Yaegashi’s small-scale oil paintings are rooted in precision, with her distinct style of patterning resulting in reductive, layered works. Yaegashi’s compositions are carefully composed, with a focus on graphic lines, veiled strokes of color, and explorations of both symmetry and asymmetry.
Yui Yaegashi (b. 1985, Chiba, Japan) lives and works in Tokyo. Yaegashi received a B.A. from the Tokyo Zokei University’s Department of Painting (2009) and her M.F.A. from Tokyo Zokei University’s Graduate School of Art and Design (2011). Her work has been included in SCHMALTZ at Guimarães, Vienna, Austria; Particularities curated by Chris Sharp at X Museum, Shanghai, China; and in solo exhibitions at Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan; Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL; Queer Thoughts, New York, NY; and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland. In Spring 2020, Yaegashi completed a self-directed residency in New York City supported by the Japanese Government’s Department of Art and Culture. Yui Yaegashi is represented by Parrasch Heijnen in Los Angeles and Misako & Rosen in Tokyo.
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Yui Yaegashi
Nichinichi-So 16 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 i8 Galleryi8 Gallery is pleased to announce Nichinichi-So, an exhibition of new paintings by Yui Yaegashi, which will be on view from 16 November until 23 December. This is the artist’s second exhibition at i8 Gallery and opens with a public reception for the artist on 16 November.Read more -
YUI YAEGASHI
24 Oct - 2 Dec 2019 i8 GalleryWhile at a distance Yaegashi’s small, unassuming works display a quiet simplicity, close attention reveals surprisingly complex patterning and layers of detail. Monochrome surfaces are constructions of meticulously woven brushstrokes,...Read more
b. 1985 Chiba, Japan
Lives and works in Tokyo
Education
2009
B.A., Tokyo Zokei University, Department of painting
2011
M.F.A., Tokyo Zokei University, Art and design
2020
Overseas study scholarship by the Japanese Government Department of Art and Culture
(New York)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
Nichnichi-So, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
Yui Yaegashi, Keijiban, Kanazawa, Japan
2022
View from here, an occurence, LambdaLambdaLambda, Pristhina, Kosovo
Hinaga, La Maison de Rendez-Vous, Brussels, Belgium
Yui Yaegashi:「purple, black, fog」,parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Yui Yaegashi, Queer Thoughts, New York, NY
2019
Yui Yaegashi, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
2018
Summer through Winter, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo, Japan
2017
The rain is gone, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Rainy season, southwest, Susaki Machikado Gallery, Kochi, Japan
2016
Fixed Point Observation, Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles, CA
2015
demeanor, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
To and from home, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
2014
Manner and Preparation, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
2012
Early summer and Common practice, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Glass Tableware in Still Life, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2021
Abstraction!, by MISAKO & ROSEN, CADAN Yurakucho, Tokyo, Japan
Happy Home curated by Kathryn Brennan, Rachel Uffner, New York, NY
Particularities, X Museum, Beijing, China
2020
Cool Invitations 7, XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan
New Intimacies, Soda, Tokyo, Japan
The Sentimental Organization of the World, Crèvecoeur, Organized with: Naoki Sutter-
Shudo, Paris, France
WITHOUT STOPPING, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2019
Here’s why Patterns, Here’s why patterns, Here’s why patterns , MISAKO & ROSEN,
Tokyo, Japan
2018
SCHMALTZ, Guimarães, Vienna, Austria
2017
The Gap Between the Fridge and the Cooker, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
2016
Trans/Real - The Possibilities of Immaterial Art vol.3 - Fuminao Suenaga & Yui Yaegashi, Gallery α M, Tokyo, Japan
New Intimacies, XYZ Collective, Tokyo “Cool Invitations3,” XYZ Collective, Tokyo, Japan
Art is not a competition-Kaiga no Tabi, Redling Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2015
by the mountain path, White Rainbow, London, UK
Contemporary Tales from the Province lll: Susaki Artist in Residence, Susaki Machikado
Gallery, Kochi, Japan
Cool Invitations2, XYZ Collective, Tokyo, Japan
2014
The Way of Painting, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Man & Play Curated by
XYZ Collective, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY
NEW INTIMACIES, HOTEl ANTEROOM KYOTO Gallery 9.5, Kyoto, Japan
Man & Play curated by XYZ Collective, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY
Cool Invitations, XYZ Collective, Tokyo, Japan
2013
19516 kilometers from Milwaukee or 12126 miles , MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo, Japan
Too young to be abstract, Sprout Curation, Tokyo, Japan
Group Show, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome, Italy
2012
FUYU NO TABI, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010
SSS – Expanded Paintings, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo, Japan
2009
Truth – Art in the Poor Age, hiromiyoshii, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Bibliography
2017
“Yui Yaegashi’s ‘The Rain is Gone’ at Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago.” Blouin Artinfo, July 2017.
Varadi, Keith J. “Yui Yaegashi at Parrasch Heijnen Gallery,” Contemporary Art Review LA, January 12, 2017.
2016
Pagel, David. “What to see in L.A. galleries: tiny paintings of breathtaking beauty,
photographs of the super-smart.” Los Angeles Times, December 2016.
Pagel, David. “Quiet is the New Loud.” Gallery Magazine, December 2016.
Robinson, Mark. “Crafting Palm Sized Stores - Paintings by Japanese Artist You Yaegashi.” OEN, September 2016.
2015
Schmid, Christina. “Yui Yaegashi.” Artforum, November 2014.
2014
Schaad, Gabrielle. “The Way of Painting.” Artforum, July 2014.
“Yui Yaegashi.” Art: Painter’s Atelier, Issue 002, 2014: pp. 166-167.
“Yui Yaeashi.” The Way of Painting (Tokyo: Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, 2014): pp. 113-117.
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Art Collaboration Kyoto 2024
Kyoto International Conference Center 14 - 16 Nov 2024i8 Gallery presents a solo booth of new works by Yui Yaegashi at Art Collaboration Kyoto in collaboration with Misako and Rosen . Yaegashi’s small-scale...Read more -
Frieze London 2023
The Regent's Park 11 - 15 Oct 2023i8 Gallery's presentation for Frieze London 2023 features artists who are key figures within the gallery's history. Two new works by Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967,...Read more -
Market 2023
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden 12 - 14 May 2023i8 Gallery returns to Stockholm for Market Art Fair presenting works by Alicja Kwade, Callum Innes, Ólafur Elíasson, Kristján Guðmundsson, and Yui Yaegashi.Read more