Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 | Ken + Julia Yonetani: To Be Human, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia |
2020 | Dysbiotica: The Age of Imbalance, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo ’Anxiety Reading Week’ by WiCAN2019 and Ken + Julia Yonetani, Chiba City Lifelong Learning Center, Chiba, Japan (Guest Artist Program) |
2019 | MAM Collection 009: Ken + Julia Yonetani, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
2017 | The Emperor's New Clothes, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2016 | The Great Exhibition, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore |
2015 | The Last Temptation: the art of Ken + Julia Yonetani, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Wishes, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Periodic Tales: The Art of the Elements, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK The Last Supper, Bega Valley Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia The Last Supper, Tweed River Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia The Last Supper, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia Close Encounters, ArtPlay, Melbourne, Australia The Last Supper, Western Plains Cultural Centre, New South Wales, Australia The Last Supper, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery Australia, New South Wales, Australia The Last Supper, Glasshouse, Port Macquarie Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia |
2014 | Un autre rêve, L’abbaye de Maubuisson site d’art contemporain, Val d’Oise, France The Last Suppermarket, Melbourne Art Fair, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nuclear Nations, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia The Last Supper, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
2012 | Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nuclear Nations, Artereal Gallery, Sydney, Australia What the Birds Knew, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia |
2011 | Sense of Taste, GV Art, London, UK Ultrabuddha, Glasshouse, Port Macquarie, Australia Still Life: The Food Bowl, Artereal Gallery, Sydney, Australia Ultrabuddha – that is why I want to be saved, Artereal Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
2010 | Ultrabuddha – that is why I want to be saved, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane, Australia GLOBAL WARMING IS OVER! (If you want it.), Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia |
2009 | Sweet Barrier Reef in Venice, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Sweet Barrier Reef for the 21st Century – Play Strauss' waltz grandly, La Trobe University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia |
2005 | Sweet Barrier Reef, Artspace, Sydney, Australia fumie-butterfly mandala, West Space, Melbourne, Australia Sugar Project-Underwater, Phatspace, Sydney, Australia |
2003 | fumie-tiles, CSIRO Discovery, Canberra, Australia |
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 | Asia Society Triennial, Asia Society, New York, USA |
2019 | Raw: Craft, Commodity, and Capitalism, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles Strand Ephemera 2019, Townsville, Australia Little Boy’s Luminous Legacies (new, clear, atomic, narratives), Lothringer13 Halle, Munich, Germany |
2018 | The Biennale of Australian Art, Eureka Stockade Australia 2018 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize exhibition, Woollahra Council, Sydney, Australia Biennale of Australian Art, Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, Australia An Empire of Things, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Wahroonga, Australia Perpetual Uncertainty – art and radioactivity, Malmö Art Museum in Malmö, Sweden |
2017 | Welcome to the Anthropocene, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Tasmania, Australia Eco-Anxiety, The Japan Foundation Gallery, Sydney, Australia Perpetual Uncertainty, Z23, Hasselt, Belgium Honolulu Biennial, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Countercurrents, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, Australia |
2016 | Perpetual Uncertainty, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden Kenpoku International Art Festival, Ibaraki, Japan Constituent Concreteness, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore |
2015 | Solid State: Casula Powerhouse, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia Camera Atomica, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Scientific Gardening, ERES-Stiftung, Munich, Germany Radioactive: the Return of Godzilla in Japan, RMIT Gallery Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia |
2014 | Hypothèse de l’impact géant, Le Carreau, Cergy, France |
2013 | If the World Changed, Singapore Biennale 2013, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore Sydney Contemporary 13, Installation Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia but mostly air, ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia Not Book, Beit Ha'ir, Tel Aviv, Israel 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia Foundation’s edge: artists and technology, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia Art & Science, GV Art, London, UK |
2012 | Art+Food, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, Australia Keeping Up Appearances, NKV, Wiesbaden, Germany |
2011 | Your Move: Australian Artists Play Chess, Samstag Museum, Adelaide, Australia Imagining the Future, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Arboreal, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia That’s not how you make porridge, Goulburn Regional Gallery, Australia Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra, Sydney, Australia Palimpsest #8, Mildura, Victoria, Australia Art & Science, GV Art, London, UK Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, New South Wales, Australia Precious, Sydney College of the Art, Sydney, Australia 2011 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, GCAG, Australia Underfoot. Overhead, Object Gallery, Sydney, Australia genart_sys, Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney, Australia |
2010 | 2010 Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, GCAG, Australia Your Move: Australian Artists Play Chess, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia Once Removed, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia |
2009 | Satellite APT 6, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane, Australia Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2009, Sydney, Australia |
Awards
2017 | Career Development Grant, Australia Council for the Arts |
2016 | Australia- Japan Foundation Grant |
2015 | Creative Australia New Work Grant Australia Council for the Arts |
2014 | Creative Australia New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts, New South Wales, Australia Asialink Residency Grant, Victoria, Australia |
2013 | Creative Australia New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts, New South Wales, Australia |
2012 | Arts NSW Creation and Presentation Grant, 4A Sydney, Sydney, Australia Creative Australia New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts, New South Wales, Australia NAVA Marketing Grant, New South Wales, Australia |
2011 | Inter-Arts Residency Grant, Australia Council for the Arts, New South Wales, Australia Kone Foundation Residency Grant, Finland |
2010 | ANAT, Synapse Residency Grant, Adelaide, Australia Creative Australia New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts, New South Wales, Australia NAVA Marketing Grant, New South Wales, Australia |
2008 | Creative Australia New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts, New South Wales, Australia |
2005 | NAVA Marketing Grant, New South Wales, Australia |
2003 | Japan Foundation Grant, Sydney, Australia Pat Corrigan Artist Grant, NAVA, New South Wales, Australia ACT Quick Response Grant, Canberra, Australia |
Public Collections
Mainland Art Fund, Victoria, Australia Artist Pension Trust, Brooklyn, New York, USA Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Macquarie Bank Art Collection, Sydney, Australia Art Bank, Sydney, Australia Balnaves Foundation, Sydney, Australia Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Paddington, Australia Australian National University School of Art, Canberra, Australia Rockhampton Art Gallery and Mildura Arts Centre, Brisbane, Australia |
Residencies
2018 | ISCP New York, U.S.A. |
2014 | Asialink Residency, The University of Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan |
2013 | ZK/U Berlin, Germany |
2011 | Inter-Arts Residency, Navegar Foundation, Portugal Kone Foundation Artist Residency, Finland |
2010 | Synapse Art/Science Residency, funded by ANAT in Mildura, Australia |
2005 | Gunnery Studio Residency, Sydney, Australia |