BORN, 1959, Fukuoka, Japan
EDUCATION
1990 MFA, Fellowship in Arts (Sculpture), Yale University, Connecticut
1985 MFA and BA Fine Arts in Painting, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
PRIZES AND GRANTS
1995 The Gotoh Memorial Foundation Prize, Japan
1993 Award, Aperto 93, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council, International Studio Program, P.S.1 Museum, New York, NY
1988-90 Fellowship in Arts, Yale University, School of Art and Architecture
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2000-2001
“Yukinori Yanagi - Akitsushim,” Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1999
“New Work”, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998
University Art Gallery, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA
1997
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Alcatraz”, Peter Blum, New York, NY
Arts Futura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Beaver College Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Chisenhale Gallery, London, England
1996
Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
1995
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Peter Blum, New York, NY
1994
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England
1993
Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1991
Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY
Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
Storefront for Art and Architecture Gallery, CT
Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Yale University Art and Architecture Gallery, Connecticut
1987
Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002
“Forces of Nature,” Headlands Center For the Arts, Sausalito CA
“Fifteen – 15th Anniversary Exhibition”, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000
"Dark Mirrors from Japan," The Institute of Contemporary Art De Appel, Amsterdam
Whitney Biannual 2000, New York, NY
1998
“Tastes and Pursuits: Japanese Art in the 1990’s”, National Museum of India, New Dehli,
India, Travels to Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila, Philippines
1998
“Animal, Anima, Animus”, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finalnd; Travels to Arnheim
Museum, Holland; PS1, New York, NY “Sehnsucht Helmat”, Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria
1997
"L'autre, Biennale de Lyon", Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France
"Changing Spaces", Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
"Atlas Mapping", Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria, travels to:
Bregenz Kunsthaus and Magazin 4, Bregenz, Austria
“Projects”, Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
“Aspects of Land and Soil”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
"Un-frieden, Sabotage von Wirklichkeiten - Discord, Sabotage of Realities", Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
"Paintings - The Extended Field", Magasin 3 Sockholm Kunsthall, Sweden, and Rooseum, Sweden
“Universalis”, Sao Paolo Biennale, Brazil
“Islands”, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
“Asia-Pacific Triennial”, Queensland Art Galklery, Brisbane, Australia
"Protean Artists of the Time", The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
"Conversation at the Castle", Atlanta, GA
"Cultural Olympiad", Atlanta, GA
"Avant-garde Walk in Soho", New York, NY
1995
"Fifty Years After", Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan
"6 Triennale Kleinplastik", Sudwest LB Forum, Stuttgart, Germany
"Age of Anxiety", Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
"Japan Today", Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlabaek Denmark, travels to:
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway; Waino Aaltoner Museum of Art, Turku, Finland; Liljevalchs Kunsthall, Stockholm, Sweden; Osterreichisches Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria; Daichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
"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, CA
"Asian Art Now", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
"Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky", Guggenheim Museum, New York,
NY; travels to: Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
San Francisco, CA, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
"Old Glory", Cleveland Canter for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; travels to: Gallery
of Contemporary Art at University of Colorado, CO and Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
"Mito Annual, Open System", Art Tower Mito, Ibaragi, Japan
1993
"Trade Routes", The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
"Aperto 93", Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
"Exchange 2", Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
"In Their Own Image", P.S.1 Museum, New York, NY
"My Sweet Home in Ruin: Urban Environment and Art in Japan", Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"By Arrangement", Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
"New York Diary: Almost Twenty-Five Different Things", P.S.1 Museum,
New York, NY
1987
"Art Document '87", Tochigi Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan, Tokyo, Japan
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2002
Fouser, Robert. “Imagined workshop: The 2nd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2002, Asia Pacific, Issue 36,
pp. 34-35.
1999
Whiting, Sam, “Ants Heed The Call of Art”, San Francisco Chronicle, June 8.
Baker, Kenneth, “Wandering Ants Restructure the World”, San Francisco Chronicle, June 26.
1998
Walch, Daniella, “Ofhumans, ants and the social order”, Orange County Register, March 22
Curtis, Cathy, “Flying Under Many Flags”, Los Antegels Times, March 18
Frances, Richard, “Yukinori Yanagi”, Art Forum, January XXXVI, No. 5
1997
Schacter, "Yukinori Yanagi", Poliester, Spring, Volume 6, Number 18
Sozanski, Edward J., "A Japanese Artist Addresses the Atomic Bomb", The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 11
Donohoe, Victoria, "Japanese Sculptor Proves Himself as a Master of Political
Statement", The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 6
1996
Higa, Karin, "Some Thought on National and Cultural Identity", Art Journal, Fall, Volume 55, Number 3
Fineman, Mia, "The Scrawl of the Wild", World Art, Number 4, Australia
Decker, Joshua, "The Age of Anxiety", Flash Art, February
Luca, Elisabetta, "Yukinori Yanagi", Juliet Art Magazine, No. 75, Italy, December
1995
Gumpert, Lynn, "Yukinori Yanagi: The Emperor on the Carpet", Artnews, November
Koplos, Janet, "Testing Taboos", Art in America, October
Rosoff, Patricia, "The Ants Go Marching One by One", Hartford Advocate, September 14-21
McNally, Owen, "Anti-establishment", Hartford Courant, September 15
"Asia-Pacific Ant Farm", Hapers Magazine, September
Lufty, Carol, "Taking on the Taboos in Japan", International Herald Tribune August 21
"Goings on About Town", New Yorker, July 24
Perron, Joel, "Starkness of Minimalism Reflects Complex Traditions", The Daily Yomiuri, Tokyo, May 26
Levin, Kim, The Village Voice, May 23
Newhall, Edith, "Travels with My Ant", New York, May 15
Bellars, Peter, "Research Makes all the Difference", Asahi Evening News, Tokyo March 20
Shalala, Nancy, "Of Art and War", Asian Art News, January/February
1994
Scott, Margaret, "The Godzilla Tour of Japan", Los Angeles Times Magazine, November 13
Archer, Michael, "Yukinori,Yanagi", Artforum, October
Shikata, Sachiki, "Open System", World Art, Australia, Autumn
Sawaragi, Noi, "Open System", Artnews (Japanese Edition), Japan, July
Accola, Dylana, Asahi Evening News, Japan, April 21
Miyatake, Miki, "Open System Offers Sign of Hope", Japan Times, April 17
Gumpert, Lynn, "Fast Forward", Artnews, November
1993
Hughes, Robert, Time, June 28
Jolles, Claudia, Kunst Bulletin, Switzerland, June
1992
Bellars, "Flashy Neon Art", Asahi Evening News, Japan, September 19
Sharara, Nancy, "Exhibition Promotes Dialogue on Lifestyle, Art, Nature in Urban
Sites", Japan Times, June 17
Cembalest, Robin, “The We Decade”, Artnews, USA, September
Bellars, Peter, “Life Without Meanings”, Asahi Evening News, Japan, June 27
Sharara, Nancy, “Artist throws light on Japan’s darkside”, Japan Times, October 4
Powell, Nicolas, "By Arrangement", Atelier, Japan, June
Barak, Ami, "By Arrangement", Art Press, France, May
Munroe, Alexndra, "Wandering Position", Flash Art International, March/April
Lowitz, Leza, "On Emblems and Ants", Tokyo Journal, Japan, April
Lowitz, Leza, "Art and National Identity", Art in America, September
Soutif, Daniel, "Art Presse", Liberation, France, October 10
Bellars, Peter, "Artistic Sense of Humor", Asahi Evening News, Japan, August 31
Lutfy, Carol, "Yukinori Yanagi", Atelier, Japan, May
Lutfy, Carol, "Yukinori Yanagi", Artnews, April
Lowitz, Leza, "Putting Stamp on Art World", Asahi Evening News, Japan, April 6
Brown, Azby, "Yukinori Yanagi", Artforum, February
Woods, Lynn Andreoli, “Insects and Politics”, Reader, January 11
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
Bayerische Vereinsbank, Munich, Germany
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Boston, MA
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
The Museum of Modern Art, Tokushima, Japan
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Swiss Bank Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Tate Gallery, London, England
Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
