KENJIRO OKAZAKI

b. 1955, Japan

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How beautiful-this life remembered later. Empty market. Acacia shade swaying a Samaritan donkey in hand. JUSSIT NAVES AEDIFICARE. Stubble fields sun-roasted red locusts cry like heavy rain crickets shriek. Fleeing fiery broom of heat. Market corner ragged children crouched flung buttons coins at stucco cracks-like signs on astrolabes. by Kenjiro Okazaki contemporary artwork painting

Kenjiro Okazaki “How beautiful-this life remembered later.” Empty market. Acacia shade swaying, a Samaritan, donkey in hand. JUSSIT NAVES AEDIFICARE. Stubble fields, sun-roasted red locusts cry like heavy rain, crickets shriek. / Fleeing fiery broom of heat. Market corner, ragged children crouched, flung buttons, coins at stucco cracks-like signs on astrolabes., 2026 Acrylic on canvas
160 x 130 x 7 cm
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light wavered in mirror of green water. a place left slightly absurd. As if sunk to seafloor The wind rises shifting fallen leaves onto others ET HIC TRANSIERUNT FLUMEN COSNONIS. Grimace of weeping folds into a thousand creases astonishment unfolds again. faint dry rustle. Oh-a wave of sudden understanding. by Kenjiro Okazaki contemporary artwork painting

Kenjiro Okazaki light wavered in mirror of green water. a place left, slightly absurd. As if sunk to seafloor, The wind rises! shifting fallen leaves onto others, ET HIC TRANSIERUNT FLUMEN COSNONIS. / Grimace of weeping folds into a thousand creases, astonishment unfolds again. faint dry rustle. Oh-a wave of sudden understanding., 2026 Acrylic on canvas
160 x 130 x 7 cm
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Aunts house sunk in foliage fence-top globes-rose green violet. Luminous perfect worlds no soap bubble achieves. ISTI MIRANT STELLA. Were you there Filtered through garden-green-found in mildew-eaten sight-dimming hall that long-remembered scent. Sat down exposed half-ashamed sinking drank rose-mint cordial-what a drink This hot Saturdays deepest essence. by Kenjiro Okazaki contemporary artwork painting

Kenjiro Okazaki Aunt’s house sunk in foliage, fence-top globes-rose, green, violet. Luminous, perfect worlds, no soap bubble achieves. ISTI MIRANT STELLA. / “Were you there?” Filtered through garden-green-found in mildew-eaten, sight-dimming hall, that long-remembered scent. Sat down, exposed, half-ashamed, sinking, drank rose-mint cordial-what a drink! This hot Saturday’s deepest essence., 2026 Acrylic on canvas
160 x 130 x 7 cm
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Each page burned golden pears swooning. Pomona returned from mornings blaze. Such a queer dream. Listen Cherries water-clear beyond taste. A square of light dreaming. Again with mother through the gold square swept clean. Thorned acacias boiling tapestries their tremulous green-these trees perform wind. ET VELIS VENTO PLENIS VENIT. by Kenjiro Okazaki contemporary artwork painting

Kenjiro Okazaki Each page burned, golden pears swooning. Pomona returned from morning's blaze. "Such a queer dream. Listen…" Cherries water-clear, beyond taste. / A square of light, dreaming. Again with mother through the gold square, swept clean. Thorned acacias, boiling tapestries, their tremulous green-these trees perform wind. ET VELIS VENTO PLENIS VENIT., 2026 Acrylic on canvas
160 x 130 x 7 cm
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You dont see far and you dont see clearly said the Moon In the little petty whirl here below. Lute strings trembled moonlight. Gossamer threads caught starlight. Moments dissolved beneath crystal waters. She wept for the worlds depravity unheard by the ears of men. Constellations pierced bamboo grove. coral pendant caught lamplight. There she exclaimed there and she knelt and kissed the purple carpet. Evening frost kissed pale skin. Temple candles flickered world. Ivory doves scattered dreams. I think she was actually weeping. Dawn shattered like sea glass. by Kenjiro Okazaki contemporary artwork painting

Kenjiro Okazaki "You don't see far, and you don't see clearly," said the Moon, "In the little petty whirl here below." Lute strings trembled moonlight. Gossamer threads caught starlight. Moments dissolved beneath crystal waters. "She wept for the world's depravity, unheard by the ears of men." / Constellations pierced bamboo grove. coral pendant caught lamplight. "There," she exclaimed, "there!" and she knelt and kissed the purple carpet. Evening frost kissed pale skin. Temple candles flickered world. Ivory doves scattered dreams. I think she was actually weeping. Dawn shattered like sea glass., 2024 Acrylic on canvas
208 x 117 cm
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Oueral enker grene A spetos spare to expoun in spelle quoso myt Blod blykked on e grene by Kenjiro Okazaki contemporary artwork painting

Kenjiro Okazaki Oueral enker grene / A spetos sparþe to expoun in spelle, quoso myȝt / Blod blykked on þe grene, 2025 Acrylic on canvas
16.5 x 20.6 x 3 cm
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Nightingale with Drops of His Hearts Blood Had Nourished the Red Rose Gul-o-Bulbul by Kenjiro Okazaki contemporary artwork painting

Kenjiro Okazaki Nightingale with Drops of His Heart's Blood Had Nourished the Red Rose / Gul-o-Bulbul / Αἰθυσσομένων Φύλλων Κῶμα Κατάρρει, 2025 Acrylic on canvas
16.6 x 20.5 cm
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An airy spirit has no shadow Gods lioness The childs cry melts in the wall. I am the arrow. by Kenjiro Okazaki contemporary artwork painting

Kenjiro Okazaki An airy spirit has no shadow / God's lioness / The child's cry melts in the wall. I am the arrow., 2026 Acrylic on canvas
16.4 x 20.6 cm
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Contemporary art exhibition Kenjiro Okazaki Never could be any other way anagnorisis at Pace Gallery London United Kingdom

Kenjiro Okazaki Never could be any other way — anagnorisis Pace Gallery 5 June–7 August 2026
London

Contemporary art exhibition Kenjiro Okazaki Form at Now and Later at Pace Gallery Seoul South Korea

Kenjiro Okazaki Form at Now and Later Pace Gallery 28 June–17 August 2024
Seoul

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