Yuki Okumura
1978 Born in Aomori, Japan

Education
2012 Doctor of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
2004 Master of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Tama Art University, Tokyo (exchange study at Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, 2000)

Solo exhibitions
2024 Aftermath of Hands-on Sessions on Various Nonactive Postures to Keep Oneself Somehow Carried Away, gallery αM, Tokyo (curated by Takuma Ishikawa)
------- 136 Locations – 956 Intersections, 20 Albert Road, Glasgow (organized by Cento)
2023 Lunar Practices 2023 #3 Yuki Okumura, B09K, Changsha
2022 Yuki Okumura, as part of On Kawara, Saint-Martin Bookshop, Brussels (co-organized by mfc-michèle didier)
2019 The Man Who, An Ephemeral Archive, Keio University Art Center, Tokyo (curated by Hitoshi Kubo and Yohko Watanabe)
------- Na³, Jointed Tree Gallery, Tokyo (curated by Masaya Chiba)
------- 29,771 days – 2,094,943 steps, LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, Brussels / ART-O-RAMA, Marseille (both presented by MISAKO & ROSEN)
2018 Na(me/am), Convent, Ghent
2017 Welcome Back, Gordon Matta-Clark, statements, Tokyo
------- Yuki Okumura, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo
2016 Hisachika Takahashi by Yuki Okumura, Maison Hermes Le Forum, Tokyo (curated by Reiko Setsuda)
------- Na, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery, Kyoto (curated by Hirokazu Tokuyama)
2015 Measuring Roman Ondak, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo
2013 Across Our Horizons, HEDAH, Maastricht
------- Jun Yang: A Short Lecture on Forgetting and Remembering, Vita Kuben, Norrlandsoperan, Umea (curated by Leif Holmstrand)
2012 Zenbei's Eyeballs (Telescope ver.), Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi (APMoA Project ARCH vol.4) (curated by Kazuho Soeda)
------- Noriko Kobayashi: Interpreter's Notes, Foyer Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (curated by Mihioko Nishikawa)
------- Synchronized Sneezing - Basel, dock, Basel ("dock:surprise" series)
------- Anatomie-Fiktion, Anatomy Museum of the University of Basel, Basel
2011 Jun Yang: A Short Lecture on Forgetting and Remembering, Artspace 1, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
         in the framework of Tokyo University of the Arts Doctoral Program Final Exhibition 2011
------- Turning a chimney into a periscope, project room sasao, Akita
2010 Anatomy Fiction - rakugo version, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo
------- Fantastinen matka / Fantastic voyage, Gallery Augusta, Suomenlinna, Helsinki
------- Yuki Okumura with kids: Fictional Anatomy [aomori ver.], Aomori Contemporary Art Centre Gallery B, Aomori (curated by Hiroyuki Hattori)
2008 I Me Mine, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo
2007 Half The World Away, Process Room, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
------- Pop, Gallery Soap, Kitakyushu (presented by in-between)
2006 Can't Get You Out Of My Head, Chelsmore Annex #18, New York
------- Loophole, studio J, Osaka
2005 Transfer, Hiromi Yoshii Five, Tokyo
2000 Pubic Ping Pong Project, Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane
------- Pieces, QCA Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane

Dual exhibitions
2019 Hisachika Takahashi and Yuki Okumura, June, Basel (presented by MISAKO & ROSEN)
2018 Beatrice Balcou x Yuki Okumura: Double Suicide at kumagusuku, KYOTO ART HOSTEL kumagusuku, Kyoto
2016 Hisachika Takahashi by Yuki Okumura, Ginza Maison Hermes Le Forum, Tokyo (curated by Reiko Setsuda)
2015 Hisachika Takahashi Annotated by Yuki Okumura: Memory of Past and Future Memory, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
------- Yuki Okumura - Monika Stricker, Japanisches Kulturinstitut Koln, Cologne
2014 Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver & Yuki Okumura: Shi, Etablissement d'en face projects, Brussels
2012 Iram Ghufran & Yuki Okumura: We are, we are..., The Guild, Mumbai
2009 Secret Life: Yuki Okumura / Chiang Chung-lun, Galerie Grand Siecle, Taipei
------- Inside Outline: Yuki Okumura / Motohiro Tomii, Kabegiwa, Tokyo (curated by Takashi Ishizaki)
2007 Yuki Okumura / Will Rogan: everyday, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo
------- Yuki Okumura / Wang Ya-hui: On And On And On, Laboratoire Village Nomade, La Corbiere

