In 2011 he was shortlisted for the award of Dakis Joannou's Foundation, the DESTE Prize and he has exhibited in ICA in London, Liverpool Biennial, the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Greece and more. (fluxfactory.org)
He is currently preparing for several exhibitions including, «Fictions» at The Studio Museum in Harlem in September, «The Everywhere Studio» at ICA Miami in December and a solo show at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities in Spring of 2018. (atlantacontemporary.org)
Kawai has exhibited extensively internationally with solo museum exhibitions at ICA Boston; PS1 MOMA, New York; Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo; Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. (ericfirestonegallery.com)