Born in Tokyo in 1981. Completed the graduate program in painting at Musashino Art University in 2007.
Watanabe’s paintings are distinguished by their seamless blend of fantastical imagery and organic forms, which move back and forth between abstraction and representation.
In his recent series, he seaches for people’s names on the internet and produces multi-faceted,multi-layered portraits combining elements of the found images.
Organic forms and planes of color that overlap with their surroundings evoke the constructivist compositions of Cubism.
Yutaka Watanabe
1981 born in Tokyo, JAPAN
2005 The 20nd HOLBEIN Scholarship
2007 M.F.A. Musashino Art University, Tokyo, JAPAN
Live in Tokyo, JAPAN
Solo exhibitions
2021 Fusion ,LOOP HOLE Tokyo,JAPAN
2020 NAME ,See Saw gallery+hibit Aichi,JAPAN
2019 Early Works ,Maki Fine ArtsTokyo,JAPAN
2018 NAME ,Maki Fine ArtsTokyo,JAPAN
2017 soft construction ,Maki Fine ArtsTokyo,JAPAN
2016 The good things is new forever ,switch point, Tokyo,JAPAN
2015 Twisted Land ,gFAL Tokyo,JAPAN
2015 Melting land ,JIKKA Tokyo,JAPAN
2013 8/ ART GALLERY/ ,Tomio Koyama Gallery Tokyo, JAPAN
2010 TKG Editions Kyoto ,Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto, JAPAN
2010 shape of air / echo color ,Itamuroonsen Daikokuya Tochigi, JAPAN
2009 TKG Contemporary ,Tomio Koyama Gallery Tokyo, JAPAN
Selected Group exhibitions
2020 New Intimacies- organized by soda - ,KAYOKOYUKI Tokyo,JAPAN
2019 Syncopation: Contemporary encounters with the Modern Masters ,Pola Museum of Art Kanagawa,JAPAN
2018 The river near the left ,GALLERY MIKAWAYA Aichi,JAPAN
2017 Group Exhibition ,mime,JAPAN
2011 SLASH/04 found a poket Takuya Ikezaki Yutaka Watanabe, island MEDIUM Tokyo, JAPAN
2009 MONTBLANC YOUNG ARTIST PATRONAGE in Japan ,Montblanc,Ginza Tokyo,JAPAN
2008 The 4th Fuchu Biennial TRUE COLORS, Fuchu Art Museum Tokyo, JAPAN
2008 Nana Funo Yutaka Watanabe TKG Contemporary, Tomio Koyama Gallery Tokyo, JAPAN
- Your portrait (if possible)