Kenji Yanobe

Kyoto City University of Arts, 1989 – Majored in Sculpture
Royal College of Art, England
Graduate School of Kyoto City University of Arts, 1991

2023.  SHIP’S CAT, Hankyu Umeda Gallery and Shukusai Plaza, Osaka, Japan

2021.
/ Sun Sister (Rebirth), The new building of the Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
/ TANKING MACHINE REBIRTH YANOBE Kenji in 1990s, MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan

2019.  Come to Ship’s Cat + kame3 2019 Festival, Takamatsu Marugame-machi Shotengai [Shopping Street], Kagawa, Japan

2016.
/ FUKUSHIMA WORKS, GALLERY OFF GRID, Fukushima, Japan
/ CINEMATIZE, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan

2011. TARO 100 Festival / Kenji Yanobe: Children of the Sun, Children of Taro, Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2010.
/ Mythos, Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyoma, Japan
/ Phantasmagoria, Yurinso, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan

2009.
/ Suito Osaka –Aqua Metropolis Osaka– 2009: Torayan’s Great Adventure, Osaka-City, Osaka, Japan
/ ULTRA, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

2007.  The World of Torayan, Kirishima Open Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan

2005.  KINDERGARTEN, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

2003.  MEGALOMANIA, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

2002.  Time-Travel Double-Cycle Project, ISSEY MIYAKE FÊTE / MDS｜G, Tokyo, Japan

1998.  Luna Project –Last Amusement Park of the World–, Kirin Art Space Harajuku, Tokyo / Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka / Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium, Fukuoka, Japan

1997.  Survival System Train and Other Sculpture, Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, USA

1992.  Paranoia Fortress, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan

1991.  An Eccentric Life of Kenji Yanobe, Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka, Japan

1990.  Tanking Machine, Art Space NIJI, Kyoto, Japan

2024.  Matri 2.0, Art Mumbai, India

2023.  Maitri, India Art Fair, India

2020.
/ KYOTO STEAM, Higashiyama Cube, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Japan
/ Fukushima Biennale 2020 “Sirakawa Art through FUGETSU（SiAtF),” Shirakawa Komine Castle, Fukushima, Japan

2019.
/ Shogusai, Ninai-do, Sai-to, Hieizan Enryakuji, Shiga
/ PARERGON: JAPANESE ART OF THE 1980S AND 1990S, BLUM & POE, Los Angeles, USA

2017.
/ Eriko Horiki and Kenji Yanobe “SHIP’S CAT,” Salle Soufflot, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
/ JAPANORAMA–New Vision on Art Since 1970, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
/ Chouyou–Nihonmatsu Art Festival 2017, Nihonmatsu Castle (Kasumigajō Park) and others, Fukushima, Japan

2016. Fukushima Biennale 2016–indication–, Nihonmatsu Castle(Kasumigajō Park), Fukushima, Japan

2015. Rimpa 400 Year Celebration Festival: PANTHEON, Kyoto Botanical Garden, Kyoto, Japan

2014.
/ O Fire Yanobe Kenji × Maywa Denk × Ishibashi Yoshimasa, Kyoto City Hall Square, Kyoto, Japan
/ Contemporary Art Biennale Fukushima 2014, Kitakata-City, Aizu, Fukushima, Japan
/ Selected Artists in Kyoto The Way of Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015
/ [Special Exhibition], Annex Hall, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

2013.
/ Ohara Contemporary, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
/ Setouchi Triennale 2013, Shodoshima-Cho and others, Kagawa, Japan
/ Aichi triennale 2013: Awakening–Where Are We Standing?–Earth, Memory and Resurrection, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and others, Aichi, Japan

2012.
/ NAMURA ART MEETING, Namura Shipbuilding Site, Osaka, Japan
/ Artists and the Disaster–Documentation in Progress–, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibraki, Japan
/ FUKUSHIMA BIENNALE 2012–SORA–, Fukushima Air Port, Fukushima, Japan
/ First Kyiv Biennale of Contemporary Art, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Ukraine
/ Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia / Haifa Museum of Art, Israel

2010. Munasawagi no Natsuyasumi, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan

2008. Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan, ICP, New York, USA

2005.  Little Boy: The Arts Of Japan’s Exploding Subculture, Japan Society, New York, USA

2004.  Roppongi Crossing, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2002-2003.  EXPOSE 2002 far beyond dreams, Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka / Yokohama Akarenga Redbrick Warehouses, Kangawa, Japan

2000.  Gift of Hope, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

1999.  Ground Zero Japan, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan

1998.  Donai Yanen ! Et maintenant ! La création contemporaine au Japon, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

1996.
/ Traffic, CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France
/ Art Embodied, MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseille, France

1995.  Japan Today, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, and others（-1997)

1994.  Platons Höhle, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen, Germany

1993.  2nd Kitakyusyu Biennale–Aspect of Time, Kitakyusyu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan

2022. The 57th Osaka City Citizen’s Commendation, Japan

2017. The 29th Kyoto Fine Arts Cultural Award, Japan

2012. The Kyoto Prefecture Culture Prize and Distinguished Services Prize, Japan

2011. The 21st Takashimaya Cultural Awards, Japan

2009. Osaka Cultural Prize, Japan

2006. The 21st Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture in Japan, Ube Industries, LTD. Prize, Japan

1999. Sakuya Kono Hana Prize, Japan

1993. The Gotoh Memorial Cultural Award, Young Artist Prize.

1990. Kirin Plaza Osaka Contemporary Art Award, Grand Prix.