Reconsidering how we see, and how our ways of seeing are shaped

Keisuke katsuki Solo Exhibition "ON-SCREEN" to be held at Minnano Gallery for 5 to 22 March, 2026. The exhibition features more than twenty works from Katsuki’s long-running pixel painting series “3600 Colors,” along with two sets of editioned works. Together, these works represent his sustained exploration of painting artificial light.

Through the arrangement of these works, the gallery space becomes an environment that feels as though a computer screen has materialized in the physical world. By tracing the relationship between vision and media—from traditional painting to contemporary digital displays—the exhibition invites viewers to reconsider how we see, and how our ways of seeing are shaped.

Keisuke Katsuki

Born in Fukuoka, Japan, 1991. MFA, Tokyo Zokei University, Department of Fine Arts, 2016. Keisuke Katsuki’s practice centers on Pixel Painting, in which images displayed on monitors are reconstructed according to their display structure by reproducing red, green, and blue pixels with paint. The source images often derive from paintings by Claude Monet and J. M. W. Turner—artists renowned for their depictions of light. By translating these works into images on monitors, a product of modern optical technology, and then rendering them again as paintings, Katsuki encourages a reconsideration of image and light in the contemporary context. In addition to Pixel Painting, Katsuki has developed the Lux series, in which RGB lights are projected onto pixel paintings, as well as the abstract painting series Gray, composed of surfaces where material gray—formed through the accidental mixing of pigments—and optical gray, generated as a virtual construct, coexist. Through these works, he examines the relationship between contemporary light and painting.