Collective exhibitions
2024 u - New Project Spaces, Kunsthalle Zürich Backrooms, Zurich (curated by Otto Bonnen)
------- We Stand So Many Ghosts of Unknown Chances, gallery αM, Tokyo
------- An Account of The Luck and Misfortunes of ______, Etablissement d'en face, Brussels (organized by Provence)
------- Lunar Practices, Bananafish, Shanghai
2023 A Snowball's Chance in Heaven, Global Seminar Studio (U21), Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto
------- November, 2-12-4 Higashiazabu, Minatoku, Tokyo (curators: Carla Donauer with Martin Germann) *Taking part as a member of N.E. One &c.
------- Janelas, BPS22, Charleroi (curated by Marc Buchy & Tiago de Abreu Pinto), in the framework of 'Merci Facteur! Mail Art #6'
------- CLOUD & TOE, KNULP, Sydney (curated by Jesse Hogan)
------- Last Terminal: Reflections on The Coming Apocalypse, Volume II, Part 1: The Tail’s End, Rib, Rotterdam (curated by Maziar Afrassiabi)
2022 Last Terminal: Reflections on The Coming Apocalypse, Part 6: The Siphon, Rib, Rotterdam (curated by Maziar Afrassiabi)
------- Big Sales Show, Etablissement d'en face, Brussels
------- Janelas, Bibliothèque Jean Laude, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain - Saint-Étienne Métropole (curated by Marc Buchy & Tiago de Abreu Pinto)
------- Aichi Triennale 2022: Still Alive, Aichi Arts Center, Aichi (directed by Mami Kataoka, co-curated by Fumiko Nakamura)
------- Etablissement d'en face presents a sales show, June Art Fair Basel, June Art Fair, Basel
------- Accumulations, Aoyama | Meguro, Tokyo (curated by Jesse Hogan)
------- Platform for Shared Praxis, Caves, Melbourne (curated by Jesse Hogan)
2021 Jahresgaben 2021, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (curated by Fatima Hellberg and Alan Longino)
------- Phantom / Phantasmagoria, Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo
------- July, August, September - Summer Show 2021, Apernstraße Nr. 13, Cologne, Germany (organized by hospitality in collaboration with Martin Germann)
------- 11 Stories on Distanced Relationships: Contemporary Art From Japan, online, The Japan Foundation (curated by Eriko Kimura, Kenichi Kondo,
         Tomohiro Masuda, Shino Nomura)
2020 Jun Yang The Artist, His Collaborators, Their Exhibition, and Three Venues, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
         (curated by Barbara Steiner and Jun Yang)
------- DOMANI plus Online 2020: Living on the Eve, online, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan (curated by Yoko Hayashi)
------- The Drawing Lesson, Museu Moli Paperer de Capellades (curated by Erich Weiss)
------- 003278079060, voice mail system, Belgium (curated by neigher & Marc Buchy)
2019 Pleased to meet you. New Acquisitions in recent years, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
------- Un Bon Début, Galerie artsaucarre, Mons (curated by Christophe Veys)
------- Food Show 3, 3A Gallery, New York
------- beyond the reasons, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo (organized by KAYOKOYUKI)
------- Jun Yang: The Artist, the Work and the Exhibition, Kunsthaus Graz (curated by Barbara Steiner and Jun Yang)
------- Bijutsu Joron, Community Center Fujieda Shimin Kaikan, Shizuoka (organized by Miki Mochizuka)
------- Miru, Art Kageyama, Shizuoka (organized by Miki Mochizuka)
------- Ja, Nine, Booth 24, Art Rotterdam 2019 (presented by Mieke van Schaijk)
------- Tre metri per quattro (1673996652 pi), various locations in Venice (curated by Pietro Consolandi & Emilia Curatola)
2018 Viva Villa, Villa Mediterranee, Marseille (curated by Cecile Debray & Federico Nicolao)
------- rampe No.I, rampe, Berlin
------- State of Statelessness, L'iselp, Brussels (Curated by Alicja Melzacka, Hilde Borgermans, Maxime Gourdon, Romuald Demidenko)
------- Re: Romantic Conceptualism: When you were here before, Couldn't look you in the eye., New South Greenland Biennale (curated by Hikotaro Kanehira)
------- HARSH ASTRAL - The Radiants 2, Green Tea Gallery at Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich / Halle fur Kunst, Luneburg
         (curated by Henning Bohl, Stefanie Kleefeld, and UNITED BROTHERS)
------- The Knowledge and Beliefs of the World, Komagome Soko, Tokyo (directed by Tsuyoshi Ueda)
2017 Constellations, Exhibition Laboratory, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki (curated by Fergus Feehily)
------- Il Nuovo III, Etablissement d'en face projects, Brussels
------- Wrapped/Unwrapped, Zoo Galerie, Nantes (curated by Patrice Joly)
------- Oomingmak, Capital, San Francisco (curated by Jeffrey and Misako Rosen)
2016 Leaves Without Routes, Nanmoncho 323, Taipei Botanical Garden, Taipei (curated by Nahoko Mabon and Yasunori Kawamatsu)
------- Cool Invitations 3, XYZ Collective, Tokyo (curated by Jeffrey and Misako Rosen)
------- Group Chofu 2016, Gallery Mirume, Tokyo
2015 Un-Scene III, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (curated by Devrim Bayer and Zoe Gray)
------- Apartment Chofu, Tokong Dalam Besar Utara, Tokyo
------- The Vision of Contemporary Art 2015, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
------- RECALL #2/re-curate: VOCALIZE, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo (curated by Hajime Nariai)
------- Villa Toronto, Union Station, Toronto (presented by MISAKO & ROSEN)
2014 Translation Theme Park, Galleri 21, Malmo / Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala (2015) (curated by Leif Holmstrand)
