Yuriko Asano
Yuriko Asano

Yuriko Asano visits various places to learn about local food culture and usage of plants, tracing her own experiences and interactions with the people she meets, and creates paintings as if she were recording what has been handed down in the local area. These works are not mere botanical paintings, but rather focus on the wisdom and knowledge that has long been passed down from generation to generation in the local area. They also include an awareness of contemporary issues such as the symbiosis between humans and nature, which is being lost in modern society, the perspective on non-human lives, the cycle of life, and women’s labor. Through her colorful and vital paintings, Asano is trying to celebrate this rich world.

1990 born in Miyagi
2015 MA Tohoku University of Art & Design


■Selected solo exhibition

2022
- “Passage of Grasses and Trees”, Nagatoya Hinatagura, Yamagata, Japan
- “Continuous”, Tsomoriri Bunko, Tokyo, Japan

2021
- “Entwining threads of various colors”, BIRDO SPACE, Miyagi, Japan

2020
- “Inscribe a picture of plants”, BIRDO SPACE, Miyagi, Japan

2019
- “When the soil is ripe”, BIRDO SPACE, Miyagi, Japan

2018
- “The start of a mountain”, Bakurocho ART+EAT, Tokyo, Japan

2017
- “Fertile forest”, Bakurocho ART+EAT, Tokyo, Japan
- “The first cry of a field”, BIRDO SPACE, Miyagi, Japan

2014
- “Eating horse chestnuts”, Art room Enoma, Miyagi, Japan


■Selected group show and event

2022
- “Yamagata Biennale 2022 - Michinooku Art festival”, Yamagata, Japan

2021
- “Wall Art Festival in Inawashiro”, Fukushima, Japan
- “Emerging Artist Exhibition”, GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS, Tokyo, Japan
- “The Figure of manifestation”, ARTDYNE, Tokyo, Japan

2020
- “Yamagata Biennale 2020 - Michinooku Art festival”, Yamagata, Japan
- “Wall Art Festival in Inawashiro”, Fukushima, Japan

2019
- “Aomori Earth 2019: Agrotopia - When life becomes art through local agriculture, Aomori museum of Art, Aomori, Japan
- “Food, for live”, MOB museum of alternative-art, Tochigi, Japan

2018
- “Yamagata Biennale 2018 - Michinooku Art festival”, Yamagata, Japan
- “The 7th Higashiyama kaii Memorial Nikkei Nihonga Grande Prize”, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2016
- “Young Artist Support Program Voyage”, Shiogama Sugimura Jun Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan
- “Eat and Live”, Hajimari Art Center, Fukushima, Japan

2014
- “Safflower colors”, Shirataka-cho Cultural Exchange Center AYUMU, Yamagata, Japan

2013-2018 2021-2022
- “Lantern Painting Exhibition Hijiori Lights”, Hijiori Hot Spring, Yamagata, Japan


■Prizes and scholarship

2020
- “VOCA - Vision of Contemporary Art”, Ohara Museum of Art Award


■Collections
Tagajo City, Shiogama City, Yamagata City, Ohara Museum of Art, Inawashiro Choshoji Temple, Build Flugas
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