Yuriko Asano
Seedbed 2023
Photo: Keizo Kioku
Seeds coming and going 2023
Peach tree 2023
Jujube on the other side 2023
Continuing Indigo 2023
Artist in Residence Program 2024 “SPINNING SCAPES”, ACAC, 2024
©KONO Yurika
2024
Continuous 2022
Veins in the Garden 2022
Garden of Water Drawing 2021
Crane Carrots and Gochujang Jar 2021
Picking Yomogi Every Nights 2021
Photo: Michihiro Saga
CAFE&SPACE NANAWATA, 2024
Walnut tree 2024
Lubricating Root 2021
Photo: Michihiro Saga
Tororoaoi Field 2021
Photo: Michihiro Saga
Twisting Garden 2021
Photo: Michihiro Saga
Tracing the Island from the Spherical Stem in the Garden 2021
Photo: Michihiro Saga
Flowers in the Mud 2021
Collection of Chosho-ji Temple
Resting Medicinal Herb 2020
YAMAGATA BIENNALE 2024 in ZAO “HITOHINOUTA”, 2024
©MIURA Haruko
Medicinal Herbs 2020
Dokudami 2020
Horse Chestnut 2020
Japanese White 2020
Mamushigusa 2020
"Aomori Earth 2019: Agrotopia, Photo of the venue" 2019
Aomori Museum of Art
Photo: Shoichi Onishi
Kuchi-ake 2019
Ideal Farm 2019
Photo: Shoichi Onishi
Sleep to the Fire 2019
Collection of Bildfrugas
Totorimuku and the Gift of the Field 2018
The Proprietress's Medicine Wine 2017
Fertile Forest 2017
Shelling Woman, Continuously 2016
Camellia and Camellia 2016
"Plaster ground" 2016
Hajimari Art Center, Fukushima
"Seed Harvest Festival" 2016
Shiogama Sugimura Jun Museum of Art, Miyagi
Eating horse chestnuts 2014
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
2026
-“The Journey of Cascading Seeds” Birdo Space, Miyagi/Japan
2025
-“Continuous Land Bears Fruit” SNOW Contemporary, Tokyo/Japan
-“Yuriko Asano solo exhibition” rias ark museum, Miyagi, Japan
2024
-“Fruits of the opposite shore” Cyg art gallery, Iwate, Japan
2023
-“Seedbed” SNOW Contemporary, Tokyo
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
2025
-“Aichi Triennale 2025” Aichi, Japan
2024
-Artist in Residence Program 2024 “Spinning Scapes” Aomori Contemporary Art Centre(ACAC), Aomori/Japan
-“The 9th Higashiyama Kaii Memorial Nikkei Nihonga Award” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
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
2026
-Grand prize at “KOJI KINUTANI ART AWARD”
2024
-Selected for “The 9th Higashiyama Kaii Memorial Nikkei Nihonga Award” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
-Selected for Artist in Residence Program 2024 “SPINNING SCAPES”
2020
-Ohara Museum of Art Prize at “VOCA - Vision of Contemporary Art”
■Collections
Tagajo City, Shiogama City, Yamagata City, Ohara Museum of Art, Inawashiro Choshoji Temple, Build Flugas
https://www.asanoyuriko.com/
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
2026
-“The Journey of Cascading Seeds” Birdo Space, Miyagi/Japan
2025
-“Continuous Land Bears Fruit” SNOW Contemporary, Tokyo/Japan
-“Yuriko Asano solo exhibition” rias ark museum, Miyagi, Japan
2024
-“Fruits of the opposite shore” Cyg art gallery, Iwate, Japan
2023
-“Seedbed” SNOW Contemporary, Tokyo
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
2025
-“Aichi Triennale 2025” Aichi, Japan
2024
-Artist in Residence Program 2024 “Spinning Scapes” Aomori Contemporary Art Centre(ACAC), Aomori/Japan
-“The 9th Higashiyama Kaii Memorial Nikkei Nihonga Award” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
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
2026
-Grand prize at “KOJI KINUTANI ART AWARD”
2024
-Selected for “The 9th Higashiyama Kaii Memorial Nikkei Nihonga Award” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
-Selected for Artist in Residence Program 2024 “SPINNING SCAPES”
2020
-Ohara Museum of Art Prize at “VOCA - Vision of Contemporary Art”
■Collections
Tagajo City, Shiogama City, Yamagata City, Ohara Museum of Art, Inawashiro Choshoji Temple, Build Flugas
https://www.asanoyuriko.com/
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