2013 Roppongi Crossing 2013: OUT OF DOUBT, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (curated by Mami Kataoka, Ruben Keehan, and Gabriel Ritter)
------- Antigravity, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi (curated by Yoko Nose)
------- MONIKA STRICKER, CAB, Brussels
------- Identities in the World, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
------- Transmissions, AIRPLANE, Brooklyn (curated by Kevin Curran & Linda Dennis)
------- From Japonism to Zen: Paul Klee and the Far East, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern (curated by Osamu Okuda)
------- Sounan, Chateau 2F, Tokyo
2012 MOT Annual 2012: Making Situations, Editing Landscapes, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (curated by Mihoko Nishikawa)
------- RECALL #1/re-curate: Making Homelesses, Editing Sequences, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (curated by Satoshi Hashimoto & Hajime Nariai)
------- Dance on a Thin Line, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu (The Daegu Photo Biennale 2012) (curated by Fumihiko Sumitomo)
------- PARADE: Invisibles in Japanese Media Arts from "Night Parade of one hundred Demons" to "IS Parade",
          ArtisTree, Hong Kong (curated by Mami Kataoka)
------- HIRATA ARAKAWA OKUMURA TANAKA, Raster, Warsaw
------- Iram Ghufran / Miatta Kawinzi / Sylvie Laplante / Yuki Okumura, iaab Projectraum "Basement," Basel
------- The Swiss Experience, Forum Schloss Platz, Aarau
------- Fuyu no Tabi, Shane Campbell Gallery (Lincoln Park), Chicago (curated by Jeffrey Ian Rosen)
------- The Vision of Contemporary Art 2012, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
------- Memento Chofu, Tokong Dalam Besar, Tokyo
------- Daikanyama Art Street, Hillside Forum, Tokyo
2011 Invisibleness is Visibleness: International Contemporary Art Collection of a Salaryman - Daisuke Miyatsu, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei
------- It is not an art center, HAPPA, Tokyo
2010 Ties Over Time: Japanese Artists and America, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Tokyo (advised by Roger McDonald)
------- Robots and the Arts: Visual Images in the 20th Century Japan, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori / Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka /
           Iwami Art Museum, Shimane (curated by Takeshi Kudo)
------- Morning Glory, Former Sakamoto Elementary School, Tokyo
------- for against disaster, Move Machiya Mini Gallery, Tokyo
2009 Love Love Show, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori (curated by Takeshi Kudo)
------- Non-Everyday: Hidden Force Fields, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei (curated by Wang Pin-hua)
------- Touch the World, Borderless Art Museum NO-MA, Shiga (curated by Kenjiro Hosaka)
------- Stripe, Dots, and Skulls in Assorted Shapes, Colors and Sizes, Soka Art Center, Tainan (presented by MSIAKO & ROSEN)
------- "Now that I'm by myself", she says, "I'm not by myself, which is good", DiverseWorks, Houston (curated by Rachel Cook)
------- Japan Video Window, Duplex Gallery, Sarajevo
------- Geba-Geba Summer Show - Geba-Geba 4 Weeks, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo
------- Goodbye Ino Clinic Open House, Ino Clinic, Tokyo
2008 Busan Biennale 2008 - Sea Art Festival: Voyage without Boundaries, MeWorld, Busan (curated by Seung-bo Jun)
------- Eye of the City, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (curated by Jo Hsiao)
------- End of the Tunnel, (marunouchi)HOUSE, Tokyo (presented by MISAKO & ROSEN)
2007 Peach Flower, Apricot Flower, Sungsan Art Hall, Changwon (curated by Seung-bo Jun)
------- Recent Works, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo
------- Loop, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei
2006 Everyday Life is a Microcosm, Cornel University Department of Art's Experimental Studio, Ithaca, New York (curated by Yasufumi Nakamori)
------- Peekskill Project 2006, Peekskill Coffee House, New York (curated by Alison Beth Levy)
------- IRP Exhibition Summer 2006, Location One, New York
------- Trans-boundary Experiences: Contemporary Art from China, Korea and Japan, Spool MFG, Binghamton, upstate New York (curated by Fumio Iwamoto)
2005 The World is Mine, Hiromi Yoshii Five, Tokyo (self-curated)
2004 Episode: 2nd Asia Art Now, Cheong-ju Art Center Gallery, Cheong-ju (curated by Seung-bo Jun)
------- Time of My Life: Art with Youthful Spirit, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo (curated by Motoaki Hori)
2003 Tokyo - Munchen, Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Munchen, Munich
------- The 7th Gunma Biennale for Young Artists, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
------- PresentA '03: where, you, Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo
2002 Emotional Site, Sagacho Syokuryo Building, Tokyo
------- Projecting the Body: the opaque interface, Fukugan Gallery, Osaka (curated by Kenji Ueda)
2001 The First Steps: Emerging Artists from Japan, Grey Art Gallery, New York
------- New York: Philip Morris Art Award 24 Winners from 1996 to 2000, Fuji-TV Forum, Tokyo/Umeda Stella Hall, Osaka
2000 Philip Morris Art Award 2000, Ebisu Garden Hall, Tokyo
------- Model Washing Machiene, Tama Art University Painting Department Entrance Space, Tokyo
------- Continue Art Project, former Shobu Elementary School, Niigata
1999 Rainbow, Tokyo Zokei University studio, Tokyo

