Ryuhei Rex Yuasa
Born in Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in San Diego, CA
EDUCATION
| 1992 |
M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA |
| 1990 |
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine |
| 1990 |
B.F.A., San Diego State University, San Diego, CA |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2021 |
Resurgence, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA |
| 2018 |
Resplendent, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA |
| 2014 |
Nascent, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA |
| 2013 |
DIOCHROMA, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2011 |
GOLD, Gallery Kaze, Osaka, Japan |
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Recent Paintings, At One Post Street – Brain Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA |
| 2008 |
Baroque, Gallery KAZE, Osaka, Japan |
| 2003 |
Vulgar, Gallery Kaze, Osaka, Japan |
| 2002 |
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan |
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Gallery KAZE, Osaka, Japan |
| 2001 |
New Paintings, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO. |
| 2000 |
Ryuhei Rex Yuasa, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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Ryuhei Rex Yuasa, Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1999 |
MOVE, Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1998 |
Ryuhei Rex Yuasa – Recent Work, Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan |
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Ryuhei Rex Yuasa, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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Ryuhei Rex Yuasa, University Art Gallery, Cal State San Bernardino, San Barnardino, CA |
| 1994 |
Ryuhei Rex Yuasa, Gallery UEDA Décor, Tokyo, Japan |
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Ryuhei Rex Yuasa – New Paintings, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO |
| 1992 |
Delayed Zip 2, The Small Projects Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX |
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Delayed Zip, Gallery UEDA Décor, Tokyo, Japan |
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Tenebrous Vision, Thesis Exhibition, California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA |
| 1991 |
Paintings, Main Gallery, California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA |
| 1990 |
Paintings, Flor Y Canto Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA |
| 1989 |
Innocent Cosmology 3, Flor Y Canto Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA |
| 1988 |
Innocent Cosmology2, Flor Y Canto, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA |
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Innocent Cosmology, LA Nicola Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2022 |
Ensemble, Gorup Exhibition, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA |
| 2021 |
Summer Group Exhibiton, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA |
| 2018 |
Abstract Thinking, R B Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA |
| 2017 |
Gallery Collection, R B Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA |
| 2016 |
HOMAGE/SUBLIME, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA |
| 2013 |
Summer Group Show, Art Cube Gallery, Laguna Beach , CA |
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Sanbishousha – Ueda Collection, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan |
| 2012 |
Gallery Artists, Gallery KAZE, Osaka, Japan |
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Art Kyoto 2012 (from Galery KAZE), Kyoto, Japan |
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Art Osaka 2012 (from Gallery KAZE), Osaka, Japan |
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AHAF (Asia Hotel Art Fair) 2012 (form Gallery Kaze), Seoul, Korea |
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Kobe Art Marche 2012 (from Gallery KAZE), Kobe, Japan |
| 2011 |
Pictorial Theory of Evolution, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Tochigi, Japan |
| 2010 |
Rediscovering: Oil Paintings of Japan – What’s Next in Oil Paintings,Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan |
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Gendai Bijutsudo, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2009 |
Neo Abstract 21, Gallery KAZE, Osaka, Japan |
| 2008 |
Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair, Tokyo, Japan |
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Korea International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea |
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Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair, Hotel New Otani, Tokyo, Japan |
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Sanbishousha – Ueda Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
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Sanbishousha – Ueda Collection II, Tochigi Prefectual Museum of Fine Art, Tochigi, Japan |
| 2007 |
Yuasa Joji Exhibition 2007 –Koriyama City Museum of Art The 15th Anniversary, Koriyama City Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan |
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Sanbishousha - Ueda Collection, Nerima City Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
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Contemporary Artists Biography curated by Yoshio Kato – 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Osaka Zoukei Center, Osaka, Japan |
| 2004 |
L.A. Years, Part 1, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2003 |
KIAF Korea International Art Fair: Special Exhibition JAPAN, Light of the East,
Soul, Korea |
| 2001 |
Pleasure of Retinal Paintings: Kazumi Nakamura and Ryuhei Rex Yuasa,
Gallery KAZE, Osaka, Japan |
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Pleasure of Retinal Paintings: Kazumi Nakamura and Ryuhei Rex Yuasa,
Kaigan Dori Gallery CASO, Osaka, Japan |
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Paintings Beyond Formalism For Interactionism, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art,
Kumamoto, Japan |
| 2000 |
Fast Five Years at Grand Arts, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO |
| 1998 |
Shouwa SHELL Gasoline Contemporary Art Award, Meguro Art Museum of Modern Art,
Tokyo, Japan |
| 1997 |
Art Today 10th Anniversary, Opera Aperta, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa,
Japan |
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Works On Paper 1997, University Of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX |
| 1996 |
Artists Reception, Mezzanine at Towers, Irvine, CA |
| 1995 |
Art Today 95, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan |
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Morphologia, currated by Kazuhiro Yamamoto at Tochigi Prefectral Museum of Fine Art,
Akira Ikeda Gallery TAURA, |
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Kanagawa, Japan |
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V.O.C.A, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
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National Small Painting Exhibition, New Mexico Art League, Albuquerque, New Mexico |
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Small Works on Paper, Cimarron Art National, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma |
| 1994 |
Beyond Bounds II, A Barely Contained Art Affairs, Johnson County Community College,
Overland Park, MO |
| 1993 |
Sean Kelley Presents, Sean Kelley Studio, Kansas City, MO |
| 1991 |
New Talents for New Century: Young American Artists, The Hammond Gallery,
Lancaster, OH |
| 1990 |
Mixed Metaphors, Sushi Gallery, San Diego, CA |
| 1987 |
O Nepenthean Omniscient, San Diego, CA |
LECTURES
| 2014 |
Artist Talk “Abstract Illusion”, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA |
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(Guest Speaker), Contemporary Arts Committee for San Diego Museum of Art,
San Diego, Ca |
| 2011 |
What Is It To Have Flexible Mind and Unorthodox Thinking? Part 2, Toho University Omori Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2010 |
Poetic and Scientific Language (Japanese vs. English), Toho University Omori Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan |
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What Is It To Have Flexible Mind and Unorthodox Thinking?, Toho University Omori Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2007 |
Artist Talk, “Sanbishousha – Ueda Collection”, Nerima City Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2001 |
Artist Interview, Kaigan Dori Gallery CASO, Osaka, Japan |
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Artist Interview, Osaka Zoukei Center, Osaka, Japan |
| 1996 |
California State University San Barnardino, San Barnardino, CA |
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Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine |
| 1990 |
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA |
| 1989 |
Mira Costa College, Mira Costa, CA |
AWARDS
| 1997 |
Shouwa SHELL Gasoline Contemporary Art Award, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1996 |
Holbein Paint Art award, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1990 |
Calarts Scholarship, Valencia, CA |
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Skowhegan School Scholarship, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA |
BIBLIOGAPHY
| 2014 |
Barbara Morris, Keira Kotler “I Look for Light”, Rex Yuasa “Nascent” at Brian Gross Fine Art, January, 2015, Art Ltd. |
| 2013 |
50 California Artists You Should Know, #14 Rex Yuasa, July 10, 2013
ArtweekLA, Rex Yuasa Diochroma, April 22, 2013 |
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ArtweekLA, Rex Yuasa Diochroma, April 22, 2013 |
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Pictorial Theory of Evolution, Catalogue by Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan |
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Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair (Catalogue), page 20 , Gallery Kaze |
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Takami, Akihiko. Painted History #13, BT Bijutsu Techou, February |
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Nagoya, Satoru. Reviews, Flash Art, July-September |
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Ohnishi, Wakato. Art Reviews, Asahi Shinbun, Asahi Newspaper, March 31,
Osaka, Japan |
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Image of Today V, catalogue by Kumamoto Prefectural Musuem of Art,
Kumamoto, Japan |
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Dailogue Ryuhei Yuasa and Kazumi Nakamura, Kumamoto Nichinichi Shinbun, Kumamoto Nichinichi Newspaper, |
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March 20. Exhibition Preview |
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Shockey, Ben. Abstraction for the Sensory-Overloaded, Review, p. 43, April |
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Trafton, Robin. Preview/Art – Driven to Abstraction, Kansas City Star, March 30 |
| 2000 |
Sanda, Haruo. Art Reviews, Mainichi Newspaper, September 12, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1999 |
Sanda, Haruo. Art Reviews, Mainichi Newspaper, September 14, Tokyo, Japan |
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Ryuhei Yuasa, Shuukan Shinchou, p. 40, Weekly Shinchou Magazine, October 14
Tokyo, Japan |
| 1998 |
Yuasa, Ryuhei. Critique and Representation, Acryart, Vol. 31 |
| 1997 |
Nakamura, Urara. Opera Aperta Art Today ’97, exhibition catalogue, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan |
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Yuasa, Ryuhei. Ryuhei Yuasa: Holbein ArtAward Recipient, 1997, Acryart, Vol. 30 |
| 1996 |
Shizuyo, Becker. From Los Angeles, BT Bijutsu Techou, July |
| 1995 |
Yamamoto, Kazuhiro. Ryuhei Yuasa, Exhibition Catalogue by Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO |
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Nakamura, Urara. Art Today ’95, exhibition catalogue,Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan |
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Hayashi, Yoko. Review Tokyo, BT Bijutsu Techou, June |
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Yamamoto, Kazuhiro. Ryuhei Yuasa, V.O.C.A ’95, Exhibitin Catalogue, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1993 |
Segi, Shinichi. Post Collection: Ryuhei Yuasa, Shukan POST, Weekly Magazine POST, Feburary 4 |
| 1992 |
Shizuyo, Becker. From Los Angeles, BT Bijutsu Techou, May |
| 1991 |
Hall, Jacqueline. Gallery Exhibition Shows Young Talent,,,,,,The Colombus Dispatch, The Art, July 4 |
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