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CV: Yoi Kawakubo
1979 Born in Toledo, Spain

2003 BA in Disability Science, University of Tsukuba, Japan
2005 Leaves doctoral course, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba
2005-2007 Works as a financial trader in Tokyo
2011 Artist in residence: Kareizawa Artist in Residence, Aomori, Japan
2013-2014 Artist in residence: Tokyo Wonder Site Creator in Residence
2013 Artist in residence: Tokyo University of the Arts (Programme for the development of emerging artists to
create the next generation’s culture, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan)
2014 Artist in residence: Chelsea College of Arts and Design, London (Tokyo Wonder Site Exchange Residency Program)
2015 Artist in residence: Art Action UK, London
2016-2017 Recipient of Grant for Overseas Research, The Pola Art Foundation.
Artist in residence: The Florence Trust Artist in Residency, London
2017-2018 Fellow of Overseas Research Programme for Artists, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
2023-2024 The Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation Research Fellow
2023-2027 Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Art and Music, Southampton Solent University, UK
Lives and works between London and Tokyo
Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024 Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels, Saitama, Japan (Scheduled for October 2024)
2022 Six Days After Forever, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Quo Artis Foundation, Sant Pau Art
Nouveau Site, Barcelona, Spain
2018 I/body/ghost, Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London
2017 Two million years of solitude, cherry blossoms and fifty thousand light-years more, Koganecho Site-A, Yokohama, Japan
2016 Stella Maris was a name I found in a dream, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London
Fall, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
2015 15,700 Suns, Project Sono-Aida, Tokyo
Two Million Years of Solitude, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo
To tell a (hi)story, Husk Gallery, London
2012 Speak the Unspeakable, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo
2009 Between Heaven and Hell, Shinjuku Ganka Gallery, Tokyo
2008 Lucid Dream, Punctum, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Meet Your Art Festival 2023 -Time to Change-, Tokyo, Japan
f² Fotofestival 2023: Dis/appear, Kunstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
Picturing the Invsible, Heong Gallery, Cambridge
2022 Picturing the Invsible, Immatrikulationshalle, Technical Uuniversity München, Germany
2021 Picturing the Invsible, The Royal Geographical Society, London
Faraway, So Close, e-flux Artist Cinema, curatorial direction: Koki Tanaka, online
2020 Yokohama Triennale 2020 -Afterglow-, Yokohama, Japan
Shikansuiyo, Meiji Shrine, Tokyo
2019 Roppongi Crossing 2019 - Connexions, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
21st DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow, National Art Center, Tokyo
2018 Beyond Wonder - Perspectives on Utopia, Center for Art and Design, University of Nagoya
Secession, Hagiso, Tokyo
2017 All those ends, Arebyte Gallery, London
Yokohama Triennale 2017 - Islands, Constellations and Galapagos, Yokohama, Japan
Summer exhibition 2017, The Florence Trust, London
Seize the uncertain day, The University Art Museum - Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
Linguamania, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
2016 From seeing to seen, Sezon Art Gallery, Tokyo
The 19th Taro Award for Contemporary Art, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki
2015 The Vision of Contemporary Art 2015, The Ueno Royal Museum of Art, Tokyo
2014 Tokyo Story 2014, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
2013 Tokyo Experimental Festival 2013, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
Visceral Sensations, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Sovereign Art Prize Finalists Exhibition 2012, Espace Louis Vuitton Singapore, Singapore
Landschaft: Solitude und Katharsis, Shinseido Tokyo Berlin, Berlin
2012 13 Gunzou, Canon Gallery Ginza, Tokyo
The Scene, hpgrp Gallery Tokyo, Tokyo
2011 Medium, Ohshima Fine Art, Tokyo
TOKYO WONDERWALL 2011, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Images on twelve minds, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
2010 LANDSCHAFT V, Radi-um Roengenwerke, Tokyo
Memories of Light and Shadow, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
Tagboat DNAT, Sato Museum, Tokyo
Awards and Grants

2023 Harmonic Ito Foundation Art Grant (2023-2025)
Nomura Foundation Research Grant
2022 The Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation Research Fellow
2017 Fellow of Overseas Research Programme for Artists, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
2016 Overseas Research Grantee, The Pola Art Foundation.
10th Shiseido art egg Prize, finalist
19th The Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, shortlist
2015 Ohara Museum of Art Prize, VOCA 2015
2014 Grant for Young Artists, 2012-2013, The Contemporary Art Foundation, Japan
2012 Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2012, Finalist
2011 International Color Awards, Photography Masters Cup, Honorable Mention, Nominee
Tokyo Wonderwall 2011, Nominee
Lectures and public talks

2018 Yoi Kawakubo in conversation with Miryam Sas, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
2014 Art after Fukushima and Tohoku, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
2013 Post 3.11: What Can Art Do? Four Years On: Art and the Disaster, The Free Word Centre, London
Public collections and commission work

Ohara Museum of Art
Arts Council Tokyo
Development Bank of Japan
Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art
Tokyo University of the Arts
Selected Bibliography
Berger, Christian; Toyama, Terumi, I/body/ghost (exhibition catalogue) Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, 2018
Carpenter, Ele, The Nuclear Culture Source Book 2016, Black Dog Publishing, London. p. 106
Davre, Amandine, 2019, Revealing the Radioactive Contamination after Fukushima in Japanese Photography. Trans Asia Photography,
10(1)
Ferrier, Michael, 2021, Dans l’oeil du désastre - Créer avec Fukushima. Vincennes: MARCHAISSE
Kurosawa, Ayako, Passing on invisible memories, Sankei Shinbun dated 12 Feb 2016
Nakao, Takuya, Between the sun and the Sea, April 2016, Bijutsu Techo, Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, Tokyo, pp. 188-189
Okabe, Aomi, Encounter fruition of different cultures, Tokyo Shinbun dated 10 July 2015
Winther-Tamaki, Bert, 2022. Tsuchi: earthy materials in contemporary Japanese art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
The 10th shiseido art egg (exhibition catalogue) Shiseido, Tokyo, 2016
Yokohama Triennale 2017 - Islands, Constellations and Galapagos, (exhibition catalogue) Seigensha, Kyoto, 2017

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1979 Born in Toledo, Spain

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

Awards and Grants

Lectures and public talks

Public collections and commission work

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