Yanagi Yukinori / Lives and works in Onomichi, Japan
1959 Born in Fukuoka, Japan
1983 BFA in painting, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1985 MFA in painting, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1990 MFA in sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
2005-15 Associate Professor, Faculty of Art, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan
Grants: Prizes and Awards
1986 Prize: Art Document '87
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
1993 Fellowship and award: Yale University, School of Art and Architecture
Grant: Asian Cultural Council: Japan-United States Arts Program
Award: Aperto'93, 45th Venice Biennale
1995 Prize: 6th Gotoh Memorial Foundation
Artist-in-Residence
1993 International Studio Program, P.S.1 Museum, New York, NY, United States
1999 Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mount Desert, ME, United States
2002 Headland Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, United States
2005 Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mount Desert, ME, United States
Projects
2012- ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Hiroshima, Japan
2010 Inujima Art House Project, Okayama, Japan photo
2008- Kosagijima BIO-Isle Project, Hiroshima, Japan
2008 Inujima Art Project "SEIRENSHO", Okayama, Japan photo
1996 Field Work on Alcatraz, San Francisco, United States photo Directed Art Projects2018 ART BASE MOMOSHIMA "CROSSROAD 3 -Man! Fight and Secure a Place to Live"
Artist: Chu ENOKI and YANAGI Yukinori feat.Momoshima Hyper Factory
Momoshima, Onomichi, Hiorshima, japan
2017 ART BASE MOMOSHIMA "CROSSROAD 2"
Artist: ISHIUCHI Miyako, HARAGUCHI Noriyuki and YANAGI Yukinori
Momoshima, Onomichi, Hiorshima, japan
2014 ART BASE MOMOSHIMA "CROSSROAD"
Artist: ISHIUCHI Miyako, HARAGUCHI Noriyuki, Bruce CONNER
and YANAGI Yukinori
Momoshima, Onomichi, Hiorshima, japan
2012 ART BASE MOMOSHIMA Special Exhibition"YANAGI×HARAGUCHI"
Momoshima, Onomichi, Hiorshima, 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
One-Person Exhibitions
2020 YUKINORI YANAGI Tsunagi Project 2020 -Monologue and Dialogue
Tsunagi Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
2019 YUKINORI YANAGI
Blum & Poe Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2019 YUKINORI YANAGI Tsunagi Project 2019 - Prologue
Tsunagi Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
2017 YUKINORI YANAGI -UNION JACK-
Ticolat Tamura, Hong Kong, China
2016 "Yukinori Yanagi"
Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan
2016 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, Japan
Inujima Art House Project, Okayama, Japan photo
2009 MONEY on view
Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Inujima Art Project “SEIRENSHO”, Okayama, Japan photo
2005 Icarus Project
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan photo
2002 Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
YUKICHI KV644955H
Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium, Fukuoka, Japan photo
2000 Akitsushima
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan photo
1999 New Work
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, United States
1998 Image, Nation and Transnation
University Art Gallery, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, United States
1997 Wandering Position
Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK photo
Beaver College Art Gallery, Philadelphia, United States photo
Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland photo
Pacific
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, United States photo
Alcatraz
Peter Blum, New York, United States more info
Pacific
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan photo
1996 Field Work on Alcatraz
Capp Street Project, San Francisco, United States photo
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1995 Project Article 9
The Queens Museum of Art, New York, United States photo
Project Article 9
Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka, Japan photo
The Chrysanthemum Carpet
Peter Blum, New York, United States photo
Matrix 128
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, United States
University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara,
Santa Barbara, United States
1994 Union Jack Ant Farm
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK photo
1993 Hammer and Sickle
Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1992 YANAGI
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan photo
Wandering Position
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum-Benesse House, Kagawa, Japan photo
1991 Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, United States photo
From the Notebook during the Stay in America
Sho Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
—Hi‐no‐maru—1991
Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan photo
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 photo
1990 Wandering Position
Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Store front for Art and Architecture, New York, United States photo
Master’s Thesis Show
Yale University Art and Architecture Gallery, New Haven, United States photo
1988 PLANαM —transform
Gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan photo
Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan photo
Ten Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
Gallery21, Fukuoka, Japan
Ground Fishing Project Document
Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan,
Sokasha, Shimane, Japan,
Michiko Fine Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1987 Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan photo
1986 Ground
Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Kanagawa, Japan photo
Gallery Center Point, Gallery Natsuka, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2020 2020-2 Collection Highlight & Special Feature: Portraits of Self and Others
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Hiroshima, Japan
NMAO Collection vol.01
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
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, Texas
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 Exhibition Gallery B2F
Tokyo, Japan
Creatures -When Species Meet
CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER
Cincinnati, United States
ART BOOK/ART GOODS
BankART Station
Kanagawa, Japan
The Ys from the Hara Museum Collection
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
Tokyo, Japan
Mr. Ace X-O. Modern
4F, Okayama City Museum
Okayama, Japan
PART II - PARERGON: JAPANESE ART OF THE 1980S AND 1990S
Blum&Poe, Los Angeles
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
Blum&Poe, Los Angeles
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
Kanagawa, 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
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
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
Jacarta, Indnesia
CROSSROAD 2
ONOMICHI ART CROSSROADS-
ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Onomichi Warehouse No.3 etc.
