Yui Samejima

1988 Born in Kyoto, Japan

2010 B.F.A. Printmaking, Kyoto Seika University

People cannot see everything in the world directly and construct their own world based on fragmentary information obtained through their five senses. Based on the premise of the process of perception formed by such incomplete observation, I creates painting works as a device to show the “invisible existence” outside of the fragments.

　For me, creating a work of art is an act in which I, as an object, confirm the phenomenon that emerges through my subject. Through this phenomenology-based perspective, I would like to explore how people perceive the world and how they can approach things beyond the range of their perception.

Solo exhibitions

2025

" Repetition and Transformation:The Sum " (MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY, Tokyo)

2023

" afterglow " (2kw gallery, Shiga)

" The Beats of Ghosts " (NADiff Gallery, Tokyo)

2021

" Tangled rūpa " (GALLERY VALEUR, Aichi)

2020

" KYOKAI NO MICHIKAKE " (2kw gallery, Shiga)

2018

" √ root " (2kw gallery, Shiga)

2017

" Yui Samejima Exhibition punctuation " (VOU, Kyoto)

2016

" Konohana's Eye # 11 Yui Samejima Exhibition Points at 5 o'clock are white and black " (the three konohana, Osaka)

2014

" Konohana's Eye # 3 Yui Samejima Exhibition Like grabbing an empty cloud " (the three konohana, Osaka)

2013

" TWS-Emerging 2013 / pipe dream " (Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo)

2012

" Yui Samejima Exhibition Tangent point 0 " (neutron tokyo 3F mini gallery, Tokyo)

2011

" Yui Samejima Exhibition kan △ navi " (GALLERY wks., Osaka)

Other exhibitions bios

2025

" The Visions of Contemporary Art 2025 " (The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo)

2024

" I'm not a robot " (Ken Fine Art, Osaka)

" WALL_SELECTION vol.3 " (WALL_alternative, Tokyo)

" ARTISTS' FAIR KYOTO 2024 " (Meiji Ancient Capital Gallery, Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto)

" Visualize" (haku kyoto, Kyoto)

" WHAT CAFE EXHIBITION vol.34 WHAT CAFE × DELTA [TOPOLOGY] " (WHAT CAFE, Tokyo) *Exhibited from The Third Gallery Aya

2023

" young okazaki vol.3 " (MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto)

" ACT (Artists Contemporary TOKAS) Vol. 5 ungraspable " (Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Tokyo)

"ARTISTS' FAIR KYOTO 2023 " (Kyoto Museum of Culture, Kyoto)

" GURA open storage " (Takashimaya Osaka 6th floor gallery NEXT, Osaka)

2022

" The Layer, the layer " (The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka)

" 3331 ART FAIR 2022 " (3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo) *Exhibited as a selected artist in Selection-GYM

" JAPAN / KOREA ART Communications 7 Gift " (OHARANO STUDIO GALLERY, Kyoto)

" Methodology to connect to ∃ " (TENSHADAI, Kyoto)

" BLUE ART COLLABORATION " (Terada Warehouse G1 Building, Tokyo)

" Fragments of unvoiced voices " (KATSUYA SUSUKI GALLERY, Tokyo)

2021

" UMEKOUJI MEETINGS Vol.00 " (Kagan Hotel, Kyoto)

" CAPTURE " (RIKKA gallery Azabudai, Tokyo)

" MITSUKOSHI Art Weeks " (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store, Tokyo)

" ABRACADABRA " (2kw gallery, Shiga)

" 8th Cheongju International Art Exhibition: A Climate of Dialogue Again-Japan-Korea International Exchange Exhibition. " (Shema Art Museum, Cheongju, South Korea)

" Emerging Artist Exhibition " (Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore GINZA ATRIUM, Tokyo)

" JAPAN / KOREA ART Communications Japanese-Korean Art Communication Part5 Temperature " (The Terminal Kyoto, Kyoto)

2020

" PERSPECTIVE SPIRAL " (Seian Art Center, Seian University of Art and Design Gallery Art Site, Shiga)

