"Yuki Kimura’s work exists both as an elegant, static, physical form with a calmly assertive presence in space, and as an immaterial, wandering, and vibrating force reflective of all that exists around and throughout it—in the negative, so to speak. It initiates processes of transformation and is transformative itself, which may at first appear counterintuitive to its static appearance. The passive, mute, and durable world of objects and physical matter that one encounters in her work becomes a place of dynamic processes and shapeshifting, where the stable appearance and order of things are profoundly transformed. Kimura’s work operates beyond language, occupying an entirely visual sphere, but communicates at a highly visceral and embodied level of perception."—Kathrin Bentele
Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions such as COL SPORCAR SI TROVA, The Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen-Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany (2022); Inhuman Transformation of New Year’s Decoration, Obsolete Conception or 2, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA (2016); Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, USA (2011); Untitled, IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Shizuoka, Japan (2010); POSTERIORITY, Daiwa Press Viewing Room, Hiroshima, Japan (2009).
She has been included in several international group shows such as Artists Space, New York, USA (2019); California-Pacific Triennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, USA (2017); Ocean of images: New Photography 2015, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (2015); 30th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil (2012); Mount Fuji does not exist, Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France, Paris (2012); Kaza Ana / Air Hole: Another Form of Conceptualism from Asia, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (2011); MOT Collection: Plastic Memories – to illuminate now, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (2010); Roppongi Crossing: New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art 2004, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2004); 6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (1999).
Yuki Kimura’s works have joined the collections of Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA; IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Shizuoka, Japan; Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan.
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