1992-93 Fellowship in Arts, Yale University, School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut. USA
Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council
1993 Award, Aperto'93, 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1995 Prize, Gotoh Memorial Foundation, Japan
Grant for Commission Work, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
2009 MIYAKE FINE ART, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Inujima Art Project Seirensho, Okayama, Japan
2005 Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan photo
2002 Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium, Fukuoka, Japan photo
Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2000 Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan photo
1999 Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA more info
1998 University Art Gallery, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, USA
1997 Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK photo
Beaver College Art Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan photo
Peter Blum, New York, USA more info
1996 Capp Street Project, San Francisco, USA photo
1995 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA
The Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA photo
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Peter Blum, New York, USA
1994 Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK photo
1993 Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1992 Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum-Benesse House, Kagawa, Japan photo
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan photo
1991 Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, USA) photo
Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, USA photo
1990 Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA(brochure)
Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan(brochure)
1988 Gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan
1987 Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan photo
1986 Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Kanagawa, Japan photo
2009 Boundary, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshma
Into the Atomic Sunshine "Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9, "
Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa
Masterworks from Japanese Art Museum Collections, The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
Migration and Expression, Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa
2008 Please be quiet. -On clamor and art-, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshma
Hiroshima Art Project 2008, Hiroshima
Into the Atomic Sunshine - Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9, Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Four Views of the Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa
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
2007 Survival action, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
himming 2007, Toyama, Japan
Simply Red, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
Still, the person exceeds the boundary, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshima Art Project 2007, Hiroshima, Japan (artistic director)
Yanagi Yukinori and Geldschissers, Art Space HAP, Hiroshima, 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
2006 Singler Multiples : Peter Blum Edition 1980-1994, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
In Focus: Living History, Tate Modern, London, UK
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Yokohama Museum of Art Came!, Yokohama Civilian Gallery in Azamino, Japan
These 20 arts of 20 Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan
2005 Swarm, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, America photo
Contemporary Art’s ABC, Fukui City Museum of Art, Fukui, Japan (traveling exhibition)
Art Crossing Hiroshima Project 2005 ( Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste Braunschweig, Germany)
Cruising Landscapes, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
2004 And or Versus? Adventures in images, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
The copy age, Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan photo
2003 Permanent Collection: 50 years of contemporary art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Windstil, Cotthem Gallery, Brussel, Belgium
2002 The 2nd Fukuoka Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan photo
Money and Value, an exhibition of the Swill National Bank, curated by Harald Szeemann, Lake Biel, Switzerland photo
Cultural Crossing, Numak Gallery, Washington DC, USA
inauguration exhibition, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, USA
2001 Tokyo Pop, Kansas City Jewish Museum, Kansas City, USA
Made in Asia?, Duke University Museum of Art, North Carolina, USA
Talking Heads, Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2000 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA photo
Vanitas-meditation of life and death in contemporary art-, Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, USA photo
Open-Ends-One thing after another-, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Landscape encoded, Tate Modern, London, UK photo
Kwanju Biennale, Kwanju, Korea photo
Dark Mirrors of Japan, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Plastic Age-Art and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Diary, Corner House, Manchester, UK (travels to Firstsite, Corchester, UK)
Umedalen Sculptur 2000, Galleri Stefan Anderson, Sweden
Vacant lot, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Department Store of Contemporary Art, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kofu, Japan
1999 Relay Drawings: Eye, Hand, Other, Backnell University Art Gallery, Pennsylvania, USA
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
Taste and Persuits: Japanese art in the 1990, National Museum of India, New Dehli, India
(travels to Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila, Philippines) photo
In the edge (New art from Private Collections in France), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1997 Aspects of land and soil, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Atlas Mapping, Offenes Kulturhaus Linz (travels to
Kunsthaus Bregenz and Magazin 4, Austria)
Changing spaces, Miami Museum of Art, Miami, USA
L'autre, Biennale de Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France photo
Projects, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
1996 un-frieden, sabotage von wirklichkeiten-discord, sabotage of realities, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
Paintings-The Extended Field, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall and Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden
Universalis, Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil more info
Islands, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia photo
Protean Artists of the Time, The National Msueum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Conversation at the Castle, Art Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, USA
Cultural Olympiad, in conjunction with Atlanta Olympic Games, Atlanta, USA
Avant-garde walk in Soho, New York, USA
Eastern Fusion, Hillwood Museum, Long Island University, USA
1995 Fifty Years After, Museum of Modern Art, Tokushima, Japan photo
6 Triennale Kleinplastik, Sudwest LB Forum, Stuttgart, Germany
Age of Anxiety, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Japan Today, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
(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)
Minimal Form, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Border Crawl, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Art in Japan Today-1985-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1994 Insite'94, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
