Profile

  • 1975

    Born in Hiroshima

  • 1998

    Kuwasawa Design Institute

  • 2009

    Chelsea College of Art and Design MFA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2024

    PAINTINGS + DRAWINGS + SCULPTURES” ISETAN Shinjuku, Tokyo

  • 2023

    Evergreen Haze” SCÈNE, Tokyo
    1998” chignitta space, Osaka

  • 2022

    “TOUCH HAS A MEMORY”READAN DEAT,Hiroshima

  • 2021

    Kentaro Kobuke” BOOKMARC, Tokyo
    with London” Hankyu Department Store Umeda, Osaka

  • 2020

    The other side of hope” MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY, Tokyo

  • 2017

    Colours of Hiroshima” MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY, Tokyo

  • 2014

    Generation” Foil Gallery, Kyoto

  • 2013

    Primal instincts” Identity Gallery, Hong Kong

  • 2012

    Letters” Nakata Museum, Onomichi

  • 2011

    Mokume” Daiwa Foundation, London

  • 2009

    Zou-no-oto” I-MYU Projects, London

  • 2008

    Kinopipinoki” Graf GM, Osaka
    Names” AAA Gallery, Paris

  • 2007

    Names” Prinz, Kyoto

  • 2006

    Layer” doART Gallery, Seoul

  • 2005

    Green” Caminetto, Tokyo

  • 2004

    Parfait” SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo
    Drawing Show” UPLINK Gallery, Tokyo

  • 2003

    Woman” Hiromi Yoshii + Gallery Koyanagi Viewing Room, Tokyo

  • 2002

    Start” Little More Gallery, Tokyo
    Home” Sign Gallery, Tokyo
    Visions Tokyoites” Galerie St Père, Paris

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2022

    “SUMMER SHOW”MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY,Tokyo
    “Kentaro Kobuke+Mike Carney”Gallery jaja,Hiroshima

  • 2021

    Painters + Collection 2021” Nakata Museum, Hiroshima

  • 2016

    TOKYO-LONDON-NEWYORK” MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY, Tokyo

  • 2015

    17th DOMANI:The Art of Tomorrow” The Achievements of the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists
    Provided by the Agency for Cultural Affairs
    The National Art Center, Tokyo

  • 2014

    Kon! Kon! Kon!” Zenkyoan and Foil, Kyoto

  • 2013

    Dualities 2: The State of Innocence” Identity Gallery, Hong Kong
    Review” Identity Gallery, Hong Kong
    Collections” Foil Gallery, Kyoto

  • 2012

    The Echo – Although I am still alive” Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin

  • 2011

    The Shape of Things” Art Station Gallery, Tel Aviv

  • 2010

    Tanabata” Maddox Arts,London
    Sunset in the Morning” Master Piper, London
    Cultural Detritus” Pippy Houldsworth Gallery、London
    Sarcophagus of the Kingdom” I-MYU Projects、London
    The Frank Suss Collection” Phillips de Pury & Company, Saatchi Gallery, London

  • 2009

    Gift” 10 Vyner Street, London
    A House is Not a Home” SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo
    Baroque Plastic” I-MYU Projects, London

  • 2008

    Twenty” Dazed and Confused Gallery, London

  • 2007

    Debli Project” DTK, Tokyo
    Docomodake” New York and Tokyo

  • 2006

    Debli Project” DTK, Tokyo

  • 2004

    Kitty EX” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
    Tokyo Style in Stockholm” Nordenhake, Stockholm

  • 2003

    Today’s Man” John Connelly Presents, New York

Fellowships

  • 2012-13

    Japan Agency For Cultural Affairs Scholarship, Tokyo

  • 2021

    Maison Kitsuné x Kentaro Kobuke
    art book “KENTARO KOBUKE”, publish, Tokyo

  • 2017

    Commissioned work for Edion Tsutaya Electric in Hiroshima city

  • 2016

    Commissioned work for GENBI SHINKANSEN (contemporary art bullet train ) , Niigata City