Born in Kyoto, Japan in 1978. Kaneuji graduated from the master’s course in Sculpture from the Graduate School of Arts at Kyoto City University of Arts in 2003. In 2001, while still a student at Kyoto City University of Arts, he participated in an exchange program at the Royal College of Art (London) and studied sculpture. While focusing mainly on sculpture, Kaneuji’s artistic expressions extend widely to include collage, video, drawing, installation, and set design. His series are clearly categorized according to the type of materials used, or the concepts involved. One constant is how he nullifies the characteristics of the things that serve as motifs and transforms them into unfamiliar forms, by covering existing objects such as driftwood or plastic containers and daily necessities with white fluids including resin, plaster, and powder, or, in two-dimensional media such as collages of photographs and printed matter or drawings, by cutting out images of liquids, divorcing them from meaning, and connecting the resulting shapes together. Kaneuji has held major solo exhibitions at various art museums, including the Ichihara Lakeside Museum (Chiba) in 2022, the Japan Society (New York) in 2021–22, the Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo) in 2017, the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (Kagawa) in 2016, UCCA (Beijing) in 2013, the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in 2010, and the Yokohama Museum of Art in 2009. He has also participated in many important exhibitions both in Japan and overseas, such as a theatrical solo exhibition “Eraser Forest,” in collaboration with chelfitsch (Toshiki Okada) in 2020, “Japanorama” (Centre Pompidou) in 2017, the Singapore Biennale (National Museum of Singapore) in 2011, “MOT annual 2008” (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo), and “All About Laughter” (Mori Art Museum) in 2007. Works by the artist are held in the collections of institutions such as the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Yokohama Museum of Art, Takamatsu Art Museum, the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, and the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art. Kaneuji is an associate professor of sculpture in the Department of Fine Arts at Kyoto City University of Arts, his alma mater.