Born in Fukuoka, Japan, 1959
Associate Professor at Faculty of Arts, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan, 2005-2015
Director of Nonprofit Organization ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan, 2018-
MFA in painting, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan, 1985
MFA in sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, United States, 1990
1986 Outstanding performance award, Art Document '87, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
1993 Fellowship award, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, United States
Asian Cultural Council Grant: Japan-United States Arts Program Aperto’93, 45th Venice Biennale, Italy
1995 6th Gotoh Memorial Foundation Award
1993 P.S.1 National and International Studio Program, New York, United States
1999 Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mount Desert Island, United States
2002 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, United States
2005 Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mount Desert Island, United States
2019- Anjwa Island Project, Shinan, Korea
2019-2021 Tsunagi Art Museum Nyukon House, Kumamoto, Japan
2012- ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan
2010 Inujima Art House Project, Okayama, Japan
2008-2019 Kosagi Island Bio-Isle Project, Hiroshima, Japan
2008 Inujima Art Project SEIRENSHO, Okayama, Japan
1996 Field Work on Alcatraz, San Francisco, United States
2024 Tsutomu Iwasaki, 105MaGALLERY, Kokura, Fukuoka, Japan
2023 Yoshimi Inoue, 105MaGALLERY, Kokura, Fukuoka, Japan
Junnosuke Miyazaki, 105MaGALLERY, Kokura, Fukuoka, Japan
2022 Tsunagi Art Museum Monorail, Kumamoto, Japan
2021 Sumiya Kiho-an Art Project, Kyoto, Japan
2018 ART BASE MOMOSHIMA Crossroad3, Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan
2017 ART BASE MOMOSHIMA Crossroad2, Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan
2014 ART BASE MOMOSHIMA Crossroad, Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan
2012 ART BASE MOMOSHIMA Opening exhibition Yukinori Yanagi x Noriyuki Haraguchi, Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan
2010 Hiroshima Art Project 2010, Hiroshima, Japan
2009 Hiroshima Art Project 2009, Hiroshima, Japan
2008 Hiroshima Art Project 2008 Brackish Water Area, Hiroshima, Japan
Hiroshima Art Project 2008 Camp Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2007 Hiroshima Art Project 2007, Hiroshima, Japan
2026 YUKINORI YANAGI : El Mare Pacificum, Estación MAZ, Guadalajara, Mexico
2025 YUKINORI YANAGI : ICARUS, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan
2022 YUKINORI YANAGI, 105MaGALLERY, Kokura, Fukuoka, Japan
2021 YUKINORI YANAGI TSUNAGI PROJECT 2021 - Beyond the Epilogue, Tsunagi Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
YUKINORI YANAGI, Blum&Poe Los Angeles, United States
Wandering Position 1988-2021, ANOMALY, Tokyo, Japan
2020 YUKINORI YANAGI TSUNAGI PROJECT 2020 - Monologue and Dialogue, Tsunagi Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
2019 YUKINORI YANAGI, Blum&Poe Tokyo, Japan
YUKINORI YANAGI TSUNAGI PROJECT 2019 - Prologue, Tsunagi Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
2017 YUKINORI YANAGI -UNION JACK- , Ticolat Tamura, Hong Kong
2016 YUKINORI YANAGI, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan
Wandering Position, BankART studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan
2014 MONEY / FLOWER, Michael Janssen Singapore, Lock Road, Singapore
USSR, Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
2013 New Works, Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
2012 Study for American Art, Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
2010 AMERICA, Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, JapanInujima
Art House Project, Okayama, Japan
2009 MONEY on view, Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Inujima Art Project SEIRENSHO, Okayama, Japan
2006 Yukinori Yanagi: Chrysanthemum Carpet, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
2005 Icarus Project, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2002 Yukinori Yanagi, Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
YUKICHI KV644955H, Mitsubishi-jisho Artium, Fukuoka, Japan
2000 Akitsushima, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1999 New Work, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, United States
1998 Image, Nation and Transnation, University Art Gallery, University of California at Irvine, United States
1997 Wandering Position, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
Yukinori Yanagi, Beaver College Art Gallery, Philadelphia, United States
Yukinori Yanagi, Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Pacific, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, United States
Alcatraz, Peter Blum, New York, United States
Pacific, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Field Work on Alcatraz, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, United States
Yukinori Yanagi, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1995 Project Article 9, The Queens Museum of Art, New York, United States
Project Article 9, Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka, Japan
The Chrysanthemum Carpet, Peter Blum, New York, United States
Matrix 128, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, United States
Yukinori Yanagi, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, United States
1994 Union Jack Ant Farm, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK
1993 Hammer and Sickle, Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1992 YANAGI, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Wandering Position, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
1991 Yukinori YanagiLos Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, United States
From the Notebook during the Stay in America, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
-Hi-no-maru-1991, Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The World Flag Ant Farm, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The World Flag Ant Farm and Wandering Position: Project-Red, White and Blue, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, United States
1990 Wandering Position, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, United States
Master's Thesis Show, Yale University Art and Architecture Gallery, New Haven, United States
1989 Hammond Hall Project, Yale University Hammond Hall, New Haven, United States
Drawing Storehouse, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Outdoor Project, Norfolk, United States
1988 PLAN α M-transform, Gallery α M, Tokyo, Japan
Yukinori Yanagi, Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
Yukinori Yanagi, Ten Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
Yukinori Yanagi, Gallery21, Fukuoka, Japan
Ground Fishing Project Document, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan / Sokasha, Shimane, Japan/ Michiko Fine Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Hammond Hall Project, Yale University Hammond Hall, New Haven, United States
1987 Yukinori Yanagi, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1986 Ground, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Kanagawa, Japan
i>Ground Transport, Gallery Center Point, Gallery Natsuka, Tokyo, Japan
1985 Musashino Art University, Takanoda: Hall B, Tokyo, Japan
Arrangement of Words, Gallery Center Point, Tokyo, Japan
2026 Permanent Collection Exhibition Asian Art Walk East Asia: Exploring Proximity and Difference, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Collection Exhibition 2025-ⅢHighlights＋Relations, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
ERRATIC FIELDS, Bread & Salt, San Diego, United States
2025 The 3rd Matsu Biennial -Your Sea, My Land, Old gymnasium in Matsu islands, Matsu islands, Taiwan
Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan 1989-2010, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Special Exhibition Gallery 1E, Tokyo, Japan
MINEBANE! Contemporary Art - The Taguchi Art Collection, Akita Museum of Art, Akita Senshu Museum of Art, Akita, Japan
2024 Jiyu Area(Yokohama Museum of Art Collection Exhibition)To Invert and Be Inverted, Gallery 8, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
BankART Life7 "UrbanNesting: Reinhabiting the City", BankART Station, Yokohama, Japan
Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood, BLUM, Los Angeles, United States
2023Taguchi Art Collection Your Compass in the "Incredible" Contemporary Art World, Nariwa Museum, Okayama, Japan
Collection1 80/90/00/10, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2022ART AND RAILWAY - 150th Anniversary of Railway in Japan, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2022,Echigo-Tsumari Kiyotsu Soko Museum of Art, Niigata, Japan
Wings of Cloth,Musée de Somé Seiryu, Kyoto, Japan
REFLECTIONS, Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
2021 Ad-Diriyah Biennale: Feeling the Stone, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia
Mountains Carrying Suns, Blum & Poe Tokyo, Japan
2020 2020-ll Collection Highlight & Special Feature: Portraits of Self and Others, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Collection1: Transgressing Lines, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Collect → Preserve : The present collection in the future century, The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
PSYCHIC WOUNDS: ON ART & TRAUMA, The Warehouse, Dallas, United States
2019 Travelers Through a Hundred Ages, ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Hiroshima, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art Collection: Aspects of Japan’s 160-year Relationship with the West, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
From Here to Beyond, Onomichi City Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
MOT Satellite 2019-Wandering, Mapping, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
‘Creatures’ - When Species Meet, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
ART BOOK／ART GOODS, BankART Station, Yokohama, Japan
