荒木悠｜Yu ARAKIb.1985 in Yamagata, Japan.
Lives and works in Kyoto.
Education
2013
Tacita Dean Workshop, Villa Iris, Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain
2010
Master of Film and New Media Studies, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts,
Japan
2007
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis,United States
Solo Exhibition
2023
2022
2021
2021
2019
2019
2019
2018
2017
2016
2014
2014

LONELY PLANETS, Towada Art Center, Aomori, JapanSWEET ROOM, (director: Harue Yamada), RC Hotel Kyoto Yasaka, Kyoto, Japan
BIVALVIA: ACT II, MUJIN-TO Production, Tokyo, JapanHALFWAY HAPPY vol.4 YU ARAKI, (curator: Arata Hasegawa), gallery aM, Tokyo, Japan
THREE DAYS, FIVE NIGHTS, (curator: Koki Muroi), Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Tochigi, Japan
RUSH HOUR, (curator: Yumiko Sano), CAI Contemporary Art Institute / CAI02, Sapporo, JapanLE SOUVENIR DU JAPON, (curator: Keiko Toyoda), Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, JapanNEW APERITIF, Spring Valley Brewery Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
LOST HIGHWAY (SWEDED), (coordinators: Keiichiro Tao & Takao Takahashi), Volvo Studio Aoyama, Tokyo,JapanBIVALVIA: ACT I, MUJIN-TO Production, Tokyo, JapanTEMPLE OF THE TEMPLET, (curator: Sayoko Osawa), Art Gallery 1 / Café Ogurayama, Yokohama Museumof Art, Yokohama, Japan
MOTHERLANDS, (coordinator: Megumi Ishikawa), JIKKA, Tokyo, JapanWRONG TRANSLATION, (curator: Shai Ohayon), The Container, Tokyo, Japan

Solo Screenings
2019
2018
2017
2012

BILDFENSTER: Yu Araki, (curators: Michael Bodenmann & Gabrielle Schaad) Cinema Houdini, Zurich,
Switzerland
AOYAMA Unlimited Vol.5: Yu Araki, (organizer: E & K Associates), void+, Tokyo, Japan
Azamino Art Cinema Vol.3: Yu Araki: Modus Operandi”, (organizers: Taro Amano & Mitsuhiro Obara)
Yokohama Civic Gallery Azamino, Yokohama, JapanEVENING AT THE WATERGATE, White House, Washingtown, Mito City, Ibaraki, Japan

Selected Group Shows / Screenings*
2024

2023

2022

2021

Nurturing Nodes in the Nook of an Odd Sock, ART GALLERY miyauchi, Hiroshima, Japan
Four Elements 2024 Winter, MUJIN-TO Production, Tokyo, Japan
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2024 — 30 Ways to Go to the Moon,Tokyo
Photographic Art Museum, Center Square of Yebisu Garden Place, affiliated local facilities, galleries, etc.,Tokyo, Japan
Pixel Row vol.7, No.2600 Longteng Avenue, Shanghai, China
Memory Palace in Ruins, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taiwan
T-HOUSE New Balance presents art installation ANOTHER DIAGRAM, T-HOUSE New Balance, Tokyo,Japan
Berwick Film＆Media Arts Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Englamd
Commission Project, the 15th Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo
Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, JP (forthcoming)
50seconds, (curator: Kazuhito Tanaka), soda, Kyoto, JPWorking, Crawling, (curator: Adam Szymczyk), as part of Art Week Tokyo, Earth Garden, SMBC East Tower
1F, Tokyo, JP
SUMMER2022, Akita city Cultural Creation Center, Akita, JP
Home-video Project: Tails Out, (curator: Yuji Oshita), Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, JP
Man-Made Landscape_Hotel Asia Project, (curators: Ni Kun, Huang Jiao) Chengdu Times Art Museum,Chengdu, CN
Omoshirogara: 99 Kimonos from the Inui Collection, (curators: Mikami Mariko, Negoro Miwa,Roger
M.Buergel), Museum DKM, Duisburg, DE
Southern Tales: Intervening Factors, as part of ALTERNATIVE KYOTO: Imagination as a Form of202020192018

2017“Capital”, Yagi-cho, Nantan City, Kyoto, JP
RESISTERE / RINASCERE, (organized by L’Altro Giappone) Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Napoli,
IT
Home Sweet Home, (curators: Paolo Mele, Claudio Zecchi, Alessandra Pioselli, Davide Quadro), KORA
Contemporary Arts Center, Lecce, Italy*
Returning: Chapter 1, (curator: Micheal Do), online exhibition organized by Sydney Opera House,co-presented with Japan Foundation, Sydney, Australia
11 Stories on Distanced Relationships: Contemporary Art from Japan, (curators: Eriko Kimura, Kenichi
Kondo, Tomohiro Masuda, Shino Nomura ), online exhibition organized by Japan Foundation, Japan
Retouch Me Not, co-programmed w/ Yusuke Sasaki, the 13th Yebisu International Festival for Art & AlternativeVisions, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (February 7th & 13th)*
Fireworks, (curator: Dmitry Frolov), the Center for Contemporary Art Topography, Krasnodar, Russia*
THE BIRDCAGE, (curator: Lucas Morin), part of ‘A House in Many Parts’ (artistic director: Abhijan Toto),
Goethe-Institut, Bangkok, Thailand*
Everything You’ve Ever Wanted is On the Other Side of the Planet, (curator: Hitomi Hasegawa), AIL / Franz
Josefs Kai 3, Vienna, AustriaCONNECTIONS: 150 years of Modern Art in Japan and France, (curators: Nami Yamabana, Yoko Iwasaki),Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan
Welcome to SYLVANIAN GALLERY, (curator: Kenji Ide), Utrecht, Tokyo, Japan
Spiral Film Festival, Zushi Bunka Plaza Hall, Zushi Japan*
Sapporo Art: Sayonara Showa Building, (curator: Yumiko Sano), CAI Contemporary Art Institute / CAI02,
Sapporo, Japan
Relay to Tokyo: Inheriting and Gathering, (curators: Shintaro Matsunaga & Effie Meramveliotaki), supportedby Japan Foundation,
Byzantine & Christian Museum, Athens, Greece
Beside the Sea: Summer Screening, (curator: Mia Delve; nominated by Mortiz Cheung, videoclub) God’s
House Tower, Southampton, United Kingdom*Films From Nowhere, online film festival co-programmed w/ Yusuke Sasaki
IMG, Sprout Curation, Tokyo, Japan
CONTACT: Where the World Meets Japanese Art and Culture, (director: Maha Harada), Joju-in, Kiyomizu
Temple, Kyoto, Japan
Otak Jepun #2, Tempat Bibah, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Sette Giorni Per Paesaggi, Palazzo Ghizzoni Nasalli, Piacenza, Italy*
The Island of the Colorblind, (curator: Haeju Kim), Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea
Future Generation Art Prize @ VENICE 2019, a collateral event of the 58th La Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo
Ca’ Tron, Venezia, Italy
Story of the Earth, (curator: Yumiko Sano), Sapporo Odori 500-m Underground Walkway Gallery, Sapporo,JapanRAM Practice, EuroLive, Tokyo, Japan*
Future Generation Art Prize Exhibition, (curators: Bjorn Geldhof & Tatiana Kochubinska), PinchukArtCentre,
Kyiv, Ukraine
The Scenes. 25 Years On, La Capella, Barcelona, Spain*Gaëlle Choisne: TEMPLE OF LOVE, (curator: Lucas Morin), Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Paris,France*Video Art from Japan: Knee-Jerk, Silencio, Paris, France*
ASIA NOW, 9 Avenue Hoche, Paris, France*Homecoming, (organizer: Sapporo Tenjin-yama Art Studio), Banei Tokachi Obihiro Horse Race Track, Obihiro,
Japan*Broadway, Newburgh Community Land Bank Artist-In-Vacancy & González González, 182 Broadway,Newburgh, New York, United States
Plot Against Gravity, 印, St. Gallen, Switzerland
EX-ART: Liquid Imaginary, (programmer: May Adadol Ingawanji), Westminster Institute of Advanced Studies(WIAS) with Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster, London,United Kingdom*The Myriad Forms of Visual Art: 200 Works with 19 Themes, (curator: Hiroyuki Nakanishi), The National
Museum of Art, Osaka, JapanIz Kratke baze 25 FPS-a: Tajni život životinja, (programmer: Štefica Bartolin), MM Center Zagreb, Hungary*
The LIMA Collection: New Work, LIMA media art platform, LAB 111, Amsterdam, Netherlands*
Out of Sinking, (curator: Chie Sumiyoshi), AL, Tokyo, Japan
See Through 2: Behind the Scenes, (programmer: Julian Ross), the 10th Yebisu International Festival for Art& Alternative Visions, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Japan*
Invisible Cities, Dallas Contemporary in partnership with The Crow Collection of Asian Art and MIACA, Dallas,TX, United States*
The Way Things Do, (curators: Serafín Álvarez & Martina Millà), w/ Daniel Jacoby, Fundació Joan Miró,

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2015

2014
2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

Barcelona, Spain
Parplume University and Yoichi Umetsu, WATARI-UM, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo,Japan
Herr Jakob Johann Baron von Uexküll, (programmers: Kiyoto Koseki & Jessica Sarah Rinland), Harvard Film
Archive, Cambridge, MA, United States*
Chronicle, Chronicle!, (director: Dai Hijikata / curator: Arata Hasegawa), CCO Creative Center Osaka, Osaka,JapanOkayama Art Summit 2016: Development, (artistic director: Liam Gillick), Korakukan Tenjin School Site,Okayama, Japan
Ontology of Influence: Ron Leax and Alumni Exhibition, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO, United States
Anthropographes: The Meaning of Mold in the Art, The Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Imprisoned, Jailbreak, Imprisoned, Jailbreak: Screening & Performance, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo,Japan*TIME TUNNEL, co-programmed with ‘Imprisoned Jailbreak, Imprisoned Jailbreak’, Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo,Japan
Imprisoned, Jailbreak, Imprisoned, Jailbreak: October, on the train, (curator: Teppei Soutome), SUNDAY,Tokyo, Japan
Chronicle, Chronicle!, (director: Dai Hijikata / curator: Arata Hasegawa), CCO Creative Center Osaka, Osaka,Japan
WANDERERS, SNEHTA, Athens, Greece
WAVERS, (curator: Fumio Inoue), HIGURE 17-15 cas, Tokyo, Japan
Nothing But Sounds / Palais de Kyoto, (curators: Arata Hasegawa & Kaori Takagi) ARTZONE & VOX
Building, Kyoto, Japan
Island Iceland Offshore Project, The Bookshop-Projectspace, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Sharing Footsteps, (recommender: Miyon Hibino) Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeonggi-do,South KoreaAnd the Story Goes, WING | Platform for Performance, Chai Wan Mei, Hong Kong*Yabu No Naka, Galerie Aube, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, JapanOBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR, (curator: Arata Hasegawa), the three konohana,Osaka, JapanThe Moving Image Project, Sluice_screens, as part of Exchange Rates, Bushwick, New York, United States*
Tacita Dean Workshop Exhibition, Villa Iris, Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain
Move on Asia: Video Art in Asia 2002 to 2012, (curators: Bernhard Serexhe with Fabian Offert & Jinsuk Suh),
ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Toyonaka Joint Factory, Toyonaka City Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Scotiabank’s Nuit Blanche Toronto: 13, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, Canada*+1, Marrickville Garage, Sydney, Australia
971 Horses and 4 Zebras: Artists Apply Animation, Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, London,United,Kingdom*Tokyo x Hanoi x Art, La 4uatrieme Creative Lab, Hanoi, Vietnam
El pacto ficcional: Notes on the Uncanny, (curator: Maria Pons), A*DESK, Barcelona, Spain*
Unknown Life, (organizer: Chika Kato), Underground, Tokyo, JapanTokyo Story 2011, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo, Japan
Tong: An International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Haeinsa Temple, South Korea
Streaming Festival 6th edition, The Hague, Netherlands*
ALMOST DOWN, co-curated exhibition w/ Kiyoto Koseki, gallery + café tayuta, Tokyo, JapanART LOVE JAPAN, IN RIVERS GALLERY, Brooklyn, NY, United States
PEEP SHOW – Has the Computer become the Contemporary Peep Box?, (curator: Hitomi Hasegawa),
no.w.here, London, United Kingdom
SISTER CITIES | DIFFERENT MOTHER, w/ Yuichiro Tamura, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo, Japan
BAC! 11.0 Barcelona Art Contemporary Festival XI Edition, (curator Menene Gras), Casa Asia, Barcelona,Spain*
Sugary Photographs with Tricks, Poses, and Effects, (curator: G. Leddington), Novylon, Antwerp, Belgium*
DOUBLE VISION ~fiction/reality relationships in present-day images, ESBANM Gallery, Nantes, France
Media Practice 09-10, Tokyo University of the Arts Shinko Campus, Yokohama, JapanTHE ARBEITER AND RETURNEES, w/ Kaori Shiba, Therme Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Traveling Exhibitions / Screenings*
2018-9 Extremely Shorts Touring Program, (curator: Mary Magsamen, Aurora Picture Show)
Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI., United States*
The Mini Microcinema, Cincinnati, OH., United States*
Cellular Cinema, Minneapolis, MN., United States*
2018-9 Bodyscapes: new film and video from Japan, (curator: Moritz Cheung, videoclub)Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom*Folkestone Quarterhouse - Strange Love Timebase Media Festival, Folkestone, United Kingdom*
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, United Kingdom*
Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre, Leicester, United Kingdom*
Fabrica, Brighton, United Kingdom*
2012-3 971 Horses + 4 Zebras, (curators: Jordan Baseman and Gary Thomas)
CAST Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia
Monash Art Design & Architecture Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
WIMBLEDON space, Wimbledon College of Art, London, United Kingdom
2011
Many people ask me, ‘Don’t you miss Japan when you live abroad?’, (curators: Mai Yamashita + NaotoKobayashi)
Kunstverein Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany*
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany*
LIA – Leipzig International Programme, Leipzig, Germany*
2010
Move on Asia 2010: Three Minutes of Sealed Time, (curator: Jinsuk Suh)
Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, South Korea
Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2007Theory Of Everything, (curator: Yuki Okumura)
Process Room, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland*
Dongfang: Il Cinema dell’Estremo Oriente, Castel Sant’Elmo, Naples, Italy*
Gallery F, Scarritt Bennett Center, Nashville, United States*
Selected Film Festivals
Beijing International Short Film Festival, Beijing, China (’18 & ’20)
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Berwick, United Kingdom (’20)
BFI London Film Festival, London, United Kingdom (’15 & ’21)
Cinemancia Festival Metropolitano de Cine, Valle de Aburrá, Columbia (’21)
Corto e Fieno Rural Film Festival, Lake Orta, Italy (’18)
Curtocircuíto International Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (’18)
DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Goyang-si, KR (’21)
EMAF European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany (’18 & ’19)
EXiS Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul, Seoul, KR (’21)
Extremely Shorts Film Festival, Houston, TX, United States (’07, ’17 & ’18)
Festifreak Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina (’18)
FIDMarseille - Festival International de Cinéma Marseille, Marseille, France (‘21)
Filmadrid Festival Internacional de Cine, Madrid, Spain (’18)
Go Short - International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, Netherlands (’18)
Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong, Hong Kong (’18)
Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, Japan (’21)
IndieLisboa - Lisbon International Independent Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal (’18 & ’21)
International Bosphorus Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey (’18)
International Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (’18)
International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany (’10 & ’18)
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands (’18 & ’20)
International Film Festival of Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay (’18)
JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film, New York, United States (’18, ’20 & ’21)
Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, South Korea (’18)
Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany (’18)
KFFK / Kurzfilmfestival Köln, Köln, Germany (’18)
L’Alternativa - Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain (’18)
Lima Independiente, Lima, Peru (’18)
Milano Design Film Festival, Milan, Italy (’20)
Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Moscow, Russia (’18)
Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow, Russia (’07)
NeMaf Seoul International NewMedia Festival, Seoul, South Korea (’18 & ’20)
Nimman Film Festival, Chiang Mai, Thailand (’17)
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, France/Germany (’18)
Sheffield Doc/Fest: Sheffield International Documentary Festival, Sheffield, United Kingdom (’19)
Slant: Bold Asian American Images Festival, Houston, United States (’08)
St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, United States (’06)
Tokyo Documentary Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan (’20)
Tokyo Documentary Film Festival in Osaka, Osaka, Japan (’21)
The Weight of Mountains Film Festival, Skagaströnd; Reykjavik, Iceland (’14)
up-and-coming International Film Festival Hannover, Hannover, Germany (’07)

Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Uppsala, Sweden (’18)
Videoex Internationales Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zürich, Switzerland (’18)
Residency Programs
2019
2019
2019
2018
2017
2015
2013-4
2011-2
2010
FranceRES IN CASAMATERA, CasaMatera, Matera, Italy
International Exchange Program, R3028, Seoul, South Korea
The Quest of Knowledge, MAIX Reserved Forest, Perak State, Malaysia
Guest resident, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Guest resident, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea
Artist in Residency Program, SNEHTA, Athens, Greece
The Weight of Mountains Filmmaker Residency Program, Nes Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland
Local Creator in Residence Program, Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
University Exchange Program, école supérieure des beaux-arts de Nantes Métropole (ESBANM), Nantes,Awards & Recognition
2023
2019
2018
2018
2018
2018
2018
2007

Winner, Special Award, Commission Project, Yebisu International Festival for Arts & Alternative Visions 2023,
Tokyo, JP
Finalist, 5th Future Generation Art Prize, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine
Golden Key Special Mention, 35th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany
CAMILA Jury Special Mention, 15th Curtocircuíto International Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela, SpanSpecial Mention, Vanguardias Competition, 4th Filmadrid Festival Internacional de Cine, Madrid, SpainWinner, International Competition, 20th Videoex Internationales Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zurich,
Switzerland
Winner, Ammodo Tiger Short Film Award, 47th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Caroline Risque Janis Prize in Sculpture, Washington University in St. Louis Sam Fox School of Design &Visual Arts, United States

Private & Public Collection
Ishikawa Foundation, Okayama, Japan
Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Tochigi, JapanThe National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan