An interview video with Akihito Okunaka, an artist currently exhibiting at Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival / EXPO PUBLIC ART (located at the Osaka Kansai Expo site), has been released on our YouTube channel.

Please take a look at the thoughts and concepts that Okunaka put into his work!

OKUNAKA Akihito

Artist. Born in 1981 in Kyoto Prefecture, where he is currently based. He is an artist, co-director of AOIoA, and head of the Experiential Art Course at the Yamashiro Cultural Center in Kizugawa City, Kyoto Prefecture.

After graduating from the Shizuoka University Department of Education, Okunaka specialized in art education for children and worked as an instructor at the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art and at facilities for disabled people, teaching art and play. Okunaka then studied modern and contemporary theory before becoming an artist. He has received grants from the Nomura Foundation and the Asahi Shimbun Foundation, among others, and has dedicated himself to study in France, Korea, and China as a research fellow. With the theme of pursuing the dynamics of people, things, and matters through the lens of water, air, and light, he has held many workshops at regional art spaces around Japan and exhibited large-scale experiential artworks both domestically and internationally as an artist making with the public.

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