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
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