Born 1987 / Ibaraki, Japan

Education

2006 – 2010 BA (Hons), Fine Art, Printmaking, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan

2010 – 2012 MA (Hons), Fine Art, Printmaking, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan

2012 – 2014 MA (Hons), Visual Art, Printmaking, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium

2014 – 2015 Master of Research in Art and Design, Sint Lucas, Antwerp, Belgium

Awards

2010 Award of Printmaking Section, Graduation Exhibition, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan

2011 Encouragement Award, 88th Shunyo-kai Exhibition, the National Art Center Tokyo, Japan

2012 Award for Excellence, Musashino Art University Graduation Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan

Watanabe Chihiro Special Prize,11th Seminariyo Print, Japan Exhibition, Minamishimabara City Arie Collegio, Nagasaki, Japan

2013 1st Prize, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium

2014 Honorable Mention, Miniprint Finland Hyvinkaa Art Museum, Hyvinkaa, Finland

Peto Urzua Prize Honorable Mention, Komask Wedstrijd voor Grafiek, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium

2014 Horlait Dapsens Prize, Master Project, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium

Exhibitions (selected)

2009 8th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Paper Museum, Ino Town, Kochi, Japan

2012 International Print Triennial Krakow, Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, Katowice, Poland

2013 Master Maquette V, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium

Sea the Line Expo, Fort Napoleon and Lood Oosteroever, Oostende, Belgium

4th Guanlan International Print Biennial, Guanlan, China

Splitgraphic 2013, International Graphic Biennial Split, Croatia

Global Print 2013, Lamego Museum, Douro, Portugal

2014 Koyuki Kazahaya Solo Exhibition, Gent, Belgium

The secret of mezzotint, Art of darkness, Epreuve d’Artiste, Antwerp, Belgium

3 Koninklijke Meesters van de Antwerpese Academie, WMGallery, Antwerp, Belgium

Borg 2014, District House in Borgerhout, Borgerhout, Belgium

2015 lux et reflux Koyuki Kazahaya, Le salon d’Art, Brussels, Belgium

0-∞, Epreuve d’Artiste, Antwerp, Belgium

Scholarship

2010 – 2011 Maeda Josaku Award, Scholarship of Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan

2012 – 2013 Scholarship of Flanders Government, Belgium

2015 – 2016 Paris Prize, Scholarship of Musashino Art University, Cité Internationale des arts, Paris, France

She lives in Tokyo, Japan.

Contact: koyuki.kazahaya@gmail.com