Kubota Fumikazu is a painter obsessed with finding order in form. He arrived in Melbourne from Japan in 2003 and received a postgraduate certificate in Visual Art from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013. He has held exhibitions since 2008 at venues including the Consulate-General of Japan, Melbourne; Five Walls Projects, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Blindside and Nicholas Thompson Gallery.
Kubota’s work has been included in group exhibitions since 2006 at Five Walls Projects, Justin House Museum, Deakin University Library, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Neon Parlour, No Vacancy, Library Art Space in North Fitzroy and internationally in the Philippines and Three Seeds Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA. His work is held in the collections of Justin Art House Museum, Prahran and Poh-Chang Academy of Arts, Rajamangala University of Technology Rattankosin, Thailand.
Kubota works from his studio in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia and can also be found performing as the frontman of the local punk band Krul.