Hiroka Yamashita
Born in Hyogo, Japan, 1991
Education
MFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Jersey, 2019
BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2017
Lives and works in Okayama, Japan
One-Person Exhibitions
2024
koworo-koworo (こをろこをろ), BLUM, Los Angeles, CA
2023
玄 GEN, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022
Field, Force, Surface, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong
Fūdo, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
2021
project N 84, 4F corridor, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Cosmos Remembered, The Club, Tokyo, Japan
2019
融 toru, Higashiyama Building 301, Okayama, Japan
Hiroka Yamashita, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
2017
YOUNG MOUNTAIN, N’s Art Project, Osaka, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2024
Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood, BLUM, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Three Landscapes: Michael Ho, Su Yu-Xin, Hiroka Yamashita, Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan
2022
YES YOU CAN: The Strength of Life through Art, WHAT Warehouse of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Their Private Worlds Contained the Memory of a Painting that had Shapes as Reassuring as the Uncanny Footage of a Sonogram, curated by Sedrick Chisom, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Evanescent Horizon (with Naoya Inose), FOMO Art, Taipei , Taiwan
Dancing in the Dark, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
2020
Daichi Takagi, Lucía Vidales, Hiroka Yamashita, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2019
Like a Day, 21 Ludlow Street, New York, NY
All Conditions, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
2018
Intimate Strollin, SBC Gallery, New York, NY
I as Is, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
Welcome Back Show, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
2017
MFA First Year Exhibition, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
2016
One Earth, One Consciousness, BronxArtSpace, New York, NY
Future Critical, 508 W 26th street, New York, NY
Brokedown Palace, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
Fellowships
2021
Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch, Donaueschingen, Germany
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Articles and Reviews
2022
Belcher, David. “A Prehistoric Sculpture Inspires a Tokyo Gallery.” Nytimes.com, October 19, 2022.
Smolik, Noemi. “Critics’ Picks.” Translated by Gerrit Jackson. Artforum.com, April 2022.
Karg, Alexandra. “Fetter Duktus und zarte Landschaften Zeitgenössische Malerei in Berlin.” Gallerytalk.net, March 2022.
2021
Yamashita, Yukako. “Women in Art: Hiroka Yamashita.” Harper’s Bazaar Japan (May 2021).
Liu, JheSyue. ‘‘The Club, an art gallery of Tsutaya Bookstore, comes to Taiwan in January for a flash exhibition.” Marie Claire Japan (May 2021).
2020
Hantke, Teresa. “Berliner Kunstgriff 14.01 – 20.01.20.” Gallerytalk.net, January 2020.
2019
Art Maze Magazine no. 11 (Winter 2019)
New American Paintings no.141 (April/May 2019)