Kohei Niino

Born in Tokyo, he is based in Tokyo and mainly participates in exhibitions.
Influenced by street culture and movies, he creates works based on the motifs of pseudonymous people and scenes, and life-sized images rooted in daily life. He incorporates various pictorial elements such as white space and tagging (lettering) in his work, and creates works based on the theme of Japanese painting x street.
Independent Tokyo 2023 Tomio Koyama Award. 2023 metasequoia 2023 Junko Sasanuki Award. 1st Idemitsu Art Award (formerly Shell Art Award). Selected for the 39th Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition. Selected for the 56th Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition.

[Exhibition]
2025 Solo Exhibition [a day on the planet] Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore/Tokyo
2025 [ONE ART TAIPEI] Hotel Metropolitan Premier Taipei/Taipei, Taiwan
2025 Solo Exhibition [Eternity and a Day] Kyoto Tsutaya Bookstore/Kyoto
2024 Solo Exhibition [A-side/B-side] EVERANDART/Meguro
2024 Solo Exhibition [Listen to the silence] chignitta / Osaka
2024 [ART SESSION] Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore
2024 Solo Exhibition [MESSAGE Charity Art Exhibition] Harakado/BAB THE COFFEE BREW CLUB
2024 [synchronicity] tagboat
2024 Solo exhibition [Silver 925] DDD ART
2024 [Bunkamura Gallery Selection2024] Bunkamura Gallery
2024 [Tgboat Art Fair2024] Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center
2024 [YOU FEEL] Public Art in front of Shibuya Station
2024 [Japanese painting x street world] Daimaru Shinsaibashi Art Glory Gallery
2024 [scene4-Poems and Thoughts] JILL D'ART GALLERY
2024 [Contemporary Art Exhibition] Isetan Shinjuku
2024 [ART MARKET TENNOZ 2024] Warehouse Terrada WHAT CAFE
2024 [ART TAINAN Tainan Art Exhibition 2024] SILKS PLACE TAINAN @Tainan, Taiwan
2024 [Orkudor Salon AOYAMA] 3rd MINAMI AOYAMA
2024 Solo Exhibition [Silver Street] SAN BANCHO GALLERY
2024 [ART FUTURE 2024] GRAND HYATT TAIPEI@Taipei, Taiwan
2023 [KONSHIN-TEN vol.5] gallery UG
2023 [OCSD Charity Art Exhibition 2023] Barneys New York Ginza
2023 [GINZA ART FESTA] Matsuya Ginza
2023 [Art in Tokyo YNK] Tokyo Square Garden
2023 [Young Artists Exhibition ~New rookies~] Ginza Mitsukoshi
2023 [Everyone Exhibition vol.3] JILL D'ART GALLERY
2023 [metasequoia 2023] Osaka Fair
2023 Solo Exhibition [Kohei Arano Solo Exhibition] Shibuya Parco 3LFTN apartment
2023 [Fine Art Exhibition - Japanese Beauty] Daimaru Tokyo
2023 [WHAT CAFE EXHIBITION vol.28] Warehouse Terada WHAT CAFE
2023 [Utsusemi no Sora] Ks GALLERY
2023 [SICF24] Omotesando Spiral
2023 [GEISAI#22] Tokyo Big Sight
2023 [ART NAGOYA] Nagoya Kanko Hotel
2023 [MITATE] GOYO Gallery (formerly KATSUMI YAMATO GALLERY)
2023 [Now You Know! Vol.2] Whimsy Works Gallery @Taiwan
2023 [EPIC PAINTERS Vol.11] the blank gallery
2021 [3331 ART FAIR] Arts Chiyoda 3331
2021 Solo Exhibition [SILENT FILM] Gallery b.tokyo
2020 Solo Exhibition [Calendar-skit-]Art Space kimura ASK? P
Participated in many other group exhibitions

[Awards]
2023 metasequoia 2023 Junko Sasanuki Award
2023 Independent Tokyo 2023 Tomio Koyama Award
2023 3rd Artist New Gate Finalist
Selected for the 1st Idemitsu Art Award (formerly the Shell Art Award) in 2022/The National Art Center, Tokyo
2022 Independent Tokyo 2022 KATSUMI YAMAT0 Award (currently GOYO GALLERY)
2021 3331 ART FAIR Collector Prize Award
Selected for the 56th Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition 2021/Kanagawa Prefectural Hall
2021 17th World Painting Grand Prix Exhibition Muse Award (Sponsor Award) / Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
2021 39th Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition Selected/Ueno Royal Museum
2020 16th World Painting Grand Prix Exhibition Sam Trading Award (Sponsor Award) / Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum