ART TAIPEI 2026

GALLERY TSUBAKI

Booth:B17
Ryoko Yoshino

Mayuka Yamamoto

1964 Born in Okayama, Japan
1990 Completed the Master Program of Musashino Art University
1998-99 Studied in London under Japanese Government Oversea Study Program for Artists

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Solo Exhibitions
2025
Solo Exhibition / Taipei, Taiwan
2024
Gallery Tsubaki / Tokyo, Japan (2022, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2014, 2012, 2010, 2008, 2006, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2000, 1998, 1996, 1994, 1993)
2023
Menagerie, GR Gallery / New York, USA
2022
Gallery Tsubaki (Japan, Tokyo)
2021
Gallery Woo(Korea, Busan)
2020
Gallery Tsubaki (Japan, Tokyo)
2019
Gallery Woo (Korea, Busan)
2018
Exhibition for Animal Boy / Gallery Tsubaki (Japan, Tokyo)
Gallery SP (Korea, Seoul)
2017
Bear, Panda, Sheep, Frog. Dog and White Horse / Gallery Tsubaki (Japan, Tokyo)
Gallery Woo (Korea, Busan)
2016
[Hide & Seek] Art Projects Gallery (Hong Kong, China)
Gallery Woo (Korea, Busan)
2015
[I am lonely,but not alone] Karuizawa New Art Museum (Karuizawa, Japan) Gallery
Woo (Korea, Busan)
2014
Gallery Tsubaki (Japan, Tokyo)
Canvas International Art (Netherlands, Amsterdam) J-ONE Gallery (Daegu, Korea)
Gallery SP (Korea, Seoul)
2013
Gallery Woo (Korea, Busan)
2012
Gallery Tsubaki (Japan, Tokyo)
Gallery Woo (Korea, Busan)
2011
Cais Gallery Hong kong (China, Hong Kong)
2010
Gallery Tsubaki (Japan, Tokyo)
2009
Canvas International Art (Holland, Amsterdam)
Soka Art Center (Taiwan, Taipei)
CIGE “Mapping Asia”(China, Beijing)
2008
Gallery Tsubaki (Japan, Tokyo)
Gallery SP (Korea, Seoul)
2007
Canvas International Art (Holland, Amsterdam)
Kurashiki City Museum (Japan, Kurashiki)
2006
Gallery Tsubaki (Japan, Tokyo)
Gallery Tsubaki (Japan, Tokyo)
2003
Gallery Tsubaki (Japan, Tokyo)
Koichi Fine Arts (Japan, Osaka)
2000Gallery Tsubaki (Japan, Tokyo)
1998
Gallery Tsubaki (Japan, Tokyo)
1997
Gallery SUIRAN (Japan, Gunma) 1996 Gallery Tsubaki (Japan, Tokyo)
Sumi Gallery (Japan, Okayama)
1995
Yamanoue Gallery (Japan, Tokyo)
Sumi Gallery (Japan, Okayama)
Gallery Petite Forme (Japan, Osaka)
Kankodo Gallery (Japan, Gunma)
1994
Gallery Tsubaki (Japan, Tokyo)
Sumi Gallery (Japan, Okayama)
Gallery Petite Forme (Japan, Osaka)
1993
Gallery Tsubaki (Japan, Tokyo)
Sumi Gallery (Japan, Okayama)
Gallery Petite Forme (Japan, Osaka)
1992
Ai Gallery (Japan, Tokyo)
Gallery21+Yo (Japan, Tokyo)

Group Exhibitions & ART FAIR
2026
Art Fair Tokyo 2026 Gallery Tsubaki Booth (Tokyo)
Arrt Taipei 2026 Gallery Tsubaki Booth (Tokyo)
2025
Art Fair Tokyo 2025 Gallery Tsubaki Booth (Tokyo)
Arrt Taipei 2025 Gallery Tsubaki Booth (Tokyo)
2020
“AUTUMN SHOW - TAIPEI | TOKYO | VR -” (Gallery Tsubaki / Japan, Tokyo)
"House of The Rising Light" (Dorothy Circus Gallery / London , Roma)
Corey Helford Gallery (Los Angeles)
2019
Art Taipei 2019 (Taiwan,Taipei)
KIAF2019 (Korea,seoul)
ART in PARK HOTEL TOKYO 2019 (Japan, Tokyo)
2016
Art Fair Tokyo (Japan, Tokyo)
Young Art Taipei (Taiwan,Taipei)
KIAF2016 (Korea,seoul)
Art Taipei 2016 (Taiwan,Taipei)
2015
KIAF2015 (Korea,seoul)
Young Art Taipei (Taiwan,Taipei)
Art Show Busan 2015 (Korea, Daegu)
2014
KIAF2014 (Korea,seoul)
Young Art Taipei(Taiwan,Taipei)
Art Show Busan 2014 (Korea, Daegu)
Art Taipei (Taiwan,Taipei)
CIGE (Shanhai/China)
SINGAPORE ART FAIR (Singapore)
2013
YOUNG ART TAIPEI 2013 (Taiwan, Taipei)
Art Show Busan 2013 (Korea, Daegu)
KIAF 2013(Korea,seoul) ART TAIPEI 2013(Taiwan,Taipei)
Daegu art Fair 2013 (Korea, Daegu)
Koichi Fine Art (Japan,Osaka)
2012
Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair 2012 (China, Hong Kong)
Art Kyoto 2012(Japan, Kyoto)
Art Show Busan 2012 (Korea, Daegu)
YOUNG ART TAIPEI 2012 (Taiwan, Taipei)
BAZAAR Art JAKARTA2012 (Indonesia, Jakarta)
Art TAIPEI 2012 (Taiwan, Taipei)
Daegu art Fair 2012 (Korea, Daegu)
2011
DADO ART GALLERY (Korea, Seoul)
KIAF (Korea International Art Fair)2011 (Korea, Seoul)
Art Taipei 2011 (Taiwan, Taipei)
Young Art Taipei (Taiwan, Taipei)
Daegu Art Fair (Korea, Daegu)
2010
KIAF (Korea International Art Fair)2010 (Korea, Seoul)
Art Taipei 2010 (Taiwan, Taipei)
Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair (China, Hong Kong)
Plus contemporary art fair (Japan, Tokyo)
Daegu Art Fair (Korea, Daegu)
2009
Leeahn Gallery (Daegu, Korea)
KIAF (Korea International Art Fair)2009 (Korea, Seoul)
PAN Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Holland)
Art Taipei 2009 (Taiwan, Taipei)
Young Art Taipei (Taiwan, Taipei)
2008
Art Singapore2008 (Singapore)
KIAF (Korea International Art Fair)2008 (Korea, Seoul)
Inter Alia (Korea, Seoul)
SH Contemporary 2008 (China, Shanghai)
Art Taipei 2008 (Taiwan, Taipei)
Gallery J. Chen (Taiwan, Taipei)
Gallery IHN (Korea, Seoul)
2007
Gallery Sun contemporary (Korea, Seoul)
KIAF (Korea International Art Fair)2007 (Korea, Seoul)
Amsterdam Art Fair 2007(Holland, Amsterdam)
ACAF (U.S.A, New York)
PYO Gallery (China, Beijing)
Tokyo Station Gallery (Japan, Tokyo)
2006
KIAF (Korea International Art Fair)2006 (Korea, Seoul)
With You ,With Art (Fuchu Museum / Tokyo, Japan)
2005
KIAF (Korea International Art Fair)2005 (Korea, Seoul)
Amsterdam Art Fair 2005 (Holland, Amsterdam)
Domani (Exhibition of Japanese Government Oversea Study Program for Artists) (Tokyo, Japan)
2004
KIAF (Korea International Art Fair)2004 - The Special Exhibition - Contemporary Japanese painting (Korea, Seoul)
2003
“Osaka Art Fair 2003”(Kouich Fine Arts / Japan, Osaka)
2002
“Japan Art in Blekinge” (Sweden)
2001
“Print Works” (Gallery Natsuka / Tokyo, Japan)
2000
“Black and White” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
1999
“Japan I Blekinge” (Sweden)
2000
1999
The Vision of Contemporary Art 1999 (The Ueno Royal Museum / Tokyo, Japan)
“Line of Sight” (Musashino Art University / Tokyo, Japan)
1997
“The 5th NICAF “97 TOKYO” (Tokyo, Japan)
“The 4th Contemporary printmaking Exhibition of Japan and Hungary” (Kamiyamada cultural center / Nagano, Japan)
“The Contemporary Circumstances of Printmaking in Tokyo-The Tradition and the Deviation”
1996
(Machida City Museum of Printmaking / Tokyo, Japan)
1994
“New Expression in Print” (Gallery Tsubaki / Tokyo, Japan)
“The Contemporary Print Show 1994” (Shoto Museum of Art / Tokyo, Japan)
1993
“Machida International Print Show” (Machida City Museum of Printmaking / Tokyo, Japan)
“New Expression in Print” (Gallery Tsubaki / Tokyo, Japan) “The Feast of Print” (Ai Gallery / Tokyo, Japan)
1992
“New Expression in Print” (Gallery Tsubaki / Tokyo, Japan)