Film streamings
2020 Daata Fair, Daata (presented by MISAKO & ROSEN)
------- Immaterial Salon, Art-o-rama (presented by MISAKO & ROSEN)
------- Body Contract (Exceptional Case) by Yuki Okumura with Shuzo Azochi Gulliver, Collaborative Cataloguing Japan (coordinated by Ann Adachi-Tasch)
------- Repetition into the Future, vimeo on demand
------- WIELS À LA MAISON: Simnikiwe Buhlungu & Yuki Okumura, email newsletter by WIELS (curated by Devirm Bayer)
------- On Kawara’s Pure Consciousness, or Many Worlds (and) Interpretation at the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo on August 28, 2012, vimeo portfolio
2016 alt-space-escape, on its dedicated website (curated by Makiko Takahashi; permanent)
2015 On Kawara is Still Alive: An Interview with Pall Thayer, on its dedicated vimeo page (permanent)
2006 Transfer, PARK4DTV
------- Theory of Everything, Tank.tv (self-curated)
------- Theory of Everything, on its dedicated website (self-curated; permanent)

Film screenings
2022 Bon retour, Gordon Matta-Clark, Collection Lambert, Avignon (organized by SensoProjekt)
------- The Man Who, Artspace A, Aichi Arts Center, Aichi (organized by Kazushi Kuroda, in the context of the exhibition
         Minimal/Conceptual: Dorothee and Konrad Fischer and the Art Scenes in 1960s and 1970s)
2021 Jun Yang: A Short Lecture on Forgetting and Remembering, Lecture Room I, Tokyo University of the Arts
------- Brussels Art Film Festival 2021, ISELP, Brussels
2020 Listening: Resonant Worlds, Maebashi Cinema House (curated by Fumihiko Sumitomo)
------- Work Life Balance: Michael Bodenmann und Barbara Signer, Nextex, St. Gallen
2019 One Day screening / twilight: Kenji Ide, Yuki Okumura, Noriko Kawana, TANA Studio, Tokyo (curated by Kenji Ide)
------- Yuki Okumura: Double Acts, Bozar Studio, Brussels (organized by Etablissement d’en face)
------- Yuki Okumura: The Man Who (Test Screening), kumagusuku, Kyoto
------- Projections, Art Rotterdam 2019 (curated by Martha Kirszenbaum; presented by Mieke van Schaijk)
2018  Untitled, A Room With A View, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (curated by Kenjin Miwa)
------- Bon Voyage, Gordon Matta-Clark, @KCUA, Kyoto (an event related to Yuichiro Tamura: Hell Scream)
------- For no one knows himself, if he is only himself, Khartoum Contemporary Art Center, Oslo
          (in the framework of Åpent Forum, coordinated by Pietro Consolandi)
2017 Welcome Back, Gordon Matta-Clark, statements, Tokyo; M HKA, Antwerp (coordinated by Liliane Dewachter, moderated by Antony Hudek);
         Cirque, KASK, Ghent (moderated by Antony Hudek); Hole, Sendai (coordinated by Ayako Osanai, 2018)
         WIELS 10th Anniversary & Kunstenfestivaldesarts Closing Party, WIELS, Brussels
2015 Bitte nicht wecken: 9 1/2 uur omtrent het laatste werk, LLS 387, Antwerp (curated by Suchan Kinoshita, Ulrike Lindmayr, and Gert Verhoeven)
2014 Projections, Art Rotterdam 2014, Rotterdam (presented by MISAKO & ROSEN)
2013 Vision 2013 (Art Line Kashiwa 2013), Amuse Kashiwa, Chiba (an Artists' Guild program)
2012 Great Poor Farm Experiment IV video program, Poor Farm, Wisconsin (curated by Aaron Van Dyke)
------- Better Life for Artists, HIGURE 17-15 CAS, Tokyo (organized by Artists' Guild)
------- Another World, Mori Art Museum and other venues, Tokyo (curated by Natsuim Araki as part of Roppongi Art Night 2012)
------- Hiroshi Sunairi and Yuki Okumura, New York University, New York
------- Jun Yang: A Short Lecture on Forgetting and Remembering, gsgp Joshibi University of Art and Design Art-Center Prep-Room, Kanagawa /
          Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Aichi / Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo / Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2011 Super 8, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica / Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2012) / Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2012) /
          Museum of Modern Art Rio de Janeiro (2013) (selected by Takehito Koganezawa)
------- G-Tokyo x New Tokyo Contemporaries Salon 2011, Roppongi Hills Cafe, Tokyo
2010 NADA Artist Ball, The Big Screen Project, New York
------- Videozoom Japan: Re-framing the Everyday, Sala1, Rome / Museo Pino Pascali, Bari (2011) (curated by Kenichi Kondo)
------- Many people ask me, "Don't you miss Japan when you live abroad?", LIA, Leipzig / Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin /
          Kunstverein Gottingen, Gottingen (2011) (curated by Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi)
------- New Tokyo Contemporaries 3, Nikkei SPACE NIO, Tokyo
------- Shop If You Can, Look If You Want - Art Trail (St. Patrick's Festival 2010), Meeting House Square (outdoor screen), Dublin (curated by Jonathan Carroll)
2009 Re:Membering - The Next of Japan, Alternative Art Space Loop / Doosan Art Center, Seoul (curated by Fumihiko Sumitomo)
2008 Rencontres Internationales 2008: Communities, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
------- Theory Of Everything (shortened version), Contemporary Art Screen Zuidas, Amsterdam (self-curated)
------- IASmedia Screening 2008, Insa Art Space, Seoul
2007 MAM SCREEN, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo (curated by Kenichi Kondo)
------- Rencontres Internationales 2007: Clause Sociale, Cinema lEntrepot, Paris
------- Compendium, LUX, London/H-I-T, Gothenburg (presented by MIACA)
------- Istanbul International Film Festival, Istanbul (presented by MIACA)
------- Dongfang: The Cinema of the Far East, Castel SantElmo, Naples
------- Saison Video 2007: Transmutations, Musee des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle de Calais, Calais, France
2006 Indblik, Herning Art Museum, Herning / Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikkoden (2007)
------- Nomad Theatre vol.1: Another World, Uplink Factory, Tokyo (curated by Makoto Hashimoto)
------- Cinema Scope, Scope Hamptons 2006, East Hampton Studios, NY
------- Sonar 2006, Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, Barcelona (presented by tank.tv)
------- Theory of Everything, Workstation Arts Center, Beijing Traveling to: Location One, New York / Einstein Auditorium, New York University, New York /
          Tainan National University of the Arts, Tainan (2007) / Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2007) /
          Gallery F, Scarritt Bennett Center, Nashville (2011) (self-curated)
2005 Picture in Motion De Luxe, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi (curated by Kazuhiro Yamamoto)

Curatorial projects
2013 Hisachika Takahashi, Project Room, WIELS, Brussels / Exhibition Research Centre, Liverpool (co-curated with Antony Hudek) /
------- Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam (presented by MISAKO & ROSEN) (2014)
2009 I Found Myself an Innovator, flickerlunge, DiverseWorks, Houston (co-curated with Rachel Cook)
2006 Theory of Everything, Workstation Arts Center, Beijing, and other venues
2004-2005 The World is Mine, Hiromi Yoshii Five, Tokyo

Performances
2024 A Drawing for WIELS, WIELS, Brussels (in the context of Summer Party)
------- Indiscipline 2024, Grand Casino Knokke, Knokke-Heist (curated by Pauline Hatzigeorgiou) *Unscheduled, spontaneous participation
2021 Landslide to be lived off and/or tongues to be deadpan, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo
2020 Yuki Okumura, Rue du Chapeau 10, Brussels (managed by Gevaert Editions)
------- How many sneezes occur in perfect synch everyday at different locations on the earth? (Romanian version), White Cuib, Cluj
         (with a special drawing by Dan Perjovschi)
------- Inventory (initiated by Darren Bader)
------- Time at Home for Artists no. 68: Yuki Okumura, various SNS channels of NADiff a/p/a/r/t
------- Paintings from Dark to Light: Finding Yourself as Dusts, LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, Brussels, in the context of
         Fergus Feehily: Early Lonesome, in the framework of Brussels Gallery Walks
2019 On Kawara’s Pure Consciousness, or Many Worlds (and) Interpretation — And Then, Silence Arrives, FFT Dusseldorf, in the framework of
         Nippon Performance Nights Vol. 6, as part of Nacht der Museen 2019 (curated by Akiko Okamoto)
2016 The Absence of Work, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (curated by Julia Mullie and Nick Terra)
------- Produce III: The Game Settled Into a Cagey Midfield Match, Istanbul (curated by Zeynep Oz)
------- Luser Story, in the framework of Making Use, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (presented by brud)
2012 14 Evenings, The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Tokyo (curated by Kenjin Miwa)
2009– Lei Yamabe
2007 Snow in June, Taipei Artist Village Bamboo Room, Taipei (collaboration with Liu Shu-chuan)
2006 Collect Saliva from the Audience and Fry It with a Pan in Front of Them, Spool MFG, Binghamton (curated by Fumio Iwamoto)
------- Collect Saliva from the Audience and Fry It with a Pan in Front of Them (Tokyo), Uchida Bldg Complex, Tokyo (curated by Hidenori Kondo)
2005 Contemporary Art Guitar Samurai, Traumaris, Tokyo
2004 Full of Memories, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo

Workshops
2024 Conceptual/Performative: Hands-on Sessions on Various Nonactive Postures to Keep Oneself Somehow Carried Away,
          online and onsite workshop for students of Musashino Art University, Tokyo
2023 Conceptual<->Performative: Active, Passive, and Various Other States, Global Seminar, Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto
2022 Human Life as the Site and Duration of a (Conceptual) Performance, Project Week, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp
2020 KIDS À LA MAISON: Anatomy Fiction, email newsletter by WIELS (coordinated by Laure Goemans)
2019 Anatomy Fiction, l’école communale des Arquebusiers, Mons (conducted by Christoph Veys and others)
------- Anatomy Fiction, Fujioka Kindergarten, Shizuoka (conducted by Miki Mochizuka and the kindergarten’s faculty members)
2018 Anatomy Fiction, in the framework of Traffic, San Lorenzo in Campo (conducted by Pietro Consolandi and Giacomo Gerboni)
2016 Anatomy Fiction, Media Seven, Kawaguchi (conducted by Fuyuno Higuma)
2014 Canned Multiverse, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba
------- Anatomy Fiction, Chisenhale Gallery, London
2013 Anatomy Fiction, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, 2013, as part of MUSEUM OFF MUSEUM (invited by Ozlem Altin)
------- Anatomy Fiction, BSO Colorito Jungle/Basisschool Wyck, Maastricht
------- Canned Multiverse, HEDAH, Maastricht
------- Anatomy Fiction, Zeughaus Teufen, Teufen, as part of Bim Grill project
------- Anatomy Fiction, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels
------- Anatomy Fiction, Creaviva, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
2012 Canned Multiverse, blanclass, Yokohama
------- Anatomy Fiction, Art Lab Aichi, Aichi
------- Anatomy Fiction, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa
------- Anatomy Fiction, Motokaga Elementary School, Tokyo
------- Anatomy Fiction, Swiss International School, Basel
------- Anatomy Fiction, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima (conducted by Juri Yamashita)
2011 Fix Your Target and Change Your Approach, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
------- Anatomy Fiction, Atelier Teru Teru, Tokyo
------- Anatomy Fiction, Setagaya Art Museum Miyamoto Saburo Memorial, Tokyo
------- Anatomy Fiction, in the framework of Ongoing School, Ocean Route, Tokyo
------- Anatomy Fiction, GREEN, Akita
2010 Anatomy Fiction - version Suomenlinna, Helsinki, the kindergarten of Suomenlinna, Helsinki
------- Fix Your Target and Change Your Approach, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
------- Fictional Anatomy [aomori ver.], Aomori Contemporary Art Centre Gallery B / Space Laboratory, Aomori
2009 Fix Your Target and Change Your Approach, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
2008 Fictional Anatomy: Imagine Your Inner Body and Draw It Colorfully, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo

Residency programs
2022 Series Kogen vol. 1: Yuki Okumura, Nagoya University of the Arts, Nagoya
2018 Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto (with Beatrice Balcou)
2015 Isourou Residency Program, Vienna
2013 WIELS, Brussels
2012 iaab, Basel
2010 HIAP, Helsinki
------- Mustarinda, Hyrynsalmi
2007 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
------- Laboratoire Village Nomade, La Corbiere
------- Tapei Artist Village, Taipei
------- Level-1, Kitakyushu
2006 Location One, New York

Grants and scholarships
2018 Japan Arts Foundation 25th Anniversary Grant
2014 Pola Art Foundation
2013 Overseas Study Program for Artists, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japanese Government
2012 Tokyo Wonder Site Exchange Program: Tokyo-Basel
2010 EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee / Asahi Shimbun Foundation
2009 Japan Arts Foundation scholarship
2007 EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee / Nomura Foundation
2006 Japan-U.S. Arts Program, Asian Cultural Council
2002 Yamada Scholarship Foundation

Awards
2018 The Pots of Etablissement 2018
2000 Grand Prix, Philip Morris Art Award 2000

Artist books
2017 YUKI OKUMURA, para/log 001, edition.nord, Niigata
2015 Why Not Present a Makoto Aida Painting in the VOCA Exhibition?, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo
2012 Noriko Kobayashi: Interpreter's Notes, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo

Book fairs
2020 Moveable Types, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
2019 WIELS Art Book Fair 2019, WIELS, Brussels (participating as MISAKO & ROSEN & YUKIS)
2017 Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989-2017, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
------- Antwerp Academy Art Book Fair, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (presented by Malenki)
------- WIELS Art Book Fair 2017, WIELS, Brussels (participating as Yuki Okumura / edition.nord)

Teaching and jury positions
2023  Guest lecturer, Global Seminar, Kyoto University of the Arts
2020  External jury, Academic Master Degree of Fine Arts, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels
2018  Program-specific senior lecturer, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo (for a joint project with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
2016  Program-specific senior lecturer, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo (for a joint project with Zurich University of the Arts)
2009--2011  Associate lecturer, Department of Painting, Collage of Art, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
2008--2010  Associate lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, Collage of Arts, Tamagawa University, Tokyo

