Yuki Kimura

Yuki Kimura

b. 1971, Kyoto Japan

Education:
1996
MFA, Kyoto City University of Arts

Solo Exhibitions:

2019
Reception, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Reflecting in Sizes, JENNY’S, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2018
Wardrobe Extensions Version 4, Oracle, Berlin, Germany

2016
Inhuman Transformation of New Year’s Decoration, Obsolete Conception or 2, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA

2015
Thus and So Rather Than Otherwise, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

2014
Taka Ishii Gallery Modern

2012
Yuki Kimura, Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu Culture & Arts Center, Daegu, Korea
Katsura, Frieze Art Fair, Taka Ishii Gallery, London
Yuki Kimura, Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto

2011
Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis

2010
Untitled, IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Shizuoka

2009
Year 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
POSTERIORITY, Daiwa Press Viewing Room, Hiroshima

2007
FORGETTING RANGE, Kodama Gallery, Osaka

2006
YOU MAY ATTEND A PARTY WHERE STRANGE CUSTOMS PREVAIL, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

2005
untitled puzzle, Kodama Gallery, Osaka

2003
something she doesnt know, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
new garden, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

2002
deep take, Highways Gallery, Santa Monica
sister, Kodama Gallery, Osaka

2001
Handkerchiefs, Low, Los Angeles

2000
B & B, Colette, Paris 1, 2, 3, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

1999
Will children have children?, Drapeau, Osaka
Handkerchiefs, Kodama Gallery, Osaka criterium 39, Mito Contemporary Art Gallery, Ibaragi
Tobacco, Gallery Coco, Kyoto

1998
Gallery Zero, Osaka

1995
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo


Group Exhibitions:

2020
Arrows, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland
A Restless Rendition, DREI, Cologne, Germany
The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions: The Imagination of Time, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2019
Artists Space, New York, NY, USA
PARERGON: JAPANESE ART OF THE 1980S AND 1990S, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, USA
A Fatal Attraction, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany

2018
Catch Me If You Can, Art Lab Hashimoto, Tokyo, Japan
Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, South Korea
Way Out, Jenny's, London, UK

2017
Dream Islands, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, Canada
Plum Shower, XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan
California-Pacific Triennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, USA

2016
Moved, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Adrift on Plastic Island, Galerie Bernhard, Zurich, Switzerland
The Lasting Concept, Portland Institute For Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, USA

2015
Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA

2014
Photography Will Be, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Never Enough: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA
GLUCK 50, Milano
Gallery Artists, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

2013
Better Homes, Sculpture Center, New York
Photography Now and Forever, Mathew, Berlin
Site: Place of Memories, Space with Potential, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Now Japan, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Art Basel, Taka Ishii, Basel, Switzerland


2012
Butt Kiss, Gallery Niw, Tokyo
The 30th Sao Paulo Biennial, The Imminence of Poetics

2011
Kaza Ana / Air Hole: Another Form of Conceptualism from Asia, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Quiet Attentions: Departure from Women,Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito
Villa Tokyo, Tokyo
Frieze Art Fair, London
Organic Relationships, Kyoto Seika University Gallery Fleur, Kyoto
Documented, Doubted, and Imagined Realities: Photography from Japan and Taiwan, Yi&C Contemporary Art, Taipei
Abstract-Mad-Stir-Delirium-Copper-Bottomed-Work-Stick-Shop, daadgalerie, Berlin
Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Zona Maco: Mexico Arte Contemporaneo, Centro Banamex, Mexico City

2010
Afermath, Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto
MOT Collection: Plastic Memories-to illuminate now, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

2009
EMPORIUM: A New Common Sense of Space, Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da VInci, Milano
Circle of Friends, VACANT, Tokyo
Incidental Affairs: Contemporary Art of Transient States, Suntory Museum, Osaka

2008
Yoshihide Otomo ENSEMBLES, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media
Mellow fever, galerie des galerie, Paris

2007
Love Letter Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum, Kyoto

2007
IMAGINARY CHUYA-Chuyas words as image Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media YCAM, Yamaguchi
Slow Tech Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei

2005
Set, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Ignore your perspective, Kodama Gallery, Tokyo COUMA
Table Tennis Players, art project room ART ZONE, Kyoto COUMA
In the Neighborhood of Infinity, Sixteen to One Gallery, Santa Monica
Different Channel, art project room ARTZONE 2F, Kyoto

2004
Artprojx Cinema Series Two, Prince Charles Cinema, London
b.style in Gyon, agnes b
10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Taka Ishii Gallery
What can you see, Contemporary Photography with 4 artists,
Hamada Childrens Museum of Art, Shimane
Art in Transit vol.6, The Palace Side Hotel, Kyoto
Roppongi Crossing, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

2003
Karaoke Death Machine, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
Kyoto Creators Meeting 3, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
Open Studio, ISCP, New York

2002
Pretending to Pretend, Soap Factory, Minneapolis
Chameleon Dreams, Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago
A Second Talk, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, National Korea, Gwacheon, The National Museum of Art, Osaka

2001
stay with art, Hotel T Point, Osaka
Surface: contemporary photography and video from Japan, Netherlands Photo Institute, Rotterdam
big IN JAPAN, Cambridge Galleries, Ontario and others
Centre for the Arts, Montreal, Gendai Gallery, Toronto
KYOTO x AMSTERDAM-New Directions, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
Sndberg 2, Amsterdam 2002
Series Artist Today 2001: Articulate Voice, Yokohama Civic Gallery, Yokohama

2000
The Video Bar, Oulu, Finland
Screening Japan, Hello, Copenhagem, Rum46, Aarhus
The J-Way, Lydmar Hotel, Stockholm PROTOCOLLISION, protocollision.org, Japan & Holland

1999
The Passion and the Wave, International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
The 34th Artist Today: Approaching Reality, Yokohama Civic Gallery Yokohama

1998
Donai yanen, National Fine Arts School of Paris, Paris
The field of vision, Kyoto Municipal Shijyo Gallery, Kyoto
Artist Book 98, Voice Gallery, Kyoto

1995
Opening Doors to Japan, Bastille, Paris
Tamaki Nagatani & Yuki Kimura, Geidai Gallery, Kyoto
Practice 6, Voice Gallery, Kyoto
4th Scholarship Art Exhibition, Sato Art Museum, Tokyo

1994
New Face, Gallery View, Osaka

1992
a parade of Firstborn Sister, Voice Gallery, Osaka

Collections:
IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Mishima
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
The National Museum of Art, Osaka