YUMI KARASUMARU
(Osaka, 1958)
She lives and works between Bologna and Kawanishi. Since the 1990s, Yumi Karasumaru’s research has developed in parallel between painting and performance, with a keen eye on the relationship between the present and the past of her country of origin, Japan. Her paintings are based on photographic images, often taken by the artist herself, in which portraits of families and adolescents met on the streets of Tokyo neighborhoods alternate: “in young neighborhoods such as Shibuya, Harajuku and Akihabara, I have seen thousands of people meet, fall in love, hate each other, look at each other, gather together, discuss, an almost 360° meeting of emotions”.
Main solo & group show
2026
Forming new art from classics – drawing series, Kyoto Daimaru Espace, Kyoto
2025
Cha Cha Cha, con i giocattoli, DumBO, Bologna
2024
Cha-cha-cha with the toys! Oh baby! Cha! Cha! Cha!, MANIFESTO Gallery, Osaka
Forming new art from classics, Kyoto Daimaru Espace, Kyoto
Yumi’s New School, Palazzo Vizzani, Bologna
Learning from the past, L’Ariete artecontemporanea, Bologna
2023
FACING HISTORIES 2023, Galleria Paola Verrengia, Salerno
Forming new art from classics, Katsuya Susuki Gallery, Tokyo
2021
Woven, Katsuya Susuki Gallery, Tokyo
+Divenire. Dove inizia il numero di esodo, Corciano Festival, Corciano
2019
Turnover #1, Galleria Paola Verrengia, Salerno
2018
Lari – gli spiriti protettori della casa, Triennale di Milano, Super Studio, Milano
EX-NOVO, Fondazione Plart, Napoli
2017
Roberto Daolio. Vita e incontri di un critico d’arte attraverso le opere di una collezione non intenzionale, MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna
2016
Facing Histories, MAMbo, Bologna
Tam Tam: Normali Meraviglie, la Mano, Triennale di Milano
La Casa do ut do – Art for Hospice, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
2015
Facing Histories, Roppongi Hills A/D gallery, Tokyo
Facing Histories, Kcua Kyoto City University Arts Art Gallery, Kyoto
Facing Histories, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima
2014
Spiriti evanescenti. Dal Giappone al Marfisa d’Este, Palazzina d’Este, Ferrara
Facing Histories, Galerie Houg, Lyon
2013
Tokyo – Monogatari, Studio Carlotta Pesce, Bologna
2012
Do ut do – Art for Hospice, Spazio Carbonesi, Bologna
2011
Tokyo Stories – Vol.3, Galerie Houg, Lyon
2010
It’s Our Tokyo Stories, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
2009
Tokyo Stories, Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia
Run, Jump and Throw – Athletics in International Contemporary Art, The Berlin City Hall, Berlino
2007
RED HOT – Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2006
BUNSHIN – everyday life, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
2005
Tokyo Agers, Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia
2002
Facing Histories, Marcel Scheiner Gallery, Hilton Head Island, USA
1999
Hino Izuri Kuni Yori, Galleria Luigi Franco Arte Contemporanea, Torino
Toki No Fuin, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima
Modern Crimes, Viafarini, Milano
1998
Spazio Aperto, MAMbo, Bologna
1995
Banzai, Galleria Guido Carbone, Torino
Biennale di Venezia, APERTO ’95 – OUT OF ORDER, MAMbo, Bologna