Biography

SEITARO YAMAZAKI
1982-

Artist / TOKYO

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Seitaro Yamazaki is a contemporary artist and designer living and working in Tokyo.
Earning BA in Sociology from Rikkyo University in 2006 and a successful career as designer in the fields of graphic design, product design, spatial design, he earned MFA in Architecture from Kyoto University of Arts in 2016.
Since then, he has been creating contemporary art works in the fields of sculpture, installation, video, painting, and media art (e.g. typeface set as art). His works were exhibited in London, NY, Venice, Washington DC, Nagasaki, Tokyo, Berlin, Roseville, London, Amsterdam, etc. He also commissioned artworks by companies such as Mitsubishi Estate in 2022, West Japan Railway Company in 2024, and he oversaw the design of the award ceremony for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games as director in 2019-21. He is also the director of the Marginal Art Fair Fukushima Hirono, which was held in the area affected by the nuclear disaster in Fukushima.
He has been trying to find and show the beauty of ambiguity, transience, and the things that were never depicted, spoken, or formed in his works. Recently he focused on sonographs as sources of his art.
He also studied ink wash painting under Tsuchiya Shukou, along the lines of 18th Century Japanese painter Maruyama Okyo, and Ikebana of Obara school under Toru Watarai.

EDUCATION

2006-

BA in Sociology, Rikkyo University.

2016-

M.F.A in Art, Kyoto University of the Arts.

SOLO EXHIBITION

2025-

(title TBD) / Shanghai K11 Art Center, Shanghai (Upcoming)

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

CURATORIAL WORKS

2025-

Director / Marginal Art Fair Fukushima Hirono / Futatsunuma General Park, Hirono

PUBLICATIONS

Seitaro Yamazaki, “Yohaku Shiko (Think with marginal spaces): How I use marginal spaces in thinking to surpass “logical” as an artist and a designer”, Nikkei BP, 2024

Seitaro Yamazaki, “IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS”, Keyaki Publishing, 2017

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
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