- 《View from the Rental Car》／2026
Yutaro Yamada
山田悠太朗
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Painter and graphic designer
Born in 1992 in Hokkaido Sapporo, Japan, he graduated from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2018. In his daily life and fieldwork, he collects a variety of unused items including cans crushed by cars on the street, rotting wood, and pieces of concrete, and uses them as supports for his paintings. The motifs and painting techniques are determined based on research on the location where the items were collected and the characteristics of the materials. He also develops visuals for cultural institutions and exhibitions Identity, and graphic designs for collections of his works and book bindings, utilizing his own brushstrokes and pictorial elements such as frottage in specific locations. Both of these activities are parallel in that they intervene at the boundary between objects and the world through the act of "creating a thin film of interface" in common. His solo exhibition to date has been "Remaining Surface" (2026, art space "traffc" / Jiyugaoka, Tokyo). Major group exhibitions include "Chaos Mulling" (2025, CSS Building, Nihonbashi Kodenmacho, Tokyo), "Finding Fantastic Foundation" (2024, SNOW Contemporary, Nishiazabu, Tokyo), "Uraraka Painting Festival" (2023, The 5 (2023/Tokyo, Yanaka & Ikenohata), "Flatways" (2022/centre project/Sasazuka, Tokyo), and "Say Hello to the Stranger" (2021/Kanazawa Art Gumi and 13 other locations/Kanazawa, Ishikawa).
Image: photo by Akira Taniguchi
Yutaro Yamada_CV
Born in 1992 in Hokkaido Sapporo, Japan, he graduated from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2018. In his daily life and fieldwork, he collects a variety of unused items including cans crushed by cars on the street, rotting wood, and pieces of concrete, and uses them as supports for his paintings. The motifs and painting techniques are determined based on research on the location where the items were collected and the characteristics of the materials. He also develops visuals for cultural institutions and exhibitions Identity, and graphic designs for collections of his works and book bindings, utilizing his own brushstrokes and pictorial elements such as frottage in specific locations. Both of these activities are parallel in that they intervene at the boundary between objects and the world through the act of "creating a thin film of interface" in common. His solo exhibition to date has been "Remaining Surface" (2026, art space "traffc" / Jiyugaoka, Tokyo). Major group exhibitions include "Chaos Mulling" (2025, CSS Building, Nihonbashi Kodenmacho, Tokyo), "Finding Fantastic Foundation" (2024, SNOW Contemporary, Nishiazabu, Tokyo), "Uraraka Painting Festival" (2023, The 5 (2023/Tokyo, Yanaka & Ikenohata), "Flatways" (2022/centre project/Sasazuka, Tokyo), and "Say Hello to the Stranger" (2021/Kanazawa Art Gumi and 13 other locations/Kanazawa, Ishikawa).
Image: photo by Akira Taniguchi
Yutaro Yamada_CV
