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
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