Yuki Harada
1989 Born in Yamaguchi, Japan
2013 B.A. in Department of Arts Policy and Management, Musashino Art University
2016 M.F.A. in Inter Media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts
2023 Finalist in the TERRADA ART AWARD 2023
Artist. Harada produces artworks that probe the essence of human beings, while freely combining technology, research, performance, and other means. He made his debut with a Lassen exhibition project in 2012, and subsequently launched into activities with projects aimed at stimulating discussion. He has been continually residing in Hawaii since 2019, and is now focusing on cultural motifs of a transnational nature, as exemplified by Pidgin English.
Major solo exhibitions include Go stay go pakiki all da time! Eh… no give up ‘til you pau! (Museum of Japanese Emigration to Hawaii, 2023), KAAT Atrium Video Project (KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, 2023), Unreal Ecology (Kyoto Art Center, 2022), Aperto 14. HARADA Yuki: Waiting for (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2021) and One Million Seeings (KEN NAKAHASHI, 2019).
His main publications are Christian Lassen: A critical biography, (Chuokoron-Shinsha, 2023) and Insignificant Arts (Kenele Books, 2023), Essays on works and reception of Lassen in Japan (Film Art, 2013), and he collaborated with a print magazine Kohkoku Vol.414 (Hakuhodo, 2020) and Gendaishi Techo 2024 August (Shichosha, 2024).
After graduating top of his class from Musashino Art University in 2013, he completed his MFA in the Department of Inter-media Art in the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2016. As a fellow of the Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists by the Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs, he relocated to New Jersey in 2017, and Hawaii in 2021. He was selected as a finalist in the TERRADA ART AWARD 2023 and received the Yukie Kamiya Award. His work, Shadowing, was added to the Museum of Japanese Emigration to Hawaii’s first contemporary art collection in 2024, and is now on permanent exhibition.
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Go stay go pakiki all da time! Eh… no give up ‘til you pau! (Museum of Japanese Emigration to Hawaii, Yamaguchi)
KAAT Atrium Video Project (KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Kanagawa)
2022
Shadowing (THE POOL, Hiroshima)
Waiting for (KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo)
Dokokade? Genbi Video Art Project Yuki Harada (Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Tsurumi Branch 101, Hiroshima)
Unreal Ecology (Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto)
2021
Aperto 14 Yuki Harada: Waiting for (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa)
2019
One Million Seeings (KEN NAKAHASHI, Tokyo)
Author Unknown #3 Blue Sheet (CAGE GALLERY, Tokyo)
Photography Wall (Maruki Art Museum, Saitama)
2018
Author Unknown #2 (CAGE GALLERY, Tokyo)
Shinrei-shashin / Matsudo (Yamashita Building, Nagoya)
Retrospective (honkbooks, Tokyo)
Shinrei-shashin / New Jersey (Kanzan Gallery, Tokyo)
2017
Author Unknown #1-1, #1-2, #1-3 (CAGE GALLERY, Tokyo)
2015
End Credits (Parpulume Gallery | NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo)
Publications by Yuki Harada
2023
Author, Christian Lassen: A critical biography (Chuokoron-Shinsha, 2023)
Author, Insignificant Arts (Kenele Books, 2023)
2020
Artwork, Kohkoku [Advertising] Vol.414, Hakuhodo, Tokyo
Co-author, Sports/Art, Shinwasha, Tokyo
2017
Works, Fwd: print n.1 (Self-Published, Tokyo)
2015
Co-author, From Lamb to Mutton (ART DIVER, Tokyo)
Co-edit, ARCMA Report 2014 (Keio University Art Center ARCMA Office, Tokyo)
2013
Edit, Essays on works and reception of Lassen in Japan (Film Art, Tokyo)
Curations
2017
New Flat Field (Digital Hollywood University Hachioji Campus)