Asian Art Now, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan photo
Japanese Art after 1945-Scream against the Sky, Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York (travels to
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco and Yerba Buena Garden, San Francisco, USA)
Old Glory, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio, USA (travels to
Gallery of Contemporary Art at University of Colorado, and Phoenix Art Museum, USA)
Mito Annual'94, Open System, Art Tower Mito, Ibaragi, Japan photo
Japanese Art after 1945-Scream against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Art Labyrinth, Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
1993 Trade Routes, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Aperto'93, The 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy photo
Exchange 2, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Nagoya International Biennale-Artec, Nagoya CityArt Museum, Japan
In Their Own Image, PS1 Museum, New York, USA
Invisible Realities, Yokohama Citizens' Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
1992 My Sweet Home in Ruins-Urban Envinronment and Art in Japan, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan photo
By Arrangement, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Museum City Project, Fukuoka, Japan
1991 New York Diary-Almost twenty-five different things, PS1 Museum, New York, USA photo
1988 Iwakuni Outdoor Art Project '88, Kintai Bridge on Nishiki River, Japan
Critical Art Phrases '88, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1987 '87 Kanagawa Art Annual, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Japan photo
Art Document '87, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan photo
Art-move in Okurayama, Okurayama Memorial Hall, Kanagawa photo
1986 Hamamatsu Open-air Exhibition, Sandhill at Nakatajima, Shizuoka
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
Tate Gallery, London, UK more info
Museum of Modern Art,
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, USA
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Wien, Austria
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
New York Public Library, New York, USA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Boston, USA
List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Swiss Bank Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut, USA
Bayerische Vereinsbank, Munchen, Germany
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan
Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
Fukuoka Asian Museum, Japan
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Tokushima, Japan
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
2010 Symposium of Setouchi International Art Festival 2010, Okayama International Center, Okayama
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
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
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
Commentator: YANAGI Yukinori, OSAKA Eriko
Organizer: AAN(Art Autonomy Network)
Symposium, Related Event of the Exhibition "Migration and Expression", Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa
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
Coordinator: Kajiya Kenji
Panelist: Kamiya Yukie, Furutani Yoshiyuki, Matsuda Hiro, Washida Meruro
Interview, Hario Ichiro, Aida Makoto,Ushiro Ryuta, Yanagi Yukinori and other
2008 Lecture “An environmental technique,” Hillside Terrace, Tokyo
Symposium “from Naoshima to the Inland Sea,” Outdoor locations in Tsumu'ura area of Naoshima, Kagawa
Opening Symposium "Article 9, Post-War Japan, and Post-War Japanese Art," Hillside Forum, Tokyo
Hiroshima Art Management Laboratory, Hiroshima City Plaza for Town Development through Citizen Exchange, Hiroshima
Artist talk, Camp Berlin, “about Hiroshima Art Project”, BVG, Berlin, German
Symposium “Let's talk about Spaces for Studying and Thinking about Art,” Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
2007 Symposium, “History and Art of the Inland Sea: To International Art Festival in the Inland Sea(tentative name),”,Naoshima, Kagawa
Panelists: Tomotoshi Okaichi, Furamu Kitagawa, Souichiro Fukutake, Yukinori Yanagi,
Symposium, Visual Art Forum: Between Arts, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
Panelists: Lee Young Chul, Kwon Young Gull, Yukinori Yanag
Panel discussion, Art’s “Site” and “Knowledge”: Between the Local Communities and the Universities, Hiroshima Aster Plaza, 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, USA
Artist talk, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
Cross talk, “Dream of Flying over the Sky” Fukuoka City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Panelists: Kazuhiko Yatani, Huji Hiroshi, Yukinori Yanagi
2004 Dialogue “Dream of Soaring”, Fukuoka Art Museum, with Kazuhiko Hachiya (artist)and Hiroshi Fuji (artist)
Artist talk, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Lecture, Hiroshima City University, Faculty of Art, Japan
2003 Artist Talk. Coal Mine Tagawa Summer Seminar, Fukuoka, Japan
2002 Artist talk, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Artist talk, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
Lecture, University of Ohio, Athens, USA
Lecture, University of Richmond, Virginia, USA
2001 Dialogue “Inside Studios”, Japan Society, New York, USA, with Naoyoshi Hikosaka (artist) and Reiko Tomii (art historian)
2000 Artist talk, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
1999 Artist talk, National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, Netherlands
Artist presentation, Kippy’s Kamp, Acadia Summer Art Program, Maine, USA
1998 Artist talk, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
1996 Artist talk, inverviewed by Lydia Matthews, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA
1995 Symposium, ”VJ50/Re-considered”, Peter Blum, New York, USA
Panelists：James Shenton, Kyoko Inoue, Reiko Tomii, Yukinori Yanagi, moderated by Jane Farver
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, Art Tower Mito, Ibaragi, Japan,
Panelists：Hiroshi Kariya, Ritsuko Taho, Cai Guo Qiang and Yukinori Yanagi, moderated by Seiichi Watanabe (curator)
Sympojium, ”National and cultural identity”, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, NewYork, USA
Panelists: Lowry Sins, Bert-Winther Tamaki, Lorna Simpson, Yukinori Yanagi, moderated by Bruce Artsshuler
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, USA
Lecture, University of California, Santa Barbara, School of Art, California, USA
1990 Lecture “ Wandering Position”, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1989 Artist talk, Yale University, Artist in residence in Norfol, Connecticut, USA
1988 Dialogue with Arata Tani (art critic), Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1987 Dialogue with Yuji Akimoto (artist), moderated by Hiroshi Yasuda, So Gallery, Toky
artwork & profile
Japanese English
directed project
selected individual exhibitions
2010 Setouchi International Art Festival 2010, Okayama, Japan
2008 Inujima Art Project Seirensho, Okayama, Japan
Hiroshima Art Project 2008, Hiroshima, Japan
2007 Hiroshima Art Project 2007, Hiroshima, Japan
1996 Capp Street Project, San Francisco, USA
Field Work on Alcatraz
selected group exhibitions
public collections
artist talks, lectures, dialogues and symposiums
grants, prizes, and awards
1959 Born in Fukuoka, Japan
1983 BA in fine arts in painting, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1985 MFA in fine arts in painting, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1990 MFA in arts (sculpture), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
1992-93 International Studio Program, P.S.1 Museum, New York, USA
2005- Associate Professor, Faculty of Art, Hiroshima City University
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