Lectures
2024 Development and Redevelopment of My Practice Thus Far and Introduction to My Workshop This Time, Musashino Art University, Tokyo [online]
2023 Global Art Talk 043: Yuki Okumura, A Long and Winding Road (Abridged), Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto
2022 Memory of Trajectory of Mediacy of Particularity of Body of Agent: A to Z Reminiscence of 7,502,733, with Fumiko Nakamura,
         in the context of Aichi Triennale 2022: Still Alive [online]
------- Series Heigen vol. 18: Yuki Okumura ‘Organic/Body’, Nagoya University of the Arts, Nagoya
------- Minimal Sensibility – Serial Attitude – Conceptual Method: New Art from 1965 to 1969, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art (organized by Kazushi Kuroda,
         in the context of the exhibition Minimal/Conceptual: Dorothee and Konrad Fischer and the Art Scenes in 1960s and 1970s) [online]
------- Human Life as the Site and Duration of a (Conceptual) Performance, Project Week, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp
2021 Trajectory of Projects on Subjectivity, Tokyo University of the Arts [online]
------- Dissection / Digestion of Conceptual Art, Tokyo University of the Arts [online]
------- Between Action and Intuition: Conceptual Art through the Philosophy of Kitaro Nishida, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp
------- From Perceptual to Conceptual and then Contemporary: Between Ontogenesis and Phylogenesis, Think School 2021, Sapporo [online]
------- Yuki Okumura at King’s Garden, King’s Garden, Copenhagen (organized by Philip Pilekjær)
------- Corporeality of Conceptual Art, CS-LAB, Tokyo Zokei University [online]
2020 In Search of the Conceptual, of the Personal (Outline), Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto [online]
------- Procedures of Conceptual Art: After A Laborious Erasure, Musashino Art University, Tokyo [online]
------- Formulations of Conceptual Art: If The Artist Says So, Musashino Art University, Tokyo [online]
------- Eventualities of Conceptual Art: Open Short Circuits, Musashino Art University, Tokyo [online]
------- From Concept to Conception: A Reconfiguration of Conceptual Art, Art Research Online (organized by Hitoshi Takeuchi) [online]
2019 I Am He As You Are He As You Are Me and We Are All Together: Shuffled Subjectivities In and Out of the Frame, Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam
2018 Convent Talks: Yuki Okumura, Convent, Ghent
2017 Paintings from Dark to Light: An Exhibition That Time-travels and Bifurcates, in the framework of Conversations in Light and Dark,
         Exhibition Laboratory, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki (organized by Fergus Feehily)
------- Curatorial Conversation #1: Yuki Okumura, Curatorial Studies, KASK, Ghent (moderated by Antony Hudek)
------- Yuki Okumura: Self or Auto?, BA Fine Art Extension Masterclass, Goldsmith College, London
2016 MW Talk - 14 Yuki Okumura, Machinaka Salon, Maebashi (organized by Maebashi Works)
------- Portrait Portrait Event Series #4: Sunset Song, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei
------- Straddling Parallel Realities: Making/Living, Artist/Curator, Self/Other, Japan/Europe, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
------- Incomplete archives incubate future projects., Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery, Kyoto
2015 YUKI OKUMURA, Kunstakademie Muenster, Muenster (organized by DEPOT4.9)
2014 CAMP: Art Now 2014, MITSUME, Tokyo
2013 Why I organized a screening of "3.11 Tsunami 2011" here, Cinema Galeries, Brussels
------- Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Maastricht
------- Artists' Relay Talk, Mori Art Musuem, Tokyo
------- Umea Academy of Fine Arts, Umea
------- For the class of Suchan Kinoshita at Kunstakademie Munster, during their excursion in Brussels
------- Presentation of the New Artists Residency, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels
------- Art Space E, Aichi Arts Center, Aichi
2011 Wako University, Tokyo
------- Translation and Invisibleness, Midori Art Center (MAC) @ Hotel YAMAGAMI, Aomori
------- Turning a chimney into a periscope, les toiles.rui, Akita
2010 Space Laboratory, Aomori
------- Young Artists Salon Series 1, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei
2008 Where Here Who Me, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
2007 Fractured Body in the New Generation, Tainan National University of the Arts, Tainan
------- My Practice 1999-2007, Gallery Soap, Kitakyushu
2006 Recent Video Practice in Japan, Workstation Arts Center, Beijing
------- Theory Of Everything, New York University, NY

