Yuya Saito

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Yuya SAITO was born in Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from the University of Central Oklahoma in the United States, through his life across Japan and the United States, he presents the artwork on the theme of relation between human being and the city. Taking the opportunity of skateboarding, which he started at the age of 14, Saito created works with the theme of "Relationship between cities and humans."By unraveling street sports from the perspective of "shape," Saito sets the "curved surface" itself as a new visual language. A city where people, things, and events are overcrowded and never repeat the same scenery is a space that contains chaos and fragility, where countless dramas occur and disappear at the same time. In the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, he suffered from the tsunami, which gave him an opportunity to reconsider the relation between human being and the city from the perspective of "coexistence with natural disasters" “The confusion that arises because of overcrowding and the culture that has been cultivated because of overcrowding." I feel that the city that exists in this contradiction will be able to be the key to express human being as irrational and cultural creatures. In addition to his series of works by a traditional technique “Curving Wood”, by crossing multiple projects, such as the digital works and collaborative works with city-related artists, he is trying to capture the present of the city that changes while crossing various territories.

Concept

Yuya SAITO was born in Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from the University of Central Oklahoma in the United States, through his life across Japan and the United States, he presents the artwork on the theme of relation between human being and the city.

Taking the opportunity of skateboarding, which he started at the age of 14, Saito created works with the theme of "Relationship between cities and humans."By unraveling street sports from the perspective of "shape," Saito sets the "curved surface" itself as a new visual language. A city where people, things, and events are overcrowded and never repeat the same scenery is a space that contains chaos and fragility, where countless dramas occur and disappear at the same time.

In the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, he suffered from the tsunami, which gave him an opportunity to reconsider the relation between human being and the city from the perspective of "coexistence with natural disasters" “The confusion that arises because of overcrowding and the culture that has been cultivated because of overcrowding." I feel that the city that exists in this contradiction will be able to be the key to express human being as irrational and cultural creatures.

In addition to his series of works by a traditional technique “Curving Wood”, by crossing multiple projects, such as the digital works and collaborative works with city-related artists, he is trying to capture the present of the city that changes while crossing various territories.

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Find 11 original artworks & sculptors by Yuya Saito. Check out Yuya Saito's profile, artwork prices, exhibition information, and buy art online.

“Yuya Saito's Artworks”

Mini-Ramp_Model_01

Sold Out Year.2020 w22.00 x h30.00 x d15.00 cm

Mini-Ramp_020

Sold Out Year.2022 w22.00 x h30.00 x d15.00 cm

Drop_017

Sold Out Year.2021 w40.00 x h25.00 x d25.00 cm

Days_Model_01

Sold Out Year.2020 w40.00 x h55.00 x d13.00 cm

Rampage_Model_02

Sold Out Year.2020 w22.00 x h41.00 x d1.00 cm

Rampage_Model_03

Sold Out Year.2020 w22.00 x h41.00 x d1.00 cm

Days_Model_04

Sold Out Year.2020 w40.00 x h55.00 x d13.00 cm

Drop_Model_01

Sold Out Year.2020 w20.00 x h40.00 x d18.00 cm

Drop_Model_02

Sold Out Year.2020 w20.00 x h40.00 x d18.00 cm

Days_Model_02

Sold Out Year.2020 w40.00 x h55.00 x d13.00 cm

Mini-Ramp_Model_02

Sold Out Year.2020 w22.00 x h30.00 x d15.00 cm

Medium

#Sculpture

#Art Prints/ Multiples/ Digital

Price Range

USD $329 ~ $2,633

Biography

Born 1982 in Miyagi, Japan
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of General Studies and Advertising(Minor),
University of Central Oklahoma, Oklahoma, USA, 2002-2006

PRIZE:

2021
TRiCERA Award / 100人10 Award 2021
Jury Award / IAG AWARDS 2021

2020
Special Jury Award / Independent Tokyo 2020

SOLO EXHIBITION:

2022
"Curving City", Gallery Tagboat, Tokyo, Japan

2021
"Disaster Slide", Contemporary Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

2020
"With Simultaneity", Lyuro Tokyo Kiyosumi, Tokyo, Japan

EXHIBITIONS:

2022
Group Show by Contemporary Tokyo, Beijing, China
Meet Your Art 2022, Tokyo, Japan
Double Solo Exhibition, Taichung, Taiwan
Tagboat Art Fair 2022, Tokyo, