SUZUKI Yuya

Profile

Born in Fukushima, Japan. Currently based in Sapporo. Graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Nihon University College of Art (B.A) in 2007. Based on observations of the urban environment, his practice extracts symbolic images as representations of the urban unconscious, reconstructing the real world through his own distinctive visual language.  

Recent exhibitions and activities
2025 “A Call of All Beings”. Group Exhibition, Taichung Museum of Art, Taichung
2025 “Fukushima Art Annual 2025”. Group Exhibition, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima
2024 “The 25-Hour Days”. Group Exhibition, Keelung Museum of Art, Keelung 
2023 “Archaic Future,". Solo Exhibition, Moerenuma Park, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2023 “Post Language Realm / variation,” Setareh X, Düsseldorf
2021 "Post Language Realm,” Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2019 "Phantoms Agora,” Siao-Long Children’s Museum of Art, Tainan, Taiwan
2016 “Assembrige NAGOYA 2016,” Nagoya Port Area, Aichi

Grant
 2019 – 2020 "Japanese government oversea research program, Agency for Cultural Affair" , Germany

About works

Focusing on the intermediate zones within urban environments—those between the private and the public, and between the artificial and the natural—Suzuki extracts symbolic images through the process of drawing, based on the forms of “residues” generated by the interactions among urban metabolism, natural forces, and human consumption. Using this visual language as a foundation, he employs various media—including sculpture, video, painting, and kinetic objects—to construct a unique simulation of reality in the form of mixed-media installations.