2013
Magic at Le Tabou vol.2 Mariko Mukumoto (Le Tabou, Tokyo)
2012
Magic at Le Tabou vol.1 Shotaro Hokari (Le Tabou, Tokyo)
Psychic Photograph (22:00 Gallery, Tokyo)
Lassen (CASHI, Tokyo)
Group Exhibitions
2023
TERRADA ART AWARD 2023 Finalist Exhibition (Warehouse TERRADA G3-6F, Tokyo)
2022
Gangneung International Art Festival 2022 (Gangneung, Korea)
2020
Encounter With Image (JingLü Gallery, Taipei)
Alter-narratives (Website on Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts)
2019
Kiritori Mederu and the Gravestone of the Future (Parplume Gallery, Kanagawa)
Open Call for Art Project Ideas 2019 (Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima)
Yuki Harada and Takeshi Hyakuto “Shinrei Shashin” (Kannai Bunko, Kanagawa)
Yuki Tawada and Yuki Harada “Family Tree” (Omotesando Gallery, Tokyo)
2018
SURVIBIA!! (Digital Hollywood University Hachioji Campus)
2017
New Flat Field (Digital Hollywood University Hachioji Campus)
2016
MITSUKOSHI x Tokyo University of the Arts Summer Exhibition of Next Generatio Artists 2016 (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi 6F, Tokyo)
Welcome to Parplume-town (Parplume, Kanagawa)
65th Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation works exhibition (Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo)
2015
WIP 2015 (Tokyo University of the Arts, Ibaraki)
2013
ATLAS 2013 (Tokyo University of the Arts, Ibaraki)
Selected Works from Musashino Art University Degree Show 2012 (Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo)
Musashino Art University Degree Show 2012 (Musashino Art University, Tokyo)
2011
Kojima Seminar Exhibition (Musashino Art University, Tokyo)
Texts
2017
How to die of painting as the concept (Bijutsu Techo Feb. 2016, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo, pp.188-189
No-Relationship Painting (Bijutsu Techo Feb. 2016, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo, p.173)
2016
Writing the commentaries on Daisuke Miyashita, Rosen Shimamura and Keita Saito on Special Feature Newcomer Artists 100 in Japan (Bijutsu Techo 2016 Dec., BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA,
Tokyo, pp.49-84)
Construction as Expression (Bijutsu Techo Dec. 2016 , BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo, pp.212-213)
Sun as an injured eye (Bijutsu Techo Oct. 2016 , BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo, pp.166-167)
The Extreme Ordinary (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, 4th Division, Tokyo)
Eeriness to be “Destroyed / Constructed” (Bijutsu Techo Sep. 2016 , BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo, p.177)
To the Landscape of Parplume-town (Released on the exhibition Welcome to Parplume-town[2016.7.10-7.19], Kanagawa)
Who is the Author of the Exhibition? (Bijutsu Techo May 2016 , BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo, p.182-183)
“Indefinite” to be Replayed (Bijutsu Techo Apr. 2016, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo, p.180-181)
2015
Parplume as the Other (Bijutsu Techo Oct. 2015, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo, p.198-199)
Tolerance: Works of Nile Ketting (Bijutsu Techo Jul. 2015, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo, p.160-161)
Mongolian Blue Spot and the Margin of Art (From Lamb to Mutton, Edited by Yoichi Umetsu, ART DIVER, Tokyo)
Gray Vision (ARCMA Report 2014, Edited by Sen Uesaki/ Norifumi Kunimoto/ Yuki Harada, Keio University Art Center ARCMA Office, Tokyo)
Transcript and Edit, MOT Collection Program Regarding the works of Eri Takayanagi: Dialogue Eri Takayanagi x Mika Kuraya (Bulletin of the Annual Report of the Museum of
Contemporary Art Tokyo No.17 2014, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo)
