Yanagi yukinori (sykes)

YANAGI YUKINORI

By: Jared Sykes

The artist

Biography

1959 Born in Fukouka, Japan

1983 BFA in painting, Musashino Art University

1985 MFA in painting, Musashino Art University

1990 MFA in sculpture, Yale University

2005- Associate Professor, Faculty of Art,

Hiroshima City University

Fukouka, Japan

Identity? National

Proximity to Korea

Post-War Japan

Childhood: 1960’s and 1970’s

One of the first Japanese artists to critique his

nation’s social and political systems

Musashino Art University

MAU-Library

Ground Transport Project, 1985

The World Flag Ant Farm

The World Flag Ant Farm

The World Flag Ant Farm

Asia-Pacific Ant Farm, 1990

Boundaries?

America, 1994

America, 1994 (Detail)

Untitled Ant Farm, 1997

Loves me/ Loves me not, 1997

Pacific K100B, 1997

Yukichi, 2002

Wandering Position, 1995

Into the Atomic Sunshine

Bonzai Corner

Ultraman

Another View of Bonzai Corner

The Forbidden Box, 1995

Studies in American Art: Three

Flags, 2000

Questions??