Onomichi, Japan
Yokohama Triennale 2017 -Islands,Constellations & Galapagos
Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall
Yokohama, Japan
THE Greatest Story Ever Told-The Collecion 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
2016 Busan Biennale 2016
Busan Museum of Art, KISWIRE Suyeong Factory
Busan, South Korea
The Exhibition of the Yokohama Museum of Art: Collection 2016 part 2
Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
2015 ART BASE MOMOSHIMA "Do Ho Suh,Tatzu Nishi,Yukinori Yanagi-"
ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Nissho-Kan
Hiroshima, Japan
Kosagi Island Bio-Isle Project "TIDE WATER Hiroshi Senju x Yukinori Yanagi"
BH2, Kosagi Island ,Mihara
Hiroshima, Japan
25 Openings to Enjoy the Human Expression of the Museum's 25th Anniversary
Tokushima Modern Art Museum
Tokushima, Japan
2014 ART BASE MOMOSHIMA "CROSSROAD"
Nishigosho Prefectural Warehouse No. 3, ART BASE MOMOSHIMA,
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, Kanagawa, Japan
ART BASE 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 States
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
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, Fukuoka, Japan
Fukuoka City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2012 Japan · Art work at the end of the 20th century
The Museum of Art, Kochi, Kochi, Japan
MOT Collection Our Ninety Years: 1923-2013 Afterimages of tommorrow
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
ART BASE MOMOSHIMA Opening Exhibition
ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Hiroshima, Japan
Liverpool Biennial 2012
Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool, United Kingdom
2011 XXX Thirty Years Peter Blum Edition
Peter Blum Soho, New York, United States
The 8th Mercosul Biennial
Porto Alegre, Brazil photo
WORKS IN PROGRESS Hitoshi Nomura, Sigmar Polke, Yukinori Yanagi
McCaffrey Fine Art, New York, United States photo
2010 Cheer up! Art can make you happy-Selections from the Hara Museum Collection
Hara Museum ARC, Contemporary Art Galleries A・B・C, Gunma, Japan
20th Anniversary of the Gotoh Memorial Foundation
The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Setouchi International Art Festival 2010
Seven Islands of the Seto Inland Sea, Okayama, Japan photo
2009 Boundary
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshma, Japan
Into the Atomic Sunshine in Okinawa:
Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9
Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan photo
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, Kanagawa, Japan
Shelter×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
Geldscheisser in the Vault
The former Hiroshima Branch of the Bank of Japan, Hiroshima, Japan photo
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 Yukinori Yanagi: Chrysanthemum Carpet
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Singler Multiples : Peter Blum Edition 1980-1994
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, United States
In Focus: Living History
Tate Modern, London, UK
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia more info
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 (traveling exhibition)
Swarm
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, United States photo
Art Crossing Hiroshima Project 2005
Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste 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 photo
New Collection
Fukuoka Asian Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2003 Windstil
Cotthem Gallery, Brussel, Belgium
The 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 photo
From the collection: curated by Noi Sawaragi
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima Japan
The 2nd Fukuoka Triennale
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan photo
Cultural Crossing
Numak Gallery, Washington DC, United States
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, North Carolina, United States
Tokyo Pop
Kansas City Jewish Museum, Kansas City, United States
Talking Heads
Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2000 Diary
Corner House, Manchester, UK (travels to Firstsite, Corchester, UK)
Whitney Biennial
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States photo
Vanitas-meditation of life and death in contemporary art-
Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, United States photo
2000 Kwanju Biennale
Kwanju, Korea photo
Vacant lot
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Dark Mirrors of Japan
De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Umedalen Sculptur 2000
Galleri Stefan Anderson, 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 photo
Art Exhibition for Children 2000
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
10th Anniversary of Gotoh Memorial Foundation
Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1999 Relay Drawings: Eye, Hand, Other
Backnell University Art Gallery, Pennsylvania, United States
1998 Animal, Anima, Animus
Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
(travels to Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Netherlands,
PS1 Museum, New York, USA Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada) photo
Sehnsucht Helmat
Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria
Expression of Lines
National Museum of Art,Osaka, Japan
Taste and Persuits: Japanese art in the 1990
National Museum of India, New Dehli, India
(travels to Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila, Philippines) photo
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
Asian Contemporary Art: Where is it heading
Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
98’ Taipei Biennale: Site of Desire
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Relay Drawings: Eye, Hand, Other
Bucknell University Art Gallery, Pennsylvania, United States
1997 Aspects of Land and Soil
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan photo
The 50th anniversary of Nihon-Andepandan-Ten
Metropolitan Museum of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Atlas Mapping
Offenes Kulturhaus Linz, Austria (travels to Kunsthaus Bregenz and Magazin 4)
Changing Space
Miami Museum of Art, Miami, United States
The 4th L'autre, Biennale de Lyon
Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France photo
PROJECTS
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
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 photo
Islands
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia photo
Protean Artists of the Time
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan photo
The 2nd Asia-Pacific Triennial
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Universalis
The 23rd Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil photo
Paintings-The Extended Field
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall and Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden photo
Un-frieden, sabotage von wirklichkeiten-discord, sabotage of realities-
Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany photo
1995 Border Crawl
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Art in Japan Today-1985-1995
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Minimal Form
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan photo
Japan Today
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark photo
(travels to Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway,
Waino Aaltoner Museum of Art, Turku, Finland,
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden,
Osterreichisches Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria,
and Daichtorhallen, Hamburg)
Age of Anxiety
Power Plant, Toronto, Canada photo
6 Triennale Kleinplastik
Sudwest LB Forum, Stuttgart, Germany
Fifty Years After
Museum of Modern Art, Tokushima, Japan photo
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
Art Labyrinth
Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
Mito Annual'94, Open System
Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan photo
Old Glory
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio, United States
(travels to Gallery of Contemporary Art at University of Colorado, Colorado,
and Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona)
Japanese Art after 1945-Scream against the Sky
Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States photo
(travels to Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco and
Yerba Buena Garden, San Francisco)
Asian Art Now
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan photo
Insite'94
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Santafe Depot, United States photo
BLACK
HAENAH-KENT Gallery, New York, United States
A Muse Land 94’
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan
1993 Aperto'93, The 45th Venice Biennale
Venice, Italy photo
In Their Own Image
PS1 Museum, New York, United States
Nagoya International Biennale-Artec’93
Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan photo
Exchange 2
Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Trade Routes
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, United States
Invisible Realities
Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
1992 The 2nd Kitakyushu Biennale
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
By Arrangement
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
My Sweet Home in Ruins-Urban Envinronment and Art in Japan
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan photo
Museum City Project, Fukuoka, Japan
1991 New York Diary-Almost twenty-five different things
PS1 Museum, New York, United States photo
1988 Iwakuni Outdoor Art Project '88
Kintai Bridge on Nishiki River, Yamaguchi, Japan photo
Critical Art Phrases '88
Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1987 The 7th Hamamatsu Open-Air Exhibition
Sandhill at Nakatajima, Shizuoka, Japan
PARTY2 Shibaura Art Festival
Tokyo, Japan
Art-move in Okurayama
Okurayama Memorial Hall, Kanagawa, Japan photo
Kanagawa Art Annual'87
Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Kanagawa, Japan photo
Art Document '87
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan photo
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 photo
Underground Art Exhibition in Oya
Oya Stone Mine, Tochigi, Japan photo
1985 The 17th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan
Metropolitan Museum of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Tokorozawa Open-Air Exhibition
Tokorozawa Aviation Memorial Park, Saitama, Japan
Public Collections
Inujima Art Project “SEIRENSHO” 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 Art Site Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan more info
Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan more info
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Fukuoka Asian Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Hiroshima City: Grant for Commission Work,
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, 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
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Tate Gallery, London, UK more info
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
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, United States
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, United States
List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, United States
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Swiss Bank Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut, United States
Bayerische Vereinsbank, Munchen, Germany
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Wien, Austria
O Museum, Bangkok, Thailand
Museum Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara, Jakarta, Indonesia
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine, United States
Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, Texas, United States
Lectures and Symposiums
2020 Symposium
"Man, Woman, Nude and Art"
Speaker:Naoyuki Kinoshita, Yukinori Yanagi, Nodoka Odawara
Tsunagi Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Online Discussion
Speaker:Kunihiro Noda, Koji Nakao, Yukinori Yanagi, Goro Murayama, Koji Aikyo
The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan
2019 Symposium
"Travelers Through a Hundred Ages"
Speaker:Yoko Shida, Shuji Shimamoto, Shing02, Yukinori Yanagi
ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Hiroshima, Japan
Artist Talk
"YUKINORI YANAGI TSUNAGI PROJECT"
Speaker:Tazsu Nishi, Yukinori Yanagi
Moderator:Tomoo Kusumoto
Tsunagi Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Artist Roundtable
"PART II - PARERGON: JAPANESE ART OF THE 1980S AND 1990S"
Artists:Kenjiro Okazaki, Yukinori Yanagi, Kenji Yanobe
Curator Mika Yoshitake
JAPAN HOUSE Salon, Los Angeles, United States
2018 Altist Talk
"Chu Enoki×Yukinori Yanagi×Hitoshi Dehara"
Speaker:Chu Enoki, Hitoshi Dehara, Yukinori Yanagi
ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Hiroshima, Japan
Lecture
"Talk about my works"
Speaker:Yukinori Yanagi, Shinichiro Ozaki
Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori, Japan
Symposium
"Open Storage 2018"
Speaker:Satoshi Uchida, Yukinori Yanagi, Yasuyuki Korekawa,
Osamu Ikeda, Yoshikazu Shibakawa
Moderator:Chieko Kinoshita
MASK [MEGA ART STORAGE KITAKAGAYA], Osaka, Japan
2017 Lecture
"Contmeporary Art and Onomichi"
ONOMICHI ART CROSSROADS
+ A Corridor of Art through the Seas and Mountains
Speaker:Tamaki Ono,Koji Nakao,Yukinori Yanagi,Motoi Yamamoto
Satellite Studio of Onomichi City University, Hiroshima, Japan
Judge and Lecture
Art Exhbition in Kochi
The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
LeLcture
"YUKINORI YANAGI"
Tokyo Art University,Tokyo, Japan
2016 Lecture
"Wandering Position"
Musashino Art University,Tokyo, Japan
Lecture
Innovative City Forum 2016
Art & Creativity Session 2 -The Japan Foundation Asia Center Session-
"Lifestyles in asia in the future -Ideas from history,curture, and the environment-"
Moderator:Fumio Nanjo
Speker:Ang Ming Chee, Vo Trong Nghia,Yukinori Yanagi
Toranomon Hills,Tokyo,Japan photo
Lecture
Wandering Position
Tokyo Art University,Tokyo, Japan photo
BankART school "Dialog with Yukinori Yanagi"
Guest: Furamu Kitagawa,Hitoshi Dehara,Akira Tatehata,Rieko Ohsaka,
Miyako Ishiuchi,Noriyuki Haraguchi,Takahiro Iwasaki,Tetsuto Mizuguchi,
Genki Isayama,Miharu Imai,Misaki Ohhashi,Toru Kashihara,
Kentaro Yagi,Koji Nakao,Ryuta Imafuku,Koki Tanaka
Yokohama, Japan
2015 Lecture
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo’s 20th Anniversary Talk “Politics of Art”
Moderator: Tanaka Koki
Tokyo, Japan
Lecture
Institute of art, Hiroshi Senju The Super Art School
Guest Lecture: SENJYU Hiroshi, HOSHINA Toyomi, TSUBAKI Noboru,
YANAGI Miwa, YANAGI Yukinori
Kyoto, Japan
Lecture
“The 8th Emerging Artists Support Program” (part 2)
Tokyo Wonder Site, Hongo
Tokyo, Japan
Lecture
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo’s 20th Anniversary Talk “Politics of Art”
Moderator: Tanaka Koki
Tokyo, Japan
2014 MedicaLINE Co., Ltd 20th Anniversary Memorial Lecture
Tokyo, Japan
Lecture
panelists: Kenjiro Okazaki, Yukinori Yanagi, Yukio Horio
moderator: Kyoko Heya
Hiroshima YMCA, Hiroshima, Japan
Lecture, KINOJOJUKU
Kinojo Golf Club, Okayama, Japan
Lecture
Tokyo Wander Site hongo, Tokyo, Japan photo
2013 Lecture
Academyhills 49, Tokyo, Japan
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"
Moderated by Sally Tallant, Artistic Director of the Liverpool Biennial
Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States photo
Lecture
Saga University Faculty of Culture and Education, Saga, Japan
2011 TORIDE ART PATH 2011 " kokoroyureru "
Guest speaker: Yukinori Yanagi, Yuko Kumakura and others
“What does it mean to do art in Japan?”