Interview, Akira Yamaguchi Interview (Bijutsu Techo Apr. 2015, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo)
Kengo Kito Exhibition “Reflection” Review (REAR No.34, REAR PRODUCTION ROOM, Aichi)
2014
Distortion: Natsuko Sakamoto’s Paintings (Bijutsu Techo Dec. 2014, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo)
Viewpoint of “Deciduous” and Self-portrait of “Japan” (Gekkan Bijutsu Nov. 2014, SUN ART, Tokyo)
Earth as a Receptor (Bijutsu Techo Aug. 2014, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo)
Does fiction clear up doubt? (Bijutsu Techo Jul. 2014, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo)
Reading Special Series “Read Yusuke Nakahara” 10th (Final): Regarding a Chance and “Between Man and Matter” (Bijutsu Techo June 2014, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo)
Hardcore of Noritake Kinashi (Noritake Kinashi x 20years, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo)
Diagram of Erle Loran (Art Critique n.4, CONSTELLATION BOOKS, Kyoto)
Balthus’s painting and life (Bijutsu Techo Apr. 2014, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo)
Infinite Retreat of Criticism: From a Discourse over Balthus (Eureka Apr. 2014, SEIDO-SHA, Tokyo)
Reading Special Series “Read Yusuke Nakahara” 6th: Attitudes don’t Become Form, between Man and Matter (Bijutsu Techo Jan. 2014, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo)
Something New-Method (New-Method No.35, NEW METHOD, http://7x7whitebell.net/new-method/harada_e.html [2016.12.1])
2013
Framing and confirm (Bijutsu Techo Oct. 2013, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo)
Reading Special Series “Read Yusuke Nakahara” 3th: Art critique of anti-logic (Bijutsu Techo Sep. 2013, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo)
Reading Special Series “Read Yusuke Nakahara” 1st: Between Theoretical Physics and Art Criticism (Bijutsu Techo Jul. 2013, BIJUTSU
SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo)
Introduction, What is the exhibition Lassen?, History of Christian Lassen, Chrstian Lassen’ s Painting Life and Works, Actuality of Painting Analysis, Conclusion (Essays on
works and reception of Lassen in Japan, Edited by Yuki Harada, FILM ART, Tokyo)
Element of Noppo Ozawa (Bijutsu Techo June 2013, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo)
To the new utopia (Bijutsu Techo May 2013, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo)
Graduation thesis, On Earl Roland’s Theory of Diagram Analysis of Cezanne’s Work (MUSASHINO ART UNIVERSITY, Tokyo)
2011
Regarding the Landscape (MUSASHINO ART UNIVERSITY, Tokyo)
Interview, Daisuke Miyashita Interview (Culture Power, MUSASHINO ART UNIVERSITY, Tokyo)
2010
Editor and Interviewer, Interview Archive Web Site Culture Power (MUSASHINO ART UNIVERSITY, Tokyo)
2009
Interview, Kazuki Umezawa Interview (What is the Art Criticism?, MUSASHINO ART UNIVERSITY, Tokyo)
Talks / Performances
2015
Talk, Institution and Story of Art: From Kousouga Painting by Barbarians to Lassen (Yuki Harada x Yoichi Umetsu, NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo)
Symposium, ARTISTS’ GUILD: Artists as Consumers (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo)
2014
Lecture, Special Research on Visual Media Studies (Tokyo University of the Arts, Kanagawa)
Discussion, CAMP: Discursive # 1
Discussion, CAMP: Make an Image #2
Discussion, Guest Talk of Suzuki Hiroshi Solo Exhibition (Hiroshi Suzuki x Yuki Harada x Shuhei Tsukada x Mio Souda, XYZ collective, Tokyo)
Talk, Kumitate-Tenkai Dialogue: Kazuhiko Ueda x Yuki Harada Art as Self Education: Why Artists Planning? (Tokyo Zokei University CS-Lab, Tokyo)
2013
Symposium, CAMP: Current Art <2013> (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo)
Lecture, Joshibi University of Art and Design Artistic Representation Special Lecture # 15 (Moderated by Noriaki Kitazawa, Joshibi University of
