Profile
Born in 1962 in Suwa City, Nagano Prefecture
Graduated from Nagano Prefectural Chino High School
1984 Began working as an illustrator for the magazine “BRUTUS”
Subsequently worked on books, advertisements, animations, and other projects in addition to magazines
Started creating three-dimensional works from 2014
TIS member
Major Exhibition History
【Solo Exhibitions】
2015 – 2025
Space Yui Solo Exhibition (annually)
【Group Exhibitions】
2025
“grid5” biscuit gallery, (Tokyo)
2025
“grid4” biscuit gallery, (Tokyo)
“Spiral Xmas Market 2025” Spiral, (Tokyo)
2024
OneArtTaipei (Taipei)
ART TAICHUNG 2024 (Taichung)
2022
WAVE2022 3313 Arts Chiyoda
2020
WAVE2020 3313 Arts Chiyoda
2018
Illustration WAVE 3313 Arts Chiyoda
2019
WAVE2019 3313 Arts Chiyoda
Concept
Innocence, narrative quality, and unconsciousness
I work while considering the balance of these three elements when creating works.
Wood carving has a strong sense of tangible reality, so with each piece I create, it feels as though a creature was born as a fully mature adult without a larval stage.
Since I want to express this state as-is, I carve and paint while avoiding adding expressions as much as possible.
The form of the work itself (including the clothing it wears) carries narrative quality. I want to wrap it in a narrative with strong fictional qualities rather than realistic ones.
If I wrap a form with strong tangible reality in a realistic narrative, it seems it would become a miniaturized diorama, which feels constraining.
Rather than seeking empathy from the viewer, I want to guide them into a world of free imagination through alien fictional qualities.
However, I make it a point to express the main subject of the work as being unconscious of the narrative it carries.
SNS
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