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Kota | Oneness Artist
Base: The Hague, The Netherlands
Origin: Tokyo, Japan
Born in July 7, 1990. Self-taught.
After 3 years working at a company in Tokyo, I traveled solo around the world for about a year and a half.
The experiences of that journey became a turning point.
Upon returning, I spent approximately 4 years in art practice in Tokyo.
Since the summer of 2024, I have been based in The Hague, Netherlands.
Artist Statement
Wood grain is a physical record of cosmic rhythm. Time, weather, gravity, seasons, the rotation of the earth — these are the forces that have slowly inscribed themselves into matter. To follow that grain with a brush is to integrate the self into the whole — something far older and larger than the individual. This is both act and expression. I call this practice Cosmic Rhythm.
In recent years, I have been working with reclaimed wood collected from the streets of the Netherlands. Each piece carries its own form, its cracks, its scars — quiet evidence of an unknown life lived nearby. I wash it, and bring it back as art — and in doing so, I believe this material carries the meanings of environment, cycles, and transformation quietly within it.
By weaving into the work elements of ukiyo-e and iwa-enogu mineral pigments, I am confronting an identity that living abroad has made newly visible to me.
At the foundation of this practice is the Law of Dependent Origination, as taught by Shakyamuni — the understanding that all things exist through mutual relationship. It connects also to wabi-sabi, ichigo-ichie, and Ko-Shinto — the aesthetics and spirit that run deep in Japanese culture.
Nature and humanity. Past and future. The individual and the whole. All of it, one.
Notes
The Law of Interdependence: The idea that all things exist through mutual relationships and dependence.
Wabi-sabi: A Japanese aesthetic that embraces imperfection and impermanence.
Ichigo Ichie: The spirit of cherishing each encounter and moment as once in a lifetime.
Ko-Shinto: The indigenous, prehistoric spirituality of Japan that worships nature itself, prior to the influence of foreign religions.
List Of Works
Solo Exhibition
Graining of the cosmos | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Acibadem IMC | 2025
Cosmic Rhythm | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | The Art Of September Gallery | 2024-25
U+Me | Tokyo, Japan | Atelier U+Me | 2024
Iramukarapute | Nagano, Japan | Iramukarapute |2023
Qi | Tokyo, Japan | Atelier U+Me | 2023
Sublimation | Tokyo, Japan | Tsukiji-Honganji shrine | 2022
Oneness | Tokyo, Japan | Ba-Wa Cafe | 2022
Group Exhibition
Amsterdam, Netherlands | WIHH Gallery | 2023
New York, The USA | Van Der Plas Gallery | 2022
Tokyo, Japan | VOSTOK | 2022
Bangkok, Thailand | 6060 ART SPACES | 2022
Milano, Italy | M.A.D.A Art Gallery | 2021
Fuerteventura, Spain | M.A.D.A Art Gallery | 2021
Tokyo, Japan | Atelier JIYUDA | 2021
Tokyo, Japan | Gallery Kanon | 2021
Tokyo, Japan | Atelier JIYUDA | 2021
Tokyo, Japan | Gallery Kanon | 2020
Tokyo, Japan | Temple University | 2019
Performance
Amsterdam, Netherlands | Street Painting | 2024
The Hague, Netherlands | Street Painting | 2024
The Hague, Netherlands | Street Painting | 2024
Amsterdam, Netherlands | Digital Street Art | 2023
Gunma, Japan | Digital Street Art | 2022
Pai, Thailand | Digital Street Art | 2022
Bangkok, Thailand | Digital Street Art | 2022
Tokyo, Japan | Live-painting for Design Festa vol.54 | 2021
Tokyo, Japan | Live-painting | 2019
Events
Tokyo, Japan | Atelier U+Me | Art+Party | 2024
Tokyo, Japan | Atelier U+Me | Art+Meditation | 2024
Tokyo, Japan | Atelier U+Me | Art+Meditation | 2023
Donated
The His Majesty The Emperor | 2022
Award
Luxembourg Art Prize | certificate of artistic merit | 2021
Teaching
Tokyo, Japan | Art teaching | Atelier Chicora | 2019 - 2020
