Graduated from Musashino Art University Graduate School.
I was fascinated by the material iron from the beginning of the 80's,
He works while repeating fusing and welding.
Freed from the original sense of rigidity and weight, sculpture = lump,
Transform the space.
Observing the “place” deeply, capturing what is there, visible or invisible,
Build your own world.
In recent years, he has also announced works of different materials such as plaster and glass.
Major awards include the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Newcomer Award, Mainichi Art Award, and Teijiro Nakahara Award.
He was born in Gunma Prefecture. Completed the Department of Western Art of the Graduate School of Art, University of Tsukuba.
Produces 'cartoon drawing' collected from people's activities, traditions, and local landscapes. The main character of the story is a person wearing a mask and disturbing air, and the story is expressed by interweaving pictures and figures. Strolling into the exhibition space, they are searching for works that are assimilated into a story, where fiction and reality intersect. His main activities include 'expressive ecosystem' (2019: Arts Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture), 'deep in the forest,' (2018: hpgrp GALLERY TOKYO, Tokyo), 'Local Art Project Kenichi Obana' (2019: Arts Maebashi and Gunma), and 'Someday/Day/Murayama Ruriko, Hosaka Tsuyoshi, Obana Kenichi' (2018: Collaboration Akita). He won the Tokyo Midtown Award 2015 for Excellence and the LUMIN meets ART AWARD Semi-Grand Prix.
Graduated from Musashino Art University Graduate School. Since the beginning of the 1980s, he has been fascinated by the material iron, and has been creating works by repeating fusing and welding.
Freed from the original sense of rigidity and weight, sculpture = lump,
Transform the space. Observe the "place" deeply and take in what exists there, visible or invisible, to build a unique world.
In recent years, he has also announced works of different materials such as plaster and glass.
Major awards include the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Newcomer Award, Mainichi Art Award, and Teijiro Nakahara Award.
He was born in Gunma Prefecture. Completed the Department of Western Art of the Graduate School of Art, University of Tsukuba.
Produces 'cartoon drawing' collected from people's activities, traditions, and local landscapes.
The main character of the story is a person wearing a mask and disturbing air, and the story is expressed by interweaving pictures and figures.
Strolling into the exhibition space, they are searching for works that are assimilated into a story, where fiction and reality intersect.
His main activities include 'expressive ecosystem' (2019: Arts Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture), 'deep in the forest,' (2018: hpgrp GALLERY TOKYO, Tokyo), 'Local Art Project Kenichi Obana' (2019: Arts Maebashi and Gunma), and 'Someday/Day/Murayama Ruriko, Hosaka Tsuyoshi, Obana Kenichi' (2018: Collaboration Akita). He won the Tokyo Midtown Award 2015 for Excellence and the LUMIN meets ART AWARD Semi-Grand Prix.
Graduated from Musashino Art University Graduate School.
Since the beginning of the 1980s, he has been fascinated by the material iron, and has been creating works by repeating fusing and welding.
It is also free from the concept of the material's original sense of rigidity, weight, and sculpture = lump, transforming the space.
Observing the “place” deeply, capturing what is there, visible or invisible,
Build your own world.
In recent years, he has also announced works of different materials such as plaster and glass.
Major awards include the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Newcomer Award, Mainichi Art Award, and Teijiro Nakahara Award.
He was born in Gunma Prefecture. Completed the Department of Western Art of the Graduate School of Art, University of Tsukuba.
Produces 'cartoon drawing' collected from people's activities, traditions, and local landscapes. The main character of the story is a person wearing a mask and disturbing air, and the story is expressed by interweaving pictures and figures. Strolling into the exhibition space, they are searching for works that are assimilated into a story, where fiction and reality intersect. His main activities include 'expressive ecosystem' (2019: Arts Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture), 'deep in the forest,' (2018: hpgrp GALLERY TOKYO, Tokyo), 'Local Art Project Kenichi Obana' (2019: Arts Maebashi and Gunma), and 'Someday/Day/Murayama Ruriko, Hosaka Tsuyoshi, Obana Kenichi' (2018: Collaboration Akita). He won the Tokyo Midtown Award 2015 for Excellence and the LUMIN meets ART AWARD Semi-Grand Prix.