Public Collection
Machida City Museum of Printmaking, Tokyo/JAPAN
Musashino Art University Museum and Library/JAPAN
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery/JAPAN
Fuchu Museum/JAPAN

CONTACT

Mayuka Yamamoto completed the master program at the Musashino Art University in 1990. From 1998 to 1999, she studied in London as part of the Japanese government oversea study program for artists.She held her first exhibition at the Ai Gallery and Gallery21+Yo in 1992. After that, she held her first solo exhibition in the Gallery Tsubaki in 1993. since then, she has continued to hold exhibitions at Since her solo exhibition in 1993, he has had a series of solo exhibitions at Gallery Tsubaki.
Her first works was printmaking. Gradually she began making oil on paintings. She became well known for style of painting that was combined images of children and animals.
She held solo exhibition at the Canvas International Art art gallery Netherlands, Amsterdam in 2007, 2009 and 2014. Since then she began more successful exhibitions abroad. Her style of a kind although, we can now see artists who imitate her style, she is the original. From the former super flat touch, now she draws the Baroque-like shadows and changed to a styleembraces fine handwritten detail. Since then, she has continued to update her own expression a little bit with each presentation. She has also exhibited in the U.S., Italy, and Rome, attracting attention beyond Asia. Mayuka is an interesting and important painter who should not to be overlooked.

Online archive

works

  • 94. Polar Bear Boy

    山本 麻友香 / Mayuka YAMAMOTO
    94 . Polar Bear Boy
    Oil on Canvas
    F130 194x162 cm
    2026

     
  • 95. polar bear in snow

    山本 麻友香 / Mayuka YAMAMOTO
    95 . polar bear in snow
    Oil on canvas
    115×97 cm
    2026

     
  • 96. penguin life in a bucket

    山本 麻友香 / Mayuka YAMAMOTO
    96 . penguin life in a bucket
    Oil on canvas
    115×97 cm
    2026

     
  • 97. little reddish bear boy

    山本 麻友香 / Mayuka YAMAMOTO
    97 . little reddish bear boy
    Oil on canvas
    F8 45.5x38 cm
    2026

     
  • 98. White dog boy

    山本 麻友香 / Mayuka YAMAMOTO
    98 . White dog boy
    FRP, Aclylic
    ED.12
    142x65x60 cm
    2025

     
  • 99. Dog boy

    山本 麻友香 / Mayuka YAMAMOTO
    99 . Dog boy
    Oil on canvas
    F30 91x72.7 cm
    2008