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Yukinori Yanagi:Biography http://www.yanagistudio.net/home.html
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Yukinori Yanagi


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-   Associate Professor, Faculty of Art, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan


grants, prizes, and awards

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, Gotoh Memorial Foundation

2000  Grant for Commission Work, Hiroshima City



project

2010  Inujima Art House Project, Okayama, Japan

2008-   Kosagijima BIO-Isle Project, Hiroshima, Japan

2008  Inujima Art Project "SEIRENSHO", Okayama, Japan

1996  Field Work on Alcatraz, San Francisco, United States


directed art projects

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


Selected individual exhibitions

2010  Inujima Art House Project, Okayama, Japan

2009  MIYAKE FINE ART, Tokyo, Japan

2008  Inujima Art Project Seirensho, Okayama, Japan

2005  Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan

1995  The Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA 

1992  Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum-Benesse House, Kagawa, Japan 


Selected group exhibitions

2010  20th Anniversary of the Gotoh Memorial Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
     Setouchi International Art Festival 2010 Seven Islands of the Seto Inland Sea, Okayama, Japan

2008  Into the Atomic Sunshine - Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9,
     Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan
     Into the Atomic Sunshine: Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9,
     Puffin Room, New York

2002  The 2nd Fukuoka Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan 

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  2000 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 
     Kwanju Biennale, Kwanju, Korea  

1997  L'autre, Biennale de Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France

1996  Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

1994  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)
     Asian Art Now, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

1993  Aperto'93, The 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 


Public Collections

inujima Art Project "SEIRENSHO", Okayama, Japan
Tate Gallery, London, UK
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


lectures and symposiums

2010  Symposium of Setouchi International Art Festival 2010, Okayama International Center, Okayama, Japan

2008  Lecture “An environmental technique,”Hillside Terrace, Tokyo, Japan

     Symposium, "from Naoshima to the Inland Sea,”
     Outdoor locations in Tsumu'ura area of Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan

     Opening Symposium "Article 9, Post-War Japan, and Post-War Japanese Art,"
     Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan

     Hiroshima Art Management Laboratory,
     Hiroshima City Plaza for Town Development through Citizen Exchange, Hiroshima, Japan

     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)," Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan
  
     Symposium, Visual Art Forum: Between Arts, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

     Panel discussion, Art’s “Site” and “Knowledge”: Between the Local Communities and the Universities,
     Hiroshima Aster Plaza, Japan
       
     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

     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

2001  Dialogue "Inside Studios", Japan Society, New York, USA

2000  Artist talk, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

1998  Artist talk, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan

1995  Symposium, "VJ50/Re-considered", Peter Blum, New York, USA

1994  Sympojium, "National and cultural identity", Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, NewYork, USA



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