE / Geidai Art Plaza / Toubikai
- PressFeatured in "100 Metal Craftspeople: Contemporary Japan's Elite" (Abe Publishing), among others
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