YAMAGUCHI Akira

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YAMAGUCHI Akira 　
Artist

Artist

Characterized by a style of painting, using the technique of oil painting in traditional Japanese painting style. Besides his bird’s eye view paintings of cities and battlefields, he traverses a variety of methods of expression including sculpture, manga and installation. His major solo exhibitions include TOKIORE(I)MIX, Maison Hermès 8F Le Forum, Tokyo (2012); Stepping Back to Seek the Underneath, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito (2015); and Resonating Surfaces, Daiwa Foundation Japan House Gallery, London (2018) amongst others. He has contributed public artworks in several locations including Narita International Airport, and at Fujisan World Heritage Center in Yamanashi Prefecture. He has also created illustrative work and cover art for a variety of serialized newspaper stories, novels and so forth, continuing his prolific practice across a broad range of fields.

1969

Born in Tokyo, Japan and grown up in Kiryu City, Gumna

1994

Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, BFA in Oil Painting

1996

Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, MFA in Oil Painting

2001

Runner-up Prize The 4th Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art

2013

The 12th KOBAYASHI Hideo Award for his book “Hen na Nihon Bijutsushi”

2017

inauguration of Kiryu City Art Ambassador