Biography
Born 1977, Tokyo, Japan. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
B.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Exhibited and collected worldwide; selected by London’s Saatchi Gallery to show at its booth at the Pulse Art Fair in New York City; semifinalist in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery; commercial clients include Barnes & Noble, Chase Bank, Ford Motors, Simon & Schuster, Prevention, and More Magazine; lectures and critiques at the School of Visual Arts and Parsons The New School for Design.
“I have always found images that are obscured or fragmented to be more interesting than ‘complete’ pictures,” says Brooklyn-based artist Kenichi Hoshine. His portraits blend abstraction and heightened realism, suggesting moods and narratives through a considered blend of colour, detail and movement.
Born in Tokyo, Hoshine grew up in New York and completed his BFA at the city’s School of Visual Arts. He has lectured there, also at Parsons School of Design and Pratts, and has worked commercially for clients including Barnes and Noble, Chase Bank, Ford Motors, Prevention Magazine and More Magazine.
Hoshine’s fine arts production encompasses a range of media, including charcoal, oils, acrylics, wax and tea. Photography is one source of inspiration, and the artist has cited figures such as Uta Barth and Hiroshi Sugimoto as influences, while more recent works seem to draw on abstract expressionist painting. Bold palettes and visceral brushstrokes combine to produce intriguing implied stories.
Selected by Saatchi Gallery for exhibition at Pulse New York in 2008, Hoshine has shown widely across the USA and in 2016 presented a two-person exhibition in Paris, France. He has also been chosen as a semi-finalist in the prestigious Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery.
–Colección SOLO
Art at Kings Oaks 