Welcome to
World of the World.

Pierre Bonnard, a leading figure of the 19th century Les Nabis faction, said. Painting is a series of small lies piled on top of each other to create a big truth. For me, painting, sculpture, installation, and other means of expression are an attempt to connect my everyday life with the realm that cannot be visualized. Since I was a child, I have had doubts and fears that everything that happens in this phenomenal world may be a trick or a fiction.These doubts and fears are the starting point of my imagination. My themes of "proliferation and transformation," "joining of boundaries," and "search for connection points" are nothing but the points of contact that connect me to this question-filled world. These are things that exist around me on a daily basis, like a kind of "fluctuation" that exists in the small world that spreads out beneath my feet, in the internal states of my thoughts and mind, and in the society created by human beings. In other words, by choosing slime molds, minerals, drifting objects, natural phenomena, festivals, and rituals as motifs, I am attempting to see the invisible, and through them, to access the "continuous and elusive connections" of this world. All beings in this world are in a constant state of flux, both in form and essence, and cannot retain their identity, even for a moment. I am trying to create my truth by piling up lies to capture this fluid world that flees when I try to grasp it.



Biography

Solo Exhibitions

2024
"Triple Dimensions" EARTH + GALLERY,Tokyo
"Dawn and Dusk" Hilton Tokyo Lobby Floor Chocolate Lounge,Tokyo
"Last and first" nagne,Tokyo
"World of the world-Wataru Yamakami Solo Exhibitions" wamono art,Hong Kong
"TOKYO MAZE "N/KOSMOS" EARTH + GALLERY,Tokyo
2023
"Wataru Yamakami Art Exhibition" EARTH + GALLERY,Tokyo
2022
"World of the World – Gathering wind, to send off into the sky" Nizayama Forest Art Museum,Toyama,Japan
2021
"World of the world - Under constellation 2021" SYP GALLERY, Tokyo,Japan
2020
"World of the world - Under constellation" Studio Kalahan, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2020
"World of the world - The world began without human beings and would end without humanity” Japan foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia
2015
"Biomorphic form and dot to grow" Yokogawa-souen, Hiroshima, Japan
2014
"Drawing Works" nagne,Tokyo, Japan
2013
"NEW WORLD" Masumi-Matsunoma, Nagano, Japan
2011
"Eden" Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2008
"Ushiro no Syomen" 8 Link Studio, Omachi, Nagano, Japan
2001
"Solo Show" CASA DE BARRO, Cusco, Peru

Group Exhibitions

2024
"Re-SHINBISM2 and the Future"Chino City Museum of Art, Nagano
2023
"Hiroshi Koike × Wataru Yamagami TOKYO MAZE"Hilton Tokyo Lobby Floor, Tokyo
2021
“Overview vol.2”SYP Gallery,Tokyo
2020
“Overview vol.1”SYP Gallery,Tokyo
2019
"Group show" Pierre-Yves Caër Gallery,Paris, France
2018
"Shinbism2" Maruyama Banka Memorial Museum,Nagano
2017
"Seeds of Memory" Langgeng Art Foundation,Yogyakarta,Indonesia
2016
"spiritual imagination" LIXIL Gallery,Tokyo, Japan
"The Pathos of Things" KYODO HOUSE,Tokyo, Japan
2014
"THE MIRROR" Nagoya-Syoukoukaikan, Tokyo, Japan
"Riyoo Kim × Wataru Yamakami Exhibitions Magic Real" Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
"MID TOWN Street Museum" TOKYO MID TOWN,Tokyo, Japan
"Roppongi Art Nigth" TOKYO MID TOWN,Tokyo, Japan
"metamorphosis 2014" THE HACHIJUNI CALTURE FOUNDATION, Gallery 82, Nagano, Japan
2013
"TOKYO MID TOWN AWARD 2013" TOKYO MID TOWN ,Tokyo, Japan
2012
"ART SYNCHRONICITY" Creative Hub131,Tokyo, Japan
"NAGANO NEW CONSEPTUS" Shiga Kougen Roman Museum,Nagano, Japan
"DAN T EA2012" \\~ DESIGNTIDE>CHANOYUSIDE \\~, Shinjyuku Isetan,Tokyo, Japan
2011
"metamorphosis" THE HACHIJUNI CALTURE FOUNDATION, Gallery 82, Nagano, Japan
2010
"Globe show2009" 8 Link Studio, Nagano, Japan
"Japanese Inspired" Exhibit" Mendocino Art Center, USA
"Primitive Sense Art Exhibition of Lakeside" Nagano, Japan
2009
"Taro Okamoto Award" Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki
"Group show 2009" 8 Link Studio, Omachi, Nagano, Japan
"Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial "Kamaboko Gallery" Matsudai, Niigata, Japan
2008
"Group show 2008" 8 Link Studio, Omachi, Nagano, Japan
2001
"Two Persons Show" Capilla de san bernardo, Cusco, Peru

Awards

2013
Runner-up Prize and Audience Award, Tokyo Midtown Award, Japan
2009
Special Award, The 12th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, Japan

Grants

2019
Agency for Cultural Affairs(Bunka-cho) One year stay in Indonesia.

Public Collections

Langgeng Art Foundation, Indonesia

Art Fairs

2018
"Art Paris Art Fair" Grand Palais, Paris
2011
"AHAF" Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong
2010
"ULTRA003" Spiral Garden, Tokyo

Workshops

2014
"The story of the magic mask" German Festival,Ichijigahaku,Tokyo
2012
"The Story of Magic Stones" Minamisanriku Irimae Elementary School, Ichijigahaku, Minamisanriku, Miyagi
2011
"The story of the magic wand" Canal Court CODAN, Ichijigahaku, Tokyo

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Profile of Wataru Yamakami
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