Tokyo University of the Arts, Toride Campus, Ibaraki, Japan photo
GEIDAI TAITO SUMIDA Sightseeing Art Project
Panelists: Yukinori Yanagi, Yusaku Imamura, Taneo Kato, Michiaki Koshikawa,
Kazuhiko Hachiya and others
“The Presence of Tourism and Art”
Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan
The OPEN STUDIO Guest talk
“Wandering Position- The trail with my compass”
TWS Aoyama: Creator- in Residence, Tokyo, Japan photo
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
Chairman: Wakato Ohnishi,
Panelists: Fram Kitagawa, Yukinori Yanagi, Kazuyo Sejima, Yuko Hasegawa,
Video chat: Soichiro Fukutake
2009 "The presentation of Setouchi International Art Festival for press"
Hillside Plaza,Tokyo, Japan
Participating artist: Lee U-Fan, Rei Naito, Noe Aoki, and Yukinori Yanagi
Symposium, Related Event of the Exhibition Into the Atomic Sunshine
"Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9"
Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Coordinator: Shinya Watanabe,
Panelist: Yukinori Yanagi, Yuken Teruya, Tsutomu Makishi, Mao Ishikawa,
Toyomitsu Higa
The portforio Meeting "Two Meetings for the Arts"
NOGE Hana＊Hana, Kanagawa, Japan
Commentator: Yanagi Yukinori, Ohsaka Eriko,
Organizer: AAN (Art Autonomy Network)
Symposium, Related Event of the Exhibition "Migration and Expression"
Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Key-note address: Imafuku Ryuta,
Coordinator: Maetakenishi Kazuma,
Panelist: Yanagi Yukinori, Trinh T. Minh‐ha, Teruya Yuken
Symposium
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Coordinator: Kajiya Kenji,
Panelist: Kamiya Yukie, Furutani Yoshiyuki, Matsuda Hiro, Washida Meruro,
Yanagi Yukinori
Interview
Haryu Ichiro, Aida Makoto, Ushiro Ryuta, Yanagi Yukinori and other
2008 Lecture “An environmental technique”
Hillside Terrace, Tokyo, Japan
Yanagi Yukinori, Iwasaki Takahiro and others
Symposium “from Naoshima to the Inland Sea”
Outdoor locations in Tsumu'ura area of Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan
Facilitator: Kitagawa Fram
Gest： Manabe Takeki, Hamada Takao, Todaka Chiyoko, Yanagi Yukinori
Chairman: Kamoi Mariko
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: Ohta Masakuni, Suzuki Kunio, Yanagi Yukinori, and other
Lecture, Hiroshima Art Management Laboratory
Hiroshima City Plaza for Town Development through Citizen Exchange, Hiroshima, Japan
Lecturer: 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: Hiroshima City University
(Ito Toshimitsu, Kasahara Hiroshi, Yanagi Yukinori and other)
moderated by Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Kamiya Yukie)
Artist talk, Camp Berlin, “about Hiroshima Art Project”
BVG, Berlin, German
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
Artist talk,“Yukinori Yanagi Talks about Everything 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”
Bank Art 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)
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,”moderated by Jane Farver
Peter Blum, New York, United States
Panelists：James Shenton, Kyoko Inoue, Reiko Tomii, Yukinori Yanagi,
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, moderated by Seiichi Watanabe (curator)
Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan,
Panelists：Hiroshi Kariya, Ritsuko Taho, Cai Guo Qiang and Yukinori Yanagi,
Sympojium, ”National and cultural identity,”moderated by Bruce Artsshuler
Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, New York, United States
Panelists: Lowry Sins, Bert-Winther Tamaki, Lorna Simpson, Yukinori Yanagi,
1993 Artist talk
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
Artist talk,
Yokohama Citizen’s Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
1992 Lecture
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
Artist talk
Setagaya Art Museum, moderated by Junichi Shioda, Tokyo
1991 Lecture
Lehman College, New York, United States
Lecture
University of California, Santa Barbara, School of Art, California, United States
1990 Lecture “ 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 (artist) moderated by Hiroshi Yasuda
So Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
