- The New Clear Age (Fukushima Daini)／2014
Yoi Kawakubo
川久保 ジョイ
- ART EXHIBITION
Born in Spain in 1979. Dropped out of the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba in 2005. After working as a full-time housewife and financial trader, she devoted herself to creating works. He creates photographs, video works, sound works, architectural interventions and spatial installations on the themes of economics, history, cognitive theory and energy issues. Recent major group exhibitions include "Picturing the Invisible" (Royal Geographical Institute, London, 2022), "Yokohama Triennale 2020" (Yokohama, 2020), "Roppongi Crossing 2019 - Connecting Eyes" (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2019), "Yokohama Triennale 2017" (Yokohama, 2017), and major solo exhibitions include "I/body/ ghost" (Yamamoto Keiko Rochex, London) and "Fall" (Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, 2016). He has received awards such as the Ohara Museum of Art Award at the 2015 VOCA Exhibition and the 10th shiseido art egg.
Yoi Kawakubo (b. 1979, S pain/Japan/UK) is a international artist with multicultural background who explores the ontology of structures regarding justice and legitimacy, the unearthing of marginalised historical narratives and the analysis of social issues such as the ethics of financial markets or the problems of nuclear energy. He addresses these topics by employing a variety of strategies, derived especially from photography, film, experimental literature, the conceptualist investigations in art since the 1960s and the logics of financial markets. He turned to artistic practice after receiving his degree in disabilities neuroscience and subsequently working as a financial trader for several years. Recent group exhibitions include: _ Afterglow - The Yokohama Triennale 2020_ (Yokohama, Japan), _Roppongi Crossing 2019 - Connexions_ (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo), _21st DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow_ (National Art Center, Tokyo), _Islands, Constellations and Galapagos - Yokohama Triennale 2017_ (Yokohama, 2017), _Linguamania_ (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2017). Recent solo exhibitions include _I/body/ghost_ (Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, 2018), _Two million years of solitude, cherry blossoms and fifty thousand light-years more_ (Koganecho Site-A, Yokohama, Japan, 2017) , _Stella Maris was a name I found in a dream_ (Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London, 2016), and _Fall_ (Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, 2016).
Kawakubo Joy_CV
Yoi Kawakubo_CV
Courtesy of the artist and Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix
Yoi Kawakubo (b. 1979, S pain/Japan/UK) is a international artist with multicultural background who explores the ontology of structures regarding justice and legitimacy, the unearthing of marginalised historical narratives and the analysis of social issues such as the ethics of financial markets or the problems of nuclear energy. He addresses these topics by employing a variety of strategies, derived especially from photography, film, experimental literature, the conceptualist investigations in art since the 1960s and the logics of financial markets. He turned to artistic practice after receiving his degree in disabilities neuroscience and subsequently working as a financial trader for several years. Recent group exhibitions include: _ Afterglow - The Yokohama Triennale 2020_ (Yokohama, Japan), _Roppongi Crossing 2019 - Connexions_ (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo), _21st DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow_ (National Art Center, Tokyo), _Islands, Constellations and Galapagos - Yokohama Triennale 2017_ (Yokohama, 2017), _Linguamania_ (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2017). Recent solo exhibitions include _I/body/ghost_ (Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London, 2018), _Two million years of solitude, cherry blossoms and fifty thousand light-years more_ (Koganecho Site-A, Yokohama, Japan, 2017) , _Stella Maris was a name I found in a dream_ (Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London, 2016), and _Fall_ (Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, 2016).
Kawakubo Joy_CV
Yoi Kawakubo_CV
Courtesy of the artist and Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix
