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第76回（2022年） award
Kenjiro Okazaki
おかざき けんじろう
Okazaki Kenjiro
別名:
岡崎乾二郎 / おかざき乾じろ
ペンネーム:
okazaki kenjiro（Alias used on social media and in informal contexts）
プロフィール
- 性別
- 男性
- 生誕
- 1955-10-24 （Tokyo, Japan）
- 国籍
- Japan
- 言語
- Japanese
- 居住地歴
- Tokyo, Japan
経歴
- 職業
- Visual artist, Art critic, Professor
- 活動期間
- 1980年〜
- 所属
- Visiting Professor, Graduate School, University of Tokyo, Visiting Professor, Musashino Art University
- 影響を受けた人物
- Michiro Hayashi, Atsushi Okada, Hisao Matsuura, Trisha Brown, Keiji Usami
- 影響を与えた人物
- Ryo Sawayama
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tama Art University | — | Department of Sculpture | — | 1970年代 (中退) | Japan |
| B Seminar School | — | — | — | — | Japan |
Tama Art University
Department of Sculpture
期間:
1970年代 (中退)
国:
Japan
Dropped out
B Seminar School
国:
Japan
Completed B Seminar program
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Art Encouragement Prize (Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) (Criticism category) | The Power of Abstraction: Analysis of Modern Art | 評論等部門 | Agency for Cultural Affairs (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) | 受賞 |
| 2022 | Mainichi Publishing Culture Award (Literature & Arts) | Eden of the Senses | 文学・芸術部門 | Mainichi Newspapers | 受賞 |
Art Encouragement Prize (Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) (Criticism category)
2018
対象作品:
The Power of Abstraction: Analysis of Modern Art
部門:
評論等部門
主催:
Agency for Cultural Affairs (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
結果:
受賞
Mainichi Publishing Culture Award (Literature & Arts)
2022
対象作品:
Eden of the Senses
部門:
文学・芸術部門
主催:
Mainichi Newspapers
結果:
受賞
受賞・候補エディション
作品
代表作
Renaissance: Conditions of Experience
2001年 Art criticismA collection of essays discussing the relationship between Renaissance art and experience, attempting to reinterpret art history.
RenaissanceArt historyEmpiricismVisual culture
The Power of Abstraction: Analysis of Modern Art
2018年 Art criticismAnalyzes the significance and evolution of abstraction in modern art and proposes the critical potential of abstraction.
AbstractionModern artExpression theory
Eden of the Senses: Selected Criticism
2021年 Selected criticismA selected collection of criticism on visuality and sensation, organizing key issues around contemporary visual culture.
SensationPerceptionVisual culture
Elements of Painting
2022年 Art theoryA work containing essays that reexamine the fundamental elements of painting as a language.
PaintingTechniqueVisual expression
Time Unfolding Here: Selected Criticism II
2024年 Selected criticismA follow-up collection of criticism, compiling texts that probe the practice of criticism and its surroundings.
CriticismRepresentationCultural theory
Ashizuka Earthwork Project
1994年 Earthwork / Land artA long-term land-art project conscious of local landscape and community revitalization, practiced over years.
Land artLandscapeRegional revitalization
Recollection of Wittgenstein (8mm film)
1988年 8mm filmA short 8mm film themed on Ludwig Wittgenstein, an attempt to trace traces of thought through moving image.
FilmThoughtMemory
映像化・舞台化
- [8mm film] Recollection of Wittgenstein / 岡﨑 乾二郎 (1988)
Topikapiktus
2020年 Children's / experimentalA picture-book-like work for children incorporating sculptural perspectives; an experimental play between form and language.
Picture bookFormWord play
全著作
- Renaissance: Conditions of Experience
- The Power of Abstraction: Analysis of Modern Art
- Eden of the Senses: Selected Criticism
- Elements of Painting
- Time Unfolding Here: Selected Criticism II
- Topikapiktus
- Ashizuka Earthwork Project
- Recollection of Wittgenstein (8mm film)
- Japanese-English Confrontation: Contemporary Art Workshop (co-authored)
- Critical Space Supplement: The Hardcore of Modernism (co-edited)
翻案
- Seat upholstery design for Odakyu Romancecar GSE (70000 series)
- Ashizuka Earthwork Project (site-specific sculpture / landscape work)
作風・主題
- 文体
- Theoretical and analytical essaysCriticism grounded in visual cultureConceptual and experimental expression
- 頻出モチーフ
- MemoryLandscapeBodySpaceLanguageMedia
評価・遺産
Kenjiro Okazaki has exerted wide influence on Japanese visual culture and art criticism through his practice as a visual artist and incisive critical writing. His work across exhibitions, public projects, and publications has provoked discourse beyond conventional art boundaries.
記念館・博物館
- Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
- Saison Museum of Contemporary Art
関連学会
- Society for Representation Studies
資料所蔵先
- Researchmap researcher page
- Art Platform Japan artist page
- Bijutsu Techo artist information
大衆文化への影響
- Seat upholstery design for Odakyu Romancecar GSE (contribution to practical design)
豆知識
- The author’s original orthography is 岡﨑乾二郎; the alternate form 岡崎乾二郎 is also used.
- Uses the form 'おかざき乾じろ' on social media.
- His spouse is the poet Pak Kyung-mi.
- Designed seat upholstery for the Odakyu Romancecar GSE (70000 series).
- Has led long-term site projects such as the Ashizuka Earthwork Project (from 1994), engaging local communities.
- Served as director for the theme display of the Japan Pavilion at the 2002 Venice Biennale (8th International Architecture Exhibition).