The Ys from the Hara Museum Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Mr. Ace X-O. Modern, Okayama City Museum, Okayama, Japan
PART II - PARERGON: JAPANESE ART OF THE 1980S AND 1990S, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, United States
Weavers of Worlds: A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern/Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
Waste Land, ANOMALY, Tokyo, Japan
PARERGON: JAPANESE ART OF THE 1980S AND 1990S, Los Angeles, United States
Heroes and People in the Japanese Contemporary Art, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art Collection -Rhythm, Resonance, Noise-, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
2018 CROSSROAD 3 -Man! Fight and Secure a Place to Live-, ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Hiroshima, Japan
21st Biennale of Sydney-SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium and Engagement, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, Australia
A COLOSSAL WORLD-Japanese Artists and New York, 1950s-Present, White Box, New York, USA
Modern Art Revisited: from the collection of Fukuoka Art Museum, Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori, Japan ( traveled to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan / The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan)
The Myriad Forms of Visual Art: 196 Works with 19 Themes, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
My Favorites: Toshio Hara Selects from the Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Art Turns. World Turns- Exploring the Collection of Museum MACAN, Museum MACAN, Jakarta, Indonesia
CROSSROAD 2 / ONOMICHI ART CROSSROADS, ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Prefectural Warehouse No.3, Hiroshima, Japan
Yokohama Triennale 2017 -Islands, Constellations & Galapagos, Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall, Yokohama, Japan
The Greatest Story Ever Told-The Collection curated by Ryan Gander, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Inspired, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Soh Gallery Collection 1970-1990, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016The Exhibition of the Yokohama Museum of Art: Collection 2016 Part 2,Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
JapanBusan Biennale 2016, Busan Museum of Art/KISWIRE Suyeong Factory, Busan, South Korea
2015 Do Ho Suh,Tatzu Nishi,Yukinori Yanagi, ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Hiroshima, Japan
Kosagi Island Bio-Isle Project-TIDE WATER Hiroshi Senju x Yukinori Yanagi, BH2, Kosagi Island, Mihara, Hiroshima, Japan
The Tokushima Modern Art Museum 25th Anniversary Exhibition: 25 Openings to Enjoy the Human Expressions, Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan
2014 CROSSROAD, ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Prefectural Warehouse No.3, Hiroshima, Japan
GALLERY SHOW 2014 SUMMER - Noriyuki Haraguchi, Miyako Ishiuchi, and Yukinori Yanagi, Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
BankART Life IV "Dreams of the East Asia -A Contemporary Sequel for the Josen-Korean Diplomatic Expeditions, Renewed & Landmark Project V ", BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan
ART BASE MOMOSHIMA Collection, ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Hiroshima, Japan
ART COLOGNE "Noriyuki Haraguchi × Yukinori Yanagi", Koelnmesse, Miyake Fine Art, Cologne, Germany
2013 Beyond Human: Artist-Animal Collaborations, PEM Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, United State
Asia Code Zero, SOMA Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Mori Art Museum 10th Anniversary Exhibition-Roppongi Crossing 2013: OUT OF DOUBT, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Feel the art for the first time, Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Ueda Collection, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Re: Quest- Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s-, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Fukuoka Contemporary Art Chronicle 1970-2000, Fukuoka Art Museum and Fukuoka City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2012 MOT Collection Our Ninety Years: 1923-2013 Afterimages of tomorrow, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
ART BASE MOMOSHIMA Opening Exhibition, ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Hiroshima, Japan
Liverpool Biennial 2012, Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool, UK
2011 XXX Thirty Years Peter Blum Edition, Peter Blum Soho, New York, United States
The 8th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
WORKS IN PROGRESS Hitoshi Nomura, Sigmar Polke, Yukinori Yanagi, McCaffrey Fine Art, New York, United States
2010 Cheer up! Art can make you happy -Selections from the Hara Museum Collection, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
20th Anniversary of the Gotoh Memorial Foundation, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Setouchi International Art Festival 2010, Inujima, Okayama, Japan
