Yaegashi’s small-scale oil paintings are rooted in precision, with her distinct style of patterning resulting in reductive, layered works. Yaegashi’s compositions are carefully composed, with a focus on graphic lines, veiled strokes of color, and explorations of both symmetry and asymmetry.
Yui Yaegashi (b. 1985, Chiba, Japan) lives and works in Tokyo. Yaegashi received a B.A. from the Tokyo Zokei University’s Department of Painting (2009) and her M.F.A. from Tokyo Zokei University’s Graduate School of Art and Design (2011). Her work has been included in SCHMALTZ at Guimarães, Vienna, Austria; Particularities curated by Chris Sharp at X Museum, Shanghai, China; and in solo exhibitions at Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan; Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL; Queer Thoughts, New York, NY; and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland. In Spring 2020, Yaegashi completed a self-directed residency in New York City supported by the Japanese Government’s Department of Art and Culture.
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Yui Yaegashi
Nichinichi-So 16 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 i8 Galleryi8 Gallery is pleased to announce Nichinichi-So, an exhibition of new paintings by Yui Yaegashi, which will be on view from 16 November until 23 December. This is the artist’s second exhibition at i8 Gallery and opens with a public reception for the artist on 16 November.Read more -
YUI YAEGASHI
24 Oct - 2 Dec 2019 i8 GalleryWhile at a distance Yaegashi’s small, unassuming works display a quiet simplicity, close attention reveals surprisingly complex patterning and layers of detail. Monochrome surfaces are constructions of meticulously woven brushstrokes,...Read more
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Independent Art Fair 2025
Spring Studios, New York 8 - 11 May 2025i8 Gallery is pleased to announce a solo presentation of new paintings by Yui Yaegashi at Independent. Yui Yaegashi’s oil paintings are rooted in detail,...Read more -
Art Collaboration Kyoto 2024
Kyoto International Conference Center 14 - 16 Nov 2024i8 Gallery presents a solo booth of new works by Yui Yaegashi at Art Collaboration Kyoto in collaboration with Misako and Rosen . Yaegashi’s small-scale...Read more -
Frieze London 2023
The Regent's Park 11 - 15 Oct 2023i8 Gallery's presentation for Frieze London 2023 features artists who are key figures within the gallery's history. Two new works by Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967,...Read more -
Market 2023
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden 12 - 14 May 2023i8 Gallery returns to Stockholm for Market Art Fair presenting works by Alicja Kwade, Callum Innes, Ólafur Elíasson, Kristján Guðmundsson, and Yui Yaegashi.Read more
b. 1985 Chiba, Japan
Lives and works in Tokyo
Education
2009
B.A., Tokyo Zokei University, Department of painting
2011
M.F.A., Tokyo Zokei University, Art and design
2020
Overseas study scholarship by the Japanese Government Department of Art and Culture
(New York)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Stance, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo
2023
Nichnichi-So, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík
Nishi, Kita e, Keijiban, Kanazawa
2022
View from here, an Occurrence, LambdaLambdaLambda, Pristhina
Hinaga, La Maison de Rendez-Vous, Brussels
Yui Yaegashi:「purple, black, fog」,parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles
2021
Yui Yaegashi, Queer Thoughts, New York
2019
Yui Yaegashi, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik
2018
Summer through Winter, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo
2017
The Rain is Gone, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
Rainy Season, Southwest, Susaki Machikado Gallery, Kochi
2016
Fixed Point Observation, Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles
2015
Demeanor, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
To and from Home, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
2014
Manner and Preparation, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo
2012
Early Summer and Common Practice, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Constellations, Rater, Warsaw
Warm Invitations, Gattopardo, Los Angeles
..., Laurell Gitlen, New York
Naked Name, Derosia, New York
Bamboo 1947: Then and Now, Gucci Ginza Gallery, Tokyo
2023
ΝΕΟΚΛΑΣΙΚΟ, Rodeo, Piraeus
Cool Invitations 10th Anniversary, XYZ Collective, Tokyo
2022
Black Pages 01-100, Franz-Josefs-Kai 3, Vienna
A Minor Constellation, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles
Cool Invitations 9 Benefit Exhibition, XYZ Collective, Tokyo
2021
Abstraction!, by MISAKO & ROSEN, CADAN Yurakucho, Tokyo
Happy Home curated by Kathryn Brennan, Rachel Uffner, New York
Particularities, X Museum, Beijing
2020
Cool Invitations 7, XYZ collective, Tokyo
New Intimacies, Soda, Tokyo
The Sentimental Organization of the World, Crèvecoeur, Organized with: Naoki Sutter-
Shudo, Paris
Without Stopping, Ratio 3, San Francisco
2019
Here’s why Patterns, Here’s why Patterns, Here’s why Patterns, MISAKO & ROSEN,
Tokyo
Cool Invitations 6, XYZ Collective, Tokyo
2018
SCHMALTZ, Guimarães, Vienna
Cool Invitations 5, XYZ Collective, Tokyo
2017
The Gap Between the Fridge and the Cooker, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Cool Invitations 4, XYZ Collective, Tokyo
2016
Trans/Real - The Possibilities of Immaterial Art vol.3 - Fuminao Suenaga & Yui Yaegashi, Gallery α M, Tokyo
New Intimacies, XYZ Collective, Tokyo
Cool Invitations3, XYZ Collective, Tokyo
Art is Not a Competition-Kaiga no Tabi, Redling Fine Arts, Los Angeles
2015
By the Mountain Path, White Rainbow, London
Contemporary Tales from the Province lll: Susaki Artist in Residence, Susaki Machikado
Gallery, Kochi
Cool Invitations 2, XYZ Collective, Tokyo
2014
The Way of Painting, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
Man & Play Curated by XYZ Collective, Brennan & Griffin, New York
New Intimacies, Hotel Anteroom Kyoto Gallery 9.5, Kyoto
Cool Invitations, XYZ Collective, Tokyo
2013
19516 kilometers from Milwaukee or 12126 miles, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo
Too Young to Be Abstract, Sprout Curation, Tokyo
Group Show, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome
2012
Fuyu No Tabi, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
2010
SSS – Expanded Paintings, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo
2009
Truth – Art in the Poor Age, hiromiyoshii, Tokyo
Selected Bibliography
2024
Yui Yaegashi 2024-2009, Keijiban, Kanazawa, Japan.
2022
Christina Catherine Martinez, "Yui Yaegashi's Paintings Are Unlike Any Other I See in L.A." in Los Angeles Times, January 26.
2017
“Yui Yaegashi’s ‘The Rain is Gone’ at Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago.” Blouin Artinfo, July 2017.
Varadi, Keith J. “Yui Yaegashi at Parrasch Heijnen Gallery,” Contemporary Art Review LA, January 12, 2017.
2016
Pagel, David. “What to see in L.A. galleries: tiny paintings of breathtaking beauty,
photographs of the super-smart.” Los Angeles Times, December 2016.
Pagel, David. “Quiet is the New Loud.” Gallery Magazine, December 2016.
Robinson, Mark. “Crafting Palm Sized Stores - Paintings by Japanese Artist You Yaegashi.” OEN, September 2016.
2015
Schmid, Christina. “Yui Yaegashi.” Artforum, November 2014.
2014
Schaad, Gabrielle. “The Way of Painting.” Artforum, July 2014.
“Yui Yaegashi.” Art: Painter’s Atelier, Issue 002, 2014: pp. 166-167.
“Yui Yaeashi.” The Way of Painting (Tokyo: Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, 2014): pp. 113-117.