Ryo Kajitani

Artist / Art Model / Graphic Designer

Photography, collage, retouching, ML-assisted image processes, and graphic / web production

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フォトコラージュプロジェクト Denoise Body Experiments

Profile

Ryo Kajitani is a Tokyo-based artist and art model. His current practice explores the photographed body as a site of visibility, misrecognition, memory, and transformation.

Kajitani studied oil-based woodblock printmaking at Tama Art University from 2010 to 2014. As a graduate candidate in studio-based practice, he studied under the late Kunio Motoe, an art historian, and Yutaka Nakamura, a cultural anthropologist.

After completing his studies, Kajitani has worked as a full-time graphic designer and art model. Since 2021, alongside photography and collage, he has incorporated code-based image processing into his practice, developing photo-collage works that combine sensibility with engineering-oriented methods.

Portfolio Book / PDF

Biography / CV

Selected entries

Education 2 entries

2016-2019

Completed the Doctoral Degree Program, Graduate School of Art and Design, Tama Art University

Doctoral dissertation (No. 75): "The Fate of Artistic Activities in Exhibition Spaces: Toward an Ontological Aesthetics Based on Heidegger's The Origin of the Work of Art"

Awards, Grants & Publications / 2020-2025 6 entries

2025

Pup and Tiger / Delere Press "Soft Territories: Crossing One", Selected and Published, UK

Porter House Review, Featured Artist, USA

Social Art Award 2025 Top 100 / Official Book inclusion, Germany

2024

Meta Morph AI Award, Montage Award, UK

Asia Digital Art Award FUKUOKA, Finalist, Japan

Current Initiatives (Ongoing Projects)

Queer body experiences: Rebuilt Cry of the Latent Self

When I obtained my doctoral degree in 2019, I worked primarily as an image-processing operator in design, handling various image-processing tasks every day.

In late 2021, a sudden episode of phantom pain prompted me to begin restoring the record photographs I had accumulated and to embark on what I call “editing.”

The series Denoise Body Experiments relies on multiple stages, including photography, the application of a latent diffusion model to the recorded images, several image-processing filters written as .py scripts, editing in Photoshop, and printing.

Sensibility and engineering methods harmonize without contradiction. Collage also serves as a technical metaphor for manipulating nature and society.

Throughout this project, we are constantly exploring opportunities for collaboration and joint research.

For Clients

Artist-led visual studio

We create visual materials for cultural, editorial, and commercial projects, working across photography, retouching, collage, graphic design, web production, and print.

Depending on the project, we support visual direction, concept planning, key visual development, shooting coordination, image production, front-end implementation, print-ready data preparation, and exhibition poster design.

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For production, publication, exhibition, advertising, brand communication, and research-related inquiries, please contact us with the project details, intended usage, and schedule.

対応可能な依頼 / Available Work

撮影モデル・アートモデル
写真のレタッチ・コラージュ制作
キービジュアル・広告ビジュアル制作
グラフィックデザイン・イラストレーション
出版・展示・研究・取材に関する相談

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