Shohei Yamamoto

Shohei Yamamoto was born in 1994 and graduated with a master’s degree from Kyoto University of the Arts.

In the modern world, which is full of digital replicas, Yamamoto utilizes his own roller to fix and expose the repetition process of images and symbols in an analog way. He uses digital software to simulate the size of panels and the diameter of the roller, creating simulated images on canvas. The self-made roller is his characteristic tool, delivering temporality and betraying simulation. As the roller moves across the canvas, the paint is crushed, and the images and symbols are attenuated with each repetition.

In the present circumstance, where every representation, such as images and symbols, is replicated by digital operations, Yamamoto makes actual substances float up in their repetition process to analogize them.

Awards

2019

Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi

Ambassade de France au Japon Prize

Education

2019  MFA, Fine and Applied Arts Field, Kyoto University of the Arts

2017  BFA, Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Kyoto University of the Arts

Selected Solo Exhibition

2024

Tales without Roots, Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Stuntmen, Click Ten Gallery, Beijing, China

2022

Calcite on Myth: Greek Beauty, Ginza Tsutaya, Tokyo, Japan

Calcite on Myth: HEROes, ygion, Kyoto, Japan

2020

Re: Reiterate, Institut français du Japon, Tokyo, Japan

2019

What is the “entity”, Medel Gallery Shu, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Group Exhibition

2024

Enactivism, Click Ten Gallery, Beijing, China

2023

Usual group show at an emerging gallery, Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2022

Vectored Goth, Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2021

Te sight of the stars makes me dream, SCÈNE, Tokyo, Japan

2020

FAZZY TRACE, Dopeness art lab, Taiwan

Input/Output, GINZA ATRIUM, Tokyo, Japan

KANSAI VOICES – A journey through painting today-, nca Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

2019

Spaceship Earth – KUAD ANNUAL 2019, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Graduates Exhibition, Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto, Japan