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Yui Usui
born in Tokyo, 1980
Lives and works in Saitama, Japan

Selected solo exhibitions

2021
Fundamentals curated by XYZcollective, CADAN YURAKUCHO, Tokyo
2019
Kart Invitation Program Vol. 10  Yui Usui, Kawaijuku Art Institute Shinjuku Gallery Kart, Tokyo
2018
ALLNIGHT HAPS 2018 “belief” #1, 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, Kanagawa
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
after the party, studio J, Osaka

Selected group exhibitions

2023
U MA MI (MU) ME MO, oz studio Shibuya East, Tokyo
—Thinking about Caring and Motherhood through Contemporary Art When? Where? By Whom? For Whom? Why? How?
Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
2022
JAPAN. BODY_PERFORM_LIVE Resistance and Resilience in Japanese Contemporary Art
Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milano
From a point of togetherness / With People, Not For People, Kobokan Bekkan, Tokyo
Everywhere Gather Yourself Stand, SCAI PIRAMIDE, Tokyo
A Day of House wife, presented by Ka.hi.ya, Tokyo
2021
FEMINISMS, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Punctum: Diffuse Reflection Feminism, B&B/BONUS TRUCK GALLERY, Tokyo
2020
Saitama Triennale 2020, Former Omiya ward office, Saitama
The Beginning of Life/Art Cloth Weaves Our Times, From Aomori, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori Public University, Aomori
2019
4th Triennale of KOGEI in Kanazawa, People’s Gallery at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Takamatsu Contemporary Art Annual vol.08, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa
Assembridge NAGOYA 2019, Port of Nagoya area, Aichi
Aichi Triennale 2019, Nagoya city art museum, Aichi
The Shouts and Murmurs of Women -The Vulnerable Collective Will Change the World, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Gallery B, Tokyo
Sarashina Nikki Kou -imaginary rooms of women, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba
2018
Assembridge NAGOYA 2018, Port of Nagoya area, Aichi
Hills Art & Life Project Community Engagement Program, 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, Port of Nagoya area, Aichi
2015
O, Shanaynay, Paris
Japanese Nightingale Doesn’t Sing At Night, 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
Kiroku No Kioku, Cultural Forum Kasugai Gallery, Aichi
2009
Real Life Sensibility, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
After School, the former Rissei primary school, Kyoto
2008
Uzumasa shuccho shigoto, art space NIJI, Kyoto

Public collections

Aichi prefectural museum of art
The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Ltd.
Bank of Kyoto, Ltd.

​© 2009 Yui Usui