Kazuma Eekman is a Dutch- Japanese contemporary artist with a love for illustration and painting from

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. He graduated in 2014 from the Willem de Kooning Academy and is known for his

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s in different

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and

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s such as

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and het NRC among others. Eekman participated in different group expositions, with the biggest and most recent being UU&ME in the spacious

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at the Warmoesstraat, in

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together with 5 other young artists; initiator Sue van Geijn and, Emile Hermans, Iris Schutgevaar, Diedrik Sibma and Roos Wijma.

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