YUKI KIMURA







Education 1996MFA, Kyoto City University of Arts
Solo Exhibitions 2025Des Treize, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, United States.

Des Treize, Jenny's, New York, United States.2024Time paradox, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.2022“COL SPORCAR SI TROVA”, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany 2019“Reception”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (J)

“Reflecting in Sizes”, JENNY’S, Los Angeles (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 (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”, GLUCK 50, Milano (I)
2012“Interior 6L01〜107T”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto (J)
2011“Font Room”, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (USA)
2010“Untitled”, Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka (J)
2009“Year 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (J)

“Posteriority”, Daiwa Press Viewing Room, Hiroshima (J)
2007“Forgetting Range”, Kodama Gallery, Osaka (J)
2006“You May Attend a Party Where Strange Customs Prevail”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (J)2005“Untitled puzzle”, Kodama Gallery, Osaka (J)
2003“Something she doesn’t know”, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto (J)

“New garden”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (J)
2002“Deep take”, Highways Gallery, Santa Monica sister, Kodama Gallery, Osaka (J)2001“Handkerchiefs”, Low, Los Angeles (USA)
2000“B & B”, Colette, Paris (F)

“1, 2, 3”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (J)1999“Handkerchiefs”, Kodama Gallery, Osaka (J)

“Criterium 39: Will Children Have Children?” ,Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Mito

“Tobacco”, drapeau, Osaka (J)

“Tobacco”, Gallery Coco, Kyoto (J)

1998Gallery Zero, Osaka (J)

1995Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (J)
Group Exhibitions 2025Egrégore, Galerie Chantal Cousel, Paris; France.

Fake Barn Country, Raven Row, London, United Kingdom.

Texture Punk, Parcel, Tokyo, Japan.2023Mimesis, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany.

“Slow Dance (1)”, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland2022“Drive Language Crazy”, The wig, Berlin

“Ann’s Research”, Maxwell Graham, New York, NY, USA

“From the museum collection 2021: third period”, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan2021“Countermeasures Against Awkward Discourses: From the Perspective of Third Wave Feminism”, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

“Paradis”, Maison R&C, Marseille, France

“The Manhattan Art Review”, JENNY’S, New York, NY, USA2020“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 (J) 2019“DANICA BARBOZA, JASON HIRATA, YUKI KIMURA, DUANE LINKLATER”, Artists Space, New York (USA)

“Taka Ishii Gallery 25th Anniversary Group Exhibition: Survived!”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

“PARERGON: JAPANESE ART OF THE 1980S AND 1990S”, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (USA)

“A Fatal Attraction”, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany2018“Catch Me If You Can”, Art Lab Hashimoto, Tokyo, Japan Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, South Korea

“Way Out”, Jenny's, London, UK2017“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“Moved”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

“Adrift on Plastic Island”, Galerie Bernhard, Zurich,  Switzerland

“The Lasting Concept”, Portland Institute For Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, USA2015“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 (J)

“Site: Place of Memories,Spaces with Potential”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

“Mind Rvidxr”, USC Roski School of Art 3001 & Station Galleries, Los Angeles Site (USA)

“Photography now and forever”, Mathew, Berlin (D)

“Better Homes”, SculptureCenter, New York (USA)

“Re-encounters”, The Izu Photo Museum Collection, IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Shizuoka (J)

“Cherry Picking”, Karma International, Zurich (CH)
2012“Photographic!”, The 4th Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu (KR)

“The Imminence of Poetics”, 30th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo (BR) “The Cosmos as Metaphor”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto (J)

“Mount Fuji does not exist”, Le Plateau / Fac Ile-de-Fance, Paris (F)

“To Wander a Garden”, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka (J) 

“Sculpture by Other Means”, One and J. Gallery, Seoul (KR)
2011“Abstract-Mad-Stir-Delirium-Copper-Bottom-Work-Stick-Shop”, daadgalerie, Berlin (D)

“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 (J)

“Kaza Ana / Air Hole: Another Form of Conceptualism Fom Asia”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka (J)

“Reorienting Orientalism, New Directions (Hair Color)”, Deutsche Bank Towers, Fankfurt (D) “Organic Relationships”, Center for Cosmic Wonder, Osaka (J)

“Quiet Attentions: Departure Fom Women”, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito (J)
2010“Aftermath”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto (J)
“Organic Relationships”, Center for Cosmic Wonder, Tokyo (J)
“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, Milan (I)
“Circle of Fiends”, VACANT, Tokyo (J)
“Incidental Affairs: Contemporary Art of Transient States”, Suntory Museum, Osaka (J)

