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Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1984, yang02 graduated with a master’s degree in Information Design (Media Art) from Tama Art University in 2009. With a background that leaned towards street art as a teenager, while studying Media Art at university, yang02 has consistently used technology from the beginning of his career to the present to create works inspired by expression in the public area. The purpose of creating entities that substitute/extend human action through physical engineering, such as a device that generates graffiti, is to expose and critique the privileged nature of human existence and physicality by vividly backlighting it, often too obvious for us to be aware of it. Recently, he manifestly chose to use ready-made products or misuse existing information systems, such as powered products like a Segway or machine learning systems developed by Google, in which more current technologies are installed. In the end, he relates them, constructing systems and places, and turning them into artworks as installation. He intervenes in the established system of information technology, which has become a part of our daily lives, revealing errors and bugs through the cracks in the system. This exposes the political, social, and violent issues that are hidden by the spectacle and convenience of technology, and provides an opportunity to think about what we and technology should be. 2009 M.F.A. Information Design Field, Design Course, Master Program of Tama Art University 2007 B.F.A. Department of Information Design, Tama Art University Awards and Grants 2023 TERRADA ART AWARD 2023 Finalist Yuki Terase Award 2023 Asian Cultural Council (ACC) New York Fellowship 2022 25th Japan Media Arts Festival, Jury Selections at Art division 2020 COVID-19 Emergency Grant, Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation 2019 The Nomura Foundation for Arts and Culture (Art, Individual) 2018 21th Japan Media Arts Festival, Excellence Award at Art division 2017 Selected for the Project to Support the Nurturing of Media Arts Creators (Grant) 20th Japan Media Arts Festival, Jury Selections at Art division 2015 TDC 2016 RGB Prize 2014 Nurturing Upcoming Artists with Potentially Global Appeal (Short term) 2013 Nurturing Upcoming Artists with Potentially Global Appeal (1 year) 2011 15th Japan Media Arts Festival, New Face Award at Art division 2010 Creator-in-Residence, Tokyo Wonder Site 2009 13th Japan Media Arts Festival, Jury Selections at Art division Solo and Duo Exhibition 2026 Feb. "Flying Organs" BUG Art Center (Tokyo) 2025 Jun. "Homage to New York" WALL_alternative (Tokyo) 2024 May. "Unknown Technics" agnès b. galerie boutique (Tokyo) 2023 Sep. "Installation in Progress" GALLERY BATON, Seoul Jul. "TEFCO vol.1 ~Dawn of Gravity Generator~" WHITEHOUSE, Tokyo Feb. "Machine unconsciousness, outside of the operation" NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo Jan. "Back to the Future" rin art assocation, Gunma 2022 Apr. Sono Aida 3rd term "Y.N.W.P" Sonoaida #Shinyurakucho, Tokyo 2019 Nov. "_prayground" rin art association, Gunma Jul. "Art Meets 06 Momma Miki / yang02" Arts Maebashi, Gunma Jun. Kenjiro Okazaki, yang02 2 persons exhibition "PEAKS" chuohonsengarou, Tokyo 2016 Sep. "Examples" CLEAR EDITION & GALLERY, Tokyo 2015 Jul. "True Graffiti" Chigasaki City Museum of Art, Kanagawa 2013 Jul. "untitled 2" Nakamura Keith Haring Collection, Yamanashi Jul. "JIZZED IN MY PANTS" 3331 Gallery, Tokyo Selected Group Exhibhition 2025 Oct. "WE ARE ME" Keelung Museum of Art, Keelung Aug.　