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魂ゼリー Soul Jelly 2019 ceramic h.6.4 × w.17.5 × d.8.3 cm ©︎Keisuke Yamamoto -
回転分離ダイス 2018 wood, oil, iron h.50.0 × w.49.0 × d.51.0 cm ©︎Keisuke Yamamoto -
Installation view from "Clouds in the Center of the Earth" at 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2017 ©Keisuke Yamamoto photo by Kenji Takahashi -
Installation view from "Clouds in the Center of the Earth" at 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2017 ©Keisuke Yamamoto photo by Kenji Takahashi -
Installation view from "Clouds in the Center of the Earth" at 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2017 ©Keisuke Yamamoto photo by Kenji Takahashi -
Installation view from "Clouds in the Center of the Earth" at 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2017 ©Keisuke Yamamoto photo by Kenji Takahashi -
Installation view from "Clouds in the Center of the Earth" at 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2017 ©Keisuke Yamamoto photo by Kenji Takahashi -
Installation view from "Clouds in the Center of the Earth" at 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2017 ©Keisuke Yamamoto photo by Kenji Takahashi -
Installation view from "Clouds in the Center of the Earth" at 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2017 ©Keisuke Yamamoto photo by Kenji Takahashi -
Installation view from "Clouds in the Center of the Earth" at 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2017 ©Keisuke Yamamoto photo by Kenji Takahashi -
菌太郎 Fungus boy 2014-2015 oil and oil stain on wood h.41 × w.24 × d.23 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
花火師 Pyrotechnician 2013 scrubbing brush, cardboard, wood, cement, oilstain h.31.5 × w.11.0 × d.10.0 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
田舎者 Country man 2012 hammer, wood, oil stain h.50.0 × w.38.0 × d.75.5 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
幽体離脱 Astral Projection 2012 wood, oil stain, acrylic, hammer h.25.0 × w.12.5 × d.40.0 cm ©︎Keisuke Yamamoto -
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Installation view from "A Long, Long, Long Time Ago" at 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2015 ©Keisuke Yamamoto photo by Kenji Takahashi -
Installation view from "A Long, Long, Long Time Ago" at 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2015 ©Keisuke Yamamoto photo by Kenji Takahashi -
Installation view from "A Long, Long, Long Time Ago" at 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2015 ©Keisuke Yamamoto photo by Kenji Takahashi -
Installation view from "A Long, Long, Long Time Ago" at 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2015 ©Keisuke Yamamoto photo by Kenji Takahashi -
灯台守 Lighthouse keeper 2012 stool, oil stain h.45.0 × w.30.0 × d.30.0 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
Untitled 2008-2012 oil, acrylic and epoxy putty on wood, iron h.530 × w.356 × d.420 cm ©︎Keisuke Yamamoto -
Installation view from "Brown Sculptures" at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2012 ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
untitled 2009 oil on wood board 21.5 × 16.0 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
untitled 2009 oil, collage on canvas 162.0 × 130.0 cm © Keisuke Yamamoto -
untitled 2009 oil on canvas 61.0 × 61.0 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
untitled 2009 oil on canvas 228 × 182 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
untitled 2009 acrylic, pastel, ink, pencil, color pencil, tape, collage on paper 27.0 × 27.0 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
Installation view from "Crossing" at TKG Editions Kyoto, Japan, 2010 ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
Installation view from "rise" at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2009 ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
untitled 2007 oil, acrylic on wood h.114.0 × w.45.0 × d.45.0 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
Untitled 2007 oil, acrylic on wood h.242 × w.210 × d.185 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
untitled 2007 oil, acrylic on wood h.358 × w.231 × d.187 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
untitled 2007 oil, acrylic on canvas 145.5 × 145.5 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
untitled 2007 oil on canvas 46.0 × 34.0 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
untitled 2006 oil, acrylic and match stick on wood h.72.0 × w.34.0 × d.33.5 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
untitled 2006 oil, acrylic, matchstick on wood h.13.0 × w.34.0 × d.14.0 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
untitled 2006 oil on canvas 72.7 × 116.7 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
untitled 2006 oil, color pencil and ink on paper 50.5 × 64.8 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
Installation view at project room/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2005 ©︎Keisuke Yamamoto -
Installation view at project room/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2005 ©︎Keisuke Yamamoto -
その場しのぎ工場製品 No.40 SONOBASHINOGI Factory Product No.40 2005 oil, acrylic, matchstick on wood h.68.7 × w.34.8 × d.31.2 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
土なぶり工場製品 No.78 TSUCHINABURI Factory Product No.78 2005 oil on canvas 80.3 × 130.4 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
土なぶり工場製品 No.45 TSUCHINABURI Factory Product No.45 2005 oil on canvas 116.7 × 116.7 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
その場しのぎ工場製品 No.23 SONOBASHINOGI Factory Product No.23 2003 oil on wood, matchstick h.23.4 × w.12.5 × d.11.0 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
その場しのぎ工場製品 No.5 SONOBASHINOGI Factory Product No.5 2002 oil on wood, matchstick h.11.6 × w.23 × d.14.5 cm ©Keisuke Yamamoto -
Installation view from "Field of Dreams" at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2004 ©Keisuke Yamamoto
Keisuke Yamamoto was born in 1979 in Tokyo. After graduating from the department of Sculpture of Tokyo Zokei University in 2001 he stayed at the university as a research student until 2003. In 2018 he graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts’ Graduate School of Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture. He currently lives and works in Kanagawa. This show at Tomio Koyama Gallery is his sixth solo exhibition, and his major group exhibitions include “VOCA 2008” (2008, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo), “Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art” (2009, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, traveled to several international museums), “Twist and Shout: Contemporary Art from Japan” (2009, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre), and “Nostalgia and Fantasy: Imagination and Its Origins in Contemporary Art” (2014, National Museum of Art, Osaka). His work is collected by the National Museum of Art, Osaka and international private collections.
Solo Exhibitions
2021 | “季節的暗號 Signs of seasons” Hiro Hiro Art Space, Taiwan |
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2017 | “Clouds in the Center of the Earth” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2015 | “A Long, Long, Long Time Ago” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2014 | “Wasteland” GALLERY ZERO, Osaka, Japan |
2013 | “Taro” GALLERY ZERO, Osaka, Japan |
2012 | ”Brown Sculptures” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2010 | “Crossing” TKG Editions Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan GALLERY ZERO, Osaka, Japan |
2009 | “Rise” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2008 | “Kaleidoscopic Dots” HELENE NYBORG CONTEMPORARY, Copenhagen, Denmark |
2007 | “fertile land” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Keisuke Yamamoto New Paintings” GALLERY ZERO, Osaka, Japan |
2006 | TKGY at lammfromm, Tokyo, Japan “HERVEST BANQUET” HELENE NYBORG CONTEMPORARY, Copenhagen, Denmark Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Tochigi, Japan |
2005 | project room/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan GALLERY ZERO, Osaka, Japan |
2004 | TKGY at lammfromm, Tokyo, Japan |
2003 | “HOMEBASE CURATION” HOMEBASE, Tokyo, Japan |
Group Exhibitions
2020 | Parplume Gallery, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan “The Splendid Mountain” Hiro Hiro Art Space, Taipei City, Taiwan “Circulator of the Yoichi Umezu curation exhibition full Freon Tal nude” Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store Main Building 6F Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
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2019 | “SUPER OPEN STUDIO” STUDIO VOLTA, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan |
2018 | “Bubblewrap: After Mono-ha, the next established art movement is Superflat, but that means the interim period overlapping the years of Japan's economic bubble has yet to be named, and I think calling it “Bubblewrap” suits it well. It especially makes sense if you incorporate the realm of ceramics. This show will contemplate this period through works including those from Takashi Murakami's collection.” Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan “SUPER OPEN STUDIO 2018” STUDIO VOLTA, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan “ART AWARD TOKYO MARUNOUCHI 2018” Gyoko Chika Gallery, Marunouchi, Yurakucho, Otemachi Area, Tokyo, Japan Yamagata Biennale 2018, NEL MILL (ROOTS & technique), Tohoku University of Art & Design, Yamagata, Japan |
2017 | “Singularity of a Tree #2” Denchu Hirakushi House and Atelier, Tokyo, Japan “22nd HEART EXHIBITION” Tokyu Department Store Shibuya Main Store, Tokyo, Japan [traveled to multiple venues in Japan] “Mother” Model Room, Tokyo, Japan |
2016 | “Singularity of a Tree” Denchu Hirakushi House and Atelier, Tokyo, Japan “ROKKO MEETS ART 2016” Rokkosan Country House, Hyogo, Japan “COLLECTION 1” National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan “Toshiharu MIKI’s view of Art, Education and Life” Nasunogahara Museum, Tochigi, Japan “JAPAN 7” Silverlens, Manila, Philippines |
2015 | “SOMETHINKS: Daisuke Fukunaga, Keisuke Yamamoto” Art Laboratory Hashimoto, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan |
2014 | “Nostalgia and Fantasy : Imagination and It's Origins Contemporary Art” National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan “CSP2” Kuwasawa Design School, Tokyo, Japan |
2013 | “Why not live for Art? II -9 collectors reveal their treasures” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2011 | “Koji Ueki Tribute JOINT EXHIBITION 2011” gallery Motomachi, Kanagawa, Japan “Cho-Kyoto” Shosei-en Garden (Kikoku-tei, Higashihonganji), Kyoto, Japan |
2010 | “The HELLO show” HELENE NYBORG CONTEMPORARY, Copenhagen, Denmark |
2009 | “Winter Garden:The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Cologne, Germany 2009; The Japan Foundation, Tronto, Canada, 2010; Galeri'a Arnold Belkin, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico, 2011 “Twist and Shout: Comtemporary Art from Japan” Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Thailand |
2008 | “VOCA 2008” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
2007 | “STRANGE BREW” Max Lang Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
2006 | HELENE NYBORG CONTEMPORARY, Copenhagen, Denmark “STUDIO Katakuriko Exhibition” Sagamihara Gallery Art Spot, Kanagawa, Japan “From Atelier” Yumikobo, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan “a magical art life” Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan |
2005 | “Drawings” project room/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Changing Role-Move Over Gallery, Napoli, Italy |
2004 | “Field of Dreams” project room/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “The World is Mine” Hiromi Yoshii 5, Tokyo, Japan |
2003 | “The 7th Gumma Biennale for Young Artist '03” Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan “Opening Exhibition” STUDIO Katakuriko, Kanagawa, Japan |
2002 | “CLIP SIGN” Former Hazama Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan |
Public Collections
The Cedars-Sinai Collection
Flowerman Collection
Japan Foundation
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Olbricht Collection
Rubell Family Collection

Clouds in the Center of the Earth
May 4 - June 26, 2017
8/ ART GALLERY/ TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY

Group Exhibition “Tomio Koyama Gallery: Works from the Gallery Artists and the Collection 2”
February 8 - March 6, 2017
8/ ART GALLERY/ TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY

“A Long, Long, Long Time Ago”
September 9 - September 28, 2015
8/ ART GALLERY/ TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY

“Brown Sculptures”
November 17 - December 15, 2012
TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY 6TH FLOOR

“Crossing”
January 8 - January 30, 2010
TKG EDITIONS KYOTO

“rise”
March 7 - March 28, 2009
TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY 7TH FLOOR

“fertile land”
September 29 - October 20, 2007
TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY 6TH FLOOR

Solo Exhibition
July 30 - September 3, 2005
PROJECT ROOM: TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY

Solo Exhibition “季節的暗號 Signs of seasons” Hiro Hiro Art Space, Taiwan
November 19 - December 19, 2021

Group Exhibition “CADAN×ISETAN MEN’S : Seasonal Cohabit ~Spring&Summer~” Isetan Shinjuku Men’s Building, Tokyo
March 31 - July 20, 2021

Group Exhibition “那座彩山 The Splendid Mountain” Hiro Hiro Art Space, Taipei City, Taiwan
October 3 - November 1, 2020

Group exhibition, Parplume Gallery, Kanagawa
October 3 - October 7, 2020

Group Exhibition “Circulator of the Yoichi Umezu curation exhibition full Freon Tal nude” Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
June 10 - June 29, 2020

Open Studio “SUPER OPEN STUDIO 2019” Art Laboratory Hashimoto and other venues, Kanagawa, Japan
October 12 - November 4, 2019

Group Exhibition “Bubblewrap: After Mono-ha, the next established art movement is Superflat, but that means the interim period overlapping the years of Japan’s economic bubble has yet to be named, and I think calling it “Bubblewrap” suits it well. It especially makes sense if you incorporate the realm of ceramics. This show will contemplate this period through works including those from Takashi Murakami’s collection.” Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
December 15, 2018 - March 3, 2019

Event “Art for Gift” BOOK & GINZA ATRIUM, Tokyo, Japan
November 12 - December 25, 2018

Open Studio “SUPER OPEN STUDIO 2018” Sagamihara City, Kanagawa, Japan
October 13 - November 4, 2018

Group Exhibition “ART AWARD TOKYO MARUNOUCHI 2018” Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery, Tokyo
September 7 - September 24, 2018

Group Exhibition “AKANE THSHIGAHARA SOLO EXHIBITION” Sogetsu, Tokyo, Japan
April 5 - April 10, 2017

Group Exhibition “Mother” mdlroom, Oume, Tokyo
March 4 - March 26, 2017

Group Exhibition “Singularity of a Tree” Denchu Hirakushi House and Atelier, Tokyo
November 18 - November 27, 2016

Group Exhibition “Rokko Meets Art 2016” Mt. Rokko, Hyogo, Japan
September 14 - November 23, 2016

Group Exhibition “Japan 7” Silverlens, Manila, Philippines
February 11 - March 12, 2016

Group Exhibition “SOMETHINKS: Daisuke Fukunaga, Keisuke Yamamoto” Art Laboratory Hashimoto, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
October 10 - November 1, 2015

グループ展「アートがあればⅡ −9人のコレクターによる個人コレクションの場合」東京オペラシティ アートギャラリー、東京
July 13 - September 23, 2013
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CREDIT
Executive Creative Director : Kenmei Nagaoka (D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT)
Creative Director : Shin Sasaki (3KG)
Producer : Mitsuko Matsuzoe (D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT)
Director : Hirotatsu Koarai
Interview : Hirotatsu Koarai
Camera : Natsuyo Nakamura
Music : Yuichi Nagao
Production Manager : Tatsuya Kawano
“A Long, Long, Long Time Ago”
September 9 - September 28, 2015
http://tomiokoyamagallery.com/en/exhibitions/keisukeyamamoto2015/