Born in Fukuoka, Japan, 1959
Education
MFA in sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1990
MFA in painting, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan, 1985
BFA in painting, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan, 1983
Lives and works in Onomichi, Japan
One-Person Exhibitions
2021
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Wandering Position 1988-2021, Anomaly, Tokyo, Japan
2019
Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan
2017
Ticolat Tamura, Hong Kong
2016
Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan
2014
Money / Flower, Michael Janssen Gallery, Lock Road, Singapore
USSR, Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
2013
New Works, Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
2012
Study for American Art, Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
2010
AMERICA, Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
Inujima Art House Project, Okayama, Japan
2009
MONEY on view, Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Inujima Art Project, Inujima Seirensho Art Museum, Okayama, Japan
2005
Icarus Project, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2002
Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
YUKICHI KV644955H, Mitsubishi-Jisho Atrium, Fukuoka, Japan
2000
Akitsushima, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1999
New Work, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998
Image, Nation and Transnation, University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
1997
Wandering Position, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
Beaver College Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Pacific, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Alcatraz, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
Pacific, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996
Field Work on Alcatraz, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1995
Project Article 9, Queens Museum of Art, Corona, NY
Project Article 9, Kirin Plaza Osaka, Japan
The Chrysanthemum Carpet, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
Matrix 128, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
1994
Union Jack Ant Farm, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK
1993
Hammer and Sickle, Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1992
YANAGI, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Wandering Position, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Benesse House, Naoshima Island, Japan
1991
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
From the Notebook during the Stay in America, Sho Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
—Hi‐no‐maru—1991, Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The World Flag Ant Farm, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The World Flag Ant Farm and Wandering Position: Project —Red, White and Blue, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Wandering Position, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Store Front for Art and Architecture, New York, NY
Master’s Thesis Show, Yale University Art and Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT
1988
PLANαM —transform, Gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan
Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
Ten Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
Gallery21, Fukuoka, Japan
Ground Fishing Project Document, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Sokasha, Shimane, Japan; Michiko Fine Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1987
Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1986
Ground, Kanagawa Prefecture Hall, Kanagawa, Japan
Gallery Center Point, Gallery Natsuka, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2022
Open Storage: 25 Years of Collecting, curated by Allan Schwartzman, the Warehouse, Dallas, TX
Turn of Phrase: Language and Translation in Global Contemporary Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Setouchi Triennale 2022, Seto Inland Sea, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
2021
Feeling the Stones, Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia
Mountains Carrying Suns, Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan
2020
Psychic Wounds: On Art & Trauma, curated by Gavin Delahunty, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX
2019
Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s, Part 1, curated by Mika Yoshitake, Blum & Poe,
Los Angeles, CA
Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s, Part 2, curated by Mika Yoshitake, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Creatures: When Species Meet, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2018
21st Biennale of Sydney, SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium and Engagement, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, Australia
A Colossal World, Japanese Artists and New York, 1950s-Present, White Box, New York, NY
Modern Art Revisited: From the Collection of Fukuoka Art Museum, Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori, Japan
2017
Art Turns. World Turns., Exploring the Collection of Museum of MACAN Museum, Jacarta, Indonesia
Islands, Constellations & Galapagos, Yokohama Triennale 2017, Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall, Yokohama, Japan
The Greatest Story Ever Told, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Inspired, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Soh Gallery Collection 1970-1990, Soh Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2016
Busan Biennale 2016, Busan Museum of Art, KISWIRE Suyeong Factory, Busan, South Korea
2015
Do Ho Suh, Tatzu Nishi, Yukinori Yanagi, Art Base Momoshima, Hiroshima, Japan
Tide Water: Hiroshi Senju and Yukinori Yanagi, Kosagi Island Bio-Isle Project, Mihara,
Hiroshima, Japan
25 Openings to Enjoy the Human Expression of the Museum’s 25th Anniversary, Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan
2014
Crossroad, Nishigosho Prefectural Warehouse No. 3, Art Base Momoshima, Hiroshima, Japan
Noriyuki Haraguchi, Miyako Ishiuchi, and Yukinori Yanagi, Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
Dreams of the East Asia – A Contemporary Sequel for the Josen-Korean Diplomatic Expeditions
Renewed & Landmark Project V, BankART Studio NYK, Kanagawa, Japan
Art Base Collection, Art Base Momoshima, Hiroshima, Japan
2013
Beyond Human: Artist-Annual Collaborations, PEM Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Asia Code: Zero, SOMA Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Roppongi Crossing 2013: OUT OF DOUBT, Mori Art Museum 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Mori
Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Feel the art for the first time, Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Ueda Collection, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Re: Quest- Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Fukuoka Contemporary Art Chronicle 1970-2000, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan and Fukuoka City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2012
MOT Collection Our Ninety Years: 1923-2013, Afterimages of tomorrow, Museum of
Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
Art Base Momoshima Opening Exhibition, Art Base Momoshima, Hiroshima, Japan
Liverpool Biennial 2012, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2011
Thirty Years Peter Blum Edition, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
8th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Works in Progress: Hitoshi Nomura, Sigmar Polke, Yukinori Yanagi, Fergus McCaffrey Fine Art, New York, NY
2010
Cheer up! Art can make you happy-Selections from the Hara Museum Collection, Hara Museum ARC, Contemporary Art Galleries A・B・C, Gunma, Japan
20th Anniversary of the Gotoh Memorial Foundation, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Setouchi International Art Festival 2010, Seven Islands of the Seto Inland Sea, Okayama, Japan
2009
Boundary, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Into the Atomic Sunshine: Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution, Okinawa
Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Migration and Expression, Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
2008
Please be quiet. -On clamor and art-, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Four Views of the Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan Shelter×Survival: Alternative Homes for Fantastic Lives, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Into the Atomic Sunshine: Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution, Puffin Room, New York, NY and Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Himming, Himi, Toyama, Japan
Simply Red, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Still, the person exceeds the boundary, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Geldscheisser in the Vault, The former jiroshima Branch of the Bank of Japan, Hiroshima, Japan
Scenes and Sequences, Allgaeuer Kunst House, Aarau, Switzerland
Aiming at a New Departure, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Route of pop: 1960s-2000s, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
2006
Singler Multiples: Peter Blum Edition 1980-1994, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
In Focus: Living History, Tate Modern, London, UK, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
These 20 arts of 20 Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Museum of Art Came!, Yokohama Civilian Gallery in Azamino, Yokohama, Japan
2005
Cruising Landscapes, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa,
Japan
Contemporary Art's ABC, Fukui City Museum of Art, Fukui, Japan
Swarm, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Art Crossing Hiroshima Project 2005, Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
2004
Adventures in images, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
The copy age, Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
2003
Windstil, Cotthem Gallery, Brussel, Belgium
The Power of Kyushu, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
Permanent Collection: 50 years of contemporary art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2002
Money and Valuean exhibition of the Swiss National Bank, curated by Harald Szeemann, Lake Biel, Switzerland
The 2nd Fukuoka Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Cultural Crossing, Numark Gallery, Washington D.C.
Inauguration Exhibition, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
Dorsky Project, Long Island City, NY
2001
Made in Asia, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC Tokyo Pop, Kansas City Jewish Museum, Kansas City, MO Talking Heads, Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2000
Diary, Corner House, Manchester, UK; traveled to Firstsite, Colchester, UK Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Vanitas-meditation of life and death in contemporary art, Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA 2000 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
Vacant lot, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan Dark Mirrors of Japan, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands Umedalen Sculptur 2000, Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå, Sweden Plastic Age-Art and Design, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan Department Store of Contemporary Art, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kofu, Japan Open-Ends-One thing after another, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Landscape encoded, Tate Modern, London, UK
1999
Relay Drawings: Eye, Hand, Other, Samek Art Museum at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
1998
Animal, Anima, Animus, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland; traveled to Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Netherlands, PS1 Museum, New York, NY; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada;
Sehnsucht Heimat, Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria
Expression of Lines, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Taste and Pursuits: Japanese art in the 1990, National Museum of India, New Delhi, India;
traveled to Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines
Conceptual Window, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
On the edge, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1997
Aspects of land and soil, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
The 50th anniversary of Nihon-Andepandan-Ten, Metropolitan Museum of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Atlas Mapping, Offenes Kulturhaus Linz, Austria; traveled to Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria; and Magazin 4, Bad Reichenhall, Germany
Changing spaces, Miami Museum of Art, Miami, FL
L'autre, Biennale de Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France
PROJECTS, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
1996
Eastern Fusion, Hillwood Museum, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY
Avant-garde walk in Soho, New York, NY
Cultural Olympiad, in conjunction with Atlanta Olympic Games, Atlanta, GA
Conversation at the Castle, Art Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Islands, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Protean Artists of the Time, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Universalis, São Paulo Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil
Paintings-The Extended Field, Magasin III Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, and Rooseum,
Malmo, Sweden
Un-frieden, sabotage von wirklichkeiten-discord, sabotage of realities-Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
1995
Border Crawl, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Art in Japan Today-1985-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Minimal Form, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Japan Today, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; traveled to Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway; Waino Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland; Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden; Osterreichisches Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria, and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Age of Anxiety, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
6 Triennale Kleinplastik, Sudwest LB Forum, Stuttgart, Germany
Fifty Years After, Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan
1994
On the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the End of the Century, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan
Japanese Art after 1945: Scream against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Art Labyrinth, Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
Mito Annual'94, Open System, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Old Glory, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; traveled to Galleries of
Contemporary Art at University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Japanese Art after 1945: Scream against the Sky, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; traveled to Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA and Yerba Buena Garden, San Francisco, CA
Asian Art Now, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Insite'94, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
1993
Aperto'93, 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
In Their Own Image, PS1 Museum, New York, NY
Nagoya International Biennale-Artec’93, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
Exchange 2, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Trade Routes, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Invisible Realities, Yokohama Citizens' Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
1992
By Arrangement, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
My Sweet Home in Ruins-Urban Environment and Art in Japan, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Museum City Project, Fukuoka, Japan
1991
New York Diary-Almost twenty-five different things, PS1 Museum, New York, NY
1988
Iwakuni Outdoor Art Project '88, Kintai Bridge on Nishiki River, Yamaguchi, Japan
Critical Art Phrases '88, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1987
Art-move in Okurayama, Okurayama Memorial Hall, Kanagawa, Japan
'87 Kanagawa Art Annual, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Kanagawa, Japan
Art Document '87, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
Akimoto Yuji and Yanagi Yukinori: Field, Situation and Encounter, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1986
6th Hamamatsu Open-air Exhibition, Sandhill at Nakatajima, Shizuoka, Japan
Underground Art Exhibition in Oya, Oya Stone Mine, Tochigi, Japan
1985
17th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Other Projects
2012-Present
Art Base Momoshima, Hiroshima, Japan
2010
Inujima Art House Project, Okayama, Japan
2008
Kosagijima BIO-Isle Project, Hiroshima, Japan
Inujima Art Project "SEIRENSHO", Okayama, Japan
1996
Field Work on Alcatraz, San Francisco, CA
Awards, Grants, and Residencies
2005
Acadia National Park Summer Arts Program, Mount Desert, ME
2002
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
1999
Acadia National Park Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mount Desert, ME
1995
Prize, Gotoh Memorial Foundation
1993
Aperto '93, 45th Venice Biennale
Asian Cultural Council: Japan-United States Arts Program Award
Fellowship and Award, Yale University, School of Art and Architecture Grant
International Studio Program, P.S.1 Museum, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Catalogues
2021
Delahunty, Gavin, Cindy Rachofsky, Howard Rachofsky, Allan Schwartzman, Robert Storr, Beatriz Colomina, Griselda Pollock, et al. Psychic Wounds: On Art & Trauma. New York City: MW Editions, 2021, 174–177.
A Frame Is Now Given to You in Which You Are to Wander. Tokyo: ANOMALY Inc., 2021.
2020
Yoshitake, Mika. Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s. Los Angeles: Blum & Poe, 2020.
2016
Yukinori Yanagi: Wandering Position. Yokohama, Japan: BankART1929, 2016.
2014
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2010
Inujima Note. Tokyo: Miyake Fine Art, 2010.
2009
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2007
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2006
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2005
Icarus Project. Fukuoka, Japan: Fukuoka Art Museum, 2005.
2003
New Material As New Media: The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003, 302-07.
2000
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Whitney Biennial 2000. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2000, 220-21.
1997
Yukinori Yanagi: Pacific. Tokyo: Fuji Television Gallery, 1997.
1996
Field Work on Alcatraz. San Francisco: Capp Street Project, 1996.
1995
Yukinori Yanagi: Project Article 9. Osaka: Kirin Plaza Osaka; Queens, NY: Queens Museum of Art, 1995.
1992
YANAGI. Texts by Lynn Gumpert and Masashi Ogura. Tokyo: Fuji Television Gallery, 1992.
1987
Yanagi Live 1986-87. Tokyo: Hillside Gallery, 1987.
Selected Articles and Reviews
2022
Fujita Hirotaka. “Contemporary Artist Yukinor Yanagi, From His Origins as an Artist to the Present.” Onbeat, Vol.16 (June 7, 2022): 76–91.
2021
Reed, Patrick J. "Yukinori Yanagi." ArtReview Asia (Autumn 2021): 94–95.
Lempesis, Dimitris. “Art Cities: Los Angeles—Yukinori Yanagi.” Dreamideamachine.com, August 2021.
Tran, John. “8 Tastemaking Tokyo Galleries to Know.” Artsy.net, July 23, 2021.
Stromberg, Matt. “Nearly 80 Galleries in LA Organize a City-Wide Weekend Celebration.” Hyperallergic.com, July 21, 2021.
2020
Nuvolari, Jacopo. “Yukinori Yanagi.” 1883 Magazine No. 20 (July 2020): 64-67.
2019
Birmingham, Lucy. “Parergon.” Artillery Magazine, February 26, 2019.
“Blum & Poe Present Yukinori Yanagi.” TokyoWeekender.com, November 2019.
Cunliffe, Brianna. “Exhibition Displays Works from Museum’s Permanent Collection.” BowdoinOrient.com, September 6, 2019.
Douglas, Sarah and Janelle Zara. “Paintings by Zhang Xiaogang, George Condo Top $1 M. at ‘High Energy’ Art Basel Hong Kong.” ARTnews, March 27, 2019.
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. “Parergon at Blum and Poe.” KCRW Art Talk, May 2, 2019.
Holland, Mary. “A Guide to Navigating Japan's Setouchi Triennale.” ArchitecturalDigest.com, April 26, 2019. Li, Jennifer S. "Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s." Art in America (June/July 2019): 113-114.
Moon, Kavior. “Critics’ Picks: Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s.” Artforum.com, May 2, 2019.
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2018
Galvin, Nick. “Yukinori Yanagi’s Eerie Vision.” Sydney Morning Herald, March 7, 2018.
Ure-Smith, Jane. “Sydney Harbours a Treasury of Art.” Financial Times, March 23, 2018.
2017
Uttam, Payal. “Japanese Artist Yukinori Yanagi Presents a ‘Moving Tapestry’ in Hong Kong – Call it Ants for Art’s Sake.” South China Morning Post, May 14, 2017.
Vasvani, Bansie. “An Archipelago of Precariousness at the Yokohama Trienniale.” Hyperallergic.com, October 13, 2017.
2016
Yamamura, Midori. “Yukinori Yanagi at BankART 1929.” Art in America, December 19, 2016.
2013
Favell, Adrian. “Yukinori Yanagi at Miyake Fine Art.” Artforum.com, December 2, 2013.
2012
Hosmer, Katie. “The United Nations of Ant Farms.” MyModernMet.com, August 16, 2012.
2009
Rawlings, Ashley. “Mutually Assured Decorum: Taboos and Censorship in Postwar Japanese Art.” ArtAsiaPacific (September/October 2009): 94–101.
2008
Rawlings, Ashley. “Into the Atomic Sunshine: Post-War Art Under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9.” ArtAsiaPacific (November/December 2008).
Koplos, Janet. “Yukinori Yanagi: Darkness Illuminated.” Art in America No. 11 (December 2008): 125-27.
2007
Tomii, Reiko. “Yukinori Yanagi.” Art on Paper, 2007.
2001
Chong, Doryun. “Excavating History: Yanagi Yukinori Implodes Japan.” ArtAsiaPacific, 42-49.
1998
Richard, Frances. “Yukinori Yanagi at Peter Blum Gallery.” Artforum (January 1998): 103.
Chattopadhyay, Collette. “Yukinori Yanagi at The Art Gallery, University of California at Irvine.” Sculpture Magazine (September 1998): 63-64.
1996
Higa, Karin. “Some Thoughts on National and Cultural Identity.”
1995
Gumpert, Lynn. “Yukinori Yanagi: The Emperor on the Carpet.” ARTnews (November 1995): 226.
Mays, John Bentley. “The Ants Go Marching, One by One.” The Globe and Mail, October 28, 1995.
Shalala, Nancy. “Of Art and War.” Asian Art News (January/February 1995): 32-37.
1994
Stevens, Mark. “Made in Japan.” New York Magazine, September 26, 1994.
1993
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1992
Bellars, Peter. “Flashy Neon Art.” Asahi Evening News, September 19, 1992.
Lowitz, Leza. “On Emblems and Ants.” Tokyo Journal (April 1992): 39-40.
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Munroe, Alexandria. “Wandering Position.” Flash Art (1992): 71-74.
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1991
Bellars, Peter. “Artistic Sense of Humor.” Asahi Evening News, August 31, 1991.
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1988
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Museum and Public Collections
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
Bayerische Vereinsbank, Munich, Germany
Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Fukuoka Asian Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshima City: Grant for Commission Work, Hiroshima, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Inujima Art Project, SEIRENSHO, Okayama, Japan
List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Tokushima, Japan
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX
Swiss Bank Corporation, Stamford, CT
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan