Artists

Yasuyoshi Botan

Biography

1971: Born in Osaka, Japan
1990: Traveled abroad to the US
1997: Graduated from School of Visual Arts, Department of Fine Art, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024: Yasuyoshi Botan: rabbit moon night, Itami City Museum of Art, Hyogo
2023: Takashimaya Osaka Gallery NEXT, Osaka
2018: The World of the Netherlands that can be Seen from One Book: Color, Design, Architecture, Hachinohe Book Center Gallery, Aomori
2017: Thaw, Tokyo Wonder Site Art Cafe, 24/7 coffee & roaster, Tokyo
2016: gone before flower, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2014: parade, Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima
2013: Unknown Library, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo
2012: Collection of the Thief, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2011: Conversation between Stupid Leche and Fearful Miedo, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2010: dodo, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo
2008: into the forest, hpgrp gallery, Tokyo
2006: Plotless Story, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka
Mukogawa e no Hanashi (Stories to the Other Side), TAP Satellite Gallery, Ibaraki
2005: Bloomfield, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
2004: Mitate, Takurami, Kochu no Jutchu (Allusion, Artifice, Another World in a Jar), INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo
2003: The Human Being and Object, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
Sap Education Grant / The 4th Commemorative Exhibition, Saison Art Program Gallery, Tokyo
2002: Tokyo Wonder Wall 2002, Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, Tokyo
2001: INAX Bunka Suishinbu Enpitsuka (INAX Cultural Promotion Department, Pencil Division), INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023: Takashimaya Archive x Takashimaya Art Gallery, 7th floor Exhibition Hall, Takashimaya Osaka, Osaka ['22]
2021: Gazing into the Dark, Touching the Light, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2019: Small Infinity, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo
2018: 15 Years, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
So, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo
Enokojima Art Days 2018 – A view from the sky and the rat hole: Yasuyoshi Botan, Poh Wang, & Ichiro Mori, Flag Studio, Osaka
2017: Collection 1 Emerging Images, Itami City Museum of Art, Hyogo
heART ~Shun Wa Kei Mei~, InterContinental Osaka (20F Lobby), Osaka
2016: WEWANTOSEE, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (People's Gallery B), Ishikawa
2015: Osamu Kokufu: His Work and His Circle, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2010: Yasuyoshi Botan and Kazuma Koike: A silent moment at Veronica island, hpgrp GALLERY TOKYO, Tokyo
2009: My story, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo
Yuki Hayashi, Yasuyoshi Botan, Chisato Yamano: migratory - lost in the world-, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2008: ACG eyes 1 : Moving Images and Drawings - narrative -, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2006: Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award Ceremony, Tokyo
2005: iimawashi, Merz Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Street Painting, mural painting, Komazawa Olympic Park, Tokyo
Wonder Seed +, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
2004: Container Ground, Tokyo Designer’s Week, Tokyo
Emerging Artists from Tokyo Wonder Site, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Emerging Artists, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
Artist Night vol.3, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
2003: sukima the bathhouse, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo / Command N, Tokyo
Size 0, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
2002: Toride Re - cycling Art Project 2002” Toride Art Project 2002, Ibaraki
Tokyo Wonder Wall 2002, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Become R. Buckminster Fuller in 21st Century, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
The 5th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kanagawa (selected)
2001: sukima Project 1 & 2, Command N, Tokyo
2000: 5th Sapporo International Contemporary Prints Biennial, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido
1998: Al Brunelle’s curating exhibition, School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York
1995: 19th Annual Students Exhibition, represented by School of Visual Arts, The National Arts Club, New York