Yuichi YOKOYAMA
Yuichi YOKOYAMA
(Born in Miyazaki, 1967. Lives and works in Saitama, Japan)
Yuichi Yokoyama had produced Fine Art works in 1990’s after finished his B.F.A at Musashino Art University with a major in oil painting. Since 2000, Yokoyama shifted his practice to Manga as a medium that allowed him to “draw time.” His Manga famously known as “Neo-Manga” can be characterized with the use of vigorous lines, onomatopoeia, unique characters, and more importantly the depiction of uninterrupted time flow. His representative comics, New Engineering, Travel, NIWA, Baby Boom, The Room of the World Map were translated into various languages and earned a high reputation in the world. Other published work is BABY BOOM FINAL in which the artist reproduced his monochrome Manga images in neon colors.
While a large-scale solo exhibition, “The Complete Neo Manga of YOKOYAMA Yuichi: I draw time” at Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa, Japan (2010) marks Yokoyama’s success as an established artist in Japan, the artist has won an international reputation.
He has participated in numerous group exhibitions “Logical Emotion”, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland (2014) / Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK), Krakow, Poland (2015) / Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle (Saale), Land Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany (2015). He also had several solo exhibitions such as “YÛICHI YOKOYAMA: WANDERING THROUGH MAPS, UNE EXPLORATION A TRAVERS LES CARTES”, Pavillon Blanc, Colomiers, France (2014); “YOKOYAMA Yuichi x Surrealism”, Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, Japan (2014) and “this is that, touch it.”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan (2014). He also worked with HERMÈS for their window display of Isetan Shinjuku Store, Tokyo in 2013.
Collections
- Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
- Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
- Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
News
"Mangasia: Wonderlands of Asian Comics"
June 30 - September 16, 2018
Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
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"ISI PRESS vol.3 Launch Exhibition"
July 15 - 29, 2018
NEW ALTERNATIVE, Tokyo, Japan
"CHILDHOOD Another banana day for the dream-fish"
June 22 - September 9, 2018
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
"T-Shirt FAIR & EVENT - Summer in Ebisu, Wear the Art then Go -
April 21 - May 6, 2018
NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo
"Jochen Gerner & Yuichi Yokoyama à l'est"
June 16 - July 28, 2018
Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris, France
"the MOTHER of DESIGN"
April 23 - May 20, 2018
(marunouchi)HOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
"DOBOKU: Civil Engineering in Shanghai"
March 31 - June 24, 2018
3F, Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China
"Mangasia: Wonderlands of Asian Comics"
February 22 - June 3, 2018
Villa di Reale, Monza, Italy
Japonismes 2018
"Season Childhood: Another Banana Day for the Perfect Fish"
June 22 - September 9, 2018
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
"Yuichi Yokoyama Image Landscape"
January 12 - 28, 2018
Nakamatsu Shoten (#313 Okuno Bld, 1-9-8 Ginza, Chuo-ku), Tokyo, Japan
His collaborated CONVERSE sneakers are on sale until January 31, 2018.
"Switch In Out"
December 4 - 10, 2017
Room_412, Tokyo, Japan
"MANGASIA: WONDERLANDS OF ASIAN COMICS"
October 7, 2017 - January 21, 2018
Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
"PLAY with Taro"
July 15 - October 15, 2017
Play with words section, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art Kawasaki, Kanagawa
＜Work shop＞
"Challenge the explosive poem and comic!"
August 11 (Thu), 2017 10:00 - 15:00
Atelier, exhibition space
＜Talk＞
"PLAY with Words ＋Talk"
October 1 (Sun), 2017 14:00 - 16:00
Guidance hall
His interview "What the hip think about? Interview for featured person" is featured on HOUYHNHNM.
"The World is Strange!: The Manga and Painting of Tiger Tateishi and Yuichi YOKOYAMA"
October 28, 2016 - January 22, 2017
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
"Rokko Meets Art - Art Walk 2016"
September 14 - November 23, 2016
Rokko mountain area, Hyogo, Japan
His wall mural and original images of manga are exhibiting at the lounge of recently opened high-end capsule hotel in Osaka.
Shell-Nell (2-9-16 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan)