KINOSHO KIKAKU will host the group exhibition “Portraits Before Dawn” starting January 17, 2026.
Three artists depict the aura of that nameless time between night and morning. Through distinct approaches—figures, symbols, abstraction—they conjure a single landscape imbued with the air of the pre-dawn hour.
Group Exhibition “Portraits Before Dawn”
Participating Artists
neko・tosuta・Yoshi Takahashi
January 17 (Sat) – January 30 (Thu), 2026
Hours: 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Closed: Sundays, Mondays
[“Portraits Before Dawn” Online stote]
neko
Contemporary artist and curator.
Creates works by printing digitally produced pieces onto paper, then adding layers with pastels, crayons, acrylics, and other media. While the depicted figures appear smiling, they seem to harbor an underlying sadness or violence. The artist suggests this may stem from the fact that, when unraveling these figures from his own context, they all connect to ghosts.
Late 2000s
Debuted in the art world as a founding member of “Post-Poppers,” the precursor to Chaos Lounge. However, withdrew early on. Subsequently vanished from the scene for about a decade.
Then, in 2020. With the onset of the pandemic, returned to the art world with the support of art collector Motoha Iijima.
In 2021, using the future of the character art context he undertook and new proposals as an entry point, he planned the group exhibition “Sleepover Party” to infiltrate Japanese contemporary art and broadly excavate refreshing new ground. In 2024, he conceived and operated its sequel project, “Dance Party.”
Solo Exhibitions
2023: “Dress of Solitude” (Machida Center Building / Machida)
2022 “Elopement” (Soil/ Yoshimi Town)
2021 “Amaterasu” (LIGHTHOUSE GALLERY/ Ryogoku)
2021 “Get Well Soon” (Shinjuku Eye Gallery/ Shinjuku)
2020 “Yūka Ketsu Shun” (rusu/ Meguro)
2020 “Possessed” (River Coffee & Gallery/ Todai-mae)
Group Exhibitions
2025 “Chemical X” (Kinosho Kikaku/ Kyobashi)
2024 “Ball” [planning, curation] (Koganei Chateau 2F/ Musashi-Koganei)
2024 “tentacity : Obsession” (medel gallery shu/ Harajuku)
2023 “Vacant Lot” (Ogiya/ Kamakura)
2022 “Tokyo Colours” (TOKYO PARK/ England)
2022 “addiction” (A4 Gallery Tokyo/ Taiwan)
2021 “Sleepover” [planning, curation] (rusu/ Meguro)
2021 “Japanese Group Show” (GALLERY JO YANA/ France)
2021 “Prayer” (Meee gallery/ Nakano)
とすた Tosuta
My work draws inspiration from observations in daily life and sensations of the present moment.
I am drawn to the energy of brushstrokes and continue to experiment.
Solo Exhibitions
2025.9 Feelings of Sunlight (Deer Decoy)
2025.9 Fragments of Summer (gallery TOWED)
Group Exhibitions
2025.9 =pulse (NUANCE)
2025.4 Waiting for the Spring Breeze (Kinosho Kikaku)
Group Exhibitions
2025.4 Scattered Garden Place (Koushinkyoku)
2024.7 Ballroom (KOGANEI ART SPOT Château 2F)
2021.11 Sleepover (rusu)
2021.7 4th Angel Market “Shoujo Noir Ritual” (STUDIO and SPACE IVVA)
高橋ヨシ Yoshi Takahashi
Paintings are not living things; they don’t speak, have no body temperature, and no blood flows through them. Yet they possess color, brushwork, composition, motifs, and prayers poured into them.
I create while contemplating that those who see them might receive or feel something from the colors, the motifs, the depicted characters—and that this might connect to living tomorrow, the next second.
2025 【EXHIBITION MATCH】Ryoichi Aizawa 『Escape from landscape』 × Yoshi Takahashi 『Messengers of Darkness』THE blank GALLERY (Tokyo)
2025 “Relief Relief” Shinjuku Ganka Gallery (Tokyo)
2024 “FACES” America Bridge Gallery (Tokyo)
2024 “Telegram from the Imaginary” Shinjuku Ganka Gallery (Tokyo)
2024 “Ball” Koganei Art Spot Château 2F (Tokyo)
2023 “Things That Cannot Be Observed” gallery TOWED (Tokyo)
2023 “cult of personality” KATSUYA SUSUKI GALLERY (Tokyo)
2023 “TRY Angle: Search. Challenge. Refine.” aL Base (Tokyo)
Awards
2023 “FACE 2023″ Selected (SOMPO Museum of Art/Tokyo)
2022 “CHANGTING GALLERY EXHIBITION 2021″ Selected (Changting Gallery/Tokyo)
