ARTIST
- 1969 Born in Tokyo, Japan and grown up in Kiryu City, Gumna、Lives
and works in Tokyo, Japan.
- 1996 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, MA in
oil painting
- 1994 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, BA in
oil painting
WORKS
EXHIBITIONS
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
- 2012
- "TOKIORE(I)MIX", Maison Hermes 8F Le Forum, Tokyo (-May 13)
- 2011
- "TOKAIDO LANDSCAPES, The Path from Hiroshige to Contemporary Artists", The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka
- "SINGA-PLANET", Japan Creative Center, Singapore
- "City Strollers", Fukuoka Mitsukoshi Gallery, Fukuoka
- 2010
- "Tokyo Strollers", Ginza Mitsukoshi Exhibition Hall, Tokyo
- "Inochimaru", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
- 2008
- "Now, Oyamazaki... YAMAGUCHI Akira", Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum, Kyoto (cat.)
- 2007
- "This Time, It's Musha-e!", Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
- "Art de Sauro:Aida Makoto/Yamaguchi Akira", The Ueno
Royal Museum, Tokyo (cat.)
- 2006
- "Lagrange Point", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
- "Lagrange Point", C.Square, Chukyo University Art Gallery,
Aichi
- Senba Architecture Festival, "Kitano House×YAMAGUCHI Akira", Osaka
- 2005
- "The Exhibition of YAMAGUCHI Akira", Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Exhibition Hall, Tokyo
- "Review", TAKAHASHI collection, Tokyo
- 2004
- "Shall we buy?", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
- an illustration, "A Chrysanthemum lighthouse", NADiff,Tokyo,
Japan
- 2003
- "Akira Yamaguchi Exhibition' Exhibition", Mizuma Art
Gallery, Tokyo
- 2002
- "Records of Japanese-Sino War & Japanese-Russo War",
NADiff, Tokyo
- 2001
- "The joy of painting", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
- 2000
- "YAMAGUCHI Akira Exhibition", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
- 1999
- "Shakkei", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
- 1998
- "The Tea-ceremony Room with Chair", Mizuma Art Gallery,
Tokyo
Group Exhibitions
- 2012
- "Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan", Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia(cat.)
- 2011
- "Edo Pop: the Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints", The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, U.S.A.
- "CAFE in Mito 2011-Relationships in Color", The Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
- "Japan: a tradition of innovation", Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Canada
- "ZIPANGU-31 spirited artists cutting through new territories of Japanese contemporary art", Takashimaya Nihonbashi exhibition
Hall (8F), Tokyo (cat.)
- "The Origin of 20", The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Yamaguchi & 2 other venues (cat.)
- "The Most Requested Top 30/ 10 Years of TAKAHASHI COLLECTION", TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo
- "Bye Bye Kitty", Japan Society, New York, U.S.A.(cat.)
- 2010
- "Narrative Paintings", The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata
- "ROBOT and ARTS: Visual Images in the 20th Century Japan", Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, traveled to Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art (cat.)
- 17th Biennale of Sydney "The Beauty of Distance; Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age", Sydney, Australia (cat.)
- "AIDA Makoto + TENMYOUYA Hisashi + YAMAGUCHI Akira", TAKAHASHI COLLECTION, Tokyo
- "neoteny japan -FROM TAKAHASHI COLLECTION", Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, traveled to： The Museum of Art, Ehime
- 2009
- "ECHIGO-TSUMARI ART TRIENNALE", Nigitaga
- "neoteny japan -FROM TAKAHASHI COLLECTION", The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, traveled to: the Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita
- "WAR & ART", Terror and Simulacrum of Beauty, Calerie Aube, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto
- 2008
- "JAPAN CAR", Cite des sciences et de L'industrie, Paris,s France, traveled to : Science Museum, London, U.K.
- "neoteny japan -FROM TAKAHASHI COLLECTION", Kirishima Open Air Museum, Kagoshima, traveled to: Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido (cat.)
- "ORDER RECEIVED", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
- "Off the Rails", Mizuma & One Gallery, Beijing, China (cat.)
- "Another landscape: from Mori Art Collection", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
- Takahashi Collection, Tokyo
- 2007
- "Nihonga Metsubou-ron", C.Square, Chukyo University Art Gallery, Aichi
- "Heroes in Warror Paintings", Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Nagano (cat.)
- "The Vision of Contemporary Art 2007", The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo (cat.)
- 2006
- "NIPPON vs FINEART-Striving for Identity in the Context of
Western art", Osaka City Museum of Art, Shinsaibashi Temporary Exhibition Space, Osaka
- "Art and Object: Affinity of the Jomon and the Contemporary",
Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori
- Comtemporary Forms -Life & Art -: "The forms of Intoxication",
Higashihiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima
- "Kimura Naomichi + Art and Play", The Museum of Modern
Art Saitama, Saitama
- 2005
- "Rising Sun, Melting Moon: Contemporary Art from Japan",
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
- "Looking for Utopia: Beyond the Imagination", The Niigata
Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata (cat.)
- "Villa YURINSO Special Open : AIDA Makoto / OZAWA Tsuyoshi
/ YAMAGUCHI Akira", Ohara Museum of Art Yurinso, Okayama (cat.)
- "The World of Matchbox Labels", The Okayama Prefectual
Museum of Art, Okayama (cat.)
- "The Elegance of Silence : Contemporary Art from East Asia",
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (cat.)
- 2004
- "OFFICINA ASIA",Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (cat.)
- "20th Anniversary Exhibition : The Copy Age - From Duchamp
through Warhol to Morimura-", The Museum of Modern Art Shiga,
Shiga (cat.)
- "Mediarena : contemporary art from Japan", Govett-Brewster
Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand (cat.)
- "Living Together is Easy", Contemporary Art Gallery,
Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, travelling to : The National Galleryof Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (cat.)
- "MOT Annual 2004 : Where do I come from? Where am I going?",
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo (cat.)
- 2003
- "TREASURE for TREASURE : A Treasure Exchange Project with
six Artists", Sumida Riverside Hall Gallery, Tokyo (cat.)
- 2002
- "TANAGOKORO 8", roentgenwerke, Tokyo
- "Japan in Blekinge, Olofstrom Art Exhibition Hall",
Blekinge, Sweden
- "New Edition! Japanese Art-Other Inheritors of Jaoanese Tradition",
Yamanashi Prefectual Museum of Art, Yamanashi (cat.)
- 2001
- "The 4th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for
Contemporary Art", Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Kanagawa
- "S(h)itting in the mirror", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
- 2000
- "Five continents and one city", Museum of Mexico City, Mexico
- "Department Store of Contemporary Art",Yamanashi Prefectural
Museum of Art, Yamanashi (cat.)
- 1999
- "A Window, Inside and Outside", Gwangju City Art Museum,
Gwangju, South Korea (cat.)
- Inoue Gallery, Tokyo
- 1998
- Inoue Gallery, Tokyo
- 1997
- "KOTATSU-SCHOOL", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo/dd>
- "WALKING MUSEUM", Shinjuku Takashimaya TIMES SQUARE,
Tokyo
Public Collection
- The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka
- Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama
- The Museum of Modern Art Shiga, Shiga
- Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
- Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum, Kyoto
