Biography

Yanagi Yukinori

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-

Education

MFA in painting, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan, 1985
MFA in sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, United States, 1990

Awards and Grants

  • 1986Outstanding performance award, Art Document '87, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan

  • 1993Fellowship 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

  • 19956th Gotoh Memorial Foundation Award

Artist-in-Residence

  • 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

Art Projects

  • 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

Art Direction

  • 2024Tsutomu Iwasaki, 105MaGALLERY, Kokura, Fukuoka, Japan

  • 2023Yoshimi Inoue, 105MaGALLERY, Kokura, Fukuoka, Japan

    Junnosuke Miyazaki, 105MaGALLERY, Kokura, Fukuoka, Japan

  • 2022Tsunagi Art Museum Monorail, Kumamoto, Japan

  • 2021Sumiya Kiho-an Art Project, Kyoto, Japan

  • 2018ART BASE MOMOSHIMA Crossroad3, Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan

  • 2017ART BASE MOMOSHIMA Crossroad2, Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan

  • 2014ART BASE MOMOSHIMA Crossroad, Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan

  • 2012ART BASE MOMOSHIMA Opening exhibition Yukinori Yanagi x Noriyuki Haraguchi, Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan

  • 2010Hiroshima Art Project 2010, Hiroshima, Japan

  • 2009Hiroshima Art Project 2009, Hiroshima, Japan

  • 2008Hiroshima Art Project 2008 Brackish Water Area, Hiroshima, Japan

    Hiroshima Art Project 2008 Camp Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  • 2007Hiroshima Art Project 2007, Hiroshima, Japan

One-Person Exhibitions

  • 2026 YUKINORI YANAGI : El Mare Pacificum, Estación MAZ, Guadalajara, Mexico

  • 2025 YUKINORI YANAGI : ICARUS, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan

  • 2022YUKINORI YANAGI, 105MaGALLERY, Kokura, Fukuoka, Japan

  • 2021YUKINORI 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

  • 2020YUKINORI YANAGI TSUNAGI PROJECT 2020 - Monologue and Dialogue, Tsunagi Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan

  • 2019YUKINORI YANAGI, Blum&Poe Tokyo, Japan

    YUKINORI YANAGI TSUNAGI PROJECT 2019 - Prologue, Tsunagi Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan

  • 2017YUKINORI YANAGI -UNION JACK- , Ticolat Tamura, Hong Kong

  • 2016YUKINORI YANAGI, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan

    Wandering Position, BankART studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan

  • 2014MONEY / FLOWER, Michael Janssen Singapore, Lock Road, Singapore

    USSR, Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan

  • 2013New Works, Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan

  • 2012Study for American Art, Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan

  • 2010AMERICA, Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan

    Art House Project, Inujima, Okayama, Japan

  • 2009MONEY on view, Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan

  • 2008Inujima Art ProjectSEIRENSHO, Okayama, Japan

  • 2006Yukinori Yanagi: Chrysanthemum Carpet, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia

  • 2005Icarus Project, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

  • 2002Yukinori Yanagi, Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

    YUKICHI KV644955H, Mitsubishi-jisho Artium, Fukuoka, Japan

  • 2000Akitsushima, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

  • 1999New Work, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, United States

  • 1998Image, Nation and Transnation, University Art Gallery, University of California at Irvine, United States

  • 1997Wandering 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

  • 1996Field Work on Alcatraz, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, United States

    Yukinori Yanagi, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

  • 1995Project 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

  • 1994Union Jack Ant Farm, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK

  • 1993Hammer and Sickle, Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

  • 1992YANAGI, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

    Wandering Position, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan

  • 1991Yukinori 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

  • 1990Wandering 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

  • 1989Hammond 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

  • 1987Yukinori Yanagi, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

  • 1986Ground, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Kanagawa, Japan

    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

Group Exhibitions

  • 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

  • 2025The 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

  • 2021Ad-Diriyah Biennale: Feeling the Stone, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia

    Mountains Carrying Suns, Blum & Poe Tokyo, Japan

  • 20202020-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

  • 2019Travelers 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

  • 2018CROSSROAD 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

  • 2017Art 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, Japan

    Busan Biennale 2016, Busan Museum of Art/KISWIRE Suyeong Factory, Busan, South Korea

  • 2015Do 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

  • 2014CROSSROAD, 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

  • 2013Beyond 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

  • 2012MOT 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

  • 2011XXX 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

  • 2010Cheer 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

  • 2009Boundary, 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

  • 2008Please 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

  • 2007Himming 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

  • 2006Singular 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

  • 2005Ars 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

  • 2004Adventures 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

  • 2003Windstil, 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

  • 2002Money 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

  • 2001Made 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

  • 2000Diary, 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

  • 1999Mystery Museum, Hamada Children's Museum of Art, Shimane, Japan

  • 1998Animal, 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)

  • 1997Aspects 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

  • 1996Eastern 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

  • 1995Border 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

  • 1994On 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

  • 1993Aperto 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

  • 1992By 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

  • 1991New York Diary-Almost twenty-five different things, P.S.1 Museum, New York, United States

  • 1988Iwakuni Outdoor Art Project '88, Kintai Bridge on Nishiki River, Yamaguchi, Japan

    The Critical Point in Art '88, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

  • 1987The 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

  • 1986The 6th Hamamatsu Open-air Exhibition, Sandhill at Nakatajima, Shizuoka, Japan

    Underground Art Exhibition in Oya, Oya Stone Mine, Tochigi, Japan

  • 1985The 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

Talk & Discussion

  • 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 Art Museum, Fukuoka, 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

  • Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo, Japan

  • Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, 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

  • The Bukhman Foundation, London, United Kingdom

  • Dib Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

Museum and Public Collection

  • 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 Art Museum, Fukuoka, 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

  • Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo, Japan

  • Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, 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

  • Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey, United States

  • The Bukhman Foundation, London, United Kingdom

  • Dib Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand