YUKIKO HATA ハタユキコ
1988 Born in Miyagi, Japan
Lives and works in Miyagi, Japan
Yukiko Hata’s works capture contemporary society with vivid colors and dark messages. Having felt a strong sense of discomfort with “society” since her early childhood, Hata learned to build acceptance by expressing her thoughts through painting and depicting the world as seen through her own eyes. While portraying real-world problems, she has taken to using venomously bright colors, likened to recalling “the brilliance and beauty of the world before the explosion of the atomic bomb.” The end result recalls the feeling of omnipotence and dreams of piercing hue she experienced as a child, while also pairing them with a unique sense of humor.
EDUCATION
2014
MA in Industrial art, majored in arts and culture, Tohoku University of Art and Design, Graduate School, Yamagata, Japan
2011
BA in Tohoku University of Art and Design, School of Art, Yamagata, Japan
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBIOTIONS
2019
Yukiko Hata: Ghost in the Summer, SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2017
Young Artists Support Program Voyage, Yukiko Hata: Natsu no Genshi, The Shiogama Sugimura Jun Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan
2014
Gitai suru Kaiga, GALLERY b. TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan
2013
Human ERROR, IDEHA creation, Yamagata, Japan
2012
Human COMPLEX, Art Room Enoma, Miyagi, Japan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
THINGS SHE CARRIES: Miné Okubo/ Aya Fujioka/ Yukiko Hata, SEIZAN Gallery, New York
2022
Moyai next, Yokohama Art Forum Azamino, Kanagawa, Japan
PASSION!!, SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
CONTEMPORARY ART x MITSUKOSHI, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan
2021
JOKER, SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
GHOSTS OF SUMMER, SEIZAN Gallery, New York
NEKO・NEKO・NEKO, Sendai Mitsukoshi, Miyagi, Japan
2020
Gendai sakka niyoru Kissho daruma-ten, Matsuzakaya Ueno, Tokyo, Japan
The Red, Fukuoka Mitsukoshi, Fukuoka, Japan
Contemporary Art to Wakate 100-ten, Nagoya Sakai Mitsukoshi, Aichi, Japan
TOHOKU CALLING: Shika ou mono wa Yama o mizu, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Online Exhibition- Jo Sai Sho Fuku (Ward off Calamities, Invite Good Luck): Gods and Yokai in the Time of Pandemic, SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo; SEIZAN Gallery, New York
Yamagata Biennale 2020: Shape of Mountains, Shape of Life, Yamagata, Japan
On This Shore, SEIZAN Gallery, New York
Bijutsuka Fukushu-ten 2020, Tohoku University of Art and Design, Yamagata, Japan
A SINGLE ANT BITE, SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo
2019
REIMAGINED: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS TAKE ON THE TALE OF GENJI, SEIZAN Gallery, New York
The Red: Women, SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Michi no Oku Geijutsusai YAMATAGATA BIENNALE 2018, Tohoku University of Art and Design, Yamagata, Japan
Atarashii Minwa no tame no Visualization, Miyagi, Japan
The Children’s Art Museum, Shiogama Sugimura Jun Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan
2017
The 11st Nishiwaki City Thumb Hole Grand Prize Exhibition, Okanoyama Museum of Art Nishiwaki, Hyogo, Japan
2016
Genzai Sensoga-ten, TAV GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
Something Precious, SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (through 2019)
2015
Tohoku-ga wa Kanou ka? Chihou no Kuni Gendai Bijutsu-ten, T-Art Gallery, Tokyo Japan
TERADA ART AWARD 2015 Exhibition, T-Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
ART AWARD NEXT III Exhibition, Tokyo Art Club, Tobi Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2014
LITTLE AKIHABARA MARKET, ROPPONGI HILLS A/D GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
The 1st CAF Award Exhibition, TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
EXHIBITIONS
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Okanoyama Museum of Art Nishiwaki, Hyogo, Japan
AWARDS
2017
HOLBEIN Scholarship
Yuji Yamashita Prize, the 11st Nishiwaki city Thumb Hole Grand Prize Exhibition, Okanoyama Museum of Art Nishiwaki, Hyogo, Japan
EXHIBITIONS
THINGS SHE CARRIES
Miné Okubo, Aya Fujioka, Yukiko Hata
GHOSTS OF SUMMER
ONLINE EXHIBITION: 除災招福 JO SAI SHO FUKU
ON THIS SHORE
REIMAGINED: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS TAKE ON THE TALE OF GENJI