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Yoshihiro Kikuchi
菊地良博



1980 Born in Miyagi, Japan 2006 Graduated from Musashino Art University Lives and works in Tokyo

Solo Exhibitions
2007 『untitled』(AISHO MIURA ARTS)
2009 『untitled』 (TOMORROWLAND Edition NAGOYA )
2009 『untitled』 (TOMORROWLAND Edition Marunouchi-Tokyo)
2009「ロマンコラージュ」(AISHO MIURA ARTS)

中学時代より音楽に没入し、学生時代より音楽を始める。 その音楽的趣向は実に多岐に渡り、ポップミュージックからアカデミックな 現代音楽、またはカウンターカルチャーとしてのパンク/ハードコア、ノイ ズ等のアンダーグラウンドなもの全てに及ぶ。また、自身のバンドでの活動 を始め、テイストの異なる複数のバンド/プロジェクトに参加し、海外の ミュージシャンの招聘やイベントオーガナイズ、フライヤーデザインなど精 力的な活動を見せる。
先日リリースした "Seido / Drumming Echo Music feturing Yoshihiro Kikuchi" を皮切りに、自身のバンド OUT OF THE UNKNOWN, ドイツ在住のミュージシャン DanielVujanic とのプロジェクト GRAVES AND ORCHESTRA PITS などを始め複数のプロジェクトでのアルバムリリー スを多数控えている。 未だ答えの出ない安直でない聴覚と視覚のミッシングリンクを常に模索している。

Kikuchi has put his heart into the music since his teenage years. And started to play sounds. His musical interests are on a very broad array of the genres, for example basically popular music/rock,academic contemporary music/experimental music, punk/hard core and under ground noise avant music as a coun- ter culture..............
His activities work on varied projects not only as an artist but as an event organizer that is for domestic musicians/bands and sometimes for the musicians from overseas, a designer makes handbills for some events.
Recently “Seido / Drumming Echo Music featuring Yoshihiro Kikuchi” was released. Also He play in his own band OUT OF THE UNKNOWN and the new project GRAVES AND ORCHESTRA PITS with German musician Daniel Vujanic aka Baja etc will be released soon. These bands/projects have all different tastes. He has sought for the unintelligible missing link between visual things and his deeply music activity.


Yoshihiro Kikuchi

Toshiaki Hikosaka
彦坂敏昭




Born in Japan, 1983
Now living in Yokohama, Japan

Education
2007 Research Worker, Print House OM, Yokohama, Japan
2005 BA, Kyoto University of Art and Design (Department of Information Design), Kyoto, Japan

Solo Exhibition
2009 "CHOOSE･TRACE･FORGET･CLOSE" Youkobo artspace, Tokyo, Japan
2009 "ARKO2009 Toshiaki Hicosaka", OHARA Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
2008 "shiseido art egg 2 Toshiaki Hicosaka", Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007 "ARTISTS ON BOARD 2 person show by emerging artists", TAMADA PROJECTS ARTSPACE, Tokyo, Japan
2006 "edit edition", Stem Gallery, Osaka, Japan

Group Exhibition
2009 "RAIN MEETS THE SUN", MK Ciurlionis National Art Museum, Kaunas, Lietuva
2009 "tequila te quiero", Gallery ni mode, Tokyo, Japan
2009 "Niche", Nroom artspace, Tokyo, Japan
2009 "BAROCK PLASTIK", I-MYU Projects, London, UK
2009 "FUKAGAWA, 100 colors every 100 people, Tumbling doll", FUKAGAWA IPPUKU, Tokyo, Japan
2008 "The White", MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008 "Twenty.", Dazed and Confused, London, UK
2008 "Drawing", Tsuchiya Contemporary Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2008 "MOT annual 2008 Unraveling and Revealing", Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2007 "41st-rate Art Streams", Gallery Te, Tokyo, Japan
2006 "GEISAI#10", Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan
2006 "Echigo-tsumari Art Triennial 2006", Tokamachi, Niigata, Japan
2006 "Flowering Dogwood Street Everyone's an Artist", Fukagawa Museum Road Shopping Street, Tokyo, Japan
2006 "Pyramid Scheme", maru gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Art Fair
2009 "ASIA TOP GALLERY HOTEL ART FAIR 2010" HongKong
2008 "ARCO 2008 solo project", IFEMA, Madrid, Spain

Grants/Fellowships
2004 The Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, USA
2008 Shiseido Art Egg award, Tokyo, Japan
2004 TOKYO COMPETITION, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Sozan-kai Grant, Kyoto, Japan


Toshiaki Hikosaka