Born 1987 in Shizuoka Prefecture
2010 Graduated from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Department of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Major
2012 Completed Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Graduate School of Fine Arts Research, Oil Painting and Printmaking Field
Concept
Scribbles that I drew frequently as a child.
I never tired of drawing people’s faces no matter how many times I drew them. And that hasn’t changed even now. The reason I continue to paint people is greatly influenced by my father, who works as a portrait painter. Raised surrounded by the portrait paintings my father created, I would freely imagine the lives of the people depicted in them. Unlike my father’s portrait paintings, the people I paint do not exist in reality. These are portrait paintings depicting the traces or possibilities of people who could not have existed in reality. I do not know them well. However, I can imagine their lives from their appearance. The lives of these people who can only exist within the painting.
Major Exhibition History
“2010 Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2010 (Gyōkō Underground Gallery / Tokyo)
via art 2010 (Shinwa Art Museum / Tokyo)
2011 Sato International Cultural Scholarship Foundation 20th Scholarship Recipients Art Exhibition (Sato Museum of Art / Tokyo)
Solo Exhibition (Gallery 16 [APERTO] / Kyoto)
2013 WONDER SEEDS 2013 (Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo / Tokyo)
Tokyo Wonder Wall Open Call 2013 Selected Works Exhibition (Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo / Tokyo)
2014 WONDER SEEDS 2014 (Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya / Tokyo)
Tokyo Wonder Wall Open Call 2014 Selected Works Exhibition (Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo / Tokyo)
2015 Solo Exhibition (REIJINSHA GALLERY / Tokyo)
2016 “INTERWOVEN – Woven Generations” (Nagoya Citizens Gallery Yada / Aichi)
2017 Solo Exhibition (REIJINSHA GALLERY / Tokyo)
“25 Artists: Sato International Cultural Scholarship Foundation 25th Anniversary Commemorative Scholarship Recipients Selection” (Sato Museum of Art / Tokyo)
“Intent Entrusted to Figures: Yu Anthony Yamada × Yu Kawashima” (Hamamatsu City Akino Fuku Museum of Art / Shizuoka)
2018 Solo Exhibition (REIJINSHA GALLERY / Tokyo)
SHIBUYA STYLE vol.12 (Seibu Shibuya Store / Tokyo)
2019 4 People Named YU Exhibition (Edakoan Flat / Tokyo)
2020 Solo Exhibition “Light and Shadows” (REIJINSHA GALLERY / Tokyo)
Umetsutsu Yoichi Curated Exhibition “Full Frontal: Nude Circulator” (MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY / Tokyo)
2021 Solo Exhibition “fragments” (REIJINSHA GALLERY / Tokyo)”
Award
2010 Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2010 Selected
2013 Tokyo Wonder Wall 2013 Selected
2014 Tokyo Wonder Wall 2014 Selected
2023 26th Taro Okamoto Contemporary Art Prize Selected
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