ONO Yumiko

Profile

Born in Kobe, Japan. Lives and works in Hyogo, Japan. Graduated with an MA from St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy in 2018.
Having studied also in Hungary, Czech Republic, Israel and Russia with government scholarships, Ono currently works internationally including the USA and Asia in the field of contemporary art.

Recent exhibitions
2022 “BIWAKO BIENNALE 2022,” Former Kondo Kimono Shop, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
2022 “Unbuilt,” Gallery Arthaus, Moscow
2019-2020 “Epitomes,” Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei
2020 “Organic Matter,” Diem Phung Thi Museum, Hue, Vietnam
2019 “Utopia,” Slag Gallery, New York

Grants and residency
2022 Franconia Sculpture Park Fellowship
2022 Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation grant
2019 TAV x MoCA Taipei Residency program

About works / performance

Ono's central theme is utopia and she creates fictive architecture based on her research on the relationship between the East, the West and Japan in the field of architecture since she considers Japan as a country between the East and the West. Her majour mediums are drawing on tracing paper and slip cast porcelain. By using anti-architectural materials such as ceramics, paper and textile, she critiques the fragility and fictionality of utopia itself. Additionally, she is lately interested in investigating the possibility of scalable works, which could fit in any size of exhibition site by multiplying objects using various kind of molds.