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Akasegawa Genpei (赤瀬川 原平, 1937 - ) is a pseudonym of Japanese conceptual artist Akasegawa Katsuhiko (赤瀬川 克彦). He used another pen name Otsuji Katsuhiko (尾辻 克彦) for novels.
During 1960s, he was known as a Neo-Dadaist. He and Takamatsu Jiro, Nakanishi Natsuyuki formed a group Hi-Red Center and performed happenings. In 1966, he was prosecuted for his series of works of replicated 1000-yen notess.
In 1980 he came up with an idea of Hyper-Art (chōgeijutsu), an otherwise ordinary street object that happen to look like a conceptual art. He called such things Thomason.
He (as Otsuji Katsuhiko) received Akutagawa Prize in 1981 for his short story, Chichi ga kieta.
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