Yutaka KOYANAGI
In the new town, 2007
Biography
1977: Born in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
2000: B.F.A. in Western Painting, Seian University of Art and Design
2002: M.F.A. in Painting, Kyoto City University of Arts
Currently lives and works in Kyoto.
Solo Exhibitions
2004: ETHERIUM, mori yu gallery, Kyoto
2006: Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2007: Night Painting 06-07, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2008: Father is an alarmist, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2011: Hothouse Plants, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2012: Toward the Light, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2013: Night of Paper, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2013: Sphere – The Territory of the Gaze, Seian University of Art and Design Gallery Art Site, Otsu, Shiga
2016: Source of Light, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2019: Reflection, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2021: Cultural Award Commemorative Exhibition, Wakayama Prefectural Cultural Hall, Special Exhibition Room, Wakayama
2023: The Brackish Water of Here and There, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2025: For Example, on a Sleepless Night, Kenji Taki Gallery Roppongi, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions
1998: Turner Acrylic Award, Gallery KURANUKI, Osaka / Gallery Piazza, Tokyo
2000: Kyoten 2000, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
2000: Kobe Art Annual 2000: Nude and Covered, Kobe Art Village Center, Hyogo
2002: Accretion Disc, mori yu gallery, Kyoto
2002: Immortal Space, Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery Yada, Nagoya
2003: Black Garden I, mori yu gallery, Kyoto
2004: The Vision of Contemporary Art (VOCA) 2004, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2004: Yellow Garden II, mori yu gallery, Kyoto
2005: Kurashiki Contemporary Art Biennale West Japan, Kurashiki City Art Museum / Ohara Museum of Art, etc., Okayama
2005: Fluid Drive (Three-person Exhibition), Dohjidai Gallery of Art, Kyoto
2006: March part 2, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2006: Contemporary Art Projected in VOCA Exhibition – Where I am now / Who I am now, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi
2007: Portrait Session @NADiff, NADiff, Tokyo
2007: Portrait Session, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
2007: NEWS, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2008: Painting, Right or Wrong, Daiwa Press Viewing Room, Hiroshima
2009: NINE, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2010: FLAT LAND – The Power of Painting, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto
2010: Seian Frontier volume 2, Seian University of Art and Design Gallery Art Site, Otsu, Shiga
2011: ask the wine, MUZZ High-nest Bldg 2F Exhibition Room, Kyoto
2012: Okazaki Art & Jazz 2012: Intimate Space / My Memory, Former Residence of Tadatsugu Honda, Okazaki, Aichi
2012–2013: Light and Shadow – Hikari, Kage, Toki, Mindscape Museum (Okazaki City Museum), Okazaki, Aichi
2013: KYOTO STUDIO – 17 Studios and 88 Artists, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto
2013: Butterfly Hug, Art Lab Aichi, Nagoya
2015: Artists of Wakayama and Kansai: Real, Real, Real, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
2015: Special Feature: On Light, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
2016: The Spider’s Thread – The Genealogy of Beauty Spun by Spiders: From Edo to the Present, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi
2021: fringe and fringe, Seian University of Art and Design [Campus is a Museum] Seian Art Center / Gallery Art Site & Gallery Window, Otsu, Shiga
2021: 2021, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
Awards
2004: The Vision of Contemporary Art (VOCA) 2004, Encouragement Prize
2005: Kurashiki Contemporary Art Biennale West Japan, Excellence Award
2020: FY2019 Wakayama Prefecture Cultural Award, Cultural Encouragement Prize
Book, 2010
Spray mum, 2010
Eustoma, 2010