Born 1971 in Kyoto, Japan.
Lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles.
Education: 1996 MFA, Kyoto City University of Arts.

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017
Inhuman Transformation of New Year’s Decoration, Obsolete Conception or 2, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco – USA

2015
Thus and so rather than otherwise, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (J)
Harvest, Human Misery, Mathew Gallery, Berlin (D)

2014
The Third Mirror
The Vanity East, Los Angeles – USA

2013
An Extra Transparent History
Gluck50, Milan

2012
Interior 6L01-107T
Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto

2011
Yuki Kimura, Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, USA

2010
Untitled, IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Shizuoka, Giappone

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 doesn’t 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, Parigi 1, 2, 3, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

1999 
Handkerchiefs, Kodama Gallery, Osaka
criterium 39: Will Children Have Children ?, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Mito
Tobacco, drapeau, Osaka
Tobacco, Gallery Coco, Kyoto

1998
Gallery Zero, Osaka

1995
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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

2016
Moved, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Adrift on Plastic Island, Galerie Bernhard, Zürich
The Lasting Concept, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland

2015
Ocean of Images: new photography 2015, Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA)

2014
Photography will be, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya (J)
Never Enough: recent acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (USA)

2013

in out, TOLOT / heuristic SHINONOME, Tokyo 
Site: Place of Memories, Spaces with Potential, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Mind Rvidxr, USC Roski School of Art 3001 & Station Galleries, Los Angeles Site USA

Photography now and forever, Mathew, Berlino
Better Homes, SculptureCenter, New York 
Re-encounters, The Izu Photo Museum Collection, IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Shizuoka 
Cherry Picking, Karma International, Zurigo

2012
Photographic!, The 4th Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, Korea 
The Imminence of Poetics, 30th São Paulo Biennial, San Paolo
The Cosmos as Metaphor, Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto
Mount Fuji does not exist, Le Plateau / Frac Ile-de-France, Paris
To Wander a Garden, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka
Sculpture by Other Means, One and J. Gallery, Seoul

2011
ABSTRACT-MAD-STIR-DELIRIUM-COPPER-BOTTOM-WORK-STICK-SHOP, daadgalerie, Berlino
Conversation with Mathieu Mercier, Takaaki Izumi, Yuki Kimura, Soshi Matsunobe, Kaz Oshiro, and Koki Tanaka, about abstract objects, Super Window Project / Muzz Program Space, Kyoto 
Kaza Ana / Air Hole: Another Form of Conceptualism from Asia, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Reorienting Orientalism, New Directions (Hair Color), Deutsche Bank Towers, Francoforte
ORGANIC RELATIONSHIPS, Center for COSMIC WONDER, Osaka
Quiet Attentions: Departure from Women, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Mito

2010
Afermath, Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto
ORGANIC RELATIONSHIPS, Center for COSMIC WONDER, Tokyo
MOT Collection: Plastic Memories – to illuminate “now”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 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, Yamaguchi
Mellow Fever, La Galerie des Galeries, Paris

2007
Love ? Letter, Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum, Kyoto

2006
IMAGINARY CHUYA -Chuya’s words as image, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi
Slow Tech, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei

2005
Set, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
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, Asphodel, Kyoto 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
What can you see? Contemporary Photography with 4 artists, Hamada Children’s Museum of Art, Shimane, Japan
Art in Transit vol.6, The Palace Side Hotel, Kyoto
Roppongi Crossing: New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art 2004, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

2003
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: Contemporary Art from Korea and Japan, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea / 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
Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal
Gendai Gallery, Toront
KYOTO x AMSTERDAM -New Directions-, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
Sandberg 2, Hoorn, Paesi Bassi (2002) Series Artist Today 2001
Articulate Voice, Yokohama Civic Gallery, Yokohama

2000
The Video Bar, The Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu, Finlandia
Screening Japan, Hello!, Copenhagen / Rum46, Aarhus, Danimarca
The J-Way, Lydmar Hotel, Stockholm
PROTOCOLLISION, protocollision.org, Tokyo and Rotterdam

1999
The Passion and the Wave, 6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
The 34th Artist Today -Approaching Reality-, Yokohama Civic Gallery, Yokohama

1998
Donai yanen! Et mantenaint!: La création contemporaine au Japon, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts, Paris
THE FILED OF VISION, Kyoto Municipal Shijyo Gallery, Kyoto 
Artist Book ’98, Voice Gallery, Kyoto

1996
Without Identity, Without Frontier, The Rissei Site, Kyoto

1995
Partes Ouvertes au Japon, Bastille, Paris
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

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RESIDENCIES

2005
Monash University, a visiting academic in the Faculty of Art and Design, Melbourne

2003
ISCP, New York

2002
18^th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica

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PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Shizuoka
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo,Tokyo
Museum of Modern Art, New York
The National Museum of Art, Osaka

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PUBLICATIONS

2015
An Extra Transparent History, Mousse Publishing – Milan

2010
Aoki, Jun/Bader, Darren/Castets, Simon et al.: Daiwa Press Viewing Room vol.09, Hiroshima: Daiwa Press, 2010
Kamiya, Yukie: Yuki Kimura, in: Creamier. Contemporary Art in Culture: 10 Curators, 100 Contemporary Artists, 10 Sources, London: Phaidon Press, 2010, pp. 138-139, ill.

2008
Yamauchi, Hiroyasu: Yuki Kimura, in: Kanojotachi = Female Photographers Now, Tokyo: Perikansha, 2008, pp. 76 – 85

2007
PICTURES OF A MAN, Tokyo: Taka Ishii Gallery, 2007

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

2005
Hirayoshi, Yukihiro: Rapt! 20 Contemporary Artists from Japan, Tokyo: The Japan Foundation, 2006

2003
Sanders, Mark/Sawa, Fumiya/Tsuzuki, Kyoichi: Reflex: Contemporary Japanese Self-Portraiture, London: Trolley Limited, 2003

2002
Remy, Patrick: Sensation, Göttingen: Steidl Verlag, 2002

2001
Snap Art Collection -002: Yuki Kimura, Osaka: Amus Arts Press, 2001

1999
Colombo, Paolo: 6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, 1999

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ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

2016
Art in America, by Linda May Green
Artforum, by Charlotte Cotton
this is tomorrow, by Anke Therese Schulz
MAY, by J. Gordon Faylor
cmagazine, by Jesse Birch

2014
Michele D’Aurizio, Yuki Kimura, Flash Art International, Issue January/February 2014: p.105
Yuki Kimura, Mousse, Issue 41, December 2013/January 2014: p.212

2013
Yuki Kimura, Artforum International, December 2013. Best of 2013 p.115
Maerkle, Andrew: Interview, Frieze, issue 154, April 2013: pp.130-13

2012
Groom, Amelia: Barely scratching the surface, Art AsiaPacific Magazine, issue 81, November/December 2012: pp. 110-119

2003
LaBelle, Charles: Yuki Kimura, Frieze, issue 74, April 2003