Hayaki Nishigaki
Nishigaki plans and manages the Kyoto Sento Arts Festival to redefine the significance of art festivals through public baths and the surrounding environment, runs art transportation after succeding AKABO’s mini truck, and creates ink paintings of Godzilla, as a vessel of the Japanese as a defeated nation, using traditional Japanese methods such as shan shui and enso, crossing domains to pursue the possibility of expression.
He works and leads a shared studio “STUDIOHAIDENBAN” in Fushimi, Kyoto since 2015. In recent years, participated in Artist-in-Residence program in Qatar, NY, and Tainan as well as holding solo shows at Ronin Gallery in NY and wamono art in Hong Kong.