2009 Boundary, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Into the Atomic Sunshine in Okinawa: Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9, Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Migration and Expression, Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
2008 Please Be Quiet. -On clamor and art-, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Four Views of the Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Shelter x Survival: Alternative Homes for Fantastic Lives, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Into the Atomic Sunshine: Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9, Puffin Room, New York, United States／Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Himming 2007, Himi, Toyama, Japan
Simply Red, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, United States
Still, the Person Exceeds the Boundary, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshima Art Project 2007: Geldscheisser in the Vault, The former Hiroshima Branch of the Bank of Japan, Hiroshima, Japan
Survival Action, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Scenes and Sequences, Allgaeuer Kunst House, Aarau, Switzerland
Aiming at a New Departure, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Route of Pop: 1960s-2000s, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
2006 Singular Multiples : Peter Blum Edition 1980-1994, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, United States
In Focus: Living History, Tate Modern, London, UK / Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
These 20 arts of 20 Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Museum of Art Came!, Yokohama Civilian Gallery in Azamino, Kanagawa, Japan
2005 Ars Nova Contemporary Art and Craft's Interval, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
Cruising Landscapes, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
Contemporary Art's ABC, Fukui City Museum of Art, Fukui, Japan (traveled to Niitsu Art Museum, Niigata, Japan / Yawatahama Civic Gallery, Ehime, Japan / Shunan City Museum of Art and History. Yamaguchi, Japan)
Swarm, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, United States
Art Crossing Hiroshima Project 2005, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Little Boy: The Art of Japan's Exploding Subculture, Japan Society Gallery, New York, United States
2004 Adventures in images, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
20th Anniversary Exhibition: Copy Age- From Duchamp through Warhol to Morimura, Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
New Collection, Fukuoka Asian Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2003 Windstil, Cotthem Gallery, Brussel, BelgiumThe Power of Kyushu, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
Permanent Collection: 50 years of contemporary art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Money and Value, an exhibition of the Swiss National Bank, curated by Harald Szeemann, Lake Biel, Switzerland
The 2nd Fukuoka Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Cultural Crossing, Numark Gallery, Washington DC, United States
Exhibition of the Collection 2002-Ⅱ Guest Curator's Eyes, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Inauguration Exhibition, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, United States
Dorsky Project, Long Island City, New York, United States
New Material, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, United States
2001 Made in Asia, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, United States
Tokyo Pop, Kansas City Jewish Museum, Kansas City, United States
Talking Heads, Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2000 Diary, Corner House, Manchester, UK (traveled to Firstsite, Colchester, UK)
Whitney Biennial 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States
Vanitas-Meditation of life and death in contemporary art, Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, United States
2000 Kwanju Biennale, Kwanju, Korea
Vacant Lot, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
Dark Mirrors of Japan, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Umedalen Skulptur 2000, Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå, Sweden
Plastic Age-Art and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Department Store of Contemporary Art, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kofu, Japan
Open Ends-One Thing After Another, Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States
Landscape Encoded, Tate Modern, London, UK
Art Exhibition for Children 2000, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
10th Anniversary of Gotoh Memorial Foundation, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1999 Mystery Museum, Hamada Children's Museum of Art, Shimane, Japan
1998 Animal, Anima, Animus, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland (traveled to Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Netherlands/ PS1 Museum, New York, United States/ Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada)
