KAKEI MOTONARI

• KAKEI MOTONARI was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1951. After graduating from the Oil Painting Department of Tokyo Zokei University in 1975, he moved to France and has since been based in Paris, where he has continued his artistic production and exhibitions for many years. From 1976 onward, he exhibited at Le Salon and the Salon d’Automne, was invited to participate in the Yugoslav Drawing Biennale in 1980, received an Honorable Mention at the Yasui Prize Exhibition in 1988, and was awarded the Excellence Prize at the Showa-kai Exhibition in 1990. He has held numerous solo exhibitions in Japan and abroad, primarily at Nichido Gallery and Zokei Gallery, and is known for oil paintings depicting people of everyday Parisian life and urban street scenes. He has also held a solo exhibition at the Norton Gallery.