Born 1978, Tokyo
Lives and works in Dublin and Kyoto
Education
2005 BA Fine Art Painting, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
2001 Diploma at Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa, Cork
1997 Tama Art Institute, Tokyo
Solo Exhibitions
2024
While I Am Touching the Sleeping Cat, I Feel as if I Know You were There., Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo
Ukiyo-e, Encounters, mother’s tankstation, Art Basel Hong Kong
2023
Here I am, mother’s tankstation, Dublin
Things Will Carry Us Through, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
2022
your memorabilia floats in the air, mother’s tankstation, London
2021
It always comes; a solace in the cat., Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo
2020
Melancholy with vegetables surrounded by miracles, mother’s tankstation, Dublin
2018
The Search for Languorous Magic, Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo
2015
I am here with you, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
2013
happily skipping backwards (2013-1978), mother’s tankstation, Dublin
2012
Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Positions with mother’s tankstation
2011
Art Futures, Art HK 11 with mother’s tankstation
2010
Rest with us in Peace, mother’s tankstation, Dublin
Atsushi Kaga, Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles
Process Room, Artist Residency Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2009
NADA, Miami, with mother’s tankstation
Why Can we keep Going Forward? Because We Forget The Problem of Yesterday, Galeria Eduardo Leme, São Paulo
2008
I want to give love to socially neglected parts of you, that’s my mission, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
Consolations for Bunny, Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Basel
2007
Bunny’s Darkness and Other Stories, mother’s tankstation, Dublin
Group Exhibitions
2023
Homestories, Galerie Haas, Zurich
Cathartic Creatures, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
2022
Under Current: The New Future of Japanese Contemporary Art, Powerlong Art Museum, Shanghai
GUIDES, The Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, co. Mayo, Ireland
2021
All Creatures Great and Small, Office of Public Works, Ireland, 2021 – 2022 Touring Exhibition in partnership with Belfast Department of Finance, various venues
2017
The Way Things Go: An Homage, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
It happens to be, Pallas Projects, Dublin
2015
Friend of the Devil, Jack Hanley Gallery, NY
2014
Sed Tantum Dic Verbo (Just Say The Word), Blain|Southern, London
2012
I Love Those Paintings (art, natural & social science), mother’s tankstation, Dublin
One and Many, Location One, New York
2011
Astatic, Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, MassArt, Boston
2008
NADA, Miami, with mother’s tankstation
Winter Salon, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
2007
NADA, Miami, with mother’s tankstation
Timelines, Mermaid Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow
Visual Fictions, Fenton Gallery, Cork, Curated by Cliodhna Shaffrey
2006
The Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
Getting on Mother’s Nerves, mother’s tankstation, Dublin
Utopias, Eigse Carlow, 2006, Carlow. Curated by Anna O’Sullivan
A Moment in Time, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
Bibliography
2024
Godbold, David, Kaga, Atsushi, ‘Here I am’, mother’s tankstation, ISBN 978-0-9554501-8-1
McDonald, John, ‘The highlights from this year’s rejuvenated Art Basel Hong Kong’, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 April
‘Art Basel Hong Kong 2024 wraps on a year of growth’, Art Critique, 3 April
‘Art Basel Hong Kong Show Floor | Atsushi Kaga’, Art Basel Stories, 28 March
Ure-Smith, Jane, ‘Art Basel Hong Kong offers encounters with tapestries, tombstones and rabbits, Financial Times, 23 March
2023
‘Atsushi Kaga’s World: The Philosophy of Rabbits and the Fusion of Irish and Japanese Cultures’, Gen de Art Le Magazine, September
2023
Chetta, Vincenzo, ‘Atsushi Kaga Usacchi, Kumacchi and other friends’, Biancoscuro Rivista D’Arte, Number 58, June / July, ISSN 2385-1708
2022
Scott, Yvonne, ‘Globalisation and Irish art: a grand scheme?’, Irish Art 1920 – 2020 Perspectives on Change, Royal Irish Academy, ISBN 978-1-911479-82-6
2021
All Creatures Great and Small exhibition catalogue, Office of Public Works and Department of Finance, Northern Ireland
2020
