Education
| 1996 | MA in Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1994 | BA in Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2021 | Yamaguchi Akira, ZENBI-Kagizen Art Museum, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2019 | Elegance and Immortality - The World of Shura Noh, Yokohama Noh Theater, Kanagawa, Japan |
| 2018 | Resonating Surfaces, Daiwa Foundation Japan House Gallery, London, U.K. Suzushiro (White Radish) Diary, NADiff, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2017 | 倣北斎故事大師圖, Sumida City Office, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2016 | Muromachi Resonance, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan YAMAGUCHI Akira: Matsuyama Shift, The Museum of Art, Ehime Prefecture, Japan Dogo Art: City Strollers in Dogo Onsen, Dogo Onsen and the neighbouring areas, Ehime Prefecture, Japan Umakagami, Equine Museum of Japan, Kanagawa, Japan |
| 2015 | YAMAGUCHI Akira: Kisha to Katana (Steam Train and Sword), Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan YAMAGUCHI Akira: Stepping Back to Seek the Underneath, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan |
| 2013 | YAMAGUCHI AKIRA: An Almost Complete Career Overview - From Early Childhood Drawings to Recent Work, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Japan Yamaguchi Akira, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan Yamaguchi Akira, Sogo Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan |
| 2012 | Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, I am Yamaguchi Akira., Museum “Eki” Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan TOKIORE(I)MIX, Maison Hermes 8F Le Forum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2011 | SINGA-PLANET, Japan Creative Center, Singapore City Strollers, Fukuoka Mitsukoshi Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan |
| 2010 | Tokyo Strollers, Ginza Mitsukoshi Exhibition Hall, Tokyo, Japan Inochimaru, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2008 | Now, Oyamazaki… YAMAGUCHI Akira, Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2007 | This Time, It’s Musha-e!, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Art de Sauro: Aida Makoto / Yamaguchi Akira, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2006 | Lagrange Point, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Lagrange Point, Chukyo University Art Gallery C · Square, Aichi, Japan Kitano House × YAMAGUCHI Akira, Senba Architecture Festival, Osaka, Japan |
| 2005 | The Exhibition of YAMAGUCHI Akira, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Exhibition Hall, Tokyo, Japan Review, Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2004 | Shall we buy?, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan an illustration, A Chrysanthemum Lighthouse, NADiff, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2003 | Akira Yamaguchi Exhibition, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2002 | Records of Japanese-Sino War & Japanese-Russo War, NADiff, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2001 | The joy of painting, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2000 | Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1999 | Shakkei, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1998 | The Tea-ceremony Room with Chair, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2022 | The Power of Setouchi Revealed by the Scenery: Nature, History, and Human Resonance, Kagawa Prefectural Museum Our City-Portrait of Osaka, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Tokaido of ours – Charms of the landscapes with Mt. Fuji, Bernard Buffet Museum, Shizuoka Manga Scroll of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido vs Kyoka Tokaido by Utagawa Hiroshige, Okawa Museum of Art, Gunma Common Ground: UCCA 15th Anniversary Patrons Collection Exhibition, UCCA, Beijing The Byodoin Phoenix Hall and Jodoin Temple- Its Beauty and Faith, The Museum of Art, Ehime, traveled to: Shizuoka City Museum of Art, and The Niigata Prefectural Museum Of Modern Art Allusions to Stories, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi THE DORAEMON OKAYAMA 2022, Okayama Prefectual Museum of Art Special Exhibition for Donation Commemoration to Kiryu City, Yamaguchi Akira Shopping Mall, Okawa Museum of Art, Gunma |
| 2021 | Handsome Men They Are, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, travelled to Iwami Art Museum, Shimane TATEBI REPORT, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi Manga – Reading the Flow,Museum Rietberg, Zurich Kawabata Ryushi + Takahashi Ryutaro Collection: Aida Makoto, Konoike Tomoko, Tenmyouya Hisashi, and Yamaguchi Akira, Ryushi Memorial Museum, Tokyo TOKYO: ART & PHOTOGRAPHY, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, U.K. Orai, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo THE DORAEMON 2021, Sapporo Art Museum, Hokkaido,travelled to Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art , Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art Electrical Line Exhibition -Kobayashi Kiyochika to Yamaguchi Akira-, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo |
| 2020 | Connections: 150 years of Modern Art in Japan and France, Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa Unveiling decorations –Architecture and Rediscover of Nihombashi, Takashimaya Archives TOKYO Reopening Celebration I “ART in LIFE, LIFE and BEAUTY” Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo THE DORAEMON NIIGATA 2020, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum Artists in Kiryu, Okawa Museum of Art, Gunma |
| 2019 | Matsumoto Shunsuke: His Hours of Walking around Towns, Okawa Museum of Art, Gunma Mandalas of Mount Fuji: The World of Beliefs Associated with Mount Fuji as Seen in Pilgrimage Mandalas, Mr. Fuji World Heritage Centre, Shizuoka SHUNPUTEI Ichinosuke × YAMAGUCHI Akira: An Introduction to Fun Rakugo, OKAWARI!, CAPSULE, Tokyo Takahashi Collection, Tsuruoka Art Forum, Yamagata THE DORAEMON OSAKA 2019, Osaka Culturarium at Tempozan Impossible Architecture: Another History of Architecture, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama (cat.), traveled to Niigata City Art Museum, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, and The National Museum of Art, Osaka Technical HOKUSAI, Itochu Aoyama Art Square, Tokyo |
