Artglorieux GALLERY OF TOKYO, the art gallery that Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores operates on the fifth floor of GINZA SIX, is presenting "Side Effects: Kisho Kakutani and Reo Kikuchi Two-Person Exhibition" from Thursday, August 27 to Wednesday, September 2, 2026. The exhibition explores the uncertainty of visual experience in the present day and the new forms of awareness that can emerge from it.
About the Exhibition
Surrounded daily by countless images, people's ways of seeing and remembering are constantly being updated. In this exhibition, Kisho Kakutani draws on smartphone photographs, blurring the resulting images in paintings that stir the viewer's imagination. Reo Kikuchi, meanwhile, repeats and reconstructs existing painted images, questioning the boundary between original and copy and the frameworks of visual perception. Through their two distinct approaches, "Side Effects" explores the uncertainty of seeing and the new forms of perception and awareness that can emerge from it.
Kisho Kakutani, "Scrawl #11," acrylic on canvas, S100 size
Reo Kikuchi, "copy and paste 2604," acrylic on canvas, S6 size
Exhibition Details
| Exhibition | Side Effects: Kisho Kakutani and Reo Kikuchi Two-Person Exhibition |
| Dates | Thursday, August 27 to Wednesday, September 2, 2026 |
| Hours | 10:30 AM to 8:30 PM (the gallery closes at 6:00 PM on the final day) |
| Venue | Artglorieux GALLERY OF TOKYO, 5th floor, GINZA SIX, 6-10-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo |
| Website | https://artglorieux.jp/ |
| Admission | Free |
Artist Profiles
Kisho Kakutani
- 1993 — Born in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture
- 2022 — Completed the doctoral program in Japanese painting at the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Fine Arts; earned a Ph.D. in Fine Arts
- 2023 — Appeared on BS Fuji's "Break Zenya -Next Generation Artists- #399"; work displayed at the launch event for the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Osaka "Spectre"
Solo exhibitions:
- 2025 — "Realm of Dispersal," Whitestone Gallery (Taipei); "FOG," MU GALLERY (Tokyo); "The Ambiguity of Memory," JING YI YUAN HUI ART GALLERY (Beijing)
- 2023 — "White Night," Courtyard HIROO (Tokyo); "Intermediary and Protective Wall," Ginza Tsutaya Books and Shikisaisha (Tokyo)
Reo Kikuchi
- 2014 — Enrolled in the Japanese painting program at Tokyo University of the Arts
- 2023 — Completed the doctoral program at the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts; earned a Ph.D.
Solo exhibitions:
- 2026 — "Surfaces," TAKU SOMETANI GALLERY (Tokyo)
- 2024 — "MITSUKOSHI ART WEEK," Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store (Tokyo); "A Long Walk," Umikaze Gallery (Mie); "This Is Not a 『』," Ginza Tsutaya Books (Tokyo); "What's Spotlight?," Art ID (Tokyo)
- 2023 — "multiple/repetition," Gallery Binosha (Tokyo); "MITSUKOSHI ART WEEK," Fukuoka Mitsukoshi (Fukuoka)
