{"id":9251,"date":"2024-02-23T03:46:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T19:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/2024\/02\/23\/ko-heyarikawa-2"},"modified":"2024-08-03T01:20:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T17:20:53","slug":"ko-heyarikawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/en\/ko-heyarikawa","title":{"rendered":"Ko-Hey! Arikawa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Japanese artist Ko-Hey! Arikawa, M.F.A. in Art Environment, Kyoto University of the Arts. Spending his childhood in Okinawa with a big family and life in the Americanized culture of Okinawa after the reversion to mainland Japan seemed very bright to Arikawa, who has a complicated upbringing. This experience is the root of the “sense of happiness” expressed in Arikawa’s works.<\/span> <\/span><\/span> <\/font> <\/p>\n


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Arikawa, who began his career by painting and selling artworks on the street, has held the large-scale solo exhibition “Ko-Hey! Arikawa EXPO\u00ae\ufe0e” every year since 2005, attracting over 12,000 visitors during the exhibition period with a long-standing following among visitors of all ages. His representative work, “BEST FRIENDS Matthew kun,” a boy with red hair, has become an icon known by all, building bridges between people through various projects in Okinawa and other parts of Japan.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Japanese artist Ko-Hey! Arikawa, M.F.A. in Art Environment, Kyoto University of the Arts.<\/span><\/font> <\/p>\n

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<\/span> Spending his childhood in Okinawa with a big family and life in the Americanized culture of Okinawa after the reversion to mainland Japan seemed very bright to Arikawa, who has a complicated upbringing. This experience is the root of the “sense of happiness” expressed in Arikawa’s works. <\/span> <\/span><\/font> <\/p>\n

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<\/span> Arikawa, who began his career by painting and selling artworks on the street, has held the large-scale solo exhibition “Ko-Hey! Arikawa EXPO\u00ae\ufe0e” every year since 2005, attracting over 12,000 visitors during the exhibition period with a long-standing following among visitors of all ages. His representative work, “BEST FRIENDS Matthew kun,” a boy with red hair, has become an icon known by all, building bridges between people through various projects in Okinawa and other parts of Japan.<\/span><\/font> <\/p>\n


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    2023~2005 \u201cKO-HEY! ARIKAWA EXPO\u201d,\u00a0<\/span><\/font>Okinawa<\/span><\/font><\/span>, moon terrace AGARIZAKI etc., Okinawa, Japan<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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    <\/span>2023\u00a0<\/span><\/font><\/span>\u201cMATTHEW’S CHOCOLATE PARK”, FELISSIMO CHOCOLATE MUSEUM, Kobe<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  • 2023\u00a0<\/span>KO-HEY! ARIKAWA EXHIBITION\u00a0<\/span>HAPPY GO ROUND \u201cYOU ARE MY POP STAR\u201d, KARUIZAWA NEW ART MUSEUM, Nagano, Japan<\/span> <\/li>\n
  • 2022 THE RITZ-CARLTON, OKINAWA\u00d7KO-HEY! ARIKAWA \u201cTHE ART EXPERIENCE\u201d, THE RITZ-CARLTON, Okinawa, Japan<\/span><\/font><\/li>\n
  • 2022~2008\u00a0<\/span>\u201cPOP<\/span><\/font>\u2b50\ufe0e<\/font>SHOP by KO-HEY! ARIKAWA\u201d<\/span>, OMOTESANDO HILLS, Tokyo, Japan<\/span><\/font><\/li>\n
  • 2008 “KO-HEY! ARIKAWA EXHIBITION”<\/span><\/font>,\u00a0<\/span><\/font>HANKUK ART MUSEMUM,\u00a0<\/span>South Korea<\/span><\/font><\/li>\n
  • 2006 “KO-HEY! ARIKAWA EXHIBITION”<\/span>,\u00a0TOWEL MUSEUM<\/span><\/font><\/span>\u00a0ICHIHIRO,\u00a0<\/span>Ehime, Japan<\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n

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    Arikawa, who began his career by painting and selling artworks on the street, has held the large-scale solo exhibition “Ko-Hey! Arikawa EXPO\u00ae\ufe0e” every year since 2005, attracting over 12,000 visitors during the exhibition period with a long-standing following among visitors of all ages. His representative work, “BEST FRIENDS Matthew kun,” a boy with red hair, has become an icon known by all, building bridges between people through various projects in Okinawa and other parts of Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":9961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[506],"class_list":["post-9251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-ko-heyarikawa"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ginhuanggallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1267-scaled.jpg?fit=2546%2C2560&quality=100&ct=20250818&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}