Yuichiro Kikuma was born in Japan 1982. He got his bachelor’s degree in Fine art and Painting in Wimbledon College of Art in 2010, and his master’s degree on Fine Art in Central Saint Martins in 2016. Yuichiro Kikuma currently lives and works in London, UK.
Kikuma discovers images that exist but is not noticed by the audience. In his art practice, the artist sees everyday and ordinary household items as tools that leave traces. The repeated tracks in the works are unique references to these items. He uses experimental methods, as well as traditional techniques in his work and this variety of techniques, are realized with the assistance of objects such as iron, dryer, and leaves found in nature. Working predominantly with ink, the artist creates a personal language with rhythmically repetitive traces. This language is embodied from traceable forms to abstract expression by using mostly ink. Encountering the works, one is invited to trace these silent tracks between what he sees, what he remembers and what sort of an emotional moment in his past this encounter with a simple intersection between life and nature harbours.
SOLO EXHIBITION
2020 Afterimage, Solo exhibition, MARTCH Art Project
2012 Solo exhibition, Soracara Bar , Kanagawa, Japan
GROUP EXHIBITION
2021 Our Home, This Mortal Coil, Ione&Mann
2021 Variations, Muse Gallery, London
2019 The Muse End of Residency
2019 Group Show, Muse Gallery, Portobello Road, London PV 27 June 6:30 – 9pm. Show continues until 14 July
2018 The Muse Residency – summer show 2018, Muse Gallery, Portobello Road, London
2018 Every Me, Martch Art Project, Istanbul
2018 Inside Job, Tate Modern, London
2018 Citrus Lush Bongo, Tan Like That, Chalk Farm, London
2016 Helical Swirl, Studio 180, Waterloo, London
2016 Central Saint Martins Degree Show, Lethaby Gallery, Granary Square, London
2015 Complexity of Topography / CSM and Tokyo University of Arts joint project, Ritsurin Garden, Takamatsu, Japan
2015 Red Files, Schwartz Gallery, Hackney Wick London
2015 You Are the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly/ MA interim show, The Laundry, Hackney, London
2015 Citrus Lush Bongo, Tan Like That, Chalk Farm, London
2014 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, Mall Galleries, London
2013 Steinbach&Syre Launch Exhibition, Cremer St, Hoxton, London
2013 Synonim (group exhibition), Take Courage, New Cross, London Artgrab Exhibition, Silwex House, Quaker St, Shoreditch, London
2012 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, The Mall, London Artgrab Exhibition #3, Arch 372, Hoxton, London
2012 The Threadneedle Prize Exhibition, Mall Galleries, The Mall, London
2012 RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London
2011 Encoded Systems (group exhibition), Red Gate Gallery, Brixton, London
2010 Degree Show Preview, Wimbledon Space, London
2010 Wimbledon College of Art Degree Show, London
2010 The Affordable Art Fair/Recent Graduates Exhibition, Battersea Park, London
2009 Group exhibition, Wimbledon Library Gallery, London
2009 Deutche Post Bank Exhibition, DPB Offices, London Awards
FAIRS
2019 Artweeks Akaretler, Martch Art Project, Istanbul
2020 Artweeks Akaretler, Martch Art Project, Istanbul
2021 Contemporary Istanbul, Martch Art Project, Istanbul
2021 Abu Dhabi Art, Martch Art Project, Istanbul