Yoshiki Omote has produced a group of works that transform large movements and formations into everyday scales. Larger peripheral phenomena that are difficult to grasp from the perspective of consumers, such as tectonic movements and the atmosphere, are projected onto sculptures and other works, and presented as something that can be physically felt.
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Born in Osaka in 1992. In 2014, he graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design, Department of Arts and Crafts. In the same year, he entered the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, and completed it in 2016.
Major solo exhibitions include "Life-Life Landscape" (2019, KANA KAWANISHI G ALL ERY). Group exhibitions include "STUDIO KODAI Vol.2" (2021, CAPSULE, Tokyo), "Anthropocene" (2020, Ginza Tsutaya Shoten, Tokyo), "Gunma Youth Biennale 2019" (2019, Gunma, Ritsumu Museum of Modern Art), and "Setouchi International Art Festival 2019" (2019, Awashima Former Marine School).
His awards include the Grand Prize at the 3rd CAF Awards (2016) and the Eriko Kimura Award at the Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2016 (2016).
In 2020, he held a solo exhibition "Real Life Escape Room" at KANA KAWANISHI G ALL ERY, and participated in the "Water Ripple Exhibition 2021" held in the Aoyama area of Tokyo from August to September 2021 (as a member of SIDE CORE).