Profile
2007 Completed the Doctoral Program (PhD) in Fine Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
Exhibition
2022 Digitoma 2022 (Fujima Family Residence under Renovation, Nara)
2021 The Fleeting Colors of the In-Between (Gallery Soumei-do)
2021 Artists of Gallery Itsutsuji: Ay-O, Tetsuya Noda, Takumi Kochi, Katsue Yusei (Gallery Itsutsuji, Tokyo)
2017 Recent Works (Gallery Itsutsuji, Tokyo)
2015 FACE THE FAR EAST: Kyokuto Vertical vol.4 (Gallery Itsutsuji, Tokyo)
2014 SCENE 4 (TIME & STYLE MIDTOWN, Tokyo)
2014 Takumi Kochi Exhibition (Gallery Itsutsuji, Tokyo)
2012 Contraction and Relaxation II (MUSEE F, Tokyo)
2011 Contraction and Relaxation (Omotesando Gallery, Tokyo)
2009 Joso City Town Exhibition (Ibaraki; 2010, 2011, 2012)
KOHCHI has continuously reflected on the nature of art itself, pursuing an approach that expands what he describes as “that which exists only in between” within his own artistic practice.
The “in-between” he refers to may be understood as the space that emerges between—or even across the front and back of—layers of his striking, overlapping colors. Kochi perceives these layers as three-dimensional, possessing depth, and moves freely through them as if traveling within the work. Even when the composition ultimately settles into a flat plane, he remains acutely aware of the presence of each layer and the mutual influences they exert on one another. By repeatedly altering the order and process of these layers, he seeks to reexamine and rediscover them again and again.
2007 Completed the Doctoral Program (PhD) in Fine Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
Exhibition
2022 Digitoma 2022 (Fujima Family Residence under Renovation, Nara)
2021 The Fleeting Colors of the In-Between (Gallery Soumei-do)
2021 Artists of Gallery Itsutsuji: Ay-O, Tetsuya Noda, Takumi Kochi, Katsue Yusei (Gallery Itsutsuji, Tokyo)
2017 Recent Works (Gallery Itsutsuji, Tokyo)
2015 FACE THE FAR EAST: Kyokuto Vertical vol.4 (Gallery Itsutsuji, Tokyo)
2014 SCENE 4 (TIME & STYLE MIDTOWN, Tokyo)
2014 Takumi Kochi Exhibition (Gallery Itsutsuji, Tokyo)
2012 Contraction and Relaxation II (MUSEE F, Tokyo)
2011 Contraction and Relaxation (Omotesando Gallery, Tokyo)
2009 Joso City Town Exhibition (Ibaraki; 2010, 2011, 2012)
KOHCHI has continuously reflected on the nature of art itself, pursuing an approach that expands what he describes as “that which exists only in between” within his own artistic practice.
The “in-between” he refers to may be understood as the space that emerges between—or even across the front and back of—layers of his striking, overlapping colors. Kochi perceives these layers as three-dimensional, possessing depth, and moves freely through them as if traveling within the work. Even when the composition ultimately settles into a flat plane, he remains acutely aware of the presence of each layer and the mutual influences they exert on one another. By repeatedly altering the order and process of these layers, he seeks to reexamine and rediscover them again and again.