| 2018 | Megane to Tabi Suru Bijutsu-ten, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan, traveled to Iwami Arts Museum, Masuda, Japan, and Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan Architectural Ethnography, Japan Pavilion at Biennale Architettura 2018: 16th International Architecture Exhibition, Giardini, Venice, Italy The Doraemon Exhibition Takaoka 2018, Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama, Japan The Superlative Artistry of Japan, The Japan Cultural institute in Cologne, Germany |
| 2017 | The Riddle of Art: Takahashi Collection: Resonance or Repellence?, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”-Pablo Picasso, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts Japan – Spirits of Nature, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden Equine Museum Excellent Works 150, Equine Museum of Japan, Kanagawa, Japan The Doraemon Exhibition Tokyo 2017, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo Japan-Spirits of Nature, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden A Corridor of Art through the Mountains and Seas, Onomichi City Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan Takahashi Collection: Mindfulness 2017, Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata, Japan The Pandora’s Box: Finding the Wondrous in the Geidai Collection, The University Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan Twenty Year's of the TARO Award/Twenty Enfants Terrible, Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, Tokyo, Japan Takahashi Collection, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan SP-Arte/2017 “Japan House”, Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil 新資料から見る谷崎純一郎−創作ノート、日記を中心にして, The Museum of Modern Japanese Literature, Tokyo, Japan 追悼 水木しげるゲゲゲの人生展, Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2016 | Dispatch//Itabashi// Edo – Contemporary, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Takahashi Collection:Mindfulness!,Kōchi Prefectural Museum of Art,Kō chi, Japan Ryū saku Tsunoda and Donald Keene: From Gunma to the World, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Literature in Commemoration of Bunmei Tsuchiya, Gunma, Japan Extended Remix: Contemporary Artist Meet the Japanese Print, Auckland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.A. Exposing Ikai- The Different World, Visitors in Past and Contemporary Art, Akita Museum of Art, Akita, Japan Takahashi Collection, Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui Prefecture, Japan SHUNPUTEI Ichinosuke × YAMAGUCHI Akira: An Introduction to Fun Rakugo, CAPSULE, Tokyo, Japan The Railway Art Museum, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan Unimaginable by One Mind Alone: Exquisite Corpses from the William Green Collection of Japanese Prints, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA The Collection of the Takamatsu Art Museum - A Concise Guide to Life with Japanese Contemporary Art, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan 「Impacts! 勢み」, Gallery Ohrin, Ibaraki, Japan |
| 2015 | Fujisan: Faith and Arts, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan Hiroshima Trilogy: 70th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing, Part II, A Bird’s-eye View of the World, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Excellent Techniques of Carving and Printing: 250th Birth Anniversary of Multi-Colored Print, Ukiyo-e Ota Memorial Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan A Bird’s Eye View of the World, Borderless Art Museum NO-MA, Shiga, Japan Takahashi Collection: Mirror Neuron, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan The Ohara Museum of Art – Journeys to Masterpieces, Shizuoka City Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan Art of Laughter, Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Japan |
| 2014 | Conversations through the Asian collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Masterpieces from the Ohara Museum of Art, Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan Hiroshige’s “The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido" and Contemporary Artists, Musée Bernard Buffet, Shizuoka, Japan 15th Anniversary Urawa Art Museum Artist Show: image no yukue, Urawa Art Museum, Saitama, Japan Takahashi Collection – Mindfulness!, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan |
| 2013 | Takahashi Collection – Mindfulness!, Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido, Japan Painted Capitals, Cityscapes of Kaifeng, Hangzhou, Kyoto and Edo, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan Ukiyo-e POP – Pop Culture from Edo to Today, Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan Ohara Contemporary, Ohaya Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan Roppongi Hills and Mori Art Museum 10th Anniversary Exhibition, All you need is LOVE: From Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Wonderful My Art – Artists of the Takahashi Collection, Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan From attractive – Meiji of watercolor Mizue to the present age, Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan |
| 2012 | ZIPANGU: The Surge of Japanese Contemporary Art, Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan (traveled to: Takasaki Museum of Art, Gunma; Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Aomori; Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan) Reinventing Tokyo: Japan’s Largest City in the Artistic Imagination, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA Masterpieces from the Ohara Museum of Art, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia (traveled to Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel and Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa, Israel) |
| 2011 | Kobiken – from the Takahashi Collection, TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan Edo Pop: the Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA TARO LOVE, Seibu Shibuya, Meiji Jingu Gaien, Tokyo, Japan CAFE in Mito 2011 - Relationships in Color, The Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan Japan: a tradition of innovation, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Canada ZIPANGU - 31 spirited artists cutting through new territories of Japanese contemporary art, Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo, Japan (traveled to: Takashimaya Osaka, Japan and Takashimaya Kyoto, Japan) The Origin of 20, Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan (traveled to: Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan & 2 other venues) The Most Requested TOP 30 – 10 Years of Takahashi Collection, TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, Japan Society, New York City, New York, USA New Tokaido Landscapes: Yamaguchi Akira and Takezaki Kazuyuki, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan |
| 2010 | TDW-ART Jalapagos, Meiji Jingu Gaien Environmental Design Tent, Tokyo, Japan (traveled to: Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan 2011) Narrative Paintings, Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan ROBOT and ARTS: Visual Images in the 20th Century Japan, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan (traveled to: Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan) 17th Sydney Biennale, The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Sydney, Australia AIDA Makoto + TENMYOUYA Hisashi + YAMAGUCHI Akira, Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, Japan BASARA, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2009 | Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Niigata, Japan Great works of the Ohara Museum - In pursuit of the precious paintings, Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan WAR & ART, Terror and Simulacrum of Beauty, Galerie Aube, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan November Steps – Susan Philipsz & Gallery Artists, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2008 | JAPAN CAR, Cite des sciences et de L’industrie, Paris, France (traveled to: Science Museum, London, UK) neoteny japan - From Takahashi Collection, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan (traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Hokkaido, Japan; Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido, Japan; Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata, Japan; Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan; The Museum of Art Ehime, Ehime, Japan) ORDER RECEIVED, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Off the Rails, Mizuma & One Gallery, Beijing, China Another landscape: from Mori Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2007 | Nihonga Metsubou-ron, C · Square, Chukyo University Art Gallery, Aichi, Japan Heroes in Warrior Paintings, Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Nagano, Japan The Vision of Contemporary Art 2007, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2006 | NIPPON vs FINEART - Striving for Identity in the Context of Western Art, Osaka City Museum of Art, Shinsaibashi Temporary Exhibition Space, Osaka, Japan Art and Object: Affinity of the Jomon and the Contemporary, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan Contemporary Forms - Life & Art: “The Forms of Intoxication", Higashihiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan Kimura Naomichi + Art and Play, Museum of Modern Art Saitama, Saitama, Japan |
| 2005 | Rising Sun, Melting Moon: Contemporary Art from Japan, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Looking for Utopia: Beyond the Imagination, Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan Villa YURINSO Special Open: AIDA Makoto / OZAWA Tsuyoshi / YAMAGUCHI Akira, Ohara Museum of Art, Yurinso, Okayama, Japan The World of Matchbox Labels, Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2004 | Officina Asia, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy 20th Anniversary Exhibition: The Copy Age – From Duchamp through Warhol to Morimura, Museum of Modern Art Shiga, Shiga, Japan Mediarena: Contemporary Art from Japan, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand Living Together is Easy, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan (traveled to: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia) MOT Annual 2004: Where do I come from? Where am I going?, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2003 | TREASURE for TREASURE: A Treasure Exchange Project with Six Artists, Sumida Riverside Hall Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2002 | TANAGOKORO 8, roentgenwerke, Tokyo, Japan Japan in Blekinge, Olofstrom Art Exhibition Hall, Blekinge, Sweden New Edition! Japanese Art - Other Inheritors of Japanese Tradition, Yamanashi Prefectual Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan |
| 2001 | 4th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan S(h)itting in the mirror, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2000 | Five Continents And One City, Museum of Mexico City, Mexico Department Store of Contemporary Art, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan |
| 1999 | A Window, Inside and Outside, Gwangju City Art Museum, Gwangju, South Korea Inoue Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1998 | Inoue Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1997 | KOTATSU-HA, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan WALKING MUSEUM, Shinjuku Takashimaya Times Square, Tokyo, Japan |
Awards
| 2013 | The 12th KOBAYASHI Hideo Award for his book “Hen na Nihon Bijutsushi" |
| 2001 | Runner-up Prize, the 4th Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art |
Museum Collections
Public Collections
| Geriatric Hospital Through the Ages, Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital, Tokyo, Japan Fusuma Painting Dedication to the Yorinansho-in, Byodo-in Temple, Kyoto, Japan Five Dragons, ceiling painting, Seian-ji Temple, Gifu, Japan Subway Diagram, Nishiwaseda Station, Tokyo Metro, Tokyo, Japan "Narita International Airport: View of Flourishing New South Wing” and “Narita International Airport: Various Curious Scenes of Airplanes”, Narita International Airport, Terminal 1 South Wing 4th Floor, Chiba, Japan One Hundred Unusual Scenes of Osaka Trams, Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau, Osaka, Japan Staircase of Amusements, Shizuoka Cancer Centre, Shizuoka, Japan Genetics in Comics, Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan Museum of Modern Art Shiga, Shiga, Japan Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan Equine Museum of Japan, Kanagawa, Japan Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
