Yoshimi Arts is pleased to present “EYE,” a solo show by Yugo Kohrogi.
Yugo Kohrogi has moved his home and studio around Kumamoto, Tokyo, Osaka, London, Berlin, the Basque Country, and Bulgaria.
Field studies have yielded rich material for Kohrogi, and his perception of light, food, sound, air, mountains, temperature, city, water, and people, in every place he has been are all reflected in his work in abstract ways and through various techniques.
With a background in printmaking, he participated at an artist-in-residence for a few months in 2019. This took place at the Art Village Shirakino, in Minami-Shimabara, Nagasaki, purportedly known as the place where the first Japanese engraving work was made.
Kohrogi says he feels the need to re-examine what it means for us to see, to look, and to observe. In this exhibition, his new video work, oil paintings and silk-screen printings, which focus on “eyes” as motifs and "the function of eyes", will be premiered.
Yugo Kohrogi >> |
| 1982 |
Born in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan |
| 2007 |
Graduated from Fine Arts Department, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music |
| 2009 |
Completed Printmaking Course, Fine Arts Department in Graduate School, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music |
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Education research assistant at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (-2012) |
| 2013 |
Lived and worked in London (by The 6th Shuou Fund Scholarship Award) |
| 2015 |
Part-time teacher at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music |
| 2017 |
Lived and worked in London (by Grant for overseas training, Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation) |
| 2018 |
Lived and worked in Spain and Bulgaria (Artist in Residence Program) |
| 2019 |
Lived and worked at Art Village Shirakino in Minami-Shimabara City, Nagasaki (Artist in Residence Program) |
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| Solo Exhibition |
| 2019 |
"Roots" (Gallery Naruyama/Tokyo) |
| 2018 |
“Stratified” (FR2 Gallery 2/Tokyo) |
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”Across the Night” (Gallery Naruyama/Tokyo) |
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"Under the Skin" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) >> |
| 2017 |
"HIVE" (Gallery Naruyama/Tokyo) |
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"Yugo Kohrogi 2012-2016" (Yoshimi Arts/Oska) >> |
| 2016 |
"Portrait" (Gallery Naruyama/Tokyo) |
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"Pond" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) >> |
| 2015 |
"Dark Adaptation"
(Gallery Naruyama/Tokyo) |
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"Drawings 2011-2015"
(Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) >> |
| 2014 |
"／" （Yoshimi Arts/Osaka） >> |
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"Hopskotch" （CASHI/Tokyo） |
| 2011 |
"boiling point" （CASHI/Tokyo） |
| 2010 |
"Sparkler" （Gallery Art Composition/Tokyo） |
| 2009 |
"body nude / body" （Gallery Art Composition/Tokyo） |
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"melting point" （CASHI/Tokyo) |
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| Group Exhibition |
| 2019 |
"Yugo Kohrogi, Yuki Nagashima" (Canalside Gallery, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum/Nagasaki) |
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"Shirakino Artist in Residence, Exhibition 2019-1" (Art Village Shirakino/ Minamishimabara) |
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“Yugo Kohrogi, Lisa Kohno” (Tenchonokura/Kumamoto) |
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“Wooden sculpture, Oil painting, Japanese painting and Drawing “ (Gallery Naruyama/Tokyo) |
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“Syuou Prize 10 years" (Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art/Okayama) |
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“Forest of the Art Education” (The University of the Arts/Tokyo) |
| 2018 |
"Art Show" (World of Co x Seemeon 29/Sofia) |
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”Kosuke Ikeshima Yugo Kohrogi” (Gallery Naruyama/Tokyo) |
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“Insight 20” (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) |
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"drawing/collage" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) >> |
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"Takahashi Collection - Face and Abstraction"(Kiyoharu Art Colony/Yamanashi) |
| 2017 |
"Insight 19" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) |
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"Night and Day" (Gallery Naruyama/Tokyo) |
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"Group Show VIII" (CASHI/Tokyo) |
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"September Flower" (Gallery Naruyama/Tokyo) |
| 2016 |
"Space,Art&Human Body" (The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts/Tokyo) |
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"Naked Men 1876-2016" (Gallery Naruyama/Tokyo) |
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"Insight 16 "melting"" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) |
| 2015 |
"Body" (CASHI/Tokyo) |
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"5th Anniversary Festival !!" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) >> |
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"Viewpoint of three art"
(Art Gallery, Daimaru Sapporo store/Sappro) |
| 2013 |
"Figurative Abstraction" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) |
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Insight 8 "Figurative" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) |
| 2012 |
"Physical side II" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) |
| 2011 |
"Summer Arts Festival - MITSUKOSHI × Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music-"（Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi/Tokyo） |
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"Group Show IV" (CASHI/Tokyo) |
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"Tradition, Contemporary, Generation" Drawing Exhibition (The University Art Museum- Tokyo University of the Arts-/Tokyo) |
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| 2010 |
"Group Show II" (CASHI/Tokyo) |
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"Self Portrait - Others as Myself" (Takahashi Collection Hibiya/Tokyo) |
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"Lost Generation" (Bunkamura Gallery/Tokyo) |
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"HANGA's Color" (Bunpoudou Gallery/Tokyo) |
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Straight grass" (CASHI/Tokyo) |
| 2009 |
"Group Show Ⅰ" (CASHI/Tokyo) |
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"Tokyo National University Prints Collection" (EYE OF GYRE/Tokyo) |
| 2008 |
UTM "Tradition and the present age" (Asakusa Public Hall/Tokyo) |
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"umsteigen" (Austrian Embassy/Tokyo) |
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"A Midsummer Night's Dream" (CASHI/Tokyo) |
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"Tokyo Wonder Wall 2008" (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo/Tokyo) |
| 2007 |
UTM "Tradition and the present age" (Sakamoto elementary school/Tokyo) |
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"CROSS BORDERS" (Silpakorn University/Thailand) |
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| Collection |
| Takahashi Collection, Tokyo University Art Museum,Tokyo University of the Art, Minamishimabara City |
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| Award |
| 2017 |
Grant for overseas training, Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation |
| 2014 |
Excellence Award of Terrada Art Award |
| 2012 |
The 6th Shuou Fund Scholarship Award |
| 2010 |
HOLBEIN Scholarship |
| 2008 |
Tokyo Wonder Wall, Selected |
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Tokyo Wonder Seeds, Selected |
