Portrait of Kent Watanabe

Kent Watanabe — Artist

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Kent Watanabe

渡邉 顕人

Biography — EN

Kent Watanabe (b. 1995, Takahashi, Okayama) graduated from the Graduate School of Keio University and lives and works in Tokyo. He creates large-scale installations that stretch threads, mesh, and membranes through the air, taking their form from each environment. Working without a fixed drawing, he builds each structure out of the shape of the site itself; in some works a drone serves as one of the tools for spinning thread into valleys and high places. His materials are entrusted to wind, light, gravity, and the people passing through, weaving new relations into the space. The work quietly intimates that life is not an isolated individual, but something held within countless relations. Selected works include Resonance – Atami (ATAMI ART GRANT, 2023), Floating Membrane (Atami, 2025), Spiral Lumina (Umekita Art Picnic, Grand Green Osaka, 2026), and MIRAI MILKY WAY (GreenFes, Grand Green Osaka, 2026).

Biography — JP

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