CV
Kenji Yanagi
lives and works in Saga, Japan
| 1961 | Born in Fukuoka, Japan | |
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| 1986 | BA, Sculpture, Tokyo University of the Arts | |
| 1988 | MFA, Tokyo University of the Arts | |
| 1995 | MFA, Chelsea College of Art and Design | |
| 1995 | Lived in London on a year-long scholarship from the Agency for Cultural Affairs | |
| 2016- | Professor, Faculty of Art and Regional Design at SAGA University |
Exhibition
| 2024 | SUKI-MONO-TACHI —Ways since Rin-pa (CONCEPT SPACE, CONCEPT SPACE/R2 / Gunma, Japan) |
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| [Two ways and/or Two methods] (Hebel_121 / Basel, Switzerland) | |
| One Ariake Art Festival 2024 (Saga University Art Museum / Saga, Japan) | |
| 70th Okawa City Art Festival - Enjoy Street Art (Former Yoshiwara Family Residence, Kyushu Fixture / Fukuoka, Japan) | |
| 2023 | One Ariake Art Festival 2023 (OVERGROUND / Fukuoka, Japan) |
| Art of Resonance -Decade Session for Our Future- (Saga University Art Museum / Saga, Japan） | |
| MISSING JAPANESE Vol.02 (CONCEPT SPACE・CONCEPT SPACE/R2 / Gunma, Japan) | 2022 | Chikugo Art Relation 2022⏤ Chikugo Art Conference Room (KYUSHU GEIBUN-KAN/ Fukuoka, Japan) |
| 2021 | Sho Zai-Yu Gei (kenakian/ Saga, Japan) |
| 2019 | Solo Exhibition "saw blue light" (ya-gins/ Gunma, Japan) |
| Japanische Positionen (raum2810/ Bonn, Germany) | |
| Solo Exhibition "Scribble" (Haus der Kunst St. Josef/ Solothurn, Switzerland) | |
| 2018 | A selection of contemporary artists from Japan (teksas/ Kopenhagen, Danmark) |
| ART MEETING 2018 (Fukushima, Japan) | |
| [CONMINI] (Life up square Eyes/ Gunma, Japan) | |
| 2017 | Buzzreal (TOJIN share house/ Saga, Japan) |
| [Open Eyes = Open Mind Ⅵ] (Life up square Eyes/ Gunma, Japan) | |
| 2016 | ART MEETING 2016 (Fukushima, Japan) |
| Commemorative Exhibition of Faculty of Arts and Regional Design (Saga University Art Museum/ Saga, Japan) | |
| [Open Eyes = Open Mind Ⅴ] (Life up square Eyes/ Gunma, Japan) | |
| 2015 | Solo Exhibition "Glass stone" (CONCEPT SPACE,CONCEPT SPACE R2/ Gunma, Japan) |
| Color and/or Monochrome | The Friends of/and ATSUO HUKUDA (Hebel_121/ Basel, Switzerland) | |
| ECHIGO-TSUMARI ART TRIENNIAL 2015 (Niigata, Japan) | |
| RINKO-KAKU PROJECT 2015 (RINKO-KAKU, Gunma/ Japan) | |
| [Open Eyes = Open Mind Ⅳ] (Life up square Eyes/ Gunma, Japan) | |
| 2014 | Charade -Suspense/Comedy/Romance- (Patriothall Gallery/ Edinburgh, Scotland) |
| ART MEETING 2014 (Fukushima/ Japan) | |
| RINKO-KAKU PROJECT 2014 (RINKO-KAKU, Gunma/ Japan) | |
| 2013 | OPEN STUDIO 2013 (KCA house/ Saitama, Japan) |
| ART MEETING 2013 (Fukushima, Japan) | |
| 2012 | Ya-gins group exhibition (Ya-gins/ Gunma, Japan) |
| 2011 | Solo Exhibition "Representation of memory" (METAL ART MUSEUM/ Chiba, Japan) |
| Solo Exhibition "Scribble" (Akiyama Gallery/ Tokyo, Japan) | |
| 2010 | In the old building of the SATOYAMA (Branch school SHIMOSATO/ Saitama, Japan) |
| MATSUSHIRO CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL VOL.9 ( Matsushiro school/ Nagano, Japan) | |
| 2009 | Open Studio "KODAMA ART HOUSE" (KODAMA ART HOUSE/ Saitama, Japan) |
| MATSUSHIRO CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL VOL.8 (Matsushiro school/ Nagano, Japan) | |
| 2008 | Sisyuphus Now (MARUKI MUSEUM OF ART/ Saitama, Japan) |
| 2007 | HILLSAIDE GALLERY - towards a new departure (HILLSIDE GALLERY/ Tokyo, Japan) |
| Tauto and Light (Syorinzan SENSHINTEI/ Gunma, Japan) | |
| Art seen from the inside - sculpture (SHIBUKAWA CITY ART MUSEUM/ Gunma, Japan) | |
| Danke Art Project 2007 vol.2 In Summer (German village of plateau ranch kronenberg AKAGI/ Gunma, Japan) | |
| Solo Exhibitions "silence" (Akiyama Gallery/ Tokyo, Japan) | |
| Solo Exhibition "ARAKAWA NOTE" (TENNOUZ Central Tower Art Hall/ Tokyo, Japan) | |
| 2006 | TOMADOU (ART214/ Saitama, Japan) |
| SURVIVAL ART (The site of old department store ASAYA/ Gunma, Japan) | |
| Exhibition with Rose (Rinkou-Kaku/ Gunma, Japan) | |
| NIPAF ’06 in Maebashi (Maebashi cultural studies center/ Gunma, Japan) | |
| 2005 | Tauto and Light (Syorinzan SENSHINTEI/ Gunma, Japan) |
| 2003 | Solo Exhibition "Image - from near to far away. and in the middle" (SHIBUKAWA CITY ART MUSEUM/ Gunma, Japan) |
| 2002 | Gunma - Inside|periphery (Maebashi cultural studies center/ Gunma, Japa) |
| 2001 | MAEBASHI FESTIVAL OF ART/ air：Berlin-Maebashi (The site of Maebashi Fire station/ Gunma, Japan) |
| Solo Exhibition "In the hand" (Akiyama Gallery/ Tokyo, Japan) | |
| SUKIMA PROJECT (Tokyo|Gunma, Japan) | |
| Art Grove (SAPPORO DOME/ Hokkaido, Japan) | |
| 2000 | ECHIGO-TSUMARI ART TRIENNIAL 2000 (Niigata/ Japan) |
| Solo Exhibitiom "In the sea" (Gallery NUDE/ Gunma, Japan) | |
| Solo Exhibitiom "The left hand" (Akiyama Gallery/ Tokyo, Japan) | |
| 1999 | SUKI-MONO-TACHI Ways since Rin-pa No.3 (Rinko-Kaku/ Gunma, Japan) |
| Solo Exhibition "Body" (Akiyama Gallery/ Tokyo, Japan) | |
| SCULPTURE (Yurin-kan/ Gunma, Japan) | |
| 1998 | Solo Exhibitiom "Underground" (Akiyama Gallery/ Tokyo, Japan) |
| 1997 | Solo Exhibitiom "The head" (CONCEPT SPACE/ Gunma, Japan) |
| 1995 | FARET TACHIKAWA Art Project (Tokyo, Japan) |
| FINAL EXHIBITION (Chelsea College of Art and Design/ London, UK) | |
| MID YEAR SHOW (Chelsea College of Art and Design/ London, UK) | |
| 1994 | CURVED SPACE (KUNST HAUS/ Nurnberg, Germany) |
| ZEITGENÖSSISCHE KUNST AUS JAPAN (Gallery IM TAXISPALAIS/ Innsbruck, Austria) | |
| HUMAN TIDE 1994 International Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition (Pusan|Nagano) | |
| 1993 | HILLSIDE Library 1993 / The Drawing Warehouse Exhibition Ⅳ (HILLSIDE GALLERY/ Tokyo, Japan) |
| The Independent Drawing (MOMA CONTEMPORARY/ Fukuoka, Japan) | |
| 1992 | MAKING ROOM -space as material- (PACIFICO YAKOHAMA/ Kanagawa, Japan) |
| HAKUSYU Summer Festival ’92 (Yamanashi, Japan) | |
| HILLSIDE Library 1992 / The Drawing Warehouse Exhibition Ⅲ (HILLSIDE GALLERY/ Tokyo, Japan) | |
| Solo Exhibition "Domain" (Akiyama Gallery/ Tokyo, Japan) | |
| 1991 | Take Art Collection (Spiral Garden/ Tokyo, Japan) |
| Solo Exhibition (HILLSIDE GALLERY/ Tokyo, Japan) | |
| HAKUSYU Summer Festival -Drawing (Gallery FURUKAWA/ Tokyo, Japan) | |
| A-Value Exhibition (Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art/ Shizuoka, Japan) | |
| SUKI-MONO-TACHI Ways since Rin-pa (CONCEPT SPACE/ Gunma, Japan) | |
| HILLSIDE Library 1991 / The Drawing Warehouse Exhibition Ⅱ (HILLSIDE GALLERY/ Tokyo, Japan) | |
| 1990 | The 26th “Artist Today” (YOKOHAMA CIVIC ART GALLERY/ Kanagawa, Japan) |
| SHIBUKAWA Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture '90 (Gunma, Japan) | |
| HAKUSYU Summer Festival ’90 (Yamanashi, Japan) | |
| ART LANDSCAPE IN IWAKI ’90 (Fukushima, Japan) | |
| Solo Exhibition "Approach" (Presentation Space Trance-Medium/ Tokyo, Japan) | |
| Four Artists in April '90 (Akiyama Gallery/ Tokyo, Japan) | |
| Art Document 1990 (HOKKAIDO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART/ Hokkaido, Japan) | |
| 1989 | Solo Exhibition "Glass house" (gallery αM/ Tokyo, Japan) |
| OPEN AIR EXHIBITIO IN WANPAKU 1989 (Chiba, Japan) | |
| Landscape of Conversation (CONCEPT SPACE/ Gunma, Japan) | |
| GENBA ’89-’90 (Fukushima, Japan) | |
| Solo Exhibition "Domain" (Akiyama Gallery/ Tokyo, Japan) | |
| Solo Exhibition "A Made Thing" (HILLSIDE GALLERY/ Tokyo, Japan) | |
| SHERATON SCULPTURE EXHIBIT ’89 (Chiba, Japan) | |
| The Drawing Warehouse Exhibition (HILLSIDE GALLERY/ Tokyo, Japan) | |
| 1988 | OYA Underground Art Exhibition (OYA STONE MUSEUM/ Tochigi, Japan) |
| Two Artists Exhibition (Fukuoka Art Museum/ Fukuoka, Japan) | |
| The Critical Point in Art (MURAMATSU GALLERY/ Tokyo, Japan) | |
| Solo Exhibition "Traces" (gallery ITEZA/ Kyoto, Japan) | |
| Solo Exhibition "Traces" (AKIYAMA GALLERY/ Tokyo, Japan) | |
| 1987 | ENCLOSURE (SETAGAYA ART MUSEUM/ Tokyo, Japan) |
| 1986 | Solo Exhibition "Traces" (MURAMATSU GALLERY/ Tokyo, Japan) |
| 1985 | UENO '85 (Tokyo University of the Arts/ Tokyo, Japan) |