Yu Araki
Works
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Born in 1985, Yamagata City, Japan.
Lives and works in Kyoto.
2018 Guest resident, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2017 Guest resident, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea
2013 Tacita Dean Workshop, Villa Iris, Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain
2008-10 Master of Film and New Media Studies, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
2003-7 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, United States
Selected solo show
- 2023
- “LONELY PLANETS”
- Towada Art Center,
- Aomori, Japan
- 2022
- “SWEET ROOM”
- RC HOTEL Kyoto Yasaka,
- Kyoto, Japan
- “BIVALVIA: ACT II”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2021
- “HALFWAY HAPPY vol.4 YU ARAKI”
- gallery aM,
- Tokyo, Japan
- “THREE DAYS, FIVE NIGHTS”
- Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya,
- Tochigi, Japan
- 2019
- “RUSH HOUR”
- CAI Contemporary Art Institute / CAI02,
- Hokkaido, Japan
- “LE SOUVENIR DU JAPON”
- Shiseido Gallery,
- Tokyo, Japan
- “NEW APERITIF”
- Spring Valley Brewery Kyoto,
- Kyoto, Japan
- 2018
- “LOST HIGHWAY (SWEDED)”
- Volvo Studio Aoyama,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2017
- “BIVALVIA: ACT I”
- MUJIN-TO Production,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2016
- “TEMPLE OF THE TEMPLET”
- Art Gallery 1 / Café Ogurayama, Yokohama Museum of Art,
- Kanagawa, Japan
Selected group show
- 2023
- “Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023 Technology?”
- Tokyo Photographic Art Museum,
- Tokyo, Japan
- 2022
- “Home-video Project: Tails Out”
- Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka,
- Osaka, Japan
- “"Man-Made Landscape", Hotel Asia Project”
- Chengdu Times Art Museum,
- Chengdu, China
- 2021
- “ALTERNATIVE KYOTO: Imagination as a Form of “Capital””
- Nantan,
- Kyoto, Japan
- “RESISTERE / RINASCERE”
- Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli,
- Naples, Italy
- “Home Sweet Home”
- KORA Contemporary Arts Center,
- Lecce, Italy
- “Returning: Chapter 1”
- Sydney Opera House,
- Sydney, Australia (Online exhibition)
- “11 Stories on Distanced Relationships: Contemporary Art from Japan”
- Japan Foundation,
- Japan (Online exhibition)
- 2020
- “Everything You’ve Ever Wanted is On the Other Side of the Planet”
- FRANZ JOSEFS KAI 3,
- Vienna, Austria
- “CONNECTIONS: 150 years of Modern Art in Japan and France”
- Pola Museum of Art,
- Kanagawa, Japan
- “Film From Nowhere”
- Yodo Projects + Kannai Bunko (Online film festival),
- 2019
- “IMG”
- Sprout Curation,
- Tokyo, Japan
- “CONTACT: Where the World Meets Japanese Art and Culture”
- Joju-in, Kiyomizu Temple,
- Kyoto, Japan
- “The Island of the Colorblind”
- Art Sonje Center,
- Seoul, South Korea
- “Future Generation Art Prize @ VENICE 2019”
- Palazzo Ca’ Tron,
- Venice, Italy
- “Future Generation Art Prize Exhibition”
- Pinchuk Art Centre,
- Kyiv, Ukraine
- 2018
- “The Myriad Forms of Visual Art: 200 Works with 19 Themes”
- The National Museum of Art,
- Osaka, Japan
Public collection
- Ishikawa Foundation,
- Okayama, Japan
- Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya,
- Tochigi, Japan
- The National Museum of Art,
- Osaka, Japan
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