Rikako Kawauchi

Geboren 1990, lebt und arbeitet in Tokyo

Rikako Kawauchi, My Balls, 2022 
Watercolor and pencil on paper, 15,8 x 22,5 cm

Rikako Kawauchi

Geboren 1990, lebt und arbeitet in Tokyo

Rikako Kawauchi © Photo by Sakiko Nomura

Curriculum Vitae

1990 Born in Tokyo, Japan
2015 Tama Art University, Bachelor’s degree, Oil Painting
2017 Tama Art University, Master’s degree, Oil Painting
Current Lives and works in Tokyo

Grants and awards

2022 VOCA Award, Tokyo, Japan
2021 TERRADA ART AWARD 2021, Japan
2015 shiseido art egg AWARD
2014 The 1st CAF Award, Kenjiro Hosaka Award / Monex, Inc. ART IN THE OFFICE

Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)

2026 The Blade of the Forest Within, Gana Art Hannam / Gana Art Namsan, Seoul, Korea
Drift of Water, CAPSULE, Tokyo, Japan
2025 Humans and Tigers, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan
Jump Over, anonymous bldg., Tokyo, Japan
The shape of water hardens into stone., Kurobe City Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
2024 Paintings & Drawings - Food, animals, organs, plants, bodies, etc, everything outside me is everywhere in the air. I breathe them in, I breathe them out., Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2023 "Even the pigments in paints were once stones", WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan
“Voice of the Soul”, ERA GALLERY, Milan, Italy
“Line & Colors” (NANJO SELECTION vol.1), N&A Art Site, Tokyo, Japan
“Human Closely”, Lurf MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan
2022 "Lines", Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne, Germany
"Make yourself at home", Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Honten, MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo
2021 Empty Volumes, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo
afterimage aftermyth, Roppongi Hills A/D Gallery, Tokyo
2020 drawings, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo
drawings, OIL by Bijutsu Techo, Tokyo
Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo
2018 human wears human / bloom wears bloom, Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa
Tiger Tiger, burning bright, WAITINGROOM, TokyoWAITINGROOM, Tokyo
2017 Something held and brushed, Tokyo Myoan Gallery, Tokyo
NEWoMan ART wall Vol.7 “Easy Chic Pastels”, NEWoMan ART wall, JR Shinjuku Station, Tokyo
2016 Back is confidential space. Behind=Elevator, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo
Rikako Kawauchi Solo Exhibition, ART TAIPEI 2016, Taipei World Trade Center, Taiwan
2015 Collector and Artist vol.1, T-Art Gallery, Tokyo
shiseido art egg 9: Rikako Kawauchi, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo

Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)

2026 DONATED WITH LOVE, ALBERTINA KLOSTERNEUBURG, Vienna, Austria
Collection 2026, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Aomori, Japan
Rikako Kawauchi, Edward Dwurnik, THE HEAD, Edward Dwurnik Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
2025 Plastic Love, Galerie Marguo, Paris, France
5th Anniversary Exhibition Plastic Utopia: Our New Ecosystem, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Aomori, Japan
Plastic Love, Galerie Marguo, Paris, France
2024 A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Nurturing Nodes in the Nook of an Odd Sock, ART GALLERY MIYAUCHI, Hiroshima collection #08, rin art association, Gunma
Fellow Travelers of the Canvas—A Perspective on Contemporary Art of Japan from the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata
From the museum collection 2023: fourth period, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi
2023 “Body, Love, Gender”, curated by Tsubaki Reiko (Mori Art Museum), Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2023 AWT FOCUS: Worlds in Balance: Art in Japan from the Postwar to the Present, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
"Paper Whispers" , Schönfeld Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (together with Marta Barrenechea, Tina Berning, Terry Ekasala, Jenny Watson)
"Good Morning Japan", Nassima Landau Art Foundation, Tel Aviv, Israel
2022 "Make yourself at home", Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Honten, MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo
VOCA 2022, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2021 TERRADA ART AWARD 2021, Finalist Exhibition, Tokyo
Viewing Room Exhibition, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo
2020 Inside the Collector’s Vault, vol.1-, WHAT, Tokyo
10TH, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo
Input / Output, GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS GINZA ATRIUM, Tokyo
Blossoming of individuality Post-Isaku generation, people who left the Bunka Gakuin from Showa to Heisei, Musee Le Vent, Karuizawa, Nagano
2019 Photo, 3F/3kai, Tokyo drawings, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
2018 Museum of Together - Circus, Shibuya Hikarie 8/COURT, Tokyo
2017 spiral take art collection 2017 "SHU SHU SHU SHO", Spiral Garden, Tokyo
Museum of Together, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
Joint Graduation Exhibition of 5 Art Universities in Tokyo, The National Art Center Tokyo, Tokyo
NEWSPACE, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo
2016 Stereotypical, Gallery PARC, Kyoto
2015 Dead Henge / Aesthetic, HIGURE 17-15 cas, Tokyo
2014 The 1st CAF Award - Winning Award Exhibition, TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo
That I shall say goodnight till it be morrow, Shinjuku Ophthalmologist (Ganka) Gallery, Tokyo
2013 TOTSU Exhibition, TKP Theater Kashiwa, Art Line Kashiwa 2013, Chiba Home Made Family, CASHI Refregilater, Tokyo
Sleep No More, Tama Art University Art Festival, Tokyo
2012 OTHER PAINTING XI, Pepper’s Gallery, Tokyo
TOTSU Exhibition, Sogo Kashiwa, Art Line Kashiwa 2012, Chiba
Donuts k, Tama Art University Art Festival, Tokyo

Rikako KAWAUCHI Solo exhibition « human closely » @ Lurf museum, Tokyo, 2023

Movie: Rikako Kawauchi at the 5th Anniversary exhibition of Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Summer 2025

"Plastic Utopia: Our New Ecosystem", Part 1

Film: Rikako Kawauchi « The shape of water hardens into stone » @ Kurobe City Museum of Art, Dez. 2025 (1’32 »)

(Japanisch mit englischen Untertiteln)

Ein Gespräch zwischen Rikako Kawauchi und Fumio Nanjo (Japanisch)

N&A Art SITE, 2023

Rikako Kawauchi artworks at “Body, Love, Gender”, group show / Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea

curated by Tsubaki Reiko

Rikako KAWAUCHI Interview Movie, 2022 (Japanese)

WAITINGROOM, 2022

Film: Rikako KAWAUCHI, TERRADA ART AWARD 2021 Finalist Exhibition

Finalist Exhibition (02:32)