Kenjiro Okazaki (born in 1955 in Tokyo) is an Artist, Critic and Visiting Professor of Musashino Art University. He lives and works in Tokyo.
Kenjiro Okazaki is a Japanese visual artist whose works span over several genres, including painting, sculpture, as well as landscape and architecture. Many of his works has been featured in public collections throughout Japan and in various exhibitions around the world. In 2002, Okazaki was selected as the director of the Japanese pavilion of the International Architecture Exhibition in Venice Biennale. His works include a collaborative performance ‘I Love my Robot’ with choreographer Trisha Brown. He received Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG) in 2014.

Okazaki is also extremely active as a theoretician and critic, and is the author or co-author of several books, including Renaissance: Condition of Experience (Bunshun Gakugei Library, 2015) featuring his analysis of Filippo Brunelleschi, and Abstract Art as Impact: The Concrete Genealogy of Abstract Art (Akishobo, 2018), which received the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts in 2019.

Kenjiro Okazaki (né en 1955 à Tokyo) est artiste, critique et professeur invité à l’Université des Arts de Musashino. Il vit et travaille à Tokyo.
Kenjiro Okazaki est un artiste japonais qui produit des oeuvres de genres divers, allant de la peinture à la sculpture, en passant par le paysage et l’architecture. Un grand nombre de ses oeuvres sont présentes au sein de collections publiques japonaises, et ont été exposées à travers le monde. En 2002, Okazaki a été choisi pour assurer le commissariat du pavillon japonais d’architecture à la Biennale de Venise.
Début 2007, il a collaboré pour la première fois avec la chorégraphe Trisha Brown pour la performance « I love my Robot ». En 2014, il a reçu la bourse Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship du Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG).

Okazaki est également très actif en tant que théoricien et critique, et est le co-auteur de plusieurs ouvrages, dont Renaissance: Condition of Experience (Bunshun Gakugei Library, 2015), développant son analyse sur Filippo Brunelleschi, et Abstract Art as Impact: The Concrete Genealogy of Abstract Art (Akishobo, 2018) qui a reçu le prix du Ministère de l’Education des Beaux-Arts Japonais en 2019.

Kenjiro Okazaki, 神殿での跳躍 / In Minoan Chronology, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
Photo: Shu Nakagawa