CV

Yuma Yoshimura
Born in 1980, JAPAN.Lives and works in Tokyo, JAPAN

Education

2004

Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
B. F. A. from the Department of Painting, Printmaking Course

Artist Residency

2011

A Word of Art, Ricky Lee Gordon (Cape Town, South Africa)

Solo Exhibitions

2022

ushirotoka-mukanai”  TAKU SOMETANI GALLERY(Tokyo, Japan)

“monologue”  MONO.LOGUES(Tokyo, Japan)

2019

“the infinite from empty room”  TAKU SOMETANI GALLERY(Tokyo, Japan)

2018

“reflection in a squale”  TAKU SOMETANI GALLERY (Tokyo, Japan)

“magirekonde-shimaeba”  QUIET NOISE (Tokyo, Japan)

“gyakusou”  Basement GINZA (Tokyo, Japan)

2017

“beyond the shapes”   CALM & PUNK GALLERY (Tokyo, Japan)

2013

“Road and Road”  N°ELDNACS  (Niigata, Japan)
“The Burning Silence”  Montana Gallery Barcelona  (Barcelona, Spain)
“The Burning Silence”  ArhisG allery  (Varna, Bulgaria)

2012

“Sen-nyu-kan-second approach”  Kojimachi Gallery  (Tokyo, Japan)
“1 day 1 swing”  HATOS BAR  (Tokyo, Japan)

2011

“YIN AND YANG is IN TO YOU”  A Word of Art  (Cape Town, South Africa)
“Float of the sixth sense”  Nice/Nice  (Hannover, Germany)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022

“SHUUCHOU-MONO.LOGUES at GASBON” GASBON METABOLISM(Hokuto,Yamanashi )

“ON PAPER”  TAKU SOMETANI GALLERY( Tokyo, Japan)

2019

“ARTS CHALLENGE 2019”  Aichi Arts Center (Nagoya, Japan)

2015

“Hidden Champions of Tokyo”  Backwoods Gallery  (Melbourne, Australia)
“FET2015EX Yokohama”  BankART Studio NYK-Mini Gallery  (Kanagawa, Japan)

2013

“Yunokami-Onsen art project”  (Fukushima, Japan)
“The 8th Vladivostok Biennale of Visual Arts”  (Vladivostok, Russia)

2012

“STROKE – Urban Art Fair 2012”  Open Walls  (Berlin, Germany)

2011

“i art sa community mural project,”  (Johannesburg, South Africa)
“STROKE – Urban Art Fair 2011”  West Berlin Gallery  (Munich, Germany)
“FRESH PRODUCE”  Anno Domini  (San Jose, USA)
“WONDER SEEDS 2011”  TOKYO WONDER SITE  (Tokyo, Japan)

2010

“ELDNACS EXHIBITION”  Claska  (Tokyo, Japan)

Commissions

2013

Yunokami-Onsen art project, Yunokami-Onsen art project (Fukushima, Japan)
The 8th Vladivostok Biennale of Visual Arts, Vladivostok Biennale of Visual Arts (Vladivostok, Russia)

2011

i art sa community mural project, A Word of Art (Johannesburg, South Africa)

Bibliography

2018

Sasha Bogojev, THE FLOCK: YUMA YOSHIMURA’S MEDITATION ON OUR DAILY LIFE, JAXTAPOZ(online), March 08, 2018

Editorial staff, Yuma Yoshimura Solo Exhibition「magirekondeshimaeba」,QUOTATION MAGAZINE(online)Feb 21,2018

Joe, YUMA YOSHIMURA’S SOLO EXHIBITION, TOKYO DANDY(online),Feb 26, 2018

Ryosuke Suzuki, <Yuma Yoshimura Solo exhibition 「magirekonde- shimaeba」gunsyu wo teimanisita sinsakuhaxppyou>, Qetic(online)Feb 27,2018

Hidden Champion,「gunsyu」ya「seino-syu chaku」wo kakitudukeru sakka Yuma Yoshimura ga“shinsakuten”oyobi“ahkaibuten”wo doujikaisai, Hidden Champion (online), March 8,2018

2017

Editorial staff,“Yuma Yoshimura-kuro to shiro de egakidasu nichijyou no kankaku CALM&PUNK GALLERY「beyond the shapes」” TO magazine(online),Aug 7,2017.

Editorial staff, “keijyou o togisumasu-Yuma Yoshimura 「beyond the shapes」” FNMNL (online), Aug 1,2017.

Kentaro. H “artist Yuma Yoshimura solo show “beyond the shapes” in Nishiazabu” HIDDEN CHAMPION (online), July 25,2017.

Ayumi Yakura, YUMA YOSHIMURA “BEYOND THE SHAPES”, SHIFT (online). July 26,2017

George Zhi Zhao, “Finding Inspiration in Uncertainty” Neocha, (online). Jun 18, 2017.

Tulika Ahuja, “YUMA YOSHIMURA” kult magazine,( #20 Toys, Feb), p 74.

2015

Milja Ficpatrik, “Yuma Yoshimura,” WideWalls, (online).Undated.

2012

Gage Hamilton, “YUMANIZUMU a.k.a. Yuma Yoshimura: Globetrotting Yuma,” CONVERSE, (online). May 1.

2011

Quasiem Gamiet, “‘IN TO YOU’ by Yumanizumu,” THVGGERY, (online). November 4, 2011.
Yumiko Imaizumi, “Tribal Designs created by ‘Room of Time’ [Tokino heya ga umu minzokuteki dezain],” (SANKEI EXPRESS, Jan 29, 2011), pp. 15–17.
Shani Judes, “PASTE. Artist feature: Yuma Yoshimura (Yumanizumu),” SJ ARTIST, (online). October 10, 2011.
Rob Scher, “YUMA SE MURALS,” MAHALA: Art & Culture, (online). March 11, 2011.
Jan Sedelies, “Japaner Geben nicht auf,” (HANNOVERSCHE ALLGEMEINE, Mar 30, 2011), p. 22.