Biography

SEITARO YAMAZAKI
1982-

Artist / TOKYO

Sei Yamazaki Artworks / Sei Yamazaki Biography

Seitaro Yamazaki (Tokyo) is a contemporary artist and designer whose practice explores the fragile beauty hidden in the overlooked and the forgotten. Working across installation, sculpture, painting, and media art, he draws on Japanese concepts of ma and impermanence while resonating with Western traditions such as vanitas and negative space. His works have been shown internationally, including solo exhibitions at Spiral (Tokyo, 2024) and K11 Art Center (Shanghai, 2025), and participation in the Larnaca Biennale (Cyprus, 2025) and SXSW (Austin, USA, 2025).

SOLO EXHIBITION

2025-: STILL VOICE / Shanghai K11 Art Center, Shanghai

2024-: Contour of Yohaku / Hosek Contemporary, Berlin
Art that Crosses Borders, Design that Traverses. / Aoyama Spiral Garden, Tokyo

2023-: Time Spilled Over / Blue Line Arts, Roseville CA
The Womb of the City / Parkhabio Shibuya, Tokyo

2021-: “MUSIC FOR THE MARGINS” #01 STEVE REICH / COUNTERPOINT/ KIWA, Tokyo

2019-: Unit for Y-axis / J-COLLABO, NewYork
TAYUTAI / Naha Airport, Naha

2018-: In Praise of Shadows / MONO JAPAN 2018, Amsterdam

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025-: The Book As Art v.13: Mixed Messages / Decatur Arts Alliance / Decatur, GA (Upcoming)
Larnaca Biennale / Larnaca, Cyprus (Upcoming)
Urban Break 2025 / Coex Center, Seoul, South Korea
NordArt 2025 / Vorwerksallee, Büdelsdorf, Germany
In Search of Ghosts / Fringe Arts Bath, Bath, UK
All the light I see / Van Der Plas Gallery, New York
Satellite Ranch / 719 Shady Lane, Austin, TX
Art is / Czong Institute for Contemporary Art , Gimpo, South Korea
Marginal Art Fair Fukushima Hirono / Futatsunuma General Park, Hirono

2024-: Rotten Donuts at 100+ Fair Shenzhen / Longgang District, Shenzhen
Czym wypełnić puste pomniki? / Kolorowa Culture Center, Warsaw
FORM + SPACE / The Museum of Art DeLand, DeLand, FL
Jukebox of Dissonance / G-Gallery, New York, NY
Art Shodo MDP Selection Vol. 1 / MDP Gallery Nakameguro, Tokyo

2023-: Small Works / Five Points Arts, Torrington, CT
BODYSPACES: Canvas International Aat Fair 2023 / THE LINE Contemporary Art Space, London
Secret Spaces: Borders Art Fair / Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice
28th Arts North International / Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN
Sequence: Art + Technology / Touchstone Gallery / Washington, DC

2022-: At a Crossroads: All Art+ / Van Der Plas Gallery, New York
2:3 Virtual Exhibition / WetDovetail , Middlesbrough
Memory and Identity / Cista Arts, London

2021-: ARTPRIZE / Muse GR, Grand Rapids, USA
YICCA 2021 Final exhibition / Hernandez art gallery, Milan

2020-: RESONANCE / Camden Image Gallery, London

2019-: The koto Sea, Tales of the Pearl Sea / Nagasaki Holland Village, Nagasaki

2018-: UNSAMBLE CAST / J-COLLABO, NewYork

COMMISSIONED WORKS

2024-: We all Wesmo! / West Japan Railway Company

2023-: The Womb of the City / Mitsubishi Estate CO., LTD.

2019-: TAYUTAI / Naha Airport Building CO.,LTD. , General Incorporated Association Ryukyu Bingata Preservation and Expansion Consortium
Nameless Portrait / General Incorporated Association Art Culture Matrix

AWARDS

2021-: Professional / CREATE (Art) Finalist / London International Creative Competition
YICCA 2021 WINNING ARTIST (2nd place) / YICCA, Italy
YICCA SELECTED 18 ARTISTS / YICCA, Italy
PREMIO COMBAT PRIZE 2021 RECOMMENDED ARTIST

2020-: The winner of 14th Arte Laguna Prize for an artistic residency/ Espronceda (BARCELONA, SPAIN)

2018-: Annual Group Exhibition And Showcase 2018 Winner / J-COLLABO, NewYork

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2025-: SAND Literature and Art, Issue 28, SAND, (upcoming)

2024-: Aedra Fine Arts, “Seitaro Yamazaki”, Aedra Fine Arts
TIMES VII “Shelter”, 87 Gallery, November 2024

2022-: “Spotlight: Japanese Conceptual Artist Seitaro Yamazaki Transforms the Objects of Our Time Into Eerie Fossils”, Artnet, August 2022
Adonay Bermúdez, “Artists to Watch ʼ22”, Artconnect, May 2022

2020-: The Art Insider
＋81 VOL.86 CREATOR WORKING STYLE ISSUE
DESIGN NOTE

2019-: Art Business Journal
Aesthetica the art & culture magazine
billboard

Biography

EDUCATION

SOLO EXHIBITION

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

COLLECTIONS

COMMISSIONED WORKS

CURATORIAL WORKS

PUBLICATIONS

AWARDS

BIBLIOGRAPHY