Katsutoshi Yuasa

About

Katsutoshi Yuasa (b. 1978, Japan) studied Fine Art at the Musashino Art University followed by MA Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, London. The artist explores the essence of photography in the discipline of printmaking. Ideas of sight, perception, memory and remembrance and the indirect expression of printmaking are at the core of his practice.

The artist regularly exhibits in solo and group exhibitions globally. Solo exhibitions include ‘Illuminate: Woodcuts by Katsutoshi Yuasa’ at Lawrence Art Center, Kansas in the US, as well as ‘Fragmentary’ at Gallery YUKI-SIS in Tokyo. Recent group exhibitions include ‘Two Artists in Residence Exhibition plus’ at Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Japan, and ‘The point of truth, beauty and knowledge’ at Künstlerhaus Dortmund in Germany.

Yuasa currently lives and works in Kanagawa prefecture, and he is a lecturer at Tama Art University. The artist has completed residencies at prestigious institutions such as Graphic Studio Dublin in Ireland, Cité Internationale des Arts in France and the Kala Art Institute in the US. His work can be found in prestigious public collections around the world, such as Laing Art Gallery, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Leipzig, New York Public Library and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Education

2003-2005

Royal College of Art, London GB (MA Fine Art, Printmaking)

1998-2002

Musashino Art University, Tokyo JP (BA Fine Art, Painting and Printmaking)

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

2024

Drift and tides, 2 artists show Manami Ito x Katsutoshi Yuasa, gallery noivoi, Nagoya, Japan
Water moon, Gallery YUKI-SIS, Tokyo, Japan
Depthless, Echizen Washinosato Art Museum, Fukui, Japan

2023

Fragmentary, Gallery YUKI-SIS, Tokyo, Japan
Mirror of Time, Y& Gallery, Yonezawa, Japan
The Heart of Spring, Gallery Ami-Kanoko, Osaka, Japan

2022

Carving Light, Gallery KEI-FU, Kyoto, Japan
SEEING THROUGH THE LIGHT, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland

2021

VR , Gallery YUKI-SIS, Tokyo, Japan
WORK IN PROGRESS, NAZUKARI WAREHOUSE, Chiba, Japan

2020

EROS, Kanazawa Yuwaku Sosaku no Mori Center for Crafts and Culture, Kanazawa, Japan
Speculative despair, Gallery YUKI-SIS, Tokyo, Japan
Travelling Mokuhanga, gallery noivoi, Nagoya, Japan

2019

A Picture of UKIYO, Frederick Harris Gallery at Tokyo American Club, Tokyo,Japan
Katsutoshi Yuasa AGNAHUKOM, Art Village Shirakino, Minamishimabara, Japan
Mar Light・Wind・Shadow (organised by Ying Gallery), Quinsay Hotel, Xiamen, China

2018

Dreams & Resposibility, Gallery YUKI-SIS, Tokyo, Japan
Light・Shadow, Ying Gallery, Beijing, China
Trace of Time in Thought, Northern Print Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
space・wind・scenery, MYD Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2017

Carving while thinking. Thinking while carving., MITSUKOSHI Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan
Gravity and Grace, Gallery YUKI-SIS, Tokyo, Japan
MEMORY OF THE PAST AND PRESENT, Ying Gallery, Beijing, China

2016

Colours/Numbers, Gallery YUKI-SIS, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2024

Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn, The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland
The 67th CWAJ Print Show, Hillside Forum F, Tokyo, Japan
Summer Exhibition 2024, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
KWAIDAN Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn, The Coastguard Cultural Centre Tramore, Lafcadio Hearn, Japanese Gardens, Tramore, Ireland; Galerie Aube, Kyoto University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan; The Ballinglen Museum of Art, Ballycastle, Ireland
Seven perspectives, rtstudio NAZUKARI WAREHOUSE, Chiba, Japan
ESTAMPES+ 2024, Galerie Grand E’terna, Paris, France
Macau Print Association Mokuhanga Exhibition, D-ART Gallery, Fukui, Japan
Board members exhibition, Furusato Gallery Shikura, Fukui, Japan

2023

The 66th CWAJ Print Show, Hillside Forum F, Tokyo, Japan
KWAIDAN Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn, Yaizu Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum, Shizuoka, Japan; Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum, Shimane, Japan
International Mokuhanga Exhibition IRODORI, Ozu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2023 Minami-Shimabara Art Village Shirakino Project AIR Project Artists Exhibition Manami Ito × Katsutoshi Yuasa, Art Village Shirakino, Minami-Shimabara, Japan
GLOBAL DIMENTIONS, Foundry Vineyards, Walla Walla, USA
PRINTED/MATTER, Nihombashi Takashimaya Art Gallery X, Tokyo, Japan
Two Artists in Residence Exhibition plus, Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishikawa, Japan

2022

The point of truth, beauty and knowledge, Kunstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Beauty is in the Details, Cassina ixc, Tokyo, Japan
WOOD PAPER INK, St Lawrence University’s Richard F Brush Gallery, Canton, USA
BETWEEN WORLDS – MOKUHANGA, Kentler International Drawing Space, New York, USA

2021

Making paper and printing on paper, Nishiaizu International Art Village, Fukushima, Japan
First Contact Mokuhanga exhibition starting with Mokuhanga artists, Arts Chiyoda 3331, Tokyo, Japan

2020

Exhibition of two resident artists, Kanazawa Citizen’s Art Center PIT5, Kanazawa, Japan

2019

Cutting Edge, Oud Gerechtshof Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium
Still Life, YUKI-SIS, Tokyo, Japan

2018

Walking Birds’ Mountain, Factory Performance Space, Sligo, Ireland
Monet’s Legacy, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan; Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Beyond Words: TRANSMEDIATING MURAKAMI HARUKI, Atrium and Long Gallery at Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

2017

International Miniature Print Exhibition 2017, Awa Japanese Handmade Paper Museum & Inbe Art Space, Tokushima, Japan
Contemporary Talents of Japan 2017, Ronin Gallery, New York, USA
The Original Print Show 2017, Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk, UK
Poetry of Place, The Koppel Project, London, UK
Views on Contemporary Japanese Printmaking, Famagusta Gate, Nicosia, Cyprus
SUMMER EXHIBITION 2017, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Estampes+, Galerie Grand E’terna, Paris, France
20 Coastal Stations - et internasjonalt grafikkprosjekt, Bodø Kunstforening, Bodø, Norway
2018 Karin Sander: ZEIGEN. Eine Audiotour durch die Sammlung der GfZK Leipzig, Galerie Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
THE FOOLS, YUKI-SIS, Tokyo, Japan
Twelve at Number Twenty, No 20, London, UK
Core of Printmaking 1, Bumpodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2016

2nd Japanese Printmakers Exhibition 2016, Shanghai Peninsula Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galeries, London, Uk
20 Coastal Stations, Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Forde, Norway
Fragile Story – Travelling Exhibition of 10 Mokuhanga Artists, Victorian College of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
2017 Surface Cutting – A series of Exhibition from Art Sales at the Royal Academy, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
International Exhibition of Contemporary Print UOG 2016, ISLA Center for the Arts, Guam, USA
Carving the Floating World, MICHEKO GALERIE, Munich, Germany
ESTAMPES+ Estampes Contemporain selon Akane KIRIMURA, Galerie Grand E’terna, Pair, France
RCA Secret 2016, Royal College of Art Kensignton, London, UK
RCA Secret Dubai, Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
UFO HAS ARRIVED at YUKI-SIS, Gallery YUKI-SIS, Tokyo, Japan
WOOD BLOCK PRINTS – Created in the workshop conducted by Katsutoshi Yuasa, Exhibition Hall in Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, India

Residencies (Selected)

2024

International Plein Air Painting Stary Sącz, Stary Sącz, Poland
Ballinglen Art Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland

2023

Art Village Shirakino, Minamishimabara, Japan
Graphic Studio Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Kanazawa Yuwaku Sosaku no Mori Center for Crafts and Culture, Kanazawa, Japan

2021

Nishiaizu International Art Village, Fukushima, Japan

2020

SAIKONEON, Yamanashi, Japan
Kanazawa Yuwaku Sosaku no Mori Center for Crafts and Culture, Kanazawa, Japan

2019

Graphic Studio Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Art Village Shirakino, Minamishimabara, Japan

2018

Fiskars Art Village, Fiskars, Finland
Northern Print, Newcastle, UK

2017

Ronin Globus artist in residence, New York, USA

2016

Chhaap, Vadodara, India