Monami Yabe

I strive to demonstrate that the entity I create before my eyes from my memories has the potential to travel, in a non-linear time, in great distances and small distances, and in this space here and now.

I want to enact in the here and now, things that are in the distant, things close by, and spaces that are moving, that are in between things.

Born in Kanagawa in 2000. Graduated from the Department of Sculpture, College of Art and Design, Musashino Art University in 2024. Currently enrolled in the master’s program in Fine Arts (Sculpture Course), Graduate School of Musashino Art University.

Yabe primarily creates wooden sculptures. She attempts to enact things that are in the distant, things close by, spaces that are moving that are in between things, in the here and now. Major exhibitions include “Selected Works from Graduation and Thesis Projects 2024” at Musashino Art University Museum, and Gunma Biennale for Young Artists 2025 at the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma.

Exhibitions

2021 The 56th Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery (Kanagawa)

2022 “Kodaira Art Site” Kodaira Central Park (Tokyo)

Three-person exhibition “Holes in the Everyday” Nakano Ginza Gallery (Tokyo)

2023 Solo exhibition “Signposts to That Forest” 8cho8ma gallery (Tokyo)

“Deviation” Musashino Art University, Building 9, B1F Exhibition Room (Tokyo)

The 58th Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery (Kanagawa)

Musashino Art University Graduation/Thesis Exhibition, Musashino Art University (Tokyo)

2024 The 47th Joint Graduation Exhibition of the Five Art Universities of Tokyo, The National Art Center (Tokyo)

Selected Works from Graduation and Thesis Projects 2023, Musashino Art University Museum (Tokyo)

2024 The 59th Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery (Kanagawa)

KUMA experiment 2024–25 vol.4: “When I Open My Mouth, Air Escapes.” KUMA Foundation Gallery (Tokyo)

2025 “ALIVE” BankART Station (Kanagawa)

Gunma Biennale for Young Artists 2025, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma (Gunma)

“Mekurinasai” The White (Tokyo)

Awards

2021 The 56th Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition, selected

2023 The 58th Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition, selected

2024 Musashino Art University Graduation/Thesis Exhibition, Excellence Award

2024 The 59th Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition, Selected

2025 Gunma Biennale for Young Artists 2025, Selected