Akira Kazuki

Akira Kazuki is a Japanese painter born in 1988 in Wakayama. He works with painting as a phenomenon, depicting things like melting ice cream and bouncing balls. In 2022 he was a resident at SÍM Residency in Reykjavík, supported by a Scandinavia-Nippon Sasakawa Foundation grant. He showed work at the residency's artist talks and open studios that year. He won the Heiwado Foundation Arts Encouragement Prize in 2023 and had a solo show at Art Spot Korin in Kyoto that year.