Ken Kitano

黑料不打烊

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Japanese | 1968

Ken Kitano is a Japanese Asian Modern & Contemporary artist who was born in 1968. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts have featured Ken Kitano's work in the past.Ken Kitano's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 275 USD to 8,254 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2009 the record price for this artist at auction is 8,254 USD for Piling Portraits of 35 Esoteric Buddhist Monks of the Shingon Sect Studying at Kohya Mountain Speciality School, Wakayama from Portrait of Our Face, 2003, sold at Christie's London in 2009. Ken Kitano has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for China Daily in July 2022.

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Notable Lots

Cosplay, No. 6

By Ken Kitano

-13%

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65 young girls in Harajuku Tokyo

By Ken Kitano

+100%

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Piling Portraits of 35 Esoteric Buddhist Monks of the Shingon Sect Studying at Kohya Mountain Speciality School, Wakayama from Portrait of Our Face, 2003

By Ken Kitano

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Recent Auction Results

Our Faces, 23 Female Muslim in Burqa, Dhaka, Bangladesh - Ken Kitano

Our Faces, 23 Female Muslim in Burqa, Dhaka, Bangladesh ,2008

By Ken Kitano

-94%

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Cosplay, No. 6

By Ken Kitano

-13%

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"Piling Portraits of 23 Muslim women wearing burkas (Niva, Bagachara, Bangladesh)", 2008 - Ken Kitano

"Piling Portraits of 23 Muslim women wearing burkas (Niva, Bagachara, Bangladesh)", 2008 ,2008

By Ken Kitano

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Current Exhibitions

MOMAT Collection

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Chiyoda-ku | Tokyo | Japan

05 Nov, 2025 - 08 Feb, 2026

Past Exhibitions

Ken Kitano and Tomoko Sawada

Pace/MacGill Gallery

Chelsea | New York | USA

26 Feb, 2015 - 25 Apr, 2015

All This Happened: Twenty Nine Years Of RoseGallery

RoseGallery

Santa Monica | California | USA

14 Sep, 2021 - 27 Nov, 2021

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Articles

Photography Gallery Presents Favorites From Past 10 Years

China Daily 14 Jul, 2022

Starting July 16, the Three Shadows +3 Gallery in Beijing will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a special exhibition featuring 29 artists and groups which have all been presented at the gallery in the past decade.

Hong Kong Art Scene Expands Its Reach

Wallpaper 19 Jun, 2022

Beyond fairs, museums and galleries, Hong Kong鈥檚 burgeoning art scene is influencing its bars, restaurants and hotels.

A Celebration of Photography Returns to Marrakech

Art South Africa 01 Oct, 2019

After a successful first edition, 鈥楲es Rencontres de Ia photographie # Marrakesh 2019鈥� returns to the Ochre City from the 14th until the 20th of October

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