2008“Yoshihide Otomo ENSEMBLES”, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi (J)
“Mellow Fever”, La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (F)
2007“Love? Letter”, Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum, Kyoto (J)
2006“IMAGINARY CHUYA - Chuya’s words as image”, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi (J)
“Slow Tech”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (TW)2005“Yokohama Triennale 2005”, Yokohama (J)
“Set”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (J)
“Ignore your perspective”, Kodama Gallery, Tokyo (J)
“Table Tennis Players”, art project room ART ZONE, Kyoto (J)
“In the Neighborhood of Infinity”, Sixteen to One Gallery, Santa Monica (USA) “Different Channel”, art project room ARTZONE 2F, Kyoto (J)
2004“Artprojx Cinema Series Two”, Prince Charles Cinema, London (UK)
“b.style in Gyon”, Asphodel, Kyoto (J)
“10 Year Anniversary Exhibition”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (J)
“What can you see? Contemporary Photography with 4 artists”, Hamada Children's Museum of Art, Shimane (J)
“Art in Transit vol.6”, The Palace Side Hotel, Kyoto (J)
“Roppongi Crossing: New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo2003“Kyoto Creators Meeting 3”, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto (J)
“Open Studio”, ISCP, New York (USA)
2002“Pretending to Pretend”, Soap Factory, Minneapolis (USA)
“Chameleon Dreams”, Julia Fiedman Gallery, Chicago (USA)
“A Second Talk: Contemporary Art Fom Korea and Japan”, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, The National Museum of Art, Osaka (J)2001“Stay with art”, Hotel T’ Point, Osaka (J)
“Surface – contemporary photography and video Fom Japan”, Netherlands Photo Institute, Rotterdam (NL)
“big IN JAPAN”, Cambridge Galleries, Ontario (USA); Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal (CDN), Gendai Gallery, Toronto (CDN)
“KYOTO x AMSTERDAM New Directions”, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto (J), Sandberg 2, Hoorn, Netherlands (2002)
“Series Artist Today 2001 - Articulate Voice”, Yokohama Civic Gallery, Yokohama (J)
2000“The Video Bar”, The Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu, Finland (FIN)
“Screening Japan, Hello!”, Copenhagen / Rum46, Aarhus (DK),
“The J-Way”, Lydmar Hotel, Stockholm (SE)
“PROTOCOLLISION”, protocollision.org, Tokyo (J) and Rotterdam (NL)
1999“6th International Istanbul Biennial”, Istanbul (TR)
“The 34th Artist Today - Approaching Reality”, Yokohama Civic Gallery, Yokohama (J)
1998“Donai yanen! Et mantenaint!: La création contemporaine au Japon”, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts, Paris (F)
“THE FILED OF VISION”, Kyoto Municipal Shijyo Gallery, Kyoto (J)
“Artist Book ’98”, Voice Gallery, Kyoto (J)

1996“Without Identity, Without Fontier”, The Rissei Site, Kyoto (J)
1995“Partes Ouvertes au Japon”, Bastille, Paris (F)
“Practice 6”, Voice Gallery, Kyoto (J)
“4th Scholarship Art Exhibition”, Sato Art Museum, Tokyo (J)1994“New Face”, Gallery View, Osaka (J)
1992“A parade of Firstborn Sister”, Voice Gallery, Osaka (J)
Residencies 2005Monash University, a visiting academic in the Faculty of Art and Design, Melbourne (AUS)
2003ISCP, New York (USA)
200218th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica (USA)
Public and Private Collections Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA
IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Shizuoka, Japan
Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, CA, USA Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
Publications 2015 An Extra Transparent History, Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2015
2010 Aoki, Jun/Bader, Darren/Castets, Simon et al.: POSTERIORITY, 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: Kanojotachi = Female Photographers Now, Tokyo: Perikansha, 2008
2007 Pictures of a Man, Tokyo: Taka Ishii Gallery, 2007
2006 Shimizu, Minoru: The Thinking Eye: Yuki Kimura’s New Works, in: YOU MAY ATTEND A PARTY WHERE STRANGE CUSTOMS PREVAIL, Tokyo: Taka Ishii Gallery, 2005
2005 Hirayoshi, Yukihiro: Rapt! 20 Contemporary Artists from Japan, Tokyo: The Japan Foundation
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