Place of creation: Eugene Atelier iii (Japan)
About & For Visitors
Eugene’s largest studio is set in nature and includes a number of DIY-built spaces and bespoke furnishings. It is approximately an hour’s drive from central Tokyo.
*Studio visits are by appointment only and available when the artist is not on site.
*If you wish to visit, please register via [Open Day (EN)] or [ArtSticker (日本語)], or contact our representative.
Oil, gouache, grease pencil on brass
305 × 600 cm
Right: Light and shadow inside me (untitled) #30, 2023
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
300 × 202 cm
Oil, gouache, grease pencil on brass
305 × 600 cm
Bottom: Light and shadow inside me (untitled) #30, 2023
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
300 × 202 cm
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
Eugene Kangawa’s studio, Atelier iii, near Tokyo, is run with a diverse team of specialists. The lush, green space—designed and DIY-built by Kangawa and his team—is, in his words, one of his most important places.
It offers settings from bright, naturally lit areas to darker, enclosed spaces. Covering about 700 m² (7,500 sq ft), it houses works in progress, collection pieces, and occasionally new series.
Roughly an hour’s drive from central Tokyo, Atelier iii occasionally opens to the public when the artist is away. (Address undisclosed; see link or Instagram for reservations.)
ユージーン・スタジオ／寒川裕人のアトリエ Atelier iii（アトリエ・スリー）は、小さな山々に囲まれた地域に位置し、寒川とチームが自ら設計しDIYで作られました。東京都心から車でおよそ1時間、700㎡超のアトリエには、自然光あふれる部屋から暗室まで多様な環境が広がります。過去に使用した磁器タイルや照明、余った木材や金属を再利用・加工して構成され、扉や家具、取手、壁など多くの要素がスタジオ内で制作されました。空間には、制作中の作品や収蔵に向けた作品があります。
不定期で作家不在時に時間枠・組数を限定しての公開日を設けています。
一般予約枠の日程は、スタジオのインスタグラムeugene_studio_official にてお知らせします。
日本語でご予約の際はこちらから。
Quoted from The New York Times International Weekly Edition(print)/
The Japan Times weekly edition, 2025
“Atelier iii is not a workshop in the traditional sense, nor a gallery. It is a 700-square-meter archive of ideas and materials, a lens into the mind of a conceptually rigorous contemporary artist. Here, Kangawa’s work is not displayed in isolation but exists as part of a broader narrative, one that encompasses impermanence, duality and the tenuous relationship between humans and the environments they inhabit.”
“アトリエiiiは、伝統的な意味での作業場でもギャラリーでもありません。この空間は700平方メートルに及ぶアイデアと素材のアーカイブであり、概念的に厳密な現代アーティストの精神を映すレンズです。
寒川の作品は孤立した形で展示されるのではなく、無常や二元性、
人間と環境との微妙な関係性を含む広い物語の一部として存在しています。”
“...At Atelier iii, visitors encounter a spacious, meticulously curated mini museum showcasing several of the 35-year-old artist’s paintings, installations and sculptures. Beyond the public eye, workshop areas are tucked away behind walls, where his ongoing creative process quietly unfolds.”
“アトリエiiiでは、来訪者は広々とした、丁寧にキュレーションされた小さな美術館に出会います。そこには、35歳のアーティストである寒川裕人の絵画、インスタレーション、彫刻が展示されています。また、人目に触れない場所に創作活動が静かに進む作業スペースが隠されています。”
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ARTIST INTERVIEW
Eugene Museum in Bali Presents:
Andra Matin & Eugene Kangawa (EUGENE STUDIO)—Voices from Indonesia
Published by Eugene Museum in Bali, 2025
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ARTIST INTERVIEW
Studio Visit with Artist Eugene Kangawa | EUGENE STUDIO: After the rainbow
Published by Museum Of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2021
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Oil, gouache, grease pencil on brass
305 × 600 cm
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
Eugene Kangawa/EUGENE STUDIO
Eugene Kangawa (born 1989, USA) is known for abstract painting and installations centered on themes of human existence, time, and history.
His exhibitions and projects include EUGENE STUDIO The New Sea/After the Rainbow (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2021–22); de-sport: (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2020); 1/2 century later. (Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, 2017); and 89+ (Serpentine Galleries, London, 2014), among others.
Following international recognition of his solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo—centered on “symbiosis” and the “power of imagination,” at which he became the youngest artist to hold such an exhibition—a permanent museum dedicated to his work, brought to life by the vision and dedicated efforts of collectors across Asia and ASEAN, is now under construction by a local operating organization on an approximately one-hectare site near a UNESCO World Heritage site in Bali. (The Eugene Museum in Bali is scheduled to open in 2026.)