Sehnsucht Heimat, Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria
Expression of Lines, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Taste and Pursuits: Japanese art in the 1990, National Museum of India, New Delhi, India (traveled to Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila, Philippines)
Conceptual Window, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
On The Edge (New art from Private Collections in France), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
98' Taipei Biennale: Site of Desire, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Relay Drawings: Eye, Hand, Other, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center,Buffalo, United States (traveled to Bucknell University Art Gallery, Pennsylvania, United State)
1997 Aspects of Land and Soil, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
The 50th anniversary of Nihon Andepandan Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Atlas Mapping, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria (traveled to Kunsthaus Bregenz & Magazin 4, Bregenz, Austria)
Changing Space, Miami Museum of Art, Miami, United States
The 4th L'autre, Biennale de Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France
PROJECTS, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art Seoul, Korea
1996 Eastern Fusion, Hillwood Museum, Long Island University, Long Island, United States
Avant-garde Walk in Soho, New York, United States
Cultural Olympiad, in conjunction with Atlanta Olympic Games, Atlanta, United States
Conversation at the Castle, Art Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, United States
Islands, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
The 2nd Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
The 23rd Sao Paulo Biennale -Universalis, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Protean Artists of the Time, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Paintings-The Extended Field, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (traveled to Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden)
Un-frieden, sabotage von wirklichkeiten-discord, sabotage of realities-, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
Abstrakt/Real, Museum of Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
NHK Exhibition of the Heart, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Light, Moves, Sounds, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
1995 Border Crawl, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Art in Japan Today 1985-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Minimal Form, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Japan Today, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (traveled to Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway / Waino Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland / Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden / MAK-Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria)
Age of Anxiety, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
The 6th Triennale Kleinplastik, Sudwest LB Forum, Stuttgart, Germany
Fifty Years After: The Artists Who Have No Experience About The War, Museum of Modern Art, Tokushima, Japan
1994 On the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the End of the Century, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan
Japanese Art after 1945-Scream against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan, (traveled to Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States/Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco/ Yerba Buena Garden, San Francisco)
Art Labyrinth: the Viewpoint of Japanese Contemporary Art, Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
Mito Annual'94: Open System, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio, United States (traveled to Gallery of Contemporary Art at University of Colorado, United States/ Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, United States)
Asian Art Now, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
InSITE 94, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe Depot, United States
BLACK, HAENAH-KENT Gallery, New York, United States
A Muse Land 94, Hokkaido Museum of Contemporary Art, Hokkaido, Japan
1993 Aperto 93, The 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
The 2nd Kitakyushu Biennale, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
Nagoya International Biennale-Artec'93, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
Exchange 2, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
In Their Own Image, P.S.1 Museum, New York, United States
Trade Routes, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, United States
Invisible Realities, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1992 By Arrangement, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
My Sweet Home in Ruins-Urban Environment and Art in Japan, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Museum City Project, Fukuoka, Japan
Art Scene of the 1990's, Namba City Art Hall, Osaka, Japan
