Koji Kamoji is a Japanese/Polish contemporary artist, who lives and works in Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

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Life and works

Koji Kamoji is a painter, creator installations and objects.

Between 1953 and 1958 he studied at the Musashino Fine Art Academy in Tokyo (diploma in 1958). In 1959, he moved to Poland to study at the Fine Art Academy in Warsaw (diploma in 1966).

From 1967 hes been involved with Foksal Gallery

Foksal Gallery

The Foksal Gallery or Galeria Foksal is a non-commercial art gallery in Warsaw, Poland established in 1966. Its small size belies its internationally influential reputation as a gallery that maintains a strong tradition of showing work by avant-garde contemporary artists.-History:The Foksal Gallery...

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Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

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