english / japanese
   
Yui Usui
1980 Born in Tokyo
   
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 “ALLNIGHT HAPS 2018 ‘belief’” #1 Yui Usui   HAPS office, Kyoto
2017 “from our room”   Gakushuin Women's College, Tokyo
  “Yui Usui”   Galerie Shimon, Tokyo
  “Yui Usui”   Yokohama Civic Gallery Azamino Showcase Gallery, Yokohama
2016 “sugar”   XYZ collective, Tokyo
  “shadow work”   Kurumaya Museum of Art, Tochigi
  “speculum”   studio J, Osaka
2013 “empty names”   Ain Soph Dispatch, Nagoya
  “shadow of a coin”  studio J, Osaka
2009 “Yui Usui”  Ain Soph Dispatch, Nagoya
2008 “ghosts”  studio J, Osaka
2006 “playing in a quiet room”  INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo / studio J, Osaka
  “after the party”  studio J, Osaka
   
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 “Assembridge NAGOYA 2018”   Nagoya
  “Hills Art & Life Project Community Engagement Program Ver.1: THE FURNITURE”
  the Toranomon/Nishi-Shimbashi neighborhood, Tokyo
  “VOCA2018”   The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
  “street justice”   Galaxy Gingakei, Tokyo
  “Contemporary tales from the privince Ⅴ”   Susaki Machikado Gallery, Kochi
2016 “Assembridge NAGOYA 2016”   Nagoya
2015 “O”  Shanaynay, Paris
  “Japanese Nightingale Doesn't Sing At Night curated by American Boyfriend”  XYZ collective, Tokyo
2014 “XYZcollective At Brennan & Griffin - Man & Play”  Brennan & Griffin, New York
2012 “utsusemi”  Jokaiso, Komaki
2011 “project AOTA SHINYA + andbooks(NISHIZONO ATSUSHI)”  Star Gallery, Nagoya
  “Arima-spa side street art project 2011”  Arima-spa, Kobe
2010 “Kasugai civic cultural foundation 10th anniversary exhibition ‘Kiroku No Kioku’”
  Cultural Forum Kasugai Gallery, Aichi
2009 “Shin-incubation1 Real Life Sensibility”  Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
  “After School”  the former Rissei primary school, Kyoto
2008 “Uzumasa shuccho shigoto”  art space NIJI, Kyoto
   
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016 Megumi Takashima  artscape, 15 May 2016 (Japanese)
2013 Chiho Sakai  artscape, 15 May 2013 (Japanese)
2010 Chiho Sakai  artscape, 15 August 2010 (Japanese)
2009 Yukiko Tanaka  PEELER, March 2009 (Japanese)
2006 Takafumi Kobuki  artscape, December 2006 (Japanese)
   
COLLECTIONS
  Kyoto Bank
  Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc