Yumiko OKUI

KENJI TAKI GALLERY

Paddock 11-1, 2011

monitor room, 2001

aiport lounge, 2003

Biography

1966: Born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
1988: B.F.A., Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music
1990: M.F.A., Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music
1994–2003: Studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. Enrolled in the class of A.R. Penck (until 1997) and Rosemarie Trockel (1998–2003).
2006: Returned to Japan
Currently: Lives and works in Osaka.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2001: Galerie am Werk, Leverkusen, Germany / Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo / Galerie C. Roth, Aachen, Germany / Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2002: Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya / Galerie C. Roth, Aachen, Germany
2003: Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya / Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2004: Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo / Galerie von der Milwe, Aachen, Germany / Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2006: Galerie M+R Fricke, Berlin, Germany / Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2008: Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2009: Galerie M+R Fricke, Berlin, Germany
2010: Kunstverein Heinsberg, Heinsberg, Germany
2011: Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2013: Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2021: Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2025: Kenji Taki Gallery Roppongi, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021: 2021, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya

1997: Sicht Weisen, Kulturforum, Willich, Germany

2001: Line and Space – Landscape, Fukui City Art Museum, Fukui / Jahresausstellung, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (NAK), Aachen, Germany

2002: Landschaft, BBK, Cologne, Germany / Wuckenhof, Kunstverein Schwerte, Schwerte, Germany / SCOPE, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya

2003: The Vision of Contemporary Art (VOCA) 2003, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo / -no limit-, Galerie C. Roth, Aachen, Germany

2004: MOT Annual 2004: Where do I come from? Where am I going?, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Tokyo

2005: Raymund Kaiser / Yumiko Okui, Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln (The Japan Foundation), Cologne, Germany

2006: March part 1, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya

2007: NEWS, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya / Toyota Art Collection 2007, Kuragaike Art Salon, Toyota, Aichi

2011: Art in an Office, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi

2017: Works on Paper, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya

2018: Another World, Frieze London [Postcard Project / Curated by Tracey Emin], London, UK