Shota Yamauchi / 山内 祥太

Born in 1992 in Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Lives and works in Tokyo.

Yamauchi received his undergraduate degree in sculpture from Kanazawa College of Art in 2014 and completed a master’s degree in video and media art at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, in 2016.

His practice is primarily installation-focused, combining sculptural and video elements with a wide range of media and other forms, including performance and scent. Through his work, he explores relationships between self and world, as well as boundaries between the real and the mythical.

Solo exhibitions include The Crystal World, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto (2024); and MAM Project 030 x MAM Digital: Yamauchi Shota, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2022) .

Group exhibitions include Unknown Beings, Tomio Koyama Gallery Roppongi, Tokyo (2026); Ghost: When the Invisible Becomes Visible, Arts Maebashi, Maebashi (2025); WE ARE ME — We Never Just Pass By, Keelung Museum of Art, Keelung, Taiwan (2025); Art Macao: Macao International Art Biennale, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China (2025); Ennova Art Biennale, Ennova Art Museum, Langfang, China (2024); WRO BIENNALE 2023: FUNGIBLE CONTENT, Grotowski Institute, Laboratory Theatre, Wrocław, Poland (2023); Ars Electronica Festival 2022, Sound Park, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria (2022); TERRADA ART AWARD 2021 Finalists Exhibition, Warehouse TERRADA G3-6F, Tokyo (2022); and Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2019).