Kazuaki Maitani

As an artist, my practice spans beyond traditional painting to encompass large-scale wall works, store interiors, and graphic design projects, including logos and symbolic marks. I have also served as a lecturer in dessin, illustration, and formative art at a design vocational school, where I continue to share my knowledge with the next generation of creatives.

My artistic journey began with abstract, planar constructions—often using circles and spheres to evoke cosmic imagery and the structure of the universe. In recent years, my focus has shifted toward more realistic expressions, emphasizing tactile textures and material depth while maintaining conceptual foundations rooted in time, gravity, and spatial metaphors.

Currently, I serve as an advisor to Seisu-Kai, an artist group exhibiting at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. My works seek to harmonize abstract thought with physical presence, offering viewers a bridge between the metaphysical and the material.

I was born in Nagasaki of Japan, moved to Fukuoka, and lived there until guraduating from a high school. I started painting at the art club activity of the high school, and then learned art and painting in earnest at Tokyo Zokei Univercity.

Recently, I submitted my works to Japan Graphic Exhibition, Kodobijutu Exhibition, Chiba Exhibition, etc.
I have been submitting to Seisu Exhibition since 1998. Also, he submitted to AJAC Exhibition, TEPCO Enrgy Award Exhibition, Tokyo Art Collection Exhibition, Exhibition of R.Koiso Grand Prize, Chiba Prefecture Art Exhibition, etc.

On the other hand, I holded Joint Exhibition of Konoki Mikuo and Maitani at NAA Art Gallery, hosted two times, Planned Exhibition and Kakkoii Exhibition at Tokyo metoropolitan Theatre, submitted to Space 45 Degree Exhibition Vol.1 to Vol.5 at Gallery July, and holded Three People Exhibition "Mugen" at TEPCO Ginza-Kan.

At such exhibitions, I have ever winned the following prizes; Prize of Governor of Tokyo, Prize of Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Seisu Grand Prize, Turner Prize, Special Jury Prize, Prize of Korean Culture Chairperson at Seisu Exhibition, the first prize at TEPCO Energy Award Exhibition, Prize of Suprintendent of Education at Chiba Prefecture Art Exhibition; and was selected at the 8th and 9th R.Koiso Grand Prize.