OVERVIEW

Yuichiro Tamura (b. 1977, Toyama) currently lives and is based in Kyoto. Tamura’s work begins from the existing images and objects, and takes an interdisciplinary approach to various media including photography, video, installation, performance and theater. He creates multilayered narratives, containing a mixture of fact and fiction, based on a wide range of sources from indigenous historical themes to well-known popular subjects. New interpretations and readings are bestowed upon original histories and memories, thereby transcending spaces and time, and questioning what it means to be “contemporary.” The majority of his works are commissioned, and museum collections are also treated as subject matter in recent years.

HISTORY

2022
‘Animal Spirits’, ‘Rebirth of the Qool’,
SRR Project Space, Tokyo, Japan
2019
‘Milky Mountain’, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
2018
‘Hell Scream’,Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
2017
‘Cars on Fire’, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
‘Week End’, Kurumaya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
‘G’, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2015
‘Ich fliege zurück mit Lufthansa.’, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013
‘NIGHTLESS| Last Signing Room,’ Yuka Tsuruno Gallery,
Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
2012
‘NIGHTLAND’, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2022
‘Aichi Triennale 2022’, Aichi, Japan
‘Double Vision’, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, China
2021
‘Japan Media Arts Festival in Kyoto -POETRY FOUND BY SCIENTISTS Eyes for the world-‘,
The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
‘DELTA’, KAYOKOYUKI / Komagome SOKO, Tokyo, Japan
‘Shiga Museum of Art Collection Exhibition “Voiceover” ‘,
Shiga Museum of Art, Shiga, Japan
‘Omoshirogara: 99 Kimonos from the Inui Collection’,
Museum DKM, Duisburg, Germany
‘Gift, Gift’, Hachinohe Art Museum, Aomori, Japan
2020
‘ISDRSI’, Toyooka City Museum of Art -Itoh Kiyonaga Memorial
Hall-, Hyogo, Japan
‘Alter-narratives’, online exhibition,
Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
‘Participation Mystique’, Ming Contemporary Art Museum,
Shanghai, China
‘DOMANI plus Online 2020: Living on the Eve’, online, Japan
‘Yokohama Triennale 2020 “Afterglow” ‘,
Yokohama Museum of Art, online, Kanagawa, Japan
‘Interrupted Meals’, How Art Museum, Shanghai, China
‘Super Flatland’, White Conduit Projects, London, UK
‘Readings from Below’, Times Art Center, Berlin, Germany
‘ENCOUNTERS’, ANB Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
‘task’, Art Lab Aichi, Aichi, Japan
2019
‘2019 Asian Art Biennale: The Strangers from beyond the
Mountain and the Sea’, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts,
Taichung, Taiwan
‘Image Narratives: Literature in Japanese Contemporary Art’,
National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
‘The Seven Lamps of the Art Museum’, Hiroshima City Museum
of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
‘Where am I?’, The Art and Design of Signage,
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art & Design, Toyama, Japan
‘Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions’,
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2018
‘The Fabric of Felicity’, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art,
Moscow, Russia
‘Busan Biennale 2018 “Divided We Stand” ,
Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, Korea

KADIST Foundation, France
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
The University Art Museum, Japan

WORKS

NEWS

Yuichiro Tamura × Yuko Mohri Announcement of Talks Event

Yuichiro Tamura, whose solo exhibition ’N’ is currently being presented by KOTARO NUKAGA (Roppongi), and Yuko Mohri, whose solo exhibition ‘Neue Fruchtige Tanzmusik’ will be presented by Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, will hold talks as an official program of ART WEEK TOKYO 2022. If you would like to apply, please fill out the application form below.

AWT2022 × Yuichiro Tamura Collaboration Cocktail「N」

AWT BAR, which will open in Minami Aoyama for four days only during Art Week Tokyo2022, will serve the cocktail ‘N’ in collaboration with Yuichiro Tamura. ‘N’is an original cocktail inspired by Yuichiro Tamura’s solo exhibition “N” currently being held at KOTARO NUKAGA (Roppongi).For details, please see below. <AWT BAR> emergence aoyama complex 1F mosaic

Original stickers currently on display at Yuichiro Tamura's solo exhibition "N" are now available in limited quantities.

From September 10 (Sat) to November 6 (Sun), KOTARO NUKAGA, Roppongi is pleased to present “N,” a solo exhibition by Yuichiro Tamura. Tamura’s participation in international art festivals and exhibitions in both Japan and abroad, such as Asia Art Biennale 2019 (Taipei), Yokohama Triennale 2020 (Yokohama), and International Art Festival Aichi 2022 (Nagoya), has marked

Yuichiro Tamura participates in the international art festival "Aichi 2022

Yuichiro Tamura, whose solo exhibition will be held at KOTARO NUKAGA (Roppongi) from Saturday, September 10, is participating in the international art festival “Aichi 2022”. Tamura’s participation in international art festivals and exhibitions in both Japan and abroad, such as Asia Art Biennale 2019 (Taipei), Yokohama Triennale 2020 (Yokohama), and International Art Festival Aichi 2022

Yuichiro Tamura, ‘N’

From September 10 (Sat) to November 6 (Sun), KOTARO NUKAGA, Roppongi is pleased to present “N,” a solo exhibition by Yuichiro Tamura. Tamura’s participation in international art festivals and exhibitions in both Japan and abroad, such as Asia Art Biennale 2019 (Taipei), Yokohama Triennale 2020 (Yokohama), and International Art Festival Aichi 2022 (Nagoya), has marked