Born in Tokyo in 1981. Completed the graduate program in painting at Musashino Art University in 2007.

Watanabe’s paintings are distinguished by their seamless blend of fantastical imagery and organic forms, which move back and forth between abstraction and representation.

In his recent series, he seaches for people’s names on the internet and produces multi-faceted,multi-layered portraits combining elements of the found images.

Organic forms and planes of color that overlap with their surroundings evoke the constructivist compositions of Cubism.

 

Yutaka Watanabe

 

1981    born in Tokyo, JAPAN

 

2005 The 20nd HOLBEIN Scholarship

 

2007 M.F.A. Musashino Art University, Tokyo, JAPAN

 

Live in Tokyo, JAPAN

 

 

Solo exhibitions

2021 Fusion ,LOOP HOLE Tokyo,JAPAN

2020 NAME ,See Saw gallery+hibit Aichi,JAPAN

2019 Early Works ,Maki Fine ArtsTokyo,JAPAN

2018 NAME ,Maki Fine ArtsTokyo,JAPAN

2017 soft construction ,Maki Fine ArtsTokyo,JAPAN

2016 The good things is new forever ,switch point, Tokyo,JAPAN

2015 Twisted Land ,gFAL Tokyo,JAPAN

 

2015 Melting land ,JIKKA Tokyo,JAPAN 

 

2013 8/ ART GALLERY/ ,Tomio Koyama Gallery Tokyo, JAPAN 

 

2010 TKG Editions Kyoto ,Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto, JAPAN

 

2010 shape of air / echo color ,Itamuroonsen Daikokuya Tochigi, JAPAN

 

2009   TKG Contemporary ,Tomio Koyama Gallery Tokyo, JAPAN

 

 

 

Selected Group exhibitions 

2020 New Intimacies- organized by soda - ,KAYOKOYUKI Tokyo,JAPAN

2019 Syncopation: Contemporary encounters with the Modern Masters ,Pola Museum of Art Kanagawa,JAPAN

2018 The river near the left ,GALLERY MIKAWAYA Aichi,JAPAN

2017 Group Exhibition ,mime,JAPAN

2011 SLASH/04 found a poket  Takuya Ikezaki Yutaka Watanabe, island MEDIUM Tokyo, JAPAN

 

2009 MONTBLANC YOUNG ARTIST PATRONAGE in Japan ,Montblanc,Ginza Tokyo,JAPAN

 

2008 The 4th Fuchu Biennial TRUE COLORS, Fuchu Art Museum Tokyo, JAPAN

 

2008 Nana Funo Yutaka Watanabe TKG Contemporary, Tomio Koyama Gallery Tokyo, JAPAN

 

- Your portrait (if possible)