1991 New York Diary-Almost twenty-five different things, P.S.1 Museum, New York, United States
1988 Iwakuni Outdoor Art Project '88, Kintai Bridge on Nishiki River, Yamaguchi, Japan
The Critical Point in Art '88, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1987 The 7th Hamamatsu Open-air Exhibition, Sandhill at Nakatajima, Shizuoka, Japan
Underground Art Exhibition in Oya's Document Show, Gallery Parergon ll, Tokyo, Japan
PARTY2 Shibaura Art Festival, Tokyo, Japan
Art-move in Okurayama, Okurayama Memorial Hall, Kanagawa, Japan
Kanagawa Art Annual'87, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Kanagawa, Japan
Art Document '87, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
Akimoto Yuji and Yanagi Yukinori: Field, Situation and Encounter, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1986 The 6th Hamamatsu Open-air Exhibition, Sandhill at Nakatajima, Shizuoka, Japan
Underground Art Exhibition in Oya, Oya Stone Mine, Tochigi, Japan
1985 The 17th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (traveled Kyoto City Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan)
Tokorozawa Open-air Exhibition, Tokorozawa Aviation Memorial Park, Saitama, Japan
2023 Conversation, Junnosuke Miyazaki with Chizuru Kawanami and Yukinori Yanagi, 105MaGALLERY, Kokura, Fukuoka, Japan
Conversation,Yukinori Yanagi×Genbei Yamaguchi (Obi Artisan), Sumiya Kiho-an, Kyoto, Japan
2022 Artist Talk, 105MaGALLERY, Kokura, Fukuoka, Japan
Conversation, Remembering Osamu Ikeda with Miyako Ishiuchi and Yukinori Yanagi, BankART Station, Yokohama, Japan
Artist Talk, Nyukon Inn, Tsunagi Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
2021 Artist Talk, ISHIDAMA Garden, Tsunagi Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Conversation, Sang-jung Kang ×Yukinori Yanagi on YUKINORI YANAGI TSUNAGI PROJECT2021 - Beyond the Epilogue, Tsunagi Art Museum YouTube channel
Conversation, Aileen Smith×Yukinori Yanagi, Tsunagi Art Museum YouTube channel
Conversation, Yukinori Yanagi × Mami Kataoka on Wandering Position 1988-2021, ANOMALY, Tokyo, Japan
2020 Symposium, Man, Woman, Nude and Art, Tsunagi Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan, Speaker:Naoyuki Kinoshita, Yukinori Yanagi, Nodoka Odawara
Conversation, The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, Speaker: Kunihiro Noda, Koji Nakao, Yukinori Yanagi, Goro Murayama, Koji Aikyo
2019 Symposium, Travelers Through a Hundred Ages, ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Hiroshima, Japan, Speaker:Yoko Shida, Shuji Shimamoto, Shing02, Yukinori Yanagi
Conversation, Yukinori Yanagi Tsunagi Project, Tsunagi Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan, Speaker:Tazsu Nishi, Yukinori Yanagi, Moderator:Tomoo Kusumoto
Artist Roundtable, PART II - PARERGON: JAPANESE ART OF THE 1980S AND 1990S, JAPAN HOUSE Salon, Los Angeles, United States, Artists: Kenjiro Okazaki, Yukinori Yanag i, Kenji Yanobe, Curator: Mika Yoshitake
2018 Artist Talk, Chu Enoki×Yukinori Yanagi×Hitoshi Dehara, ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Hiroshima, Japan
Symposium, Open Storage 2018, MASK (MEGA ART STORAGE KITAKAGAYA), Osaka, Japan, Speaker: Satoshi Uchida, Yukinori Yanagi, Yasuyuki Korekawa, Osamu Ikeda, Yoshikazu Shibakawa, Moderator:Chieko Kinoshita
Lecture, On My Works, Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori, Japan, Interviewer: Shinichiro Ozaki
2017 Lecture, Contemporary Art and Onomichi -ONOMICHI ART CROSSROADS + A Corridor of Art through the Seas and Mountains, Satellite Studio of Onomichi City University, Hiroshima, Japan, Speaker: Tamaki Ono,Koji Nakao,Yukinori Yanagi,Motoi Yamamoto
Lecture, Art Exhibition in Kochi, The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
Lecture, YUKINORI YANAGI, Tokyo Art University, Japan
2016 Lecture, Wandering Position, Musashino Art University,Tokyo, Japan
Lecture, Wandering Position, Tokyo Art University, Japan
Conversation, BankART School -Dialog with Yukinori Yanagi, BankART studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan, Guest: Fram Kitagawa, Hitoshi Dehara, Akira Tatehata, Rieko Osaka, Miyako Ishiuchi, Noriyuki Haraguchi, Takahiro Iwasaki,Tetsuto Mizuguchi, Genki Isayama, Miharu Imai, Misaki Ohashi, Toru Kashihara, Kentaro Yagi, Koji Nakao, Ryuta Imafuku, Koki Tanaka
Lecture, Innovative City Forum 2016 Art & Creativity Session 2 -The Japan Foundation Asia Center Session- Lifestyles in asia in the future -Ideas from history,culture, and the environment-, Toranomon Hills,Tokyo,Japan, Speaker: Ang Ming Chee, Vo Trong Nghia, Yukinori Yanagi, Moderator: Fumio Nanjo
2015 Lecture, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo's 20th Anniversary Talk -Politics of Art, Tokyo, Japan, Moderator: Tanaka Koki
Lecture, Institute of Art, Hiroshi Senju The Super Art School, Tokyo, Japan, Guest: Hiroshi Senju,Toyomi Hoshina, Noboru Tsubaki, Miwa Yanagi, Yukinori Yanagi
Lecture, The 8th Emerging Artists Support Program(part 2), Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Lecture, MedicaLINE Co., Ltd 20th Anniversary Memorial Lecture", Tokyo, Japan
