Yuko Murata

Yuko Murata BIOGRAPHY [PDF]

b. Tokyo

Lives and works in Kanagawa

Education

1995 Setsu Mode Seminar

Solo Exhibitions

2021

“birch garden”, THE GINZA SPACE, Tokyo

“promenade”, Isetan Salone Art Wall  Tokyo

“small sky”, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo

2019

“new paintings”, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo

 “solo presentation”, Feature Section Taipei Dangdai

2017

“bohemians”, Yusto / Giner, Malaga, Spain

“Yuko Murata”, Satellite, Okayama

2016

“bohemians”, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo

2015

“bohemians”, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

2014

“From Morning”, James Cohan Shanghai, Shanghai

“Drawings”, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo

“PIOON Project” organized by Vanji Sculupture Museum awatenbou ,Shizuoka

“Drawings”, Satellite, Okayama

2012

“A New Trip”,  Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea

Inauguration exhibition, Yusto / Giner, Malaga, Spain

“New Works”, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo

2011

“solo presentation”, Statements section, Art Basel

2010 Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

Galeria Horrach Moya, Mallorca, Spain

Gallery Side 2, Tokyo

2009 “Under the Sky”, Alberto Peola, Turin

Casey Kaplan, NY

Gallery Side 2, Tokyo

2008

“The Songs of Birds”, Lammfromm, Tokyo

2007

Ikejiri Institute of Design, curated by Hideo Nakayasu, Tokyo

Gallery Side 2, Tokyo

2006

Galeria Horrach Moya, Mallorca, Spain

2005

“dried apricot”, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

“new paintings”, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo

2004

Galeria Micia, Takamatsu

2003

“a snapping turtle and moon”, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo

2002

“windfall”, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo

2000

“Snow-Light”, Rocket Gallery, Tokyo

“Venus in the Woods”, Graphic Station, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions

2021 “Birds and Flowers,” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo

2019 “Yuko Murata/Shizuka Mitsui-Drawings”, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo

2017 “Natsu no Tobira”, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago

2016 “ALL LIVING THINGS”, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Mishima

2016 “Fragments su iman”, Galeria Horrach Moya, Mallorca, Spain

2015 “Fruitfulness”, Toyokawa Sakuragaoka Museum, Toyokawa

” Eight Women,” Recruit Gallery 8, Tokyo

2014 “Collection”, Bernard Buffet Children’s Museum, Mishima

2012 “Pere Llobera, Yuko Murata, Jacco Olivier”, Hidde Van Seggelen Gallery, London

Project room in conjunction with Daido Moriyama, Stephen Cohen, Los Angeles

2011 “Pathos and Small Narratives: Japanese Contemporary Art”, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea

“Everything must go”, Casey Kaplan, NY

2010 James Cohan Shanghai, Shanghai

“Long Long Gone”, curated by Ridley Howard, Leo Koenig, NY

2009 “The Tree”, James Cohan Shanghai, Shanghai

2008 “Four of a Kind”, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo

“Probably”, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

2007 “New and Rising Artists 2007”, curated by Norimasa Nishimatsu, Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo

“Dreaming Faraway”,  Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

“A Serious Paradise”, curated by Patricia Maloney, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco

“REBOOT:The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection”, Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand

“Surroundings revisited”, curated by Per Knutås, Kent State University, Ohio

2006 “Chaosmos”, curated by Koji Kurokawa, Sakura City Art  Museum, Sakura, Chiba

“posters”, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo

“Side by Side”, Lammfrom, Tokyo

“Dirty Yoga”, curated by Dan Cameron, Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum

2005 “Honeymoon with Romeo”, curated by Holly Coulis, GroeflinMaag, Basel

2004 “Take Art Collection”, Spiral Garden, Tokyo

2003 “WFM”, Logos Gallery, Tokyo

2002 “Shop* Roket”, Rocket Gallery, Tokyo

2002 “Yuko Murata, Jun Fujita, Kiyomichi Shibuya, Shinako Sato”, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo

2001 “Private Visions”, Speak For Gallery, Tokyo

“Landscapes”, TakaIshii Gallery, Tokyo

2000 “The Choice Prize Exhibition”,  Creation Gallery G8, Tokyo

Projects

2016 “Yuko Murata postcards”, produced by True Ring, Tokyo, Japan

2013 Suntory, Natural Water, AD

2012 “Yuko Murata”, catalog produced by True Ring, Tokyo, Japan

2008 “Yuko Murata postcards”, produced by lammfromm, Tokyo, Japan

2007 “2008 calendar”, Marks Inc., Tokyo, Japan

2005 nowhere to be found,  AN note sponsored by Kokuyo, Japan

Invitation/poster image, Fall/Winter collection of et vous, Japan

Book cover image, Kai Hsegawa, “Haiku for a million people”, Kodansha Publishing Inc., Japan

CD jacket and live concert ad image, Polaris, Japan

Residency

2009 Steep Rock Arts Association

Bibliography

2021 “Spring Rendezvous”, Gallery Side 2, catalog

2016 “ALL LIVING THINGS”,  Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, catalog

2015 “Fruitfulness”, Toyokawa Sakuragaoka Museum, catalog

2014 ARTLINKART

http://www.artlinkart.com/en/exhibition/overview/430dsAuq/type/solo/2014/01

artinasia

http://www.artinasia.com/galleryDetail.php?catID=3&galleryID=559&view=7&eventID=22586

2012 “A New Trip”, catalog, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea

Yuko Murata, “grilling horse mackerel,” RECOMMENDATION, G’s ART, GINZA, 178, p. 270

2011 “Pathos and Small Narratives: Japanese Contemporary Art”, Gana Art Center, catalog

art splash

http://contemporaryartlinks.blogspot.jp/2011/01/guo-hongwei-yuko-murata-karen-seapker.html

2010 “Yuko Murata”, Cawaii Factory, catalog

“03 Gallery Side 2 – artists pushing existing borders”, HUGE, September, No. 072, p.49

Chie Sumiyoshi, FIGARO japon, August, No.410, p. 110

“art & stage”, Shiyo Yamashita, ELLE, July 10, vol.309, p. 227

2010 “Recommended Art”, Pia, July 1, 111

“displaying handy size art”, Art Collector, February, No.18, p. 23

“Yuko Murata New Paintings”, Time Out Tokyo, http://www.timeout.jp/ja/tokyo/event/2

2009 Jenny Dogliani, “Assoluto giapponese”, La Stampa, 02.10.2009

Hiromi Kitazawa, OCEANS, July, No.40, p.138

2008 Junko Shimada, HERS, May, p.198

FUDGE, Febuary, p.61

2007 “nowhere picnic”, Ikejiri Institute of Design, catalog

2007 ex-chamber museum、October 20

http://ex-chamber.seesaa.net/article/61511498.html

Hiromi Kitazawa, voice’s art space, Studio Vice, November, p140-145

“Art in my room”, ELLEDECO, Aug. p.151

Ginza Shinbun News, July

Ginza Keizai Shinbun, July 3

POLA New and Rising Artists 2007, Bijyutsu no Mado. July, 103

Margo Handwerker, “dreaming faraway at Inman Gallery”, Glasstire-texas visual art online, July

http://glasstire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1631&gtsect=Articles&gtcat=Review

2006 “Chaosmos”, Sakura City Museum, Sakura, catalog

“Dirty Yoga”, curated by Dan Cameron, Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, catalog

“Creator’s Favorite Books”, Studio Voice, November 2006, vol.37, p.40″Buy Art”, In Red, May 2006 No.39, p.139

Jeffrey Ian Rosen, “Yuko Murata”, artscape-DNP Museum Information Japan

http://www.dnp.co.jp/artscape/eng/focus/0609_01.html”Exoisiciones”, Bellver

Antonio Camba, “Yuko Murata. Galleria Horrach Moya. Palma de Mallorca”, Amb l’Art.com

http://www.amblart.com/baleares-45.php

Bijyutsu no Mado, February, p.170

“Art”” Asahi evening News paper, February 16, 2006, p.7

“Exhibition of this week”, Pia, February, p.159

2005 “Hitokomagoma”,Intoxicate,Tower Records, p.36, December

lammfrommer zettel’s traum vol.1, November 11

Our landscapes, Relax, October, p.25,38

Nagoya Satoru, review, Flash Art, Summer

“Strange distant world and animals”,Bien, vol.33, Jul-Aug, p.16

“Art Lesson”, Ryukotsushin, vol.505, July, p124

“Camera-eye”, Bijyutsu no Mado, no.262, p.47

“Self-reflecting jouney”, Linkaran, vol.12, July, p.11

“Murata Yuko :New Paintings”, Studio Voice, p.79, vol.354, June

“drop dead cute”, Ivan Vartanian, p.46-59

Recomend, Branche, p.43, May

“Art”, Pia, May 19, 2006

ART Yuran, April 27

http://www.art-yuran.jp/2005/04/post_4921.html

2004 artscape-DNP Museum Information Japan, July

http://www.dnp.co.jp/artscape/exhibition/curator/my_0407.html

“DAZED & excite”

Top page image, Relax,2004/03, p.12-13

http://dazed.excite.co.jp/dazed_people/art/murata_yuko/

2003 12 month art essey, top page, Tsubasa no Oukoku, ANA Airlines

Shirasaka Yuri, “12 women Artists We Love”,Luca,No.3, p.77

2002 Fujimoto Yasushi, “Tokyo Art “, Ginza, July, p.125

Illustration, No.136, July, p.103

Ino, Shin, Switch, vol.20, no.6, June, p165

Kojima, Yayoi, Studio Voice, vol.317, May, p.120-121

2002 Luca, p.168

FIGARO japon, No.225, May 5, p.97

Ishiyama, Osamu, “Self-Bild”, Studio Voice, vol.315, March, p.116-117

2001 “Fragments of Landscape”, Illustration, July, Genko publishing, Inc.

2001 “Fushigi Megane”, texts:Kawai Laboratory, paintings:Yuko Murata

http://inpaku.tkawai.giti.waseda.ac.jp/j/index_j.html

Design Prex, Exceed press, p.50

2000 “Where Art Exists” Tokyo Jamming, December, p.13

“Honey Painting”, Studio Voice, vol.297, September, p.45

“Happy Painting”, Cho-ou Koron Shin publishing, inc.