Yuki
Ideguchi

Born 1986 in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, Yuki Ideguchi received his BFA and MFA from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2007 and 2013 respectively. Ideguchi’s works are a fusion of traditional Japanese painting techniques and modern images, themes, and practices, often incorporating motifs of Japanese nature, life and death, and the cyclical nature of history and culture. 
 In 2011, Ideguchi participated in Seoul’s Asia Student and Young Artist Art Fair, as well as Japan’s Asahi Newspaper Next Generation Art Exhibition. In 2012, Ideguchi was selected as a scholarship recipient of the Mitsubishi Art Gate Program. Since moving to the US in the fall of 2013, Ideguchi has focused his efforts on the international art scene and has been an active participant in exhibitions such as the Representative Art Exhibition of Japan in Paris, and other exhibitions in Seoul, India, Poland, Shanghai, Taiwan, and the United States. Contemporarily, Ideguchi continues to work as an artist in New York City, the pinnacle of the modern art world.
 After experiencing production and exhibition in Japan and abroad, Ideguchi began to produce paintings using various painting materials in the process of flexibly dealing with every situation. On the canvas, the method of painting together the Nihonga(Japanese style painting) material and the spray which used for graffiti (street art) on the street is his own technique. By aggressively using acrylic paint, spray paint and newly developed pigment (powder pigment) developed in modern times, various expressions which can not be expressed with conventional Japanese painting materials are created on the canvas.
Solo Exhibition2018　The Sky and the Sea are all blue-Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan2017　Waterfronts, Resobox Chelsea, NY, USA2016　Yūki Ideguchi solo exhibition at AArt -Shanghai Art expo 2016, Twelve at                 Hengshan A Luxury Collection Hotel, Shanghai, China       2016　Vortex, Resobox, NY, USA2015　Somewhere hasn’t been here will be here, Minnano Gallery, Tokyo, Japan2015　WAVE - LIFE AND DEATH: YUKI IDEGUCHI, Chinese American Arts             Council, NY, USAGrant
2018 YOSHINO GYPSUM ART FOUNDATION   2015　The Asahi Shinbun Foundation, The Japan Foundation, New York 2012　The Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program scholarship
Prize2016　The Top Prize of Marine Day Arts Festival, Iwaki, Japan2016　The Suemura Award, JANNY, NY2009　The Geisai prize in The Tokyo University of the Arts2008　The Geisai prize in The Tokyo University of the Arts2006　The KJ championship prize of Japanese painting2002　The Asahi Shinbun Prize of The Fukuoka Prefectural Art Exhibition 
Lecture, Workshop2018 Evolving Traditions – Paintings of wonder from Japan opening lecture, JICC,                Washington DC, USA2018　Workshop "Nihonga Now: Exploring the Art of Japanese Painting”,             Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC, USA 2018　Workshop "The Art of Japanese Painting An Evening of Style and Techniqueg”, THE              JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DC, Washington DC, USA2018　Workshop"Paints, Pigments, Brushes: All about Japanese Painting”,            Arthur M. Sackler Gallery,Washington DC, USA 2017　Lecture and workshop, Dazaifu high school, Fukuoka, Japan2016　Artist presentation and lecture, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan2015　Artist presentation and lecture, Dazaifu high school, Fukuoka, Japan