Kazutoshi Kihara

Born in Hiroshima City in 1958
1978 Studied under Tatsuo Kubota (currently Issui-kai steering committee member) at Hiroshima Art Institute
Currently member of Hakujitsukai and Nitten member
Watercolor and drawing exhibition (July) and oil painting exhibition (December) are held every year at Gallery Miyasaka.

■Solo exhibition
1984 Solo exhibition (Tokyo Central Art Gallery)
1996 Solo exhibition (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store Art Salon)
1998 Solo exhibition (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store Art Salon)
2005 Kazutoshi Kihara art book (postcard book) published
2015 Solo exhibition commemorating 35th anniversary of painting industry (Hiroshima Hiroshin Gallery) / Solo exhibition (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi main store special selection gallery)
2019 Realism Exhibition - Koji Inagaki, Katsuya Ogiwara, Kazutoshi Kihara, Keisuke Chiuchi - (Mori no Art Museum)
2020 Solo exhibition (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi main store special selection gallery)
★Solo exhibitions Gallery Miyasaka: Watercolor and drawing exhibition (July) and oil painting exhibition (December) are held every year.

■Public exhibition/Group exhibition/Awards
1982 11th Contemporary Western Painting Elite Selection Exhibition Gold Prize
1983: Selected for the Tokyo Central Art Museum Oil Painting Grand Prize Exhibition
1986 Drawing Grand Prize Exhibition Silver Prize
1987 Hiroshima Art Award Exhibition Honorable Mention Award
1994 Honorable Mention Award and T Prize at the 70th Hakujitsukai Exhibition
1997 73rd Hakujitsukai Exhibition S Art Encouragement Award
1998 Painted Women Exhibition (Woodwan Museum of Art)
1999 31st Nitten Special Selection
2001 Exhibited at the 34th Contemporary Art Selection Exhibition (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
2003 19th Hiroshima Prefectural Cultural Encouragement Award
2006 38th Nitten Special Selection
2008 Ito Kiyonaga and the artists who were active in Hakujitsukai (Randokaku Museum of Art)
2009 Exhibited at Ito Kiyonaga and Hakujitsukai Exhibition (Izushi Town Ito Art Museum)
2010 Hoki Art Museum Opening Commemoration Special Exhibition (Hoki Art Museum) / 42nd Nitten Judge
2011 87th Hakujitsukai Exhibition Prime Minister's Award
2014 Invited to exhibit at the 8th Hokkaido Modern Figurative Exhibition
2016 Publicly Recruiting Organization Best Selection Art 2016 Exhibition / Invited Exhibition at the 10th Hokkaido Contemporary Figurative Exhibition
2020 Reorganization New 7th Nitten Jury Exhibition/Group Exhibition/Awards

■Work collection
Wood One Museum of Art (Hatsukaichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture)
Okito Poppo Picture Gallery (Okito Town, Tokoro District, Hokkaido)
Tsuru no Kuru Town Museum (Izumi City, Kagoshima Prefecture)
Hasegawa Machiko Art Museum (Tokyo)
Hoki Museum (Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture)
Mori Art Museum (Nagareyama City, Chiba Prefecture), etc.