Kijuro Yahagi

Kijuro Yahagi is a Japanese artist, designer, architect and photographer.

Biography

Kijuro Yahagi was born in Yamagata Prefecture in 1952. He completed the graduate School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University.　He works on graphic design, conceptual art, photography, sculpture, architecture, furniture, way finding design, publishing, criticism etc. He teaches at Keio University and Waseda University.

Awards

1980: International Poster Biennale in Warsaw Special Prize

1990: International Poster Biennale in Warsaw Gold Prize

Works

Since the 1980s, he has established an international reputation for his innovative art and design work. He uses his unique concept of modeling derived from the phenomenon of nystagmus and Imaginary Boundary Planes, as well as the term “phenomenon as a dynamic state“ to develop a diverse range of genres of express. To trace his contemplation and activities over a period of about 35 years, an exhibition was held at Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama from November 2021 to January 2022. The exhibition featured over 400 works and materials. The main works exhibited were HIDDEN JAPAN: a collection of photographs which was exhibited around the world from 1999 to 2012 as part of Japan Foundation's overseas touring exhibition, conceptual art in the same format as a B1 size poster, sculptures, and graphic works that no one has ever produced before.

Yahagi’s notable conceptual artworks include the following

Shot by a Sight

Events Presented Themselves to Me in Their Logical Sequence

To the Best of One's Memory

Perceiving by Sight

Thin-Skinned

One's Point of View

Hidden Accumulated Vision

View Points of Intersection

Existence Appearance through Insight

Piercing memories,

Piercing One’s Eyes

Magnetic Vision

The Space of Magnetic Vision

Universe

Fragment

''Mirage on Mirage''