1978年出生,生活工作于京都的艺术家和雕塑家,2003年毕业于日本京都市立艺术大学雕塑研究所并留校任教,现任副教授。他运用身边的材料从事创作,通过切割掉某些部位再粘帖于他处的拼贴的方式,让寻常之物的意义发生变化。横滨美术馆(横滨,2009)、尤伦斯当代艺术中心(北京,2013)、猪熊弦一郎现代美术馆(丸龟市,2016)等国际机构都曾为其举办个展。2011年起,他的创作延伸到布景设计和戏剧制作领域。2012年,他荣获京都市艺术新人奖,2015年荣获京都府文化奖鼓励奖金,2018年荣获第二十九届高岛屋文化基金奖。
Born in 1978, Teppei Kaneuji is an artist and sculptor who lives and works in Kyoto. He earned a graduate degree in sculpture at Kyoto City University of Arts in 2003, where he now teaches as the Associate Professor.He uses things around him as materials for his works, altering their meaning via a collage method that involves cutting off parts and attaching them elsewhere. He has done solo exhibitions at the Yokohama Museum of Art (2009), the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2013), Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (2016), and at other venues inside and outside Japan.Since 2011, he has also worked on set design and produced theatrical works in 2012. He received Kyoto City’s Best Young Artist Award in 2012, and the Kyoto Prefecture Culture Prize Award in 2015, and The 29th Takashimaya Art Prize in 2018.