Profile
Akiko Yamazaki was born in Tokyo in 1979. and she grew up in central Tokyo. In addition, she lived in an old-fashioned bathhouse style Japanese house. She played there and loved it.
The house was demolished when she was six years old since her family moved to the suburban area of Tokyo. Yamazaki observed that her house was completely destroyed, and the demolished house was still surrounded by other buildings. These experiences have influenced her works.
Yamazaki has been drawing mostly by pencil for several years.
Memory, space, and time are very important essences of her works. She explores the relationship of the present and human existence with these essences. Moreover, she creates each drawing by composing the relations between our existence and essences. For instance, she usually draws contemporary ruin as forecasting past and future memory.
In other words, she draws human existence with memory, space, and time without people.
Yamazaki believes that drawing is the means of exploration into her theme and also plays the function of a record that has memory and time.
Akiko Yamazaki
1979. Born in Tokyo
Education
2006~2007 Camberwell College of Arts (University of the Arts London)
MA Drawing Pass
2004~2005 Camberwell College of Arts
Foundation Course. Sculpture Distinction
1998~2000 Shinnzyuku Art School, Tokyo
Oil painting
Exhibitions
<Solo exhibitions >
2020 “Outside,inside,in between”
2019 “Trace after trace” s+arts, Tokyo
2018 “Between” Shonandai Gallery, Tokyo
2017 “Meditation” Shonandai MY Gallery, Tokyo
2015 “An intruder” Shonandai MY Gallery, Tokyo
2013 “As memory, as record” Shonandai MY Gallery, Tokyo
2013 “I became a drawing camera” Ouchi Gallery, New York
2012 “The District” Shonandai MY Gallery, Tokyo
2012 “Travelling” Gallery Kurabito, Saitama prefecture
2011 “ Forest of Sea, Ship of Land” Shonandai MY Gallery, Tokyo
2010 “Drawing~ Existence and absence and existence” Gallery Kurabito Saitama prefecture
<Group shows>
2018 Affordable Art Fair Brussels (Shonandai Gallery) Belgium
2017 Group exhibition, Shonandai MY Gallery
2016 Gallery Tagboat 11th Award, Setagayamonozukurigakuen,(Scholl) ,Tokyo
2015 Kameyama Triennale 2017 pre-exhibition , Mie prefecture
2014 Kameyama Triennale 2014, Mie prefecture
2014 Chiyoda arts festival 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
2013 Shell Art Award 2013 The national art center, Tokyo
2012 Group exhibition, Gallery Shimon, Tokyo
2012 New City Art Fair(Shonandai MY Gallery) New York
2012 The 4th 100Artist Exhibition Ouchi Gallery, New York
2011 Group exhibition, Shonandai MY Gallery, Tokyo
2010 Yang Japan Artist Fair Koutuukaikann , Tokyo
Win Michiko Yamamoto prize
2010 Art Box Group show, Gallery Art Box , Tokyo
2010 Gallery Tag Boat 5th Award, Tuner Gallery , Tokyo
2009 Yang Japanese Artist Fair , Koutuukaikann , Tokyo
2009 Gallery Tagboat Autumn Award , Koutuukaikann , Tokyo
2009 Gallery Tagboat Summer Award, Art Complex Hall, Tokyo
2007 Nunhead Art week- The Surgery, London
AIR Program
2019 Kristinestad Artists' Residency ,Finland
Bibliography
2012 Art Collectors’(Monthly magazine P.73)/Seikatu no Tomo ,Co
2010 Artist File Contemporary Art (P.270)/ART Box international ,INC