Yoichi Umetsu

BiographyBorn in 1982 in Yamagata, Japan. Yoichi Umetsu is a contemporary art artist and head of Parplume collective. His work explores the canons of modern art painting in Japan and its western influence as well as the contemporary visual movement in Japan and its permeability within music, art and youth culture. Read More

Yoichi Umetsu works across a variety of mediums from painting, performance, video, sculpture and ceramic and is actively engaged in curating and writing. Conscious of the position of his generation in contemporary Japan, Yoichi´s work reflect a critical stance towards society and its history. Major exhibitions include “APMoA Project, ARCH vol.20 Umetsu Yoichi”, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan, 2017, “Parplume University and Yoichi Umetsu”, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2017, “Purple-ism in Purple Town”, Parplume Preparatory School and more, 2018, “Weavers of Worlds – A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2019, “Full Frontal Nude Circulator”, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery, 2020 and “Bubbles / Debris: Art of the Heisei Period 1989–2019”, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum, 2021.