Born in 1977 in Osaka, Japan
Lives and works in Hiroshima, Japan
Yayoi Deki is renowned for her intricate, vibrantly colored paintings and unique finger-stamping technique. Her art exudes an eternal 'girlishness,' characterized by naive imagery and obsessive attention to detail. Her 'Flags' series, for instance, is composed of countless tiny faces that form a colorful world, creating a mesmerizing, almost hallucinatory effect.
Her art is a paradoxical blend of joy and obsession, innocence and madness. The overwhelming sensory experience of her paintings is intensified by the underlying tension between her childlike naivety and a more obsessive, primal energy.
Deki officially debuted in the group exhibition "Ground Zero Japan" at Art Tower Mito (1999), followed by notable group exhibitions such as the 7th Venice Biennale of Architecture (2000), the 7th Lyon Biennial (2003), and "Roppongi Crossing 2007: Future Beats in Japanese Contemporary Art" at Mori Art Museum (2007). Her artwork has also been featured on record covers, and as one of the celebrated artists of the first decade of the 2000s, she continues to create her artwork with occasional adventures to wander.
education
Graduated Kyoto University of the Arts in 1998
solo shows
2022
- Being Unique, NEWoMan Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
2017
- Flags, YAMAMOTO GENDAI, Tokyo
2015
- Traveling♪, YAMAMOTO GENDAI, Tokyo
2010
- Pineapple, YAMAMOTO GENDAI, Tokyo
2007
- Solo show, YAMAMOTO GENDAI, Tokyo
- Dekinodekinodeki, Takahashi Collection Kagurazaka, Tokyo
2004
- PANDY, YAMAMOTO GENDAI, Tokyo
2003
- Tabaimo x Yayoi Deki: Nippon no, Nanakamura, Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka
2000
- Gallery Trax, Yamanashi
- Little more gallery, Tokyo
1999
- Gallery Trax, Yamanashi
- Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
group shows
2024
- Curator Tama 2024 Project: “Color Dancing?! — Art Across Time Selected by 13-Year-Olds, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa
- Sado Island Galaxy Art Festival, Multiple location on Sado Island, Niigata
- A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
- Art Basel Hong Kong 2024, Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
2023
- CADAN Gendai Bijutsu 2023, WHAT CAFE, Tokyo
2022
- ART HANKYU 2022, Hankyu Department Store Umeda Main Store, Osaka
2018
- Sado Island Galaxy Art Festival, Multiple location on Sado Island, Niigata
2017
- Japanorama. A new vision on art since 1970, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
2014
- Currents: Japanese Contemporary Art, The James Christie Room, Hong Kong
- PANDY & MIKO、FOIL GALLERY Kyoto /Gallery Trax, Yamanashi
- COLORED NOISE for 8/02/CUBE1,2,3, Shibuya Hikarie CUBE1,2,3, Tokyo
2012
- articolo di lusso, FOIL GALLERY, Kyoto
2010
- Neoteny Japan, The Ehime Museum of Art
2009
- Neoteny Japan, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
- Neoteny Japan, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
- Neoteny Japan, Akita Museum of Modern Art
- Neoteny Japan, Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori
2008
- Neoteny Japan, KIRISHIMA OPEN-AIR MUSEUM, Kagoshima
- Neoteny Japan, Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido
2007
- Roppongi Crossing 2007: Future Beats in Japanese Contemporary Art, Mori art museum, Tokyo
- Drive You Insane, YAMAMOTO GENDAI, Tokyo
2004
- Collapsed Bodies, YAMAMOTO gallery, Tokyo
- The Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony-Energubg Resibabces, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2003
- 7e Biennale de Lyon, Lyon
2000
- La Biennale di Venezia / International Architecture Exhibition, Venice
- Urgent Painting, Musée dʼArt Moderne de Paris, Paris
1999
- Ground Zero Japan, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki (~2000)
public collections
-21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
-Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
-Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa
-Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Tokyo
