Born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, in 1978, Kuwakubo graduated from Tama Art University in 2002 with a degree in oil painting. In his early career, he created an imaginary painter within himself and presented his works as if they had been created by that painter. For Kuwakubo, it is perhaps an ideal image of a painter. By acting like modern painters of post-impressionism, such as Van Gogh and Munch, Kuwakubo shows the alternatives of art history. When tracing the techniques and technologies from earlier eras that may seem outdated from a contemporary perspective, Kuwakubo’s own vision overlaps with that of the masters of the past. In 2020, his first solo museum exhibition, “A Calendar for Painters without Time Sense. 12/12,” was held at the Chigasaki City Museum of Art. Other exhibitions also include “SITE: Places of Memories, Spaces with Potential” (Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2013), “Tokyo Painting II: Mindscape between interior and exterior” (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 2013), “VOCA 2012” (Ueno Royal Museum, 2012, Encouragement Prize), and “Artist File 2010: Contemporary Artists” (National Art Center, Tokyo, 2010). His works are in the collection of the Takamatsu Art Museum, a public museum, as well as many prominent private collections in Japan and abroad.