His short film has also been selected for—and received awards at—several international film festivals, including the Rhode Island International Film Festival, the Brooklyn Film Festival, and the Pan African Film Festival.
He currently works near Tokyo at Atelier iii—a lush studio designed and DIY-built by the artist and his team—together with a diverse, cross-disciplinary staff.
Oil on brass
26.4 × 35.3 cm
Private Collection
Right: Drawing #Shine (in the forest in spring), 2021
Wax oil pastel on brass
30 × 38 cm
Address confidentiality
For the protection of the artwork, the address is kept confidential. After your reservation is confirmed, we will share the exact location and detailed directions. Approximate travel times are below.
Approximately 1 hour 10 minutes from Tokyo Station.
By trainApproximately 1 hour 45 minutes from Tokyo Station.
Reservations*We limit daily appointments; only 1–2 groups are accepted per time slot.
*The artist will not be present for this program.
*If visiting between October and April, please bring warm clothing. Although the atelier is air-conditioned, it can be chilly around the studio at night.
*As standard time slots have reached capacity, a limited number of additional appointments outside regular hours have been added.
New slots will be announced on Instagram.
*To discourage last-minute cancellations, a fee applies. A portion of the admission fee—excluding processing charges—will be donated.
*The program fee is a flat ¥6,500 per group (up to 4 people per group; please contact us if your party exceeds 4).
*Most visitors spend 1–2 hours in the atelier. On the day of your visit, the studio director or staff will provide a brief tour.
*Please note that the exhibits on view may differ from the photographs. Thank you for your understanding.
To apply by email, please include:
- Your name
- Preferred date
- Number of participants
- Preferred language for communication
If you are interested in visiting, please contact our representative here.
Studio exhibition details (reference images), starting from September 2022.
*This series is currently installed in the studio.
*The linked items marked “private collection” are currently in the same series, with pieces different from the images, test pieces, and sizes installed. Please see the photos for reference only. Some of the photos are from past exhibitions.
*Exhibition details are subject to change.
1Everything Shine Series (Drawing series)
Yellow flower field drawing, 2021
Oil, gouache, grease pencil on brass
305 × 600 cm
Magic hourg, 2021
Oil on brass
26.4 × 35.3 cm
Private Collection
Everything Shine Series (Drawing series), 2021
Oil on brass / Oil, wax oil pastel on brass / Oil, gouache, grease pencil on brass / Brass, wood
This series of drawings is a rather special kind of “sketch diary” by Eugene Kangawa. Sometimes he directly sketches “landscapes/objects reflected in mirrors or brass metal,” and sometimes he enlarges the sketches and drawings based on them. It begins with the act of drawing what is reflected outside or inside from different angles.
Reflections cause light to appear from behind the paint, the ground and figure are frequently inverted, and the focus is never fixed.
Oil on brass
26.4 × 35.3 cm
Private Collection
Oil on brass
160.4 × 240.2 cm
Private Collection
2Light and shadow inside me
Installation view: Solo exhibition EUGENE STUDIO After the rainbow
at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
07.21-08.23 in my house, in Tokyo, 2021
Aqueous dye on paper
107.6 × 155.7 cm
Private collection
Light and shadow inside me
2021–, Aqueous dye on paper / 2022–, Gelatin silver print (photogram)
The Light and shadow inside me series comprises two types: greenish-blue works made by folding a single sheet of coated watercolor paper into a polyhedral form, exposing it to sunlight, then unfolding it; and black-and-white photograms made in the same way on silver-gelatin photographic paper, exposed to a single light source. In the artist’s large, self-built darkroom, single sheets of photographic paper are hand-scored with straight fold lines—for example, up to 3m long—and folded into 48-sided forms before exposure. Using this method—capturing “only the light and shadow inherent to the object itself”—the gradations of light and shadow are fixed onto the paper…
