Onishi Yasuaki
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Yasuaki Onishi studied sculpture at University of Tsukuba and Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan. His sculptures are made from a mix of materials, including tree branches, wire, hot glue, and urea.[1]
Yasuaki uses boxes to map out the eventual shape of his piece, draping a sheet of plastic over them. He attaches the plastic sheet from above using strands of glue, until the boxes can safely be removed without much altering the "landscape". In this sense, the process and finished installation look completely different.
His work has been exhibited in solo shows across Japan and abroad, and included in both Ways of Worldmaking in 2011 and National Museum of Art, Osaka.
In 2010, Yasuaki was the recipient of a United States-Japan Foundation Fellowship that included a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, as well as a grant from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc., New York.[2]
His most recent solo exhibition in the United States was in 2012 at the Marlin and Regina Miller Gallery at Kutztown University in Kutztown, Pennsylvania.[3]
His piece "Reverse of Volume" was the central feature in the 2015 annual exhibition "Vide et Plein" of Paris-based Maison Bleu Studio.[4]
In 2016, Yasuaki did a large installation for the Fresh Paint Contemporary Art & Design Fair, Tel-Aviv's largest and most influential annual art event in Israel.[5]
Prizes
- Granship Art Compe, prize, 2014
- Sakuyakonohana prize, 2014
- Pola Art Foundation, 2011
- U.S. Japan Award Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, 2010
- Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 2010
- Kala Art Institute, fellowship, 2009
- IASK Asia Pacific Artists Fellowship National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, 2009
- Winner of the Shuo foundation prize, 2007
- Winner of the Amuse Art Jam Kyoto, 2005
- Epson Color Imaging Contest Judge prize, 2003[6]
Collaboration
Selected group exhibitions
- 2015 Vide et Plein, Maison Bleu Studio, Paris, France[9]
- 2014 in Search of Critical Imagination/Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
- 2010 Art Court Frontier #8/Art Court Gallery, Osaka, Japan
- 2009 phantasmagoria/Ieyoung Contemporary Art Museum, Suwon, Korea
- 2009 Changwon Asian Art Festival/Sung-San Art Hall, Changwon, Korea[10]