Kenzo Minami - Artist and Designer

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Let’s see how New York Subway is going to handle it this time.

But seriously, it’s insane to live in the city that I would refrain from taking Subway just because it is going to rain.

City Pop Nite with Nanse and Kenzo at Lovely Day sharing the smooth sounds of City Pop from the golden era of late-70s and ‘80s Japan. Artwork: “Dancers, by Sanzo Wada c. 1940

📍Lovely Day basement at 196 Elizabeth
Street, NYC

🗓️August, 19. 2025
⏰7:30pm

Come by!

(Repost from Nanse)

Happy to see my silkscreened postcard-stickers on the wall of Aeon Bookstore.

Photo 1: Repost from Aeon Bookstore
Photo 2: “COUNTERBLAST” 2022
Photo 3: “ODE II JOY” 2024

I found the Playlist based on @tedgioia.bsky.social's "The History of Jazz". It is assembled by Vallcarca i els Penitens Library in Barcelona and it apparently includes all the songs that appear in the book in order of appearance. It is 86 hours and 46 minutes.

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"Disc of Joy"
Acrylic on Canvas
20" x 20"
© Kenzo Minami 2025

Work in Progress

R.I.P. George Wendt

(I always liked Shelley Long character called his name properly.)

#georgewendt #jamesburrows
#cheers #norm

KENZO MINAMI FOR CHAMPION SS25 ICONS⁣
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Kenzo Minami | Artist / Conversationalist / New Yorker

(Thank you Champion, Jay Escobara, and everyone else involved for having me! And thank you for amazing photos and fun shoot Paul Hempstead!)

AURAL VISION 9 / April 1st 7-9PM / Performances start at 9pm in Trans Pecos

This is the one of the two paintings that I am showing at Aural Vision 9 on April 1st, 7-9pm (& performances starting at 9pm), at 915 Wycoff Ave Ridgewood NY.

“Dancers on Fire”
Acrylic on Canvas
36” x 24”

This is the one of the two paintings I am going to be showing at Aural Vision 9 on April 1st, 7pm, at 915 Wycoff Ave Ridgewood NY.

“Fear Nation”
Acrylic on Canvas
36” x 24”

Showing my silkscreen print “Counterblast (Art Nouveau Ver 2023)” with Kingsland Editions at Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair at Powerhouse Arts.

322 Third Avenue, Brooklyn, 11215
March 27th - 30th

www.kingslandeditions.com/arteditions/kenzo-minami-counterblast-art-nouveau

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Today was one of those wonderfully serendipitous New York day of running into Arto Lindsay at McNally Jackson, and walked and talked all the way to Cara. He is performing at Cara (225 West 13th street) at 6pm tomorrow (March 15th)

"Still, Life: Portraits & Landscapes by Jung Kim In spring of 2023, Ms.

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Maybe Hulu was chosen as a sacrificial lamb to deliver the message of (as a director Sean Baker had stated in his speech) “Watch more movies in theaters”. After Hulu’s Oscar (non)streaming debacle, people might have less faith in streaming now and Mr. Baker’s statement might ring even more true.

Until It's Time for You to Go YouTube video by Roberta Flack - Topic

Rest in Peace Ms. Roberta Flack

#robertaflack

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I saw this Jonas Mekas vinyl at Ergot Records in EV yesterday. In September of 2017, a year before he passed, I was sitting across from him for dinner gathering at almost exactly 12 feet to the right from where I am standing when the next door of this place used to be Anyway Cafe.

#jonasmekas

The Night I Gave Myself an Epileptic Seizure with My Own Art The Wonder Spider Incident of 1998 - Possibly the one of the weirdest things that I have experienced.

“The Night I Gave Myself an Epileptic Seizure with My Own Art”

The Wonder Spider Incident of 1998 - Possibly the one of the weirdest things that I have experienced.

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Ways to tackle this upcoming Goonies sequel I can think of would be, going with a direction of an adult drama, basically doing “Stand by Me” but focus on the part of adult Gordie reminiscing the childhood and expand it, or make a Goonies sequel equivalent of what Before Sunset was to Before Sunrise.

Miss Kittin in The City AKA Caroline in The City

Miss Kittin in the City
(AKA Caroline in the City)

#MissKittin

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Miss Kittin in The City (AKA Caroline in The City).

We met in early aughts at Miami Winter Music Conference and became friends when she was a part of this event as an act that I designed the graphics for. Every time she is in town, we have great conversations.

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This portrait is a part of a new exhibition “STILL, LIFE: Portraits & Landscapes by Jung Kim” among subjects including Glen Hansard, Neal Brennan, Kyp Malone, Daniel Johnston, Jason Pierce, Thomas Moddleditch, along w/ landscapes, at Lydia Street Gallery.

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So after many talks over the years, they ARE making a sequel to the #Labyrinth

Many years ago my friend Sarah came out of an event in uptown in pouring rain & looking for a cab. There was another person also looking for one. They both saw a cab and this person asked Sarah if she is heading to downtown & if she wants share it. She said yes and they got in. It was David Bowie.