07.21-08.23 in my house, in Tokyo, 2021
Aqueous dye on paper
107.4 × 155.5 cm
Private Collection
07.22-08.24 in my house, in Tokyo, 2021
Aqueous dye on paper
107.4 × 155.5 cm
Private Collection
07.22-08.24 in my house, in Tokyo, 2021
Aqueous dye on paper
107.4 × 155.5 cm
2. Fold the paper into a polygonal prism.
3. Expose to sunlight.
(Production process of Light and shadow inside me)
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
300 × 202 cm
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
300 × 202 cm
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
120 × 100 cm
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
120 × 100 cm
Right: Light and shadow inside me (untitled) #42, 2023
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
259 × 202 cm
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
120 × 100 cm
Right: Light and shadow inside me (untitled) #66, 2023
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
120 × 100 cm
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
259 × 202 cm
Right: Light and shadow inside me (untitled) #30, 2023
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
300 × 202 cm
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
120 × 100 cm
Private collection
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
120 × 100 cm
Private collection
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
120 × 100 cm
Private collection
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
19 × 22.5 cm
Private collection
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
19 × 22.5 cm
Private collection
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
19 × 22.5 cm
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
19.2 × 22.6 cm
Private collection
3Rainbow Painting Series (Group Portrait)
Oil on canvas
292 × 788 cm
Private collection
Oil on canvas, 291.5 × 212 cm, Private collection
Center: Group portrait (Where are you?), 2021
Oil on canvas, 294 × 214 cm
Right: Group portrait (Rainbow), 2021
Oil on canvas, 244 × 184 cm, Private collection
In the oil painting, with its gradation of pale rainbow colors, upon closer inspection, one can see that countless human figures have been painted by brush, with the layers creating a complex gradation.
The shapes and colors are slightly different from one another. This is a “group portrait”.
The visitor passes through the sea into a brightly lit room surrounded by several of these paintings, each 3 meters high and up to 8 meters wide. All of the rainbow paintings on display will be transported to various locations, and the “group portraits” will continue to live on in yet another place.
“— Group Portraits
I thought to myself, we don’t need individual portraits right now, we need portraits of people—groups of people.
If you look closer, the people and the shadows they cast are each slightly different from the next. They appear to be countless groups, jostling and separated yet side by side. This place might be a continent or a country; it might be a virtual network. In any case, it is beautiful.”
Eugene Kangawa
(From the interview: Solo exhibition EUGENE STUDIO After the rainbow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2021-22)
Oil on canvas
291.5 × 212 cm
Private collection
4Rainbow Painting Series (Mixed Gray)
Oil on canvas
18 × 14 cm
Oil on canvas
18 × 14 cm
5For a certain family (from the White Painting series)
(from the White Painting series)
Canvas
33.3 × 33.3 cm
Private collection
For a certain family series (2017–)
The small For a certain family series (33.3 × 33.3 cm), works done within the community unit of a specific family, began with the creation of a piece for the family of a friend of his.
Portraits on consciousness, timeless portrait-like works are now in possession of more than one family.
The title of the work will officially be “a series of names of all the family members”. For example, “Anna, Ryo, Erika”.
And if there are more family members - for example, they have children - the title of the work would also change. There is flexibility in the concept of family.
This is the smallest form of commission work, but it is also a commission work that lasts forever.
(from the White Painting series)
Canvas
33.3 × 33.3 cm
Private collection
About the White Painting series
Canvas
160 × 160 cm
Private collection
White Painting series, 2017
Canvas
“— THE EUGENE Studio’s White Painting series […] transforming the canvases into nomadic shrines to love and memory… White Painting series returns the monochrome to its iconic if uncertain place between a portal and a thing.”
by David Gears, an art critic who contributes his writing to October magazine and other publications.
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White Painting is only the collective name for the series, as each piece is titled with the names of the people who kissed the canvases - for instance, the names of about a hundred people.
There are two series of this work; one was done by calling out to people on the street in cities around the world (USA, Mexico, Italy, Taiwan...) and the other within a specific community unit such as “a certain family”.
Still from video
6Image/Imagine #1 man
Image/Imagine #1 man, 2021
Statue
Image/Imagine is a figurative sculpture made entirely by hand in absolute darkness, from the very first step to the very last. Including the artist, no one has ever seen—and no one will ever see—its appearance. At the museum, visitors entered a completely dark room one at a time and were allowed to touch the figure that physically exists there. Made over the course of several months and already touched by thousands, the title 想像 in kanji literally carries the sense “to envision an image [a statue].”
“So long as this work continues to exist, the figure of Image/Imagine will go on multiplying—one for every viewer.”
— Harumi Niwa (Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo), exhibition handout for EUGENE STUDIO: After the Rainbow, 2021–2022
“…In the much-discussed new work Image/Imagine #1 man, although the sculpture is placed in darkness, its actual form cannot be beheld… The work can be seen as an experiment in which the ‘seeing’ viewer’s imagination determines what the work is.”
— From an article in Numero TOKYO
“There is a vast gulf between ‘existing, however slightly’ and ‘there being nothing at all.’ Image/Imagine exists—minutely, yet unmistakably.”
— Eugene Kangawa (interview), EUGENE STUDIO: After the Rainbow, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2021–2022
EUGENE STUDIO / Eugene Kangawa
For visitors to the studio