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Yuka MORI

  • BIOGRAPHY
  • WORKS
  • CV

"Waltz", 2025, Wood panel, Japanese paper, Mineral pigment, 1167mm×727mm

"Horn", 2025, Wood panel, Japanese paper, Mineral pigment, 1167mm×727mm

"So close, yet so far" 2025, Wood panel, Japanese paper, Mineral pigment, 410mm×273mm

"Mesh" 2025, Wood panel, Japanese paper, Mineral pigment, H1940 × W1303 × D35mm

"Hanging bell", 2025, Wood panel, Japanese paper, Mineral pigment, H1167 × W727 × D35mm

"Water drop2", 2025, Wood panel, Japanese paper, Mineral pigment, H410 × W530 × D20mm

"Poppies", 2025, Wood panel, Japanese paper, Mineral pigment, H410 × W530 × D20mm

"South wind", 2025, Wood panel, Japanese paper, Mineral pigment, H410 × W530 × D20mm

"Tree stump", 2025, Wood panel, Japanese paper, Mineral pigment, H333 × W242 × D20mm

"Melting thoughts" 2025, Wood panel, Japanese paper, Mineral pigment, H410 × W273 × D20mm

"Lure" 2025, Wood panel, Japanese paper, Mineral pigment, H410 × W273 × D20mm

"Swimming inside" 2025, Wood panel, Japanese paper, Mineral pigment, H410 × W273 × D20mm

"Pneumatophore" 2025, Wood panel, Japanese paper, Mineral pigment, H410 × W273 × D20mm

"Team" 2025, Wood panel, Japanese paper, Mineral pigment, H410 × W273 × D20mm

"Vein" 2025, Wood panel, Japanese paper, Mineral pigment, H1590 × W380mm (Image size: H650 × W270mm)

"Vein" 2025, Wood panel, Japanese paper, Mineral pigment, H1590 × W380mm (Image size: H650 × W270mm)

Yuka Mori was born in Osaka Prefecture in 1991 and raised in Shiga Prefecture. She studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris as an exchange student and received a master’s degree in Nihonga (Japanese-style painting) from Kyoto City University of Arts in 2016. She is currently based in Kyoto. Influenced from an early age by Buddhist art, she has a background rooted in Japanese painting. Her works draw on the relationships between figures and the earth in Japanese painting, setting the relationship between the body and the environment as their subject matter and making reference to her own physical senses and to the traditional performing art of Noh. With her Spreading Vein solo exhibit in 2019, she began sketching plants and creating paintings that take their inspiration from the physicality of plants as "entities that bi-directionally traverse boundaries in their given environment and the adjacent land, with a sensibility differing from that of humans." Taking the body as a medium that explores the boundary between the self and the other and sublimating this medium into her works, Mori creates art in which the body and the self ambiguously meld as they undergo repeated metamorphoses.

GALLERY EXHIBITION

NEWS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2024
    "Yuka Mori solo exhibition" toutou gallery, Okayama, Japan (2024, 2023)
  • 2021
    "Portrait in the rain" dohjidai gallery, Kyoto, Japan
  • 2020
    "One wood, one grass" Kaikado Café, Kyoto, Japan
  • 2019
    "Spreading vein" GALLERY SUJIN, Kyoto, Japan
  • 2018
    "Yellow room humid afternoon" Dohjidai Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
  • 2017
    "Dawning" LOKO GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2025
    Teppei Yamada・Yuka Mori "Liminal Acts" LOKO GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2024
    "FOREST FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS OKAYAMA", Okayama, Japan
    "ART RHIZOME KYOTO" Hotel rings kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
    "Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2024" Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
    Reia Momose and Yuka Mori duo exhibition, Nihombashi Takashimaya Art Gallery X, Tokyo, Japan
    "TRILOGY" Numero.51 Concept Gallery, Italia
    "ART FAIR TOKYO 2024" from KANEGAE gallery, Tokyo international forum, Tokyo, Japan
    "ARTIST’S FAIR KYOTO 2024" Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan
  • 2023
    "Sydney Contemporary 2023" LOKO GALLERY, Sydney
  • 2022
    Artist in residence, artbiotop nasu, Tochigi, Japan
    Kyoto City University of Arts relocation project, curated by @KCUA, Horikawa new culture bilding, Kyoto, Japan
  • 2021
    Kentaro Senuma and Yuka Mori duo exhibition, toutou gallery, Okayama, Japan
    Yuka MORI, Akane SAIJYO duo exhibition "Responses in Flux" LOKO GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2020
    "Drawings" LOKO GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
    "Japanese paintings New exhibition 2020" museum EKI Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
  • 2016
    "internal←→external" Yuka MORI, Hana TOBARI, LOKO GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
    "stART2016 " galerie16 , Kyoto, Japan
    "Salut, la planète! – exhibition of exchange students" École nationale supérieure des beaux -Arts de Paris, France
  • 2015
    "Kyoto Bank 15years collection" Kyoto Bank Finance collage Katsuragawa campus, Kyoto, Japan
  • 2013
    "Current Japanese Style Painting" Kyoto City University Of Arts Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

AWARDS

  • 2024
    Pommery Prize Kyoto 2024　Grand Prize