Knight, Christopher, ‘Review: Frieze? Please. Try the upstart Felix art fair at the Hollywood Roosevelt’, Los Angeles Times, 17 February
2015
‘Atsushi Kaga at Jack Hanley Gallery’, New York Art Tours, July
Mason, Shana Beth, ‘Atsushi Kaga at Jack Hanely, New York’, International Arts and Culture, July
‘New York: Atsushi Kaga, “I am here with you” opens’, New York Events, June
‘Friend of the Devil’, The Lookout, Art in America, April
2014
Sansom, Anna, ‘Up in Armory: The Art Fair Unzipped’, Damn°44 magazine, March
Yasuhara, Shayna, ‘Armory Art Fair Highlights – Top 5’, The Paint Pens Collective, March
‘2014 Armory Show’, NYC Aesthetic, March
Sutton, Benjamin, ‘Humorous Artworks Ease Fairtigue at 2014 Armory Show’, artnet news, March
2013
O’Dwyer, Rebecca, ‘Happily Skipping Backwards (2013–1978)’, mother’s annual 2013
‘Rabbiting on’, CARA Magazine, December
Abbott, Rosa, ‘Atsushi Kaga, Happily Skipping Backwards’, Totally Dublin, December
2012
Blount, Mai, ‘ The Sign of the Broken Sword’, mother’s annual 2012
Servin, James, ‘Rising Stars’, Sea of Desire, Art Basel Miami Beach, December
Chayka, Kyle, ‘A Mother-Son “Nerd Bag” Sweatshop @ Art Basel Miami Beach’, Hyperallergic, Dec
Cohen, David, ‘The Mother of All Invention’, artcritical, December
Battista, Kathy, ‘The highlights from Miami Art Week’, Phaidon, December
‘Art Basel Miami Beach 2012 Preview: Part 5’, Gallerist NY, December
Cembalest, Robin, ‘Snapshots from Miami’, ARTnews, December
Duhon, Peter & Zwimpfer, Nathalie, ‘Art Basel Miami Beach 2012’, Art Comments, December
Halperin, Julie & Corbett, Rachel, ‘Art Basel Miami Beach Sees Strong Lower-Market Buys, With Notable Standouts’, Blouin Artinfo, December
Mason, Shana Beth, ‘Miami Nice? Artfetch Goes Undercover’, Artfetch, December
Pryor, Riah, ‘Busy start for younger galleries at the fair’, The Art Newspaper, December
Abbott, Rosa, ‘I Love Those Paintings @ Mother’s Tankstation’, Totally Dublin, April
‘Location One: One and Many’, island, January
2011
‘Atsushi Kaga’, LEAP Art HK II Supplement, July
Greg Cook, ‘Cartoon Network’, Boston Phoenix, 18 February
2010
‘Hay un conejo sobre la calavera de Michael Jackson’, www.dadanoias.net, December
‘re(tour) sur foire’, Bonnie Bulle, November
Blount, Mai, ‘Universal Soul Grammar’, mother’s annual 2010
‘Atsushi Kaga, 31, Artist’, Sunday Business Post, July
Daragh Reddin, ‘Atsushi Kaga: Rest With Us in Peace’, Metro, 8 June
‘Der Künstler Atsushi Kaga …’, Bavarian State Opera Magazine N°6, June
‘Furry creatures,’ Image Interiors, May–June
‘Atsushi Kaga’, Urban Outfitters blog, February
2009
David Marx,W., ‘Genius’, Nylon Guys, July
2008
McCarthy, Gerry, ‘Super Funny Animals’, The Sunday Times, 4 August
Dunne, Aidan, ‘All eyes on the Marble City’, The Irish Times, 15 August
Gorman, Sophie, ‘Bunnies, Slogans and Donuts? It must be an arts festival’, Irish Independent, Aug
Boylan, Helen, ‘Exhibitions’, The Sunday Business Post, 3 August
‘Nada Art Fair’, Miami Sun Post, 4 December
2007
Clancy, Luke,‘Bunny’s Darkness and Other Stories’, Art Review, September
Fite-Wassilak, Chris, ‘Irrevocable Consequences’, Mother’s Annual 2007
Dunne, Aidan, ‘The Arts’, The Irish Times, 30 May
McIntosh, Jacqui, ‘Bunny’s Dystopia’, Magill, June–July
‘The Bankable Artists Collection’, Sunday Tribune, 16 September
White, Trevor, ‘Atsushi Kaga: The Japanese’, The Dubliner, 14 September
White, Lucy, ‘A very funny bunny’, Metro, 25 May
2006
Pierce, Sarah, ‘Bad behaviour: What’s gotten into mom?’, Mother’s Annual 2006
2005
Dunne, Aidan, ‘The Arts’, The Irish Times, 13 June
Emerging Artists 2005, Ashford Gallery
Awards and Residencies
2024
Three Year Membership Studio, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
2021
Steep Rock Arts Residency, Steep Rock Arts Association, Washington, Connecticut
2020
Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland
2019
Tony O’Malley Residency, Callan, Kilkenny, Ireland (2019 – 2021)
2012
Location One International Residency Programme, New York, Awarded by The Arts Council of Ireland (2011-2012)
2011
International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York
2010
Artist’s Residency Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Galerie Eduardo Leme, São Paolo, residency and project space exhibition
2009
Fountainhead Residency, Miami
Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland
2007
Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland
2006
International Studio, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin