Kohei Nawa1975~ 名和晃平

Kohei Nawa (born 1975 in Osaka) is one of Japan’s leading contemporary sculptors, based in Kyoto. He earned his BFA and PhD in fine arts at Kyoto City University of Arts, where he completed his doctorate in 2003, having spent a term as an exchange student at the Royal College of Art in London in 1999. He is best known for his ongoing PixCell series, in which found objects such as taxidermied deer are covered in transparent glass beads, prisms and resin to explore the relationship between digital culture, perception and materiality. In 2009 he founded SANDWICH, a creative platform housed in a former sandwich factory in Kyoto that brings together artists, architects and performers, and his practice now spans sculpture, installation, architecture and stage design. His work is held in major collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Victoria.