Selected Exhibitions
- 2026 Being Keepers, PhD Examination Exhibition, Site Eight, RMIT, Melbourne
- 2025 Being Keepers: Survival Aesthetics in Everyday Life, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
- 2023 Being Keepers: Ecology of Refuge to Home, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
- 2022 Being Keepers: Lockdown, online exhibition
- 2022 Being Keepers: Unearthed, Eden Gardens, Sydney
- 2022 Being Keepers: Ecological Grieving, Second Valley, South Australia
- 2019 Just Keep Going_Elements, Swell Sculpture Festival, Currumbin Beach, Gold Coast
- 2019 Bauhaus Now!, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne
- 2019 Just Keep Going_Quagmire, The Wandering Room, Melbourne
- 2019 Just Keep Going_It Is Like Something, Bruised: Art Action Ecology in Asia, ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
- 2018 Just Keep Going_Departure, Swell Sculpture Festival, Currumbin Beach, Gold Coast
- 2018 Just Keep Going_Layers of Life, West Projection Festival, Melbourne
- 2018 Just Keep Going_Difference, The Other Art Fair, The Facility, Melbourne
- 2018 Just Keep Going_Displacement, Monash Gender, Peace & Security, Monash Law Chambers, Melbourne (extended from one day to nearly a month at the Chambers’ request)
- 2018 Just Keep Going_Life, Testing Ground, Melbourne
- 2018 Just Keep Going_Sanctuary, The Artists Guild, Dockland Arts Collective, Melbourne
- 2017 Traveling the Trails, Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project, A’Beckett Urban Basketball Court, Melbourne
- 2017 Just Keep Going_Look Up in the Sky, Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne
- 2017 Just Keep Going_Look Up in the Sky, Artland, RMIT Brunswick Campus, Melbourne
- 2017 Look Up in the Sky, Testing Ground, Melbourne
Qualifications
- 2026 PhD (Art), RMIT University, Melbourne — awarded 13 July 2026. Thesis: Being Keepers: Line Language as Survival Methodology
- 2018 Master of Art — Art in Public Space, RMIT University, Melbourne
- 2016 Diploma of Printing and Graphic Arts, Australian National College
- 2003 Bachelor of Arts in Social Education, Waseda University, Tokyo
Publications
- 2026 Being Keepers: Line Language as Survival Methodology, PhD thesis, RMIT University (open access, RMIT Research Repository)
- 2020 Kose, R. ‘Just Keep Going – Polyphony: Gentle Activism for Collective Survival’, Journal of Public Space, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 323–338 (peer-reviewed, Scopus-indexed). doi:10.32891/jps.v5i4.1422
- 2020 Cover artwork, Journal of Public Space, vol. 5, no. 4: Art and Activism in Public Space
Academic Conferences
- 2022 ‘Being Keepers’, online presentation, Migration, Refugees & Stateless conference, Melbourne Social Equity Institute, University of Melbourne
- 2022 ‘Being Keepers’, online presentation, Asian Art Association conference
- 2021 ‘Being Keepers’, panel presentation, Japan Study Association conference, Queensland University
- 2018 Panel presentation, AAANZ Conference
- 2018 Panel presentation, Conversations: Making Art in the Asia-Pacific, CAST, RMIT University
- 2018 Panel member, Displacements: from Everyday Experience to Global Policy Crisis?, Monash Gender, Peace & Security
Grants and Scholarships
- 2023 Climate Action Small Grants, Yarra City Council
- 2022 Artist Support Grant, City of Melbourne
- 2019–2026 RMIT Stipend Scholarship
- 2018 Projection Workshop Scholarship, City of Melbourne
Artist Residencies
- 2023 Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne
- 2018 The Artists Guild, Dockland Arts Collective, Melbourne
Selected Commissions
- 2022 Eden Gardens, Sydney
- 2019 Swell Sculpture Festival, Gold Coast
- 2019 RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
- 2018 West Projection Festival, Melbourne
- 2018 The Other Art Fair, Melbourne
- 2018 Monash Gender, Peace & Security, Melbourne
- 2017 John Holland Pty Ltd / City of Melbourne, Melbourne
- 2017 Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne
- 2017 RMIT Link Arts & Culture, Melbourne
Collection
Atelier Vis à Vis, Marseille, France
Contact
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