Art and Design, Kanagawa)
Discussion, Lassen’s “Interrogation” (Futoshi Hoshino x Yuki Harada x Hiroshi Sakurai, Le Tabou, Tokyo)
Discussion, “Essays on Works and Reception of Lassen in Japan” Publication Memorial Lassen, From Now and Here Vol.2 (Masaya Chiba x Enlico Isamu Oyama x Yuki Harada, B&B,
Tokyo)
Symposium, KoSAC Presents How do we talk about Lassen? (Hideki Nakazawa x Yuki Harada x Takashi Kashima x Toshio Mitsuoka, Musashino Art University, Tokyo)
Discussion, Hideki Nakazawa Literature Research Summer Campaign Final (Hideki Nakazawa x Yuki Harada x Miwako Takeda, Bigako, Tokyo)
Discussion, Raukriad Siding 2013 Presents On the Formation of ‘Work’ (Ryo Katsumata x Yuki Harada x Mariko Mukumoto x Aya Momose, Former Tokorozawa Municipal Second School
Meal Service Center, Saitama)
Talk, Guest Talk of Qay Mihara Solo Exhibition “Artist and Death” (Yuki Harada x Qay Mihara x Masato Zushi, Aoba-so, Tokyo)
Discussion, “Essays on Works and Reception of Lassen in Japan” Publication Memorial Lassen, From Now and Here Vol.1 (Tamaki Saito x Kenro Hayamizu x Sakiko Ohno x Yuki
Harada, B&B, Tokyo)
Talk, Touching Sound, Audible Form (Mariko Mukumoto x Yuki Harada, Le Tabou, Tokyo)
Lecture, Guest Talk of “Genba” Study Group (Miyamasuzaka Building, Tokyo)
Discussion, Musashino Art University Graduate Exhibition 2012 Talk Event (Sachiko Sugiura x Miwa Takahashi x Emiri Sakurabayashi x Yuki Harada, Musashino Art University,
Tokyo)
2012
Discussion, Provisional School (Daisuke Awata x Haruo Kobayashi x Satoshi Hashimoto x Takashi Fujikawa x Yuki Harada x Goro Murayama x Kenta Ichinose x Koichi Mitsuoka x
Hijiri Goino x Naoki Nomoto x Zenichi Tanakamaru and so on, Tokyo Zokey University CS-Lab, Tokyo)
Talk, Touching Sound, Audible Form (Shotaro Hokari x Yuki Harada, Le Tabou, Tokyo)
Lecture, Materality and Quality: From the Repeatability of H. Moore and D. Hurst (Sachiko Sugiura x Yuki Harada, Neutron Tokyo, Tokyo)
Event, Night and Art (Ryutaro Sakae x Yuki Harada, 22:00 Gallery, Tokyo)
Discussion of exhibition Psychic Photography (Ryutaro Sakae x Yuki Harada x Katsumasa Matsui, 22:00 Gallery, Tokyo)
2011
Moderat, Art after 3.11 (Atsuhiko Ishiguro x Ryo Sawayama x Yukinobu Okamura, Ginza Conference Room, Tokyo)
2010
Assistant Director, Daydream (Directed by Haruyo Morimoto, Acted by Daisuke Miyashita)
Publications on Yuki Harada
2016
Seiichi Tsuchiya, About Intimacy, Exhibition Review of Welcome to Parplume-town (Bijutsu Techo Oct. 2016, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA,
Tokyo, pp.164-165)
Featuring Art School Students Now 2016 From Art University to Society: Symposium by Young Artists (Mitsuko Kuroki x Makiko Satake x Miyuki Takashima x Solaya Nagai x Yuki
Harada x Hina Maekawa x Keiko Miyagawa, Gallery Mar. 2016, GALLERY STATION, Tokyo, pp.81-89)
2015
ART NAVI Oct. 2015 (BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo)
gnck, Yuki Harada is serious., Exhibition Review of Lighthouse vol.9 Yuki Harada (Bijutsu Techo Mar. 2015, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Tokyo, pp.250-251)
Grants
Grant, Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists, Tokyo
2018
Grant, Istyle Art and Sports Foundation
Residency, Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, International Cultural Exchange Program 2016
Awards
2023
Finalist and Yukie Kamiya Award, Terrada Art Award 2023
Eriko Kimura Awards (Open Call for Art Project Ideas 2019 at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima)
2013
Essays on Works and Reception of Lassen in Japan, Book of the Year 2013 7th (Dacapo, Tokyo)
Musashino Art University Degree Show 2012, Award of excellence (Musashino Art University, Tokyo)
Public Collection
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Japanese Emigration to Hawaii