Lecture, Hiroshima YMCA, Hiroshima, Japan, Panelists: Kenjiro Okazaki, Yukinori Yanagi, Yukio Horio, Moderator: Kyoko Heya
Lecture, Kinojojuku, Kinojo Golf Club, Okayama, Japan
Lecture, Tokyo Wander Site Hongo, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Lecture, Academy Hills 49, Tokyo, Japan, Speaker: Seiichiro Yonekura, Yukinori Yanagi, Moderator: Mami Kataoka ICI（Independent Curators International)
Seminar, Mori Art Museum Library and Meeting Room 10F, Tokyo, Japan
Lecture, Koganecho Art School 2013, Studio Site-D, Kanagawa, Japan
CONTEMPORARY ART FORUM, Art at Large: Artmaking in the Long View "ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION The Ongoing Life of Art: Urban Interventions and Artistic Practice, Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States, Moderated by Sally Tallant(Artistic Director of the Liverpool Biennial)
Lecture, Saga University Faculty of Culture and Education, Saga, Japan
2012 Lecture for JFE Steel, Rihga Royal Hotel, Hiroshima, Japan
Lecture, Creative Use of Abandoned Houses and Lands, ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Hiroshima, Japan Speaker, Tamaki Ono, Kentaro Yagi, Yukinori Yanagi
2011 TORIDE ART PATH 2011 -Kokoro Yureru. What does it mean to do art in Japan?, Tokyo University of the Arts Toride Campus, Ibaraki, Japan, Guest speaker: Yukinori Yanagi, Yuko Kumakura and others
GEIDAI TAITO SUMIDA Sightseeing Art Project -The Presence of Tourism and Art, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Speaker: Yukinori Yanagi, Yusaku Imamura, Taneo Kato, Michiaki Koshikawa, Kazuhiko Hachiya and others
The OPEN STUDIO Guest talk, Wandering Position-The Trail with My Compass, TWS Aoyama: Creator- in Residence, Tokyo, Japan
2010 Artist Talk, MAGIC ROOM ???(NADiff A/P/A/R/T 4F), Tokyo, Japan, Interviewer: Makoto Murata
Symposium of Setouchi International Art Festival 2010, Okayama International Center, Okayama, Japan, Speaker: Fram Kitagawa, Yukinori Yanagi, Kazaeo Sejima, Yuko Hasegawa, Soichiro Fukutake, Moderator: Wakato Ohnishi
2009 The Press Conference of Setouchi International Art Festival, Hillside Plaza,Tokyo, Japan, Participating Artists: Lee U-Fan, Rei Naito, Noe Aoki, and Yukinori Yanagi
Symposium, Into the Atomic Sunshine - Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9, Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan, Panelist: Yukinori Yanagi, Yuken Teruya, Tsutomu Makishi, Mao Ishikawa, Toyomitsu Higa, Coordinator: Shinya Watanabe
The Portfolio Meeting -Two Meetings for the Arts, NOGE Hana＊Hana, Kanagawa, Japan, Commentator: Yukinori Yanagi , Eriko Ousaka, Organizer: AAN (Art Autonomy Network)
Symposium, Migration and Expression, Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Key-note address: Ryuta Imafuku , Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan, Panelist: Yukinori Yanagi, Trinh T. Minh‑ha, Yuken Teruya, >Coordinator: Maetakenishi Kazuma
Symposium, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan, Panelist: Yukie Kamiya, Yoshiyuki Furutani, Hiro Matsuda, Meruro Washida, Yukinori Yanagi, Coordinator: Kajiya Kenji
2008 Lecture, An Environmental Technique, Hillside Terrace, Tokyo, Japan, Speaker: Yukinori Yanagi, Takahiro Iwasaki and others
Symposium, From Naoshima to the Inland Sea, Outdoor locations in Tsumuura area of Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan, Panelist: Takeki Manabe, Takao Hamada, Chiyoko Todaka, Yukinori Yanagi, Facilitator: Fram Kitagawa, Mariko Kamoi
Lecture, Hiroshima Art Project 2008-Brackish Water Area, Hiroshima, Japan
Opening Symposium, Article 9, Post-War Japan, and Post-War Japanese Art, Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan, Panelist: Masakuni Ohta, Kunio Suzuki, Yukinori Yanagi, and other
Lecture, Hiroshima Art Management Laboratory, Hiroshima City Plaza for Town Development through Citizen Exchange, Hiroshima, Japan, Panelist: Yanagi Yukinori, Kitagawa Fram
Symposium, Let's talk about Spaces for Studying and Thinking about Art, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan, Panelist: Toshimitsu Ito, Hiroshi Kasahara, Yukinori Yanagi and other from Hiroshima City University, Moderator: Yukie Kamiya from Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Artist Talk, Camp Berlin About Hiroshima Art Project, BVG, Berlin, Germany
2007 Symposium, History and Art of the Inland Sea: To International Art Festival in the Inland Sea (tentative name), Kagawa, Japan, Panelists: Tomotoshi Okaichi, Fram Kitagawa, Souichiro Fukutake, Yukinori Yanagi
Symposium, Visual Art Forum: Between Arts, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, Panelists: Lee Young Chul, Kwon Young Gull, Yukinori Yanagi
Panel Discussion, Art's "Site" and "Knowledge": Between the Local Communities and the Universities, Hiroshima Aster Plaza, Hiroshima, Japan, Panelist :Tatsuo Miyajima, Tsukasa Mori, Kenji Kajiya, Yukinori Yanagi
