Yuji Ono

Yuji Ono was born in Fukuoka, Japan in 1963. After graduating from the Photography Department at Osaka University of Arts in 1986, he moved to France and has continued to live and work in Paris ever since then. Ono has been exploring “light,” the foundation of photography as a medium, in his different series. In Tableaux series, he reconfigures the relation between painting and photography by photographing Western paintings under natural light coming through windows or dim light at the museums in which those paintings are exhibited. Luminescence series captures accumulated light in chandeliers that are illuminated by other artificial light sources.

Solo Exhibitions

Vice Versa ‒ Les Tableaux at ShugoArts, 2018

Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 2006

Group Exhibitions

Light and Shadow: First There Was Light, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2006

Collections

François-Mitterrand Library

Carnavalet Museum

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Maison Européenne de la Photographie

Pinault Collection

Alaia Collection

Shanghai Art Museum

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum