BIO
OVERVIEW
Rei Kizumoto（b.1998, Shiga, Japan）graduated BA in oil painting from Kyoto City University of Arts in 2021, and in 2023 she graduated MA in oil painting from Kyoto University of the Arts.
Kizumoto paints motifs from layers of paint on colored felt, which she then cuts into random pieces. She places many felt pieces on the floor as if she were throwing them on the floor. The felt pieces absorb and reflect light, and have a danger of color that is different from that of paint. The colors and overlapping parts create a complex space. For Kizumoto, felt is a material that brings to mind memories of her childhood, when her mother used to make her play-doh toys, and it is an element that evokes feelings of nostalgia and peacefulness. The act of putting color on canvas and felt is also a process of pushing time and space into the canvas and felt, and she creates her works while in dialogue with the materials, colors, and herself.
2025
‘Being Threre’, KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo, Japan
2024
‘Communication of Warmth’, N project, Osaka, Japan
‘Rei Kizumoto Solo Exhibition’, anonymous bldg., Tokyo, Japan
2023
‘A trail of stardust’, MEDIA SHOP gallery2, Kyoto, Japan
‘mtk+ vol.16 Rei Kizumoto’, Café .S, Kyoto, Japan
‘SOLO SOLO SOLO Vol. 5 “When the stars shine”’, biscuit gallery, Tokyo, Japan