Symposium, Role of Art in the Local Communities: Hiroshima Art Project, The Former Naka Waste Incineration Plant Art Project, Hiroshima City Naka Waste Incineration Plant, Hiroshima, Japan, Panelist: Osamu Ikeda, Shingo Yamano, Tsukasa Mori, Naoki Takeda,Masahiro Nakajima, Yoshie Okamoto, Yukinori Yanagi
Artist Talk, On the Former Naka Waste Incineration Plant Art Project: Proposing Creative Culture City Hiroshima, Hiroshima City Plaza for Town Development through Citizen Exchange, Hiroshima, Japan
Artist Talk, Inujima Art Project and the Former Naka Waste Incineration Plant Art Project, BankART 1929, Yokohama, Japan
2005 Artist Presentation, Kippy's Kamp, Acadia Summer Art Program, Maine, United States
Artist Talk, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Cross Talk, Dream of Soaring, Fukuoka City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, Panelists: Kazuhiko Hachiya, Hiroshi Fuji, Yukinori Yanagi
2004 Artist Talk, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Lecture, Hiroshima City University Faculty of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2003 Artist Talk, Coal Mine Tagawa Summer Seminar, Fukuoka, Japan
2002 Artist Talk, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Artist Talk, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, United States
Lecture, University of Ohio, Athens, United States
Lecture, University of Richmond, Virginia, United States
Lecture, Tenjin Art School, Fukuoka, Japan
2001 Dialogue, Inside Studios, Japan Society, New York, United States, Panelists: Naoyoshi Hikosaka (artist) and Reiko Tomii (art historian), Yukinori Yanagi
2000 Artist Talk, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1999 Artist Talk, National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, Netherlands
Artist Presentation, Kippy's Kamp, Acadia Summer Art Program, Maine, United States
1998 Artist Talk, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
1996 Artist Talk, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, United States, Interviewer: Lydia Matthews
1995 Symposium, VJ50/Re-considered, Peter Blum, New York, United States, Panelists：James Shenton, Kyoko Inoue, Reiko Tomii, Yukinori Yanagi, Moderator: Jane Farver
Lecture, Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo, Japan
1994 Dialogue with Masashi Ogura (art critic) , Fei Dawei (art critic), Art Vivant, Tokyo, Japan
Symposium Mito Annual '94,Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, Panelists：Hiroshi Kariya, Ritsuko Taho, Cai Guo Qiang and Yukinori Yanagi, Moderator: Seiichi Watanabe (curator)
Conversation, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, Speaker: Azby Brown, Hidetoshi Fuse, Yukinori Yanagi
Symposium, National and cultural identity, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, New York, United States, Panelists: Lowry Sins, Bert-Winther Tamaki, Lorna Simpson, Yukinori Yanagi, Moderator: Bruce Artsshuler
1993 Artist Talk, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
Artist Talk, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
1992 Lecture, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
Artist Talk, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Moderator: Junichi Shioda
1991 Artist Talk, Lehman College, New York, United States
Artist Talk, University of California Santa Barbara School of Art, California, United States
1990 Artist Talk, Wandering Position, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1989 Artist Talk, Yale University, Artist in Residence in Norfolk, Connecticut, United States
1988 Dialogue with Arata Tani (art critic), Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1987 Dialogue with Yuji Akimoto, So Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Moderator: Hiroshi Yasuda
Inujima Seirensho Art Museum (Fukutake Foundation), Okayama, Japan
The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Tokushima, Japan
Benesse Holdings. Inc, Okayama, Japan
Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Fukuoka Asian Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
Tsunagi Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, United States
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, United States
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, United States
New York Public Library, New York, United States
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Boston, United States
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, United States
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, United States
List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, United States
Swiss Bank Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut, United States
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine, United States
Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, United States
Glenstone, Washington D.C, United States
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Bayerische Vereinsbank, Munich, Germany
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Wien, Austria
O Museum, Bangkok, Thailand
Museum Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara, Jakarta, Indonesia,
MVCA, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia