Yuko Murata
SELECTED WORKS
BIOGRAPHY
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>sect=Articles>cat=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.