"Setouchi Triennale 2025" Hiraga Gennai Memorial Museum, Kagawa Feb.　"Random Access Project 4.0" Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin 2024 Oct.　T2 Collection "Collecting? Connecting?" What Museum, Tokyo Aug.　"A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo Mar. "ARTISTS’ FAIR KYOTO 2024" Otowa-san Kiyomizu-dera Temple, Kyoto Jan.　"Yambaru Art Festival 2023-2024" Oogimi Utility Center, Okinawa Jan.　"TERRADA ART AWARD 2023 Finalist" Warehouse TERRADA G3-6F, Tokyo 2023 Dec. "MOT Annual 2023: Synergies, or between creation and generation" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo Oct. "MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2023" B&C HALL, Tokyo Sep. "PLAY / LIVE ANOTHER DAY" PARCEL, Tokyo Jul. "art bit – Contemporary Art & Indie Game Culture 3" HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO l Gallery9.5, Kyoto Apr. "Nestled between crossings - the fact that there is an art museum" Chigasaki City Museum of Art, Kanagawa Jan. Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival "Essential Critical Infrastructure" THE BOLY, Osaka 2022 Dec. "Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going" Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Nov. "ATAMI ART GRANT 2022" ACAO SPA & RESORT, Shizuoka Oct. "The eyes of wind" obscura, Tobilisi, Georgia Jul. "​ICC Kids Program 2022: Tools for Play" NTT Inter Coommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo Mar. "N/World" MtK Contemporary, Kyoto Jan. "Drawings - Plurality" PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO,Tokyo 2021 Nov. "Traces of Life" Arts Maebashi, Gunma Oct. "COMBINE! by rin art association" CADAN YURAKUCHO, Tokyo Sep. "With Others at a Long Distance" SCARTS, Hokkaido Aug. "I am here by WAITINGROOM" CADAN YURAKUCHO, Tokyo Jul. "DELTA Exhibition" TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY, Osaka Jun. "constellation #02" rin art association, Gunma Mar. "New Existentialism" hulic.unexistence.net / HULIC &New UDAGAWA 1F gangway, Tokyo 2020 Oct. "traNslatioNs - Understanding Misunderstanding" 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo Oct. "ENCOUNTERS" ANB Tokyo, Tokyo Jul. "Stealable Art Exhibition" same gallery, Tokyo Jul. "DOMANI plus Online 2020: Living on the Eve" https://online.domani-ten.com/ Jun. "Techniques for Optimism" BnA Alter Museum, Kyoto Jun. "constellation #01" rin art association, Gunma May "Dark Independent" non-disclosure, Tokyo Jan. "Open Possibilities: There is not only one neat way to imagine our futures" NTT Inter Communication Center [ICC], Tokyo 2019 Dec. "Open Possibilities: There is not only one neat way to imagine our futures" Japan Creative Center (JCC), Singapore Oct. "TOKYO BIENNALE 2020 PRE-EVENT" Coredo Muromachi Terrace, Tokyo Aug. "RAKE UP!" HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO l Gallery9.5, Kyoto Feb. "Japan Media Arts Festival in Sukagawa" tette, Fukushima 2018 Dec. "The Breathing of Maps" Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM], Yamaguchi Nov. NEWTOWN'18 "SURVIBIA!!" Digital Hollywood University Hachioji, Tokyo Nov. "Island Lights" Dar Qalb Ta’ Ġesù, Malta Sep. "Beijing Media Art Biennale" CAFA Art Museum, Beijing Jun. "[21th] Japan Media Arts Festival" The National Art Center, Tokyo Apr. "TRACE " New Media Gallery, Vancouver Apr. "ARTISTES & ROBOTS " Grand Palais, Paris Jan. 20th DOMANI: "The Art of Tomorrow" The National Art Center, Tokyo 2017 Nov. "Cargo Cult in KENPOKU" Umezu-kaikan, Ibaraki Nov. "Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition" Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Okinawa Oct. "SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE – Out of Control" Tokyo Midtown Atrium, Tokyo Sep. "Ars Electronica 2017" POSTCITY, Linz Aug. "KWA LA FESTIVAL" Cité des Arts, Réunion Mar. "SIDE CORE - RO・SEN・ZU -" GALLERY TRAX, Yamanashi Feb. "Condition Report: ESCAPE from the SEA" National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur Feb. "Vanishing Mesh" Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM], Yamaguchi Feb. "The Great Ordinary" Borderless Art Museum NO-MA, Shiga 2016 Aug. "PERFORMATIVE PHASE" gallery + cafe blanka, Aichi Aug. "Aichi Triennale" Aichi Arts Center, Aichi Jun. "TDC Exhibition 2016" Ginza Graphic Gallery (ggg), Tokyo May "Into the phantom villages - Japan Media Arts Festiva in Aomori" Aomori Museum for Art, Aomori Feb. "AMIT 2016 | Art, Media and I, Tokyo" Maru-Cube, Marunouchi Building, Tokyo Feb. "The 21st ifva Awards – Finalist Exhibition" Pao Galleries - Hong Kong Arts Cente, Hong Kong 2015 Dec. "Takamatsu Media Art Festival" Hiunkaku, Takamatsu Casttle, Kagawa Oct. Japan Media Arts Festival in Kagoshima"Between the Border" Reimeikan Museum, Kagoshima Oct. "MONS 2015 Ailleurs en Folie Tokyo" Maison Folie, Mons Oct. "TAMABI Quality - Tama Art University 80th Anniversary" Tama Art Uiversity, Tokyo Oct. Japan Media Arts Festival in Toyama "Toyama Walker" TOYAMA GLASS ART MUSEUM, Toyama Sep. "SIDE CORE -TOKYO WALKMAN- " hiromiyoshii roppongi, Tokyo Jun. "Motion Science" 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo Jun. "PUBLIC PROVOCATIONS VII" COLAB Gallery, Weil am Rhein Jun. "ART|JOG 8" Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta May "ICC Open Space 2015" NTT Inter Communication Center [ICC], Tokyo Apr. "ROPPONGI ART NIGHT 2015" Tokyo Midtown, Tokyo Jan. "CRYPTOBIOSIS : Seeds of the World" SELASAR SUNARYO art space, Bandung 2014 Nov. "El error maquínico" Centro Multimedia, Mexico City Jul. "Sapporo International Art Festival 2014" hi-Ka-Ho [Sapporo Underground Pedestrian Space], Hokkaido Aug. "#BCTION" Shin-Kojimachi Building, Tokyo Jul. "Materializing Ⅱ" Tokyo Art Univ. Chinretsu-kan, Tokyo May "BAL ROBOTOV" Artplay, Moscow May "HOW Design Live Conference 2014" Hynes Convention Center, Boston Mar. "SIDE CORE -Expression of Public Area" SEIBU Shibuya, Tokyo 2013 Jan. "Japan Media Arts Festival in Yamanashi" YAMANASHI PREFECTURAL LIBRARY, Yamanashi 2012 Dec. Japan Media Arts Festival Special Exhibition in Hong Kong "Parade" ArtisTree, Hong Kong Oct. "TRANS ARTS TOKYO 2012" TRANS ARTS TOKYO 16F, TOKYO Nov. "Japan Media Arts Festival in Kobe" KIITO, Kobe Oct. "Guimarães noc noc" City of Guimarães, Guimarães Oct. "INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF COMPUTER ARTS [IFCA]" Centralna Postaja, Maribor Sep. "Mediacity Seoul 2012 - Spell on you-" eoul Museum of Art [SeMA], Seoul Apr. "NOVA Contemporary Culture" MIS - Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo, São Paulo Feb. "[15th] Japan Media Arts Festival" The National Art Center, Tokyo Feb. "mis-conversion" Akibatamabi21, Tokyo Jan. "DRAWING IN THE AGE OF ELECTRONIC" LEAP, Berlin 2011 Sep. "Utopia no Oshirase" Akibatamabi21, Tokyo Apr. "TOKYO STORY 2010 | Hongo" Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo 2010 Sep. "EXTENDED SENSES" Alt Space Loop, Seoul Sep. "Incheon International Digital Art Festival 2010" Tomorrow City, Incheon Mar. "kuala lumpur design week 2010" National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur Feb. "[13th] Japan Media Arts Festival" The National Art Center, Tokyo 2009 May. "ICC Open Space 2010" NTT Inter Communication Center [ICC], Tokyo Collections Chigasaki City Museum of Art, Kanagawa Takahashi Ryutato Collection, Tokyo KOKUYO Co.,Ltd. , Tokyo