山中雪乃

Yukino Yamanaka was born in 1999 in Nagano Prefecture. Currently, he is based in Tokyo and Kanagawa. In 2023, he graduated from the graduate school of Kyoto University of the Arts. He has focused on both the outline of human matter and the state of phenomena, depicting amorphous, inhuman beings that writhing awkwardly. From the beginning, he consistently used people as motifs, and his style shifted from figurative drawing to abstract drawing using random strokes. Blank spaces lacking information like splatters, liquid dripping through the gaps of the body, and egoistic expressions and poses reminiscent of Selfie or artist photography. By depicting these elements as if blending into the entire canvas, the film captures the very process of mutation from 'I' to 'something,' revealing our image as an unfinished being that is moving away from the traditional image of humanity.
Major exhibitions include "ECLIPSE" (PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Tokyo, 2025), "Art Collaboration Kyoto" (Kyoto, 2025), "A Private View of Contemporary Japanese Art: Ryutaro Takahashi Collection" (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, 2024), "Altergaze | Video" (CON_, Tokyo, 2024), and "Untitled Art" Miami Beach (Miami, 2024), West Bund Art & Design (Shanghai, 2024), Pose, DIESEL ART G ALL ERY TOKYO, Tokyo, 2023), and others.

 

Yukino Yamanaka was born in 1999 in Nagano, Japan, and currently lives and works between Tokyo and Kanagawa. She graduated from Kyoto University of the Arts Graduate School in 2023. Yamanaka attends to both the contour of the human as matter and its condition as phenomenon, depicting the formless, non-human presences that stir in the space between. From the outset, the figure has remained her consistent motif, while her style has shifted from representational rendering toward an abstraction built on random strokes. Voids stripped of information, like overexposed blowouts; fluid that drips languidly through the gaps of the body; egoistic expressions and poses that recall selfies or artist portraits—rendered so as to dissolve into the picture as a whole, they capture the very process of mutation from "I" into "something," laying bare our own image as unfinished beings in the midst of departing from the human as we have known it.
Her notable exhibitions include "ECLIPSE" (PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Tokyo, 2025), "Art Collaboration Kyoto" (Kyoto, 2025), "Takahashi Ryutaro Collection: A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art" (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, 2024), "Altergaze" (CON_, Tokyo, 2024), "Untitled Art Miami Beach" (Miami, 2024), "West Bund Art & Design" (Shanghai, 2024), and "Pose" (DIESEL ART G ALL ERY TOKYO, Tokyo, 2023).

Art Work Credit：Courtesy of Artist and CON_

Yukino Yamanaka _CV (JP)
Yukino Yamanaka _CV (EN)