MAI YOKOYAMA
Mai Yokoyama is a painter whose practice explores the question of authenticity through the translation of digital images and watercolor studies into oil paintings on canvas. Drawing from ruins, mythological imagery, and natural landscapes encountered during her travels, Yokoyama layers motifs associated with permanence with immaterial digital drawings, creating works that reflect on the instability of memory, visibility, and perception.
1989 Born in Kanagawa, Japan
2018 Ph.D. in Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo/Japan
2015 M.F.A.Print, Tokyo University of the Arts
2013 B.F.A.Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts
[Selected solo exhibition]
2026 "Solar Phantasm" YIRI ARTS/ BACK_Y, Taipei, Taiwan
2025 "Dance Like the Brush" Shunpudo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"The Sun's Shadow" KATSUYA SUSUKI GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2023 "Hidden Mountain" YIRI ARTS, Taipei, Taiwan
"Flat-shaped Soul" Sundries, Tokyo, Japan
2022 "Wind Blows, Sea Sways, Waves Clash" HARMAS GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2019 "[E-CUS project] Daikanyama Underground Food court #02 MAI YOKOYAMA"
2016 "Twilight Zone" Teramachi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"SPARKLE" B-gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"[E-CUS project] cotton #07 MAI YOKOYAMA" cotton, Saitama, Japan
2014 "DAZZLER" B-gallery, Tokyo, Japan
[Recent Selected group exhibitions]
2025 "MITSUKOSHI ART WEEK 2025" Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store, Tokyo, Japan
2024 "Art Squiggle Yokohama 2024" Kanagawa, Japan
"MYNAVI Art collection -visionary-" MYNAVI ART SQUARE, Tokyo, Japan
"MITSUKOSHI ART Selection" Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store, Tokyo, Japan
2023 "Day of drawing" Gallery Blue 3143, Tokyo, Japan
"Syucchou MONO.LOGUES #2" GASBON METABOLISM, Yamanashi, Japan
2022 "conversation" haku kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
"TOKYO NIGHTS vol.4" BLOCKHOUSE Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Women artists in Aomori" Gallery Cradle, Aomori
2021 "UNLOGICAL 02" MONO.LOGUES, Tokyo, Japan
"Appearance of gaze" HARMAS GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
"FACE 2021 Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Award Exhibition" SOMPO Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2020. "FACE Award Selected Artists Exhibition" REIJINSHA GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
"MITSUKOSHI X Tokyo Art University Summer Art Festival 2020" Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store, Tokyo, Japan
"FACE 2020 Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Award Exhibition" SOMPO Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
"AOMORI Remote-Art Festival 2020／Connect・Link・Join" Online
2019 "Shell Art Prize 2019" THE NATIONAL ART CENTER, Tokyo, Japan
2017 "Tokyo University of the Arts Doctoral Program Final Exhibition" Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2016 "FACE 2016 Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Award Exhibition" SOMPO Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
[Art Fair]
2025 "ART TAICHUNG 2025" Millennium Hotel Taichung, Taichung, Taiwan
2024 "Art Fair Asia Fukuoka 2024" Shunpudo Gallery, Fukuoka Convention Center, Fukuoka, Japan
2022 "ART TAIPEI 2022" YIRI ARTS, Taipei world trade center, Taiwan
2021 "DELTA 2021"HARMAS GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
[Artist in residence program]
2023 Ise City Creators Workation, Mie, Japan
2022 Minami-Shimabara Art village Shirakino Residence, Nagasaki, Japan
[Art Project]
2020- "Sign Object Project" Each place
[Awards]
2021 FACE 2021 Jury Special Award Prize "Yabumae Tomoko" at "FACE 2021 Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Award"
2020 FACE 2020 Prize at "FACE 2020 Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Award"
2019 Shell Art Prize 2019 at "Shell Art Prize"
2016 FACE 2016 Prize at "FACE 2016 Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Award"
2013 Graduation Work Purchased by ”Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music”
"Mr.O Memorial Prize" at Graduation Work at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
2012 "Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts Purchase Prize" at The 37th Annual Exhibition of the Association of Japanese Art Colleges
"Ueno Geiyu Prize" at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
[Public Collection]
Minami shimabara city, Nagasaki, Japan
Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Museum, Japan