Born 1980, Yamaguchi, Japan
Lives and works in Bandung, Indonesia

Kei Imazu utilizes everyday contemporary internet environment in collecting all sorts of artworks and objects that exist in and beyond the form of an image. After thoroughly going through her great volume of collected data, she distorts, reconstructs, and sketches them digitally. With the sketch she has created, Imazu traces it onto the canvas using oil paint, a method she currently employs to create her artworks.

Imazu received her Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from the Department of Painting at Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan in 2015 and 2007 respectively. Imazu has several solo exhibitions, including unearth at ROH, Jakarta, Indonesia (2023); Sowed them to the earth at Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. (2023); Mapping the Land/Body/Stories of its Past at ANOMALY, Tokyo, Japan (2021); Anda disini / You are here at Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa, Japan (2019); Measuring Invisible Distance at Yamamoto Gendai, Tokyo, Japan (2018); and Overgrown at ROH Projects, Jakarta, Indonesia (2018). Her notable group exhibitions include Bangkok Art Biennale: Nurture Gaia in Bangkok, Thailand (2024); Let’s See at ArtSpace @ HeluTrans, Singapore (2024); 1 at ROH, Jakarta, Indonesia (2022); We Paint! at Palais de Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (2022); Last Words at ROH, Jakarta, Indonesia (2021); We Are Here at Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A. (2021); Roppongi Crossing: Connexion at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2019); and Aichi Triennale: Taming Y/Our Passion in Nagoya, Japan (2019); Kei Imazu is the finalist of Prix Jean-François Prat in 2020. Imazu’s works are part of the public collections of various institutions in Japan, among them are MUSEUM HAUS KASUYA in Kanagawa as well as Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Taguchi Art Collection, and OKETA COLLECTION in Tokyo. Her works are also part of the public collections of San San Jose Museum of Art, California, U.S.A. and X Museum, Beijing, China.

Kei Imazu is a close collaborator of Bagus Pandega. Their collaborative work has been presented at various international group exhibitions, including The 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2024: silent apple in Changwon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea (2024); WAGIWAGI at documenta fifteen, Hübner areal, Kassel, Germany (2022); Declaring Distance: Bandung — Leiden, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia (2022); Tiger Orchid, Art Basel OVR: Miami Beach, ROH Projects (2020); and AAAAHHH!!! Paris Internationale, Paris, France (2018).

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past Exhibition
Frieze Seoul 2024
COEX, Seoul, South Korea4 - 7 September 2024
Art Basel Hong Kong 2024
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong26 - 30 March 2024
unearth
ROH, Jakarta, Indonesia11 November 2023 - 14 January 2024
Frieze Seoul 2023
COEX, Seoul, South Korea6 - 9 September 2023
Sowed Them to the Earth
Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, USA27 July - 16 September 2023
Art Basel Hong Kong 2023
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong22 - 25 March 2023
Art Collaboration Kyoto
ROH x Anomaly, Gallery Collaborations, Kyoto International Conference Center, Japan18 - 20 November 2022
Frieze Seoul
COEX, Seoul, South Korea2 - 5 September 2022
We Paint!
Bredin Prat Foundation, Paris, France18 June - 31 July 2022
Art Jakarta Gardens
Hutan Kota, Jakarta, Indonesia9 - 14 April 2022
1
ROH, Jakarta, Indonesia5 April - 21 May 2022
Last Words
ROH, Jakarta, Indonesia20 November 2021 - 4 February 2022
Art Basel Hong Kong: OVR
Art Basel, Online19 - 23 May 2021
Tiger Orchid
Art Basel, Online4 - 6 December 2020
Art Jakarta Virtual
Art Jakarta, Online15 October 2020 - 15 February 2021
Art Basel Hong Kong: OVR
Art Basel, Online17 - 21 March 2020
West Bund Art & Design 2019
West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China7 - 10 November 2019
Art Jakarta
Jakarta Convention Center, Jakarta, Indonesia30 August - 1 September 2019
ARTJOG MMXIX: Arts in Common
Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia25 July - 25 August 2019
Art Basel Hong Kong
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong24 - 31 March 2019
AAAAAH! Paris Internationale
35 Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, France17 - 21 October 2018
Art Jakarta 2018
The Ritz Carlton Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia2 - 5 August 2018
Overgrown
ROH Projects, Jakarta8 - 10 September 2017