Kennsuke Sasaki
Works & Biography
About Kennsuke Sasaki
Kennsuke Sasaki is considered one of the most important and successful contemporary artists working in Japan today.
Sasaki is a figurative as well as an abstract artist specializing in portrait sculptures and monumental stone works. In addition, he is the author of patented “dodecahedrons”.
Minimalism is Sasaki's trademark and his media of choice is rare marble from around the world. In his extensive portrait of human heads or human forms, he refers to art history techniques and styles like those carvings of early Europeans cultures such as the Romans, the Greeks and the Egyptians. His works are in private collections around the world. Sasaki is a prolific artist who has exhibited intensely in Japan, Europe and in the United States.
Sasaki is a figurative as well as an abstract artist specializing in portrait sculptures and monumental stone works. In addition, he is the author of patented “dodecahedrons”.
Minimalism is Sasaki's trademark and his media of choice is rare marble from around the world. In his extensive portrait of human heads or human forms, he refers to art history techniques and styles like those carvings of early Europeans cultures such as the Romans, the Greeks and the Egyptians. His works are in private collections around the world. Sasaki is a prolific artist who has exhibited intensely in Japan, Europe and in the United States.
- 1957 Born in Tottori Japan
- 1980-1986 Tokyo University of the Arts MA.
- 1983 KUME Prize Scholarship
- 1987-1988 stayed in London England
- 1988 Animals in Marble Exhibition Dryden St. Gallery London
- 1989 Animals in Marble Exhibition Gallery TAMAYA Tokyo
- 1991 commissioned work for a high school in Japan
- 1993 dodecahedron complex exhibition in Guild Gallery Osaka, Stone Gallery Tokyo
- 1999 Art 99 London
- 1994-2010 annual exhibitions Stone Museum Japan
