Yūjin Kangawa

Eugene Kangawa (寒川 裕人, Kangawa Eugene, born in 1989) is a Japanese contemporary artist. He works on video art, installation,

Life and career

Kangawa was born in United States in 1989. While he works as contemporary artist, he devotes artistic practice, he is also known as the co-founder of The Eugene Studio. After studying information design and contemporary art, he has worked on various projects based upon narrative script. As previous works, he achieved a participation in a project at Serpentine Gallery (London), a joint work with Terry Riley (2014), collaborative work with an American science-fiction writer, Ken Liu who won Nebula Award, Hugo Award, and World Fantasy Award, Agricultural Revolution3.0, with Tsuruoka city in Japan, and new material development project by Spiber Inc.. Also, he had worked on R&D projects of artificial intelligence agency, automated driving, urban planning, educational products, home operation system, and scenario writing for renowned hotel. After joining in establishment of ON, Inc., he founded The Eugene Studio. From 2017, he teaches at Hosei University as specially appointed professor. In “Age of Art × Technology Creative Business changing the society” by Daisuke Miyatsu, His studio is featured remarkable creative studios along with team lab, Rhizomatiks, and takram.

Exhibitions

• “NEW DIRECTIONS TRANS-PLEX”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, 2012
• “89plus Project”, Serpentine Gallery, London, 2013
• “from the future”, YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY, Tokyo, 2014　
• “supervision / Desport", g3 gallery,　2014　
• “SUPER VISION” Eugene Kangawa with Terry Riley, TOLOT/heuristic shinonome, 2014
• “Nuit Blanche in Kyoto”, “NEW INCUBATION 7 'Parallel World or: How I Learned to Love the World'”, Kyoto Art Center, 2015
• “MEDIA AMBITION TOKYO 2016”, 2016
• "Agriculture Revolution3.0 2016