Rei Kizumoto
OVERVIEW
Rei Kizumoto（b.1998, Shiga, Japan）graduated with a BA in oil painting from Kyoto City University of Arts in 2021, and in 2023 she received an MA in oil painting from Kyoto University of the Arts.
Kizumoto paints motifs from layers of paint on colored felt, which she then cuts into random pieces. She places many felt pieces on the floor as if she were throwing them on the floor. The felt pieces absorb and reflect light, and have a danger of color that is different from that of paint. The colors and overlapping parts create a complex space. For Kizumoto, felt is a material that is connected to memories of her childhood, when her mother used to make her toys for playing house, and it is an element that evokes “Tactile Memories” embedded deep within her body. The act of applying color on canvas and felt is also a process of pushing time and space into the canvas and felt, and she creates her works while in dialogue with the materials, colors, and herself.
HISTORY
2025
‘Being There’, KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo, Japan
2024
‘Communication of Warmth’, N project, Osaka, Japan
‘Rei Kizumoto Solo Exhibition’, anonymous bldg., Tokyo, Japan
2023
‘A trail of stardust’, MEDIA SHOP gallery2, Kyoto, Japan
‘mtk+ vol.16 Rei Kizumoto’, Café .S, Kyoto, Japan
‘SOLO SOLO SOLO Vol. 5 “When the stars shine”’, biscuit gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2025
‘GROUP SHOW｜OIL SELECTION’, Roppongi Tsutaya Books, Tokyo, Japan
‘Prismatic Shadows’, Hankyu Men’s Osaka Contemporary Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
‘Wave and Frame’, GALLERY ROOM・A, Tokyo, Japan
2024
‘SMoA collection – Featured Women Artist’, Shiga Museum of Art, Shiga, Japan
‘The Echoes of EAST KYOTO’, WHAT CAFE, Tokyo, Japan
‘anonymous art project “collective 2024”’, OMOTESANDO CROSSING PARK, Tokyo, Japan
2023
‘grid2’, biscuit gallery, Tokyo, Japan
‘Untitled’, SOM GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2022
‘Awkward feeling’, YOD TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan
‘grid’, biscuit gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Shiga Museum of Art, Shiga, Japan
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Arts Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
WORKS
NEWS
Rei Kizumoto 'Being There'
N project is pleased to present ‘Being There‘, a solo exhibition by Rei Kizumoto, at KOTARO NUKAGA Three from December 6, 2025 – January 24, 2026. Born in Shiga Prefecture in 1998, Rei Kizumoto completed her MA in Oil Painting, Kyoto University of the Arts in 2023. She is currently based in the Kansai region. Her practice involves cutting felt—a material