Yosuke Inagaki is a Japanese-style painter who has established a way to incorporate traditions and individual expressions into his work. After attending many renowned Japanese-style painting programs at the Tokyo University of the Arts, he began selecting unconventional subjects such as up-close forms of plants and flowers. He takes lines and planes out of the subject, and composites them in his “Land” - a field of view he draws on the canvas.
Inagaki says natural subjects consist of many elements like constructions, functions, and shapes. His artistic process includes extraction and abstracting these elements until they expose their essence on his canvas. Although his final products seem to have been done in an intuitive way, they’re meticulously constructed in this fashion. “Land” is his experimental ground to carry out the repetitive exercise, and is where his work is born.
1977Lives and works in Aichi, Japan.
2001Graduated from the Department Japanese Painting of Tokyo University of the Arts
2003Completed a master's course of a graduate school from Tokyo University of the Arts
Solo exhibition
2002Chiba bank art gallery / Nihonbashi
2007LAPIN ET HALOT / Omotesando
2008FLEW GALLERY / Shinjuku
2009art gallery closet / Roppongi
2013art gallery closet / Roppongi
2016art gallery closet / Roppongi
2018ORIE ART GALLERY / Gaienmae
2020art gallery closet / Roppongi
Group Exhibition
1999Gallery J2
2000Gallery J2
2001CHUWA GALLERY
2001CHUWA GALLERY
2002Gallery Subaru
2003Key Gallery
2003The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
2003Gallery Subaru “cade the second”
2003SEIBU NUMAZU ”The exhibition of new eight Japanese painter”
2004The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama “CAF.N exhibition”
2005Gallery Subaru “cade the third”
2005Gallery RUTAN “The exhibition of radical contemporary artists Ⅱ”
2005The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama “CAF.N exhibition”
2007The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama “CAF.N exhibition”
