Présentation

Focusing on the intermediate zones within urban environments—those between the private and the public, and between the artificial and the natural—Yuya Suzuki extracts symbolic images through the process of drawing, based on the forms of “residues” generated by the interactions among urban metabolism, natural forces, and human consumption. Using these as the foundation of his own visual language, he employs various media—including sculpture, video, painting, and kinetic objects—to reconstruct the real world through mixed-media installations.

Parcours

Yuya Suzuki (b.1983 / Fukushima, Japan) graduated from Nihon University College of Art (B.A) in 2007 and currently lives in Sapporo. Selected solo exhibitions include Archaic Future (2023, Moerenuma Park, Sapporo), Post Language Realm / Variation (2023, SETAREH X, Düsseldorf), Intermediate (2022, CAI03, Sapporo), Post Language Realm (2021, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin), Phantoms Agora (2019, Siao-Long Children’s Museum of Arts, Tainan), archegraph study_Tainan (2018, Absolute Space for the Arts, Tainan) Selected group exhibitions include A Call of All Beings – See you tomorrow, same time, same place (2025, Taichung Museum of Art, Taichung), Fukushima Art Annual 2025 “site—representation”, (2025, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima), 25-Hours Days, (2024, Keelung Museum of Art, Keelung), Assembrige NAGOYA (2016, MAT, Nagoya), The Emerging Artists in Hokkaido (2016, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo), Sapporo International Art Festival (2014, Sapporo), Jeune Creation (2013, Centquatre, Paris). He received awards in JR Tower Art box (2016, Sapporo), ART OSAKA (2013, Osaka), as well as grants from Stiftung Kunstfonds NEUSTART KULTUR (Germany), Nomura foundation (Japan), and the Japanese Government Overseas Research Program of the Agency for cultural affairs to participate in the International Studio Program at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (2020-, Berlin). His artwork is part of the public collection of Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art (Japan).