Biography

Eugene Kangawa is a contemporary artist, born in 1989 in the United States. He mainly produces paintings and installations. Previous major exhibitions include solo exhibition "THE EUGENE Studio 1/2 Century Later"(2017) at Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo; "Shikkoku-Noh" (Phantosia) (2019) at The National Art Center, Tokyo; and group exhibition "de-sport" (2020) at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. He also contributed to exhibition "89+" (2014) at Serpentine Gallery in London, worked with the London-based collective Assemble for the Centennial Exhibition of Shiseido Gallery (2018-2019), and collaborated with renowned American science-fiction novelist Ken Liu on Alter (2017). Eugene will hold a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo from November 2021 as the youngest artist in the museum's history. These achievements were featured in the book The Age of Art x Technology (by Daisuke Miyatsu, Kobunsha) along with teamLab as one of the four leading Japanese artists in 2017. His two short films released in 2021 in the United States have been continually chosen for official selections and won the top prize at more than 10 international film festivals including the Oscar-qualifying Brooklyn Film Festival, WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, and Pan African Film Festival.
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