Born in Yamagata, Japan, 1982.
Lives and works in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.
Education
2005 BA in Department of Oil Painting, Fine Art, Tokyo Zokei Art University, Tokyo, Japan.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Yoichi Umets: Crystal Palace, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan.
2021 Yoichi Umetsu | Pollinator, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan.
Heisei Mood, Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan.
2017 APMoA Project, ARCH vol.20 Umetsu Yoichi - floating pollen Exhibition room 6 with museum collections, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan.
Paintings got sick, home nursing and love story, Galleria Finarte, Aichi, Japan.
2015 From Lamb to Mutton, ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan.
Youichi Umetsu – Retrospective, SAKAE401, Tottori, Japan.
2014 Wisdom, Impression, Sentiment – A, ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan.
2009 Gold Dessin, ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan.
2008 POST GRADUATION, ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan.
2006 Kinzokusei no Shikakukei, Gallery ES, Tokyo, Japan.
2005 LIQUID NIGHT☆, Gallery Honjoh, Tokyo, Japan.
2004 E ni naranai E, Free space PRAHA, Hokkaido, Japan.
Two person Exhibitions
2023 Yoichi Umetsu and Kanzaki Masamitsu “Hige-san”, Sokyo, Kyoto, Japan
2020 Kazuhito Kawai and Yoichi Umestu "SHOW ME" [TUCHIKURE] with "LOOP
FEELING", Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan.
2013 How to make a right painting, ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan.
Group Exhibitions
2021 Approaches to Painting – reprise, √K Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan.
Bubbles / Debris: Art of the Heisei Period 1989–2019, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan.
2020 Full-frontal- naked circulator, curated by Yoichi Umetsu, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan.
2019 Weavers of Worlds- A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern/ Contemporary Art-, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
2018 Parplume University- Health Care, Umezukaikan, Hitachioota, Ibaraki, Japan.
2017 Parplume University- Fantasia from top to end, Gallery Toritachi-no-ie, Tottori, Japan.
The Riddle of Art: Takahashi Collection, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan.
Japanese Contemporary Art is here! TAKAHASHI COLLECTION 2017 mindfulness!, Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata, Japan.
Go for Love Girl - Parplume University and Kosoga of Yoichi Umetsu, Curated by Yoichi Umetsu, WATARI-UM, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan.
Parplume Summer Break, NADiff Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
Reborn-Art Festival, Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan.
3331 Art Fair 2016 -Various Collectors' Prizes-, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
TARO prize 20 years / 20 devilish children, Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
Optical Facade of Parplume, gallery N, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
Gel of Parplume Cram School Students, YEBISU ART LABO, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
HATOBA vol.9 UMETSU Yoichi x SATO Katsuhisa“Agony of Japanese Contemporary Artists in Neo-college exam painting and Modern Fragile Paintings, HATOBA, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
2016 Setouchi Triennale2016, Megijima island, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan.
X kai and Parplume, Moritaka-ya 2F, Fukushima, Japan.
Welcome to The Parpltown, Parplume Preparatory School, Parplume Hut Observatory, Jellified Parplume Container, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.
2015 Parplume University Story, ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan.
Innocence, Temple du Goût, Nantes, France.
2014 Summer and Paintersm, ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan.
TAKAHASHI COLLECTION - Mindfulness! 2014, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
Anti-War: Resistance against the Anticipated War, SNOW Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan.
Japan Parplume University II, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan.
Japan Parplume University, Yamashita Building, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
2013 How to make a right painting, ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan. SOMANYIMAGES, Sprout Curation, Tokyo, Japan.
Summer Drawing Show, Gallery SIDE2, Tokyo, Japan.
TOKYO FRONTLINE PROJECTS 2013 - TRICK-DIMMENSION -, tolot: heuristic SHINONOME artcenter, Tokyo, Japan.
DER STURM, Nagoya Citizens’Gallery Yada, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
2012 Pandemonium, XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan.
2011 Other Paintings - NTC exhibition, A/D Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
FAMILY AFFAIR, XYZ collective, Tokyo, Japan.
KAIGA SETSUMEIKAI, Sprout Curation, Tokyo, Japan.
2010 cosmetic girl and tired boy, ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan.
Living With Art – Contemporary Art from Japan and Taiwan, Yi＆C Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan.
Self Portrait - Watashitoiu Tanin, Takahashi Collection Hibiya, Tokyo, Japan.
Small Paintings, ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan.
2009 VOCA 2009 - The Vision of Contemporary Art, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
ZAIMIZAMZIMA Exhibition Forum, ZAIM Annex 401, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
Long Season, Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.
2006 The 9th Annual Taro Okamoto Competition of the Contemporary Art, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.
2005 Nyukashou, Free space PRAHA, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
2004 Outrange, Free space PRAHA, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
Matsu ni Koromo Ume kaori - Ha chirinuru Shiro no Nishi, Bunpoudou Gallery,Tokyo, Japan.
Awards
2006 The 9th Taro Okamoto Semi-grand Prize.
Collections
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
JAPIGOZZI Collection.
Takahashi Collection.
Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata, Japan
Mori Art Museum