1961

Born in Hyogo Prefecture

1984

B.A., Fine Art, Kyoto City University of Arts, Oil Painting Course

1986

M.A., Fine Art, Kyoto City University of Arts, Painting Course

2023

MEM, Tokyo ['18, ’16, ’14, ’11]

2022

O Gallery eyes, Osaka [’20, ’18, ’16, ’13, ’11, ’09, ’07, ’05]

2020

Gallery 21yo-j, Tokyo [’12]
Tor Road Gallery, Hyogo [’19-’14, ’12, ’10-’08, ’06-’02, ’00-’98, ’94, ’86]

2015

Art Space Niji, Kyoto [’10, ’09, ’05, ’89, ’86]

2014

Deep Rhyme – the note of water, Gallery Circulo, Saga

2008

Gallery 21+yo, Tokyo [’94, ’92]

2003

sora / ao (“sky / blue”), CASO (Contemporary Art Space Osaka), Osaka

2002

hana iro (“flower color”), Saison Art Program Gallery, Tokyo

2000

blue in blue, Gallery KURANUKI, Osaka

1997

Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo

1996

Ishiyacho Gallery, Kyoto [’93, ’92, ’90]

1995

Skydoor Art Place Aoyama, Tokyo

1994

Art Site, Fukui

2023

Satoshi Kawata, Yasue Kodama, Tomoko Takagi, Hitoshi Nakazato, Yasuyoshi Botan, Hiroshi Mizuta, Chihiro Yoshioka and more – ACG 20th Anniversary Vol. 4

2021

Gazing into the Dark, Touching the Light, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka

2020

Staring: Miwa Kawai, Yasue Kodama, Hisako Masuda, Satoko Watanabe, The Tokushima Modern Art Museum

2019

Observation: Artists Confronting the Wonder of Looking Intently, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi

2018

Monet's Legacy: Beyond the Impressionism, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi / Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa

2014

Quintet: Five-Star Artists, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo

2013

Playback Artist Talks, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

2012

New Incubation 4 Yurameki Tokeyuku: Yasue Kodama & Tetsuji Nakanishi, Kyoto Art Center

2010

Primary Field Ⅱ, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Kanagawa

2009

Kobe Biennale 2009 Guest Artists Exhibition: LINK – Flexible Deviation, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art

2007

Dialogues – Painters' Views on the Museum Collection, The Museum of Modern Art Shiga

2005

Tsubaki-kai 2005, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo [’04-’01]

2002

Theatre of Our Lives, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art

2001

The Very Last, Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Cologne, Germany

2000

Kyoto Prefectural Culture Awards Exhibition, The Museum of Kyoto

1999

An Overview Contemporary Japanese Painting, Tokyo Station Gallery

1998

The Vision of Contemporary Art: New Artists of Two Dimensions (VOCA '98), The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo [’97, ’96, ’94]

1996

Japanese Contemporary Art: At the Water's Edge – Susumu Koshimizu & Yasue Kodama, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Kanagawa

1994

Light and Shadow: The Sense of Ephemerality, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

1993

Two persons exhibition: Naofumi Maruyama and Yasue Kodama, Gallery KURANUKI, Osaka

1990

Artists in Hyogo, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art

2021

The 34th Kyoto Fine Arts Cultural Award

2010

The 18th KAMETAKA Fumiko Memorial-Akusosha Prize

2005

Hyogo Prefecture Art Encouragement Prize

1999

The 17th Kyoto Prefecture Cultural Priz〈e Encouragement Award〉

1993

'93 Artists of Next Generation〈 Second Grand Prize〉

1991

'91 Artists of Next Generation〈Grand Prize〉

1986

Annual Exhibition 1986 Kyoto City University of Art〈s Graduate School Award and Kayo Award〉

Oita Prefectural Art Museum / The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama / The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art / The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama / Busan Museum of Art / Kyoto Prefecture / Shiseido Art House / Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery / Chushin Art Museum, Kyoto