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
2022 | “Highly Concentrated Forest, Lightening Strike and Earthworms” MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Mitsukoshi Department Store, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan |
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2021 | “季節的暗號 Signs of seasons” Hiro Hiro Art Space, Taiwan |
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
2024 | “FOUND!” Taro Maruyama×Keisuke Yamamoto, BABY The Coffee Brew Club, Tokyo, Japan “Yamagata Biennale 2024 in Zao” Tohoku University of Art And Design & Zao Onsen, Yamagata, Japan |
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2022 | "Obon Night" ZaisyohouseKoide, Aichi, Japan |
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 |
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
Group Exhibition “Yamagata Biennale 2024 in Zao” Tohoku University of Art And Design & Zao Onsen, Yamagata, Japan
Group Exhibition “FOUND!” Taro Maruyama×Keisuke Yamamoto, BABY The Coffee Brew Club, Tokyo, Japan
Solo Exhibition “Highly Concentrated Forest, Lightening Strike and Earthworms” MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Mitsukoshi Department Store, Nihombashi, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition “Obon Night” ZaisyohouseKoide, Aichi, Japan
Solo Exhibition “季節的暗號 Signs of seasons” Hiro Hiro Art Space, Taiwan
Group Exhibition “CADAN×ISETAN MEN’S : Seasonal Cohabit ~Spring&Summer~” Isetan Shinjuku Men’s Building, Tokyo
Group Exhibition “那座彩山 The Splendid Mountain” Hiro Hiro Art Space, Taipei City, Taiwan
Group exhibition, Parplume Gallery, Kanagawa
Group Exhibition “Circulator of the Yoichi Umezu curation exhibition full Freon Tal nude” Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Open Studio “SUPER OPEN STUDIO 2019” Art Laboratory Hashimoto and other venues, Kanagawa, Japan
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
Event “Art for Gift” BOOK & GINZA ATRIUM, Tokyo, Japan
Open Studio “SUPER OPEN STUDIO 2018” Sagamihara City, Kanagawa, Japan
Group Exhibition “ART AWARD TOKYO MARUNOUCHI 2018” Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery, Tokyo
Group Exhibition “AKANE THSHIGAHARA SOLO EXHIBITION” Sogetsu, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition “Mother” mdlroom, Oume, Tokyo
Group Exhibition “Singularity of a Tree” Denchu Hirakushi House and Atelier, Tokyo
Group Exhibition “Rokko Meets Art 2016” Mt. Rokko, Hyogo, Japan
Group Exhibition “Japan 7” Silverlens, Manila, Philippines
Group Exhibition “SOMETHINKS: Daisuke Fukunaga, Keisuke Yamamoto” Art Laboratory Hashimoto, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
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
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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
https://tomiokoyamagallery.com/en/exhibitions/keisukeyamamoto2015/