Conversations
2023 My Life Study, webinar organized by Keio University Art Center
2022 Remote Dialogue: Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver x Yuki Okumura, BankART Kaiko, Yokohama
2021 Talks related to ‘Creativity of Archives’, the special feature of the April 2021 issue of Bijutsu Techo magazine: Day 2 - Sen Uesaki x Yuki Okumura,
         Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, Tokyo [online]
------- Survival Aesthetics: On Post Contemporary Art Practice in Japan (Jesse Hogan x Yuko Hasegawa x Yuki Okumura x Paul Gladston),
         4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art / UNSW Art & Design, Sydney [online]
2020 Art and Culture under the Corona Crisis, Association for Studies of Culture and Representation [online]
2019 Research Class on Art and Culture of Tottori 2 (Yuki Okumura x Futoshi Hoshino x Hiroki Tsutsui), Tottori University, Tottori
------- The Process of Doubles (Yuki Okumura x Hitoshi Kubo x Yusuke Minami x Yohko Watanabe), Keio University Art Space, Tokyo
------- Ramen of the North Sea for October 20, 2019, blanClass, Yokohama (Yuki Okumura x Yusuke Mimasu, in the framework of
         Be possible at a mobile kitchen #3 [Dish for DD / MM], organized by Ayako Nagata, Akira Rachi, blanClass (in collaboration with Yusuke Mimasu) [online]
------- Conceptual Art in a Curatorial Perspective, WIELS, Brussels (Nathalie Zonnenberg x Marja Bloem x Caroline Dumalin x Yuki Okumura)
------- Whoever, Twilight, kumagusuku, Kyoto (Yuichiro Tamura x Yuki Okumura + Yusuke Mimasu)
2018 Gallery Talk #10 for Gordon Matta-Clark: Mutation in Space, The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (Kenjin Miwa x Yuki Okumura x Yuichiro Tamura)
2017 THE PLAY: Report on Our Participation in Venice Biennale 57, The National Museum of Art Osaka
2016 Wie is er bang voor hedendaagse kunst?, De School, Amsterdam (Noor Mertens x Yuki Okumura)
------- BY, L'iselp, Brussels (Beatrice Balcou x Yuki Okumura)
------- How to negotiate with self-censorship, VACANT, Tokyo
------- What will happen after loose lips save ships? Part 1, Kiba Park, Tokyo
------- A Domestic Choice, WIELS, Brussels (curated by Matteo Lucchetti)
------- An interview with Dan Perjovschi, xxxmot
------- Hisashi Yamamoto x Yuki Okumura, Vv/＼/＼//＼＼＼/＼/＼/＼/＼/＼, Munich, in relation to Yamamoto's show Tceifer
2015 Make-a-Living Radio: Tomoki Sakuta, Arm's Length de Iitomo!, in the framework of Artists' Guild's two-day talk event, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
------- Make-a-Living Radio: Tatuso Majima, Abenomic and Abenomical Japanese Artists - YAH YAH YAH, in the same framework as above
2014 Midnight CAMP: What is Art?, Akita University of Art, Akita
------- Shock and Change: Japansk Samtidskonst efter Fukushima (Yoko Asakai x Leif Holmstrand x Yuki Okumura), Moderna Museet, Malmo
------- Translation Theme Park, Malmo Art Academy, Malmo (hosted by Leif Holmstrand)
------- Body Contract (Exceptional Case), blanClass, Yokohama (Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver x Yuki Okumura)
2013 Ozlem Altin x Yuki Okumura, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld
------- Nightmares and Some Facts (Kenji Ide x Yuki Okumura), Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
------- Daisuke Yamashiro x Yuki Okumura: Moving Image as a Structure, and Beyond, Asahi Art Square, Tokyo
------- Hisachika Takahashi Special Night, Project Room, WIELS, Brussels
------- What will happen after a wind brew and bucket makers prospered?, Auditorium, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
------- Presentations by and a Conversation betwewn Yuki Okumura, Motoyuki Shitamichi, Yuichiro Tamura, and Daisuke Yamashiro,
          Chojamachi Art Platform, Aichi
2012 agenda 120925 What can language do?, Studio Center, Tokyo (Kohei Kobayashi x Yuki Okumura x Hiroyuki Tanaka)
------- Koki Tanaka Workshop "Meetings within Meetings", CALAB, Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo
------- Iram Ghufran x Yuki Okumura x Gitanjali Dang, The Guild, Mumbai
------- Post-screening talk for Hikaru Suzuki Film Show (Hikaru Suzuki x Daisuke Awata x Yuki Okumura), AOYAMA | MEGURO, Tokyo
           (organized by kayokoyuki)
------- On "Jun Yang: A Short Lecture on Forgetting and Remembering" (Futoshi Hoshino x Atsushi Sugita x Yuki Okumura),
          gsgp Joshibi University of Art and Design Art-Center Prep-Room, Kanagawa
------- On "Jun Yang: A Short Lecture on Forgetting and Remembering" (Kazuho Soeda x Takayuki Yamamoto x Yuki Okumura),
          Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Aichi
------- On "Jun Yang: A Short Lecture on Forgetting and Remembering" (Hiroaki Morita x Fuminao Suenaga x Yuki Okumura), Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo
------- Approach to What? - Lost & Found, Asahi Art Square, Tokyo
------- My Hands on Her Back were Obviously Trembling, Just Slightly, Talion Gallery, Tokyo
           (Keisuke Koizumi x Mariko Tomomasa x Yuki Okumura x Yuki Sasaki)
2011 Artistic Practice and Languages, Musashino Art University, Tokyo (Yuki Okumura x Taro Izumi x Takayuki Hayashi)
------- CAMP: On Practicing Art, Velvet Sun, Tokyo (Yuki Okumura x Koki Tanaka x Motohiro Tomii x Atsushi Sugita)
------- Asia Interactive Research - Interim Report vol. 1, Morishita Studio, Tokyo
------- "Na+" editor's meeting, NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo
2010 CAMP: Looking and Education, and Experience, Cat's Cradle, Tokyo (Hajime Nariai x Futoshi Hoshino x Yuki Okumura)
------- Shingo Aruga x Yuki Okumura, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo
------- CAMP: On Fictionality, Otto Maintzheim Gallery, Tokyo (Daisuke Awata x Hanako Murakami x Yuki Okumura x Yuichiro Tamura)
2009 Why things around you?, Noma Seiroku House, Shiga (Yuki Okumura x Hiroaki Morita x Kenjiro Hosaka)
------- On Human Body in Art, Musashino Art University, Tokyo (Motohiro Tomii x Yuki Okumura x Takashi Ishizaki)
------- Yuki Okumura x Yasuto Masumoto, Tamagawa University, Tokyo
2008 Koki Tanaka talks with Yuki Okumura: On Making Artworks http://kktnk.com/podcast/kotoba/kotoba.html
2007 AIT ARTIST TALK #29: Will Rogan x Yuki Okumura, AIT, Tokyo
2006 On Universality, Uchida Bldg Complex, Tokyo (Yuki Okumura x Koki Tanaka)

Public Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp