COBRA
Born in Chiba, 1981 Lives and works in Tokyo 2011 Founder and Director of XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan Education 2005 TAMA art university, Tokyo, Japan Solo Exhibitions 2024 Total Care Support - Good Time- , CADAN Yurakucyo, Tokyo, Japan 2023 Story of eggs (bird gallery for bird), Bill’s PC, Western Australia COBRA, Art o-rama, Good weather, Marseille, France They’re transparent, refreshing, just intoxicated, drifting eyeballs, Good Weather, Chicago, USA AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF C & K: COBRA and Ken Kagami, Gattopardo, Los Angeles, USA John Riepenhoff Experience, Good Weather, Little Rock, USA 2022 I picked up a very clearly beautiful, unambiguous, yet very smelly a block of wood flowing down the river., LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina, Kosovo C&K Parco Nadiff, Tokyo, Japan 2020 COBRA & Ken Kagami, Paris Internationale, Paris, France Romantic Comedy, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan COBRA & Ken Kagami” , MISAKO&ROSEN (Tokyo) Rat Museum For Rat, Utrecht, Tokyo, Japan 2019 COBRA SOLO SHOW, for seasons, Zürich, Switzerland COBRA SOLO SHOW, The Gutter Box, North Carolina, USA THE MUSEUM, Fig., Tokyo, Japan 2017 Freeze NY, Brennan & Griffin, NY, USA Domestic Fantasy, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan 2014 THE OBJECTS / a something to catch the indigo blue, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan 2013 The Future is Wild, TALION GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan 2011 goldilocks and the three bears, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan 2007 Tail to Tail, gallery mihokanno, Yokohama, Japan Group Exhibitions 2024 Transposition 1: Observing the Walking Patterns, Whistle, Seoul, South Korea Warm Invitations, Gattopardo, Los Angeles, USA White Trash, curated by Stanislava Kovalcikova and Maya Shirakawa, Düsseldorf, Germany Onsen Confidential, Fig., Tokyo, Japan 2023 COOL INVITATIONS 10, XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan Ken Kagami featuring M&R, Meet Your Art Festival 2023 「Time to Change」, Tokyo, Japan Castelein - COBRA - Dickie, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium 2022 C&K Recent Discovery, Isetan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan COOL INVITATIONS 9, XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan SWEET HOME, Rachel Uffner Gallery, NY, USA 2021 Escapism, Meredith Rosen Gallery, NY, USA COOL INVITATIONS 8, XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan Bijyutsu Jyoron 2, Fujieda civic hall, Shizuoka, Japan Natsuyasumi, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles, USA Isolation is the Mother of Invention, Kathryn Brennan Gallery, NY, USA SWEET HOME, CPM, Baltimore, USA EXPO Tokyo, XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan 2020 New Intimacies, curated by soda, KAYOKO YUKI, Tokyo, Japan The Sentimental Organization of the World, Crèvecœur, Paris, France TGC curated by XYZ collective, Weiss Falk, Basel, Switzerland TOKYO DETROIT BERLIN, Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo, Japan COOL INVITATIONS 7, XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan Full Frontal, Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo, Japan CADAN Showcase 02., CADAN YURAKUCHO, Tokyo, Japan 2019 cafe spit, galeriepcp, Paris, France Group show, Jack Hanley gallery, NY, USA COOL INVITATIONS6, XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan life and limbs, Swiss Institute, NY, USA Yosuke Bandai x COBRA, EIKO’S SHOP, Tochigi, Japan THE SHOP, The Steak House DOSKOI, Tokyo, Japan 2018 SCHMALTZ, Guimarães, Vienna, Austria COOL INVITATIONS 5, XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan Kiss in Tears, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles, USA Munster Sculpture Projects in Sagamihara, Kanuma Park, Kanagawa, Japan Let’s See Action, Pollock Gallery, Dallas, USA Tab.1. 2:00, Fig., Tokyo, Japan 2017 Nature’s Way, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada The Saturday Object Theater, Nadiff Gallery, Tokyo, Japan COOL INVITATIONS 4, XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan NATSU NO TOBIRA, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, USA Spring Fever, KOMAGOME Soko, Tokyo, Japan Plastic, LOOPHOLE, Tokyo, Japan Sayonara Jupiter, 356 mission, LA, USA 2016 NADA Miami Project booth, XYZ collective, Miami, USA COOL INVITATIONS 3, XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan NEW INTIMACIES, XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan Rotting Wood, the Dripping Word: Shūji Terayama’s Kegawa no Marii, MOMA PS1, NY, USA Imprisoned, Jailbreak, Imprisoned, Jailbreak, SOKO KOMAGOME, Tokyo, Japan 2015 COOL INVITATIONS 2, XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan Watching Things Burn, Springsteen, Baltimore, USA Occasional Furniture, The Apartment, Vancouver, Canada Translation Theme Park, Uppsala konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden I'm sorry Please talk more slowly, Hikarie 8, Tokyo, Japan comedie concrète, Misako & Rosen , Tokyo, Japan 2014 COOL INVITATIONS, XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan XYZ collective - Man & Play, Brennan & Griffin, NY, USA TRANSLATION THEME PARK, Galleri Ping-Pong and Galleri 21, Malmö, Sweden NEW INTIMACIES, Kyoto, Japan WARAKO museum, Kochi, Japan I'm hungry, STEAK HOUSE DOSKOI gallery , Tokyo, Japan Susaki Artist in residence, Kochi, Japan 2013 Blue Valentine, XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan 2012 Hotel Appalachia, TALION GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan 2011 Special Project for the 150th anniversary of Japan-Germany relation, Bjargey Ólafsdóttir×COBRA -XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan GOOD NIGHT MIHOKANNO, Akibatamabi, 3331, Tokyo, Japan 2010 melon & float, chateau Koganei2F, Tokyo, Japan neo neo new wave, curated by Kayoko Yuki, Chiba, Japan Residency Report, Tokyo Wondersite Hongo, Tokyo, Japan 2009 HELLOW MIHOKANNO, Tokyo Wondersite Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan 2008 mihokanno, magical art room, Tokyo, Japan o-collection magical museum tour The imaginary HOTEL magical, Tokyo Wondersite Hongo , Tokyo, Japan Screening 2017 The Saturday Object Theater, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 2015 The Saturday Object Theater, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, USA 2014 The Future is Wild, Gallery Protocol, Gainesville, USA 2010 THE KISS, Hell Gallery, Melbourne, Australia THE KISS, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia THE KISS, Metro Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Residency 2013 Susaki artist in residence, Kochi, Japan 2010 Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia