Solaya Nagai was born in Saitama Prefecture in 1991. Graduated in 2016 from the Graduate School of Art and Design, Musashino Art University, specializing in sculpture. Inspired by subtle doubts within everyday life, Nagai creates and presents works that transform questions about the senses and perceptions people unconsciously hold into various materials and forms.

Major solo exhibitions include Artist Project #2.07: "Near Views from a Detour" at the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama (Saitama, 2023); Nameless Forms at Musashino Art University gFAL (Tokyo, 2018); The Loud Whisper at HARMAS GALLERY (Tokyo, 2017); and Walking North, Facing South as part of PHASE2014 at Aomori Museum of Art (Aomori, 2014). In 2024, he was awarded the Tokyo Metro Urban Development Special Prize in the 23rd AGH Invitational Competition.

Born in Tokyo, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo
2012 M.F.A., Musashino Art University, Department of Scenography, Display and Fashion Design

Kaguraoka focuses on the interface between human society and the body, exploring the ""image of the body"" through cultural universality.

Her main work includes "Metamorphoses of Beautiful Bodies," which is a research-based production that delves into the aesthetic value underlying artificial body modifications such as decoration, restraint, and excision, reconsidering them in the context of the fourth value, ""aesthetic power,"" following intellectual, physical, and financial strengths within human society. The work primarily consists of wearable three-dimensional pieces forming aesthetic bodies, accompanied by design drawings, prototypes, videos, photographs, and collected materials and texts from research, all incorporated into an installation.

Recent exhibitions include:
“The lens within your heart" from the TAKEUCHI COLLECTION”, WHAT MUSEUM (2023; Tokyo, Japan)“, My body becomes my heart?”SusHi Tech Square, (2023; Tokyo, Japan)“, The Metamorphoses of Beautiful Bodies.-Consideration about the aesthetic value of the future body”SEIBU SHIBUYA (2022; Tokyo, Japan)“, The REBEL Exhibition”The Untitled Space (2022; New York, USA)“, kapCHər”The New York Art Residency and Studios Foundation (2022; New York, USA), and“The Art Science Exhibition at Kyoto University London University Goldsmiths School of Art and Science International Symposium - Art Innovation Exhibition 2019”Kyoto University (2019; Kyoto, Japan).

Artist. Born in Yamaguchi, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo. He explores "mediation" encompassing perception, communication, and movement through the process of inventing and sculpting his own media. Major works include the Imagraph series, a medium that projects a video onto closed eyelids; the Lived Montage series, a medium that implements a fictional perception in which we share our vision when we share an object of our consciousness; and the dictionary/sculpture, Media of Langue, that depicts the chain of word translations. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

Kensho Miyoshi received his PhD in 2020 from the Royal College of Art, London, for his contribution of the design programme centring on kinaesthetic empathy for designing the movement of objects. In the RCA’s graduation show in 2020, his PhD project was selected in Paola Antonelli’s curated collection A Sense of Humanity. He is the author 'Designing Objects in Motion: Exploring Kinaesthetic Empathy' published from Birkhäuser in 2020.

Holding an MEng and BEng in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Tokyo, Kensho has engaged in aerospace-related interdisciplinary projects, such as Phenox (autonomous interactive drones) and ARTSAT (satellite for art use), and, as a creative practitioner, has designed kinetic sculptures and installations, such as Ripple Clock and Puwants. After working at the DLX Design Lab of the University of Tokyo, he has been awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science from April 2020, and is currently based in Tokyo. Kensho also co-leads the activity of a Tokyo-based experimental design studio, Studio POETIC CURIOSITY.

Born in 1996 in Ome City, Tokyo. Graduated from the Graduate School of Musashino Art University, majoring in Fine Arts, Oil Painting Course in 2021. Advocating for the “Iru-ha” (Existence School) that showcases the body in space, exploring new forms of performance and installation. Recent exhibitions include “Roppongi Art Night 2024” (National Art Center, 2024), “EASTEAST_TOKYO 2023” (Science Museum, 2023), “Interface” (CON_, 2022), “Stone Tape - An Exhibit That Curses You When Seen” (PARA, 2022), and “Training City” (Token Art Center, 2022).

Born in Tokyo in 1994, Toyama graduated in 2017 with a specialization in Metalwork from Musashino Art University. Until 2022, he served as an assistant professor in the same department and is now based in Kanagawa. Recent notable activities include participation in the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize (France, 2024) and a solo exhibition Earth, Metal, Vessel (GINZA SIX, Tokyo, 2023). Major accolades include being selected for Forbes JAPAN 30 UNDER 30: 30 People Under 30 Changing the World (2023) and receiving the Next Generation Award at the Kanazawa International Craft Competition (2022). His works are part of the collections at the National Museum of Cheongju (South Korea) and the LOEWE Foundation (Spain).

Metal shines when polished, can be shaved with a blade, changes color when oxidized, expands when hammered, and turns into liquid when exposed to high heat. Fascinated by these various properties of metal, he is deeply interested in exploring its potential as a material and takes pleasure in the transformations that occur in his hands.

Graduated in 2015 from the Interior Design Course, Department of Environmental Design, Tama Art University.
2016: Itagaki presented his graduation project at the Milan Salone, Italy's renowned furniture fair. Also established the experimental fashion brand G.I., primarily based in Tokyo, and operated it for approximately three years.
In 2019, with G.I. as its predecessor, Itagaki founded the creative production company KIENGI, which undertakes various creative projects.

Akari Endo primarily creates three-dimensional works using lacquer as a craft material. By utilizing the unique values of lacquer and focusing on relationships such as center and periphery, she aims to re-evaluate everyday life, lacquer art, and crafts in general.

Biography:

Born in 1997 in Okayama Prefecture
Graduated from Kanazawa College of Art, Department of Crafts in 2020
Completed the Graduate School of Art and Craft at Kanazawa College of Art in 2022

Major Exhibitions:
2024: 80th Anniversary Kanazawa Craft Exhibition (Ishikawa/Kanazawa M'za)
2023: Traveling group exhibition at three domestic galleries "'Oumuamua" (Tokyo/gallery TOWED → Osaka/art gallery opaltimes → Okayama/OF)
Group exhibition ""Current Expressions of Lacquer Vol. 3"" (Tokyo/Nihonbashi Takashimaya 6F Art Gallery X)
2022: KOGEI Art Fair Kanazawa 2022 (Ishikawa/Hyatt Centric Kanazawa)
"The Time of Freshness 2022 - Opening the Future of Lacquer Art" (Ishikawa/Wajima Lacquer Art Museum)
Solo exhibition ""WHAT CAN I PROTECT?"" (Ishikawa/Art Shop Getsuei)