ABOUT ME

Kazuki Kurosawa is a Japanese artist born in Tokyo, Japan.

From an early age, he grew up drawing pictures and manga, while also developing his body through various sports such as volleyball, swimming, soccer, and gymnastics. His childhood was shaped by both imagination and physical discipline — two forces that would later become essential to his artistic identity.

During his junior high school years, he began to struggle with human relationships and the pressure of belonging to a group. In order to survive within that environment, he gradually learned the necessity of synchronization, social pressure, and identification. These experiences slowly distanced him from the pure joy of drawing he had known as a child.

In high school, he spent three years in an extremely strict, almost military-like gymnasium environment, balancing academic life with intense volleyball training. It was a harsh period marked by discipline, conflict, physical exhaustion, and emotional pressure. Yet, through these years, his body and mind were pushed to their limits. The experience became a kind of brutal training — one that would later influence not only his way of living, but also the intensity, endurance, and tension found in his artwork.

After graduating from high school, he entered a four-year university. However, upon reaching his third year, he voluntarily withdrew and entered a period of isolation at home. It was during this time, almost by fate, that he found a pen and paper in front of him and began to draw again like a child. This moment led to the creation of his first major work, “Invasion.” From that point on, he became deeply fascinated with art and began painting every day, using canvas as a place to express his emotions, inner visions, and the worlds existing inside his mind.

Kurosawa’s work is built from the collision of worlds. One world meets another, and from that impact, a new visual universe is born. Sometimes it appears as a portrait. Sometimes it becomes a gathering of kanji, hiragana, and handwritten symbols, moving together like a chaotic party of language. At other times, it takes the form of figures, faces, monsters, colors, and shapes influenced by anime, manga, pop culture, and the emotional intensity of contemporary visual life.

Rather than creating a single fixed meaning, Kurosawa creates spaces where different realities overlap. His works combine abstraction, portraiture, Japanese characters, eroticism, minimalism, objects, symbolic forms, and pop-cultural imagination. They are not simply images to be understood, but worlds to be entered. In his paintings, language becomes movement, emotion becomes structure, and familiar images are transformed into something unknown.

Influenced by Yukio Mishima, Kurosawa began exploring themes connected to Japanese beauty, pride, the Yamato spirit, Hagakure, and the philosophy of Bushido. At the same time, he found inspiration in artists such as Taro Okamoto and Pablo Picasso, studying the power of abstraction, distortion, primitive energy, and visual freedom. Through years of experimentation with different styles and techniques, he came to understand that abstraction was the form that brought out his deepest instincts.

Another important foundation of his work is Japan’s unique otaku culture. Kurosawa has watched thousands of anime works and studied their characteristics, genres, emotional structures, and artistic qualities. Rather than treating anime, manga, and figures as simple entertainment, he sees them as powerful visual languages that shaped modern Japanese imagination. These influences appear throughout his work as abstract expressions, character-like forms, pop-cultural symbols, and collaborations between fine art and otaku aesthetics.

Through his daily practice of calligraphy and handwritten expression, he also rediscovered the artistic power of letters themselves. Kanji, hiragana, and Japanese written forms became more than tools of communication; they became living visual elements. This led to the development of works such as “Overlapping Kanji” and “Kanji Party,” where characters gather, collide, overlap, and create rhythm across the canvas.

In 2021 and 2022, Kurosawa partnered with Greece360 for a solo exhibition, expanding his artistic presence beyond Japan. Afterward, he launched the Moji Mania World project, with the goal of expressing and spreading the beauty of letters, kanji, and the Japanese language to the world.

Since 2023, Kurosawa has continued to live with art in a more instinctive and unforced way. Rather than rushing toward a single conclusion, he has spent his days creating, observing, experimenting, and allowing his world to expand naturally. This period became a quiet but important chapter — a time of wandering, refinement, and reconstruction. Through this slower rhythm, his work began to absorb more fragments of life: memory, solitude, pop culture, language, physical presence, and emotional chaos. What may appear as drifting was, in fact, a process of deep internal cultivation.

Today, Kazuki Kurosawa continues to create works that exist between worlds: between Japan and the world, language and image, body and mind, chaos and silence, childhood imagination and adult conflict. His art does not present clear answers. Instead, it invites viewers to enter a space where meaning is not fixed, but discovered.