永山健吾 / Kengo Nagayama

Kengo Nagayama

Born in 1994 in Tokyo.
Enrolled in the Department of Painting, Oil Painting Major, at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2019.
Graduated from the Department of Painting, Oil Painting Major, at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2023.
Affiliated with studio kelcova since 2023.

Solo Exhibition:
2021 - "Eyes Wide Shut" at Gallery美の舎/Tokyo.

Group Exhibitions:
2019 - "Tokyo Geidai ZAIGAKUSEI NI Yoru Homme Exhibition" at Matsuzakaya Ueno/Tokyo.
2019 - "Art Fair-Ongoing Matsuri" at Art Center Ongoing/Tokyo.
2020 - "Dear" at TOBARIER Gallery/Tokyo.
2020 - "WASANBON" at TURNER GALLERY/Tokyo.
2020 - "Gallery 美の舎 Gakusei Senbatsu-ten 2020" at Gallery美の舎/Tokyo.
2020 - "Gallery 美の舎 WORKS! Vol.1" at Gallery美の舎/Tokyo.
2021 - "Tokyo Geidai ZAIGAKUSEI NI Yoru Homme Exhibition" at Matsuzakaya Ueno/Tokyo.
2022 - "Non-title" at TURNER GALLERY/Tokyo.

Artist Statement:
Through forms that function as paintings, I attempt to confirm the realization and will of existence. Floors that are created, walls that convey, spaces. When we tread on the ground, we are constantly trampling on life and death. The things of imagination are always installed in the mind to the optimal height, forgetting our own ground.
Without the ground, images scatter, the senses do not bounce back but fly in all directions, forgetting time and gender, even consciousness of life and death.
Space functions as a painting. When points are placed on the ground and the image is gently picked up, there should be a clear will, including one's own life and death and that of others. It is important to close your eyes tightly and slowly open them.