Yu Araki

Works

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Born in 1985, Yamagata City, Japan.
Lives and works in Kyoto.

2018 Guest resident, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2017 Guest resident, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea
2013 Tacita Dean Workshop, Villa Iris, Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain
2008-10 Master of Film and New Media Studies, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
2003-7 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, United States

Selected solo show

2023
“LONELY PLANETS”
Towada Art Center,
Aomori, Japan
2022
“SWEET ROOM”
RC HOTEL Kyoto Yasaka,
Kyoto, Japan
“BIVALVIA: ACT II”
MUJIN-TO Production,
Tokyo, Japan
2021
“HALFWAY HAPPY vol.4 YU ARAKI”
gallery aM,
Tokyo, Japan
“THREE DAYS, FIVE NIGHTS”
Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya,
Tochigi, Japan
2019
“RUSH HOUR”
CAI Contemporary Art Institute / CAI02,
Hokkaido, Japan
“LE SOUVENIR DU JAPON”
Shiseido Gallery,
Tokyo, Japan
“NEW APERITIF”
Spring Valley Brewery Kyoto,
Kyoto, Japan
2018
“LOST HIGHWAY (SWEDED)”
Volvo Studio Aoyama,
Tokyo, Japan
2017
“BIVALVIA: ACT I”
MUJIN-TO Production,
Tokyo, Japan
2016
“TEMPLE OF THE TEMPLET”
Art Gallery 1 / Café Ogurayama, Yokohama Museum of Art,
Kanagawa, Japan

Selected group show

2023
“Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023 Technology?”
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum,
Tokyo, Japan
2022
“Home-video Project: Tails Out”
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka,
Osaka, Japan
“"Man-Made Landscape", Hotel Asia Project”
Chengdu Times Art Museum,
Chengdu, China
2021
“ALTERNATIVE KYOTO: Imagination as a Form of “Capital””
Nantan,
Kyoto, Japan
“RESISTERE / RINASCERE”
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli,
Naples, Italy
“Home Sweet Home”
KORA Contemporary Arts Center,
Lecce, Italy
“Returning: Chapter 1”
Sydney Opera House,
Sydney, Australia (Online exhibition)
“11 Stories on Distanced Relationships: Contemporary Art from Japan”
Japan Foundation,
Japan (Online exhibition)
2020
“Everything You’ve Ever Wanted is On the Other Side of the Planet”
FRANZ JOSEFS KAI 3,
Vienna, Austria
“CONNECTIONS: 150 years of Modern Art in Japan and France”
Pola Museum of Art,
Kanagawa, Japan
“Film From Nowhere”
Yodo Projects + Kannai Bunko (Online film festival),
2019
“IMG”
Sprout Curation,
Tokyo, Japan
“CONTACT: Where the World Meets Japanese Art and Culture”
Joju-in, Kiyomizu Temple,
Kyoto, Japan
“The Island of the Colorblind”
Art Sonje Center,
Seoul, South Korea
“Future Generation Art Prize @ VENICE 2019”
Palazzo Ca’ Tron,
Venice, Italy
“Future Generation Art Prize Exhibition”
Pinchuk Art Centre,
Kyiv, Ukraine
2018
“The Myriad Forms of Visual Art: 200 Works with 19 Themes”
The National Museum of Art,
Osaka, Japan

Public collection

Ishikawa Foundation,
Okayama, Japan
Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya,
Tochigi, Japan
The National Museum of Art,
Osaka, Japan
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