Shohei Kawasaki was born 1981 in Saitama, Japan. He completed his M.A. at Department of Intermedia Art, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. He has presented installations, photographs and novels under the theme of connecting art and society. He has worked at Tokyo Institute of Technology since 2015. He was awarded Buzz-Word of the Year for his nonfiction novel based on his experience, Netto cafe nanmin (Net Cafe Refugees) (Gentosha, 2007). Others of his representing books are Wakamono wa naze seishain ni narenainoka (Why the Young Can’t be Full-time Workers) (Chikumashobo, 2008) and Jisatsu shinaitame no 99 no houhou (99 Ways Not to Commit Suicide) (Ichijinsha, 2015). His new books Hajimete no hihyo (First Critique) (Film Art) and Shou-koufukuron (Theory of Little Happiness) (Oakla Publishing) will be published in April, 2016.

He will be showing his works for the first time in five years since ART STRUCTION (3331 Arts Chiyoda, 2011) which he participated as the curator and artist. This exhibition will mark the first within seven years as his solo exhibition, focusing on the spaces within the letters, which would be a new attempt for Kawasaki who has been specializing in expressing through the art of written letters.