- 1991
- Born in Aomori
- 2015
- Tokyo Zokei University, Painting Course, B.A.
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2015
- "FRANTIC UNDERLINES", Frantic Gallery, Tokyo
- 2015
- "Zokei Show", Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo
- 2015
- "Turner Award 2014", Turner Gallery, Tokyo
- 2015
- "Motai Seminar abflug", Arts Chiyoda 3331, Tokyo
- 2015
- "The 2nd CAF Awarded Artist Show", Arts Chiyoda 3331, Tokyo
- 2015
- "MPoliphony 2015 Angle", Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo
- 2014
- "Ome Art Program", Ome Comprehensive School, Tokyo
- 2013
- "Zokei Show", Design Festa Gallery, Tokyo
- 2012
- "New Faces", Turner Gallery, Tokyo
Awards
- 2014
- Turner Award 2014, Future Award
- 2014
- Zokei Show, Zokei Prize for Excellent Graduation Work
Ryo Kikuchi while studying 20th century philosophy and ideas of Zen Buddhism, through his works reflects on the particularities of human perception and mechanisms of the mind in general and using various painterly technics creates objects that shake our common vision of reality and the way we think it is structured. His "Umbilical" stresses the mechanisms of "the separation" and "insertion of difference" crucial for our production of identities and meaning, while keeping the possibility of connecting three “separate” parts of the work back again in one unity. His “Void” series presents vaguely visible landscape or object, which while “asking” for the closer observation "vanishes" in the rows of dots when the viewer make a step closer to the image, thus totally dismantling the possibility of the distance necessary for the clear observation, and opening the void.
 E-Portfolio |
Umbilical
2015 acrylic on wooden panel 90x155cm available RK_1501 |
Umbilical (detail)
2015 acrylic on wooden panel 90x155cm available RK_1501 |
Void #1
2015 acrylic on panel 20x20x2.1cm 20x20x2.1cm available RK_1502 |
Void #1 (detail)
2015 acrylic on panel 20x20x2.1cm available RK_1502 |
Void #5
2015 acrylic on panel 80x30x2.4cm available RK_1506 |
Void #5 (detail)
2015 acrylic on panel 80x30x2.4cm available RK_1506 |
Void #7
2015 acrylic on panel 80x30x2.4cm available RK_1508 |
Void #7 (detail)
2015 acrylic on panel 80x30x2.4cm available RK_1508 |
- Artist Name
- Ryo Kikuchi/菊池遼
- Title
- Umbilical
- Art
- Painting
- Media
- acrylic on wooden panel
- Size (cm)
- 90x155cm
- Year
- 2015
- Edition
- Original
- Status
- available
- Ref.No
- RK_1501
- Artist Name
- Ryo Kikuchi/菊池遼
- Title
- Umbilical (detail)
- Art
- Painting
- Media
- acrylic on wooden panel
- Size (cm)
- 90x155cm
- Year
- 2015
- Edition
- Original
- Status
- available
- Ref.No
- RK_1501
- Artist Name
- Ryo Kikuchi/菊池遼
- Title
- Void #1
- Art
- Painting
- Media
- acrylic on panel
- Size (cm)
- 20x20x2.1cm
- Year
- 2015
- Edition
- Ed.5
- Status
- available
- Ref.No
- RK_1502
- Artist Name
- Ryo Kikuchi/菊池遼
- Title
- Void #1 (detail)
- Art
- Painting
- Media
- acrylic on panel
- Size (cm)
- 20x20x2.1cm
- Year
- 2015
- Edition
- Ed.5
- Status
- available
- Ref.No
- RK_1502
- Artist Name
- Ryo Kikuchi/菊池遼
- Title
- Void #5
- Art
- Painting
- Media
- acrylic on panel
- Size (cm)
- 80x30x2.4cm
- Year
- 2015
- Edition
- Ed.5
- Status
- available
- Ref.No
- RK_1506
- Artist Name
- Ryo Kikuchi/菊池遼
- Title
- Void #5 (detail)
- Art
- Painting
- Media
- acrylic on panel
- Size (cm)
- 80x30x2.4cm
- Year
- 2015
- Edition
- Ed.5
- Status
- available
- Ref.No
- RK_1506
- Artist Name
- Ryo Kikuchi/菊池遼
- Title
- Void #7
- Art
- Painting
- Media
- acrylic on panel
- Size (cm)
- 80x30x2.4cm
- Year
- 2015
- Edition
- Ed.5
- Status
- available
- Ref.No
- RK_1508
- Artist Name
- Ryo Kikuchi/菊池遼
- Title
- Void #7 (detail)
- Art
- Painting
- Media
- acrylic on panel
- Size (cm)
- 80x30x2.4cm
- Year
- 2015
- Edition
- Ed.5
- Status
- available
- Ref.No
- RK_1508