2019

" Korean-Japanese Art Communication 2019 Temperature " (Cheongju City Art Museum Annex Gallery, Korea Cheongju)

" OPEN STUDIO ×10 " (GURA Studio・Kyoto)

2018

" Japanese-Korean Art Communication Part 3 " (Saga Art University, Kyoto)

" SAEM What Question? " (Cheongju City Art Museum Annex Gallery, Korea Cheongju)

2017

" Korean-Japanese art communication part 2 Cross point " (Chungbuk Cultural Museum Forest Gallery, Korea Cheongju)

" Points of departures " (Arena 1 Gallery, California USA)

2016

" ULTRA x ANTEROOM exhibition 2016 " (Hotel Anteroom Kyoto, Kyoto)

2015

" Liquid section " (2kw gallery, Osaka)

" ART OSAKA 2015 " ※ Exhibition from the three konohana (Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka)

2013

" Gifu and Space Folk Art " (Naufu Contemporary, Gifu)

" Que sera sera Vol 5 in Paris " (Espace Japon, France Paris)

" C'est moi? 2 " (GALLERY MAISON D'ART, Osaka)

" The 3rd D Art Biennale " (Daitec Sakae Building, Aichi)

" Shibuya Style vol. 7 " (Seibu Shibuya Store B, 8F, Art Gallery, Tokyo)

2012

" C'est moi? " (GALLERY MAISON D'ART, Osaka)

" Tokyo Wonder Wall Recruitment 2012 " (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo)

2011

" Petit GEISAI # 15 " (Tokyo Metropolitan Industry and Trade Center Taito Building, 7th floor, Tokyo)

" 2nd D Art Biennale " (Daitec Sakae Building, Aichi)

2010

" Waku Waku Kyoto Project Waku Waku Rissei Elementary School " (Former Rissei Elementary School, Kyoto)

" ART Stream 2010 PICKUP ARTIST EXHIBITION " (Suntory Museum, Osaka)

2009

" Korea-Japan Yonger Artists Exchange Exhibition " (Alternative Space MARU, Korea Changwon)

2008

" Via art osaka 2008 " (Sankei Brize Plaza, Osaka)

2005

" AMUSE ARTJAM 2005 " (Kyoto Cultural Museum, Kyoto)

Awards

2025

The Visions of Contemporary Art 2025, VOCA Honorable Mention

2024

Heiwado Foundation Emerging Artists Art Exhibition, 30th Anniversary Special Prize

2023

2022 Heiwado Foundation Art Encouragement Award (Fine Arts Division)

2021

NONIO ART WAVE AWARD 2021, Grand Prix / NONIO Prize　

2013

Selected, D Art Biennale 2013

2012

Selected, Tokyo Wonder Wall Open Call 2012

Selected, GOLDEN COMPETITION 2012

2011

Selected, D Art Biennale 2011

2010

GOLDEN COMPETITION 2010, U35 Prize

2008

Acrylic Award 2008, Bijutsu Techo Prize

Collection

Turner color works LTD.

Osaka Art University

Hotel Anteroom Kyoto

LION Corporation

UESHIMA COLLECTION

KAZUMA IEIRI COLLECTION

HOTEL ANDI Townscape Wuhan

DMG MORI CO., LTD.

Orque d’or salon AOYAMA

​​​​​​​TOY'S FACTORY INC.

Media

Featured in the May issue of Bijutsu no Mado, “Hot New Artists Selected by Critics and Curators” (April 18, 2025, Seikatsu no Tomosha)

Featured in the April issue of mina, “PICK UP ARTISTS” (February 20, 2023, Shufu no Tomosha)

“Kamogawa Runner” by Gregory Khezrnejat, illustration (October 28, 2021, Kodansha)

Featured in the February issue of Bijutsu Techo, “100 Newcomer Artists” (January 7, 2021, Bijutsu Shuppan)

Appeared on TV program “LIFE - Shape of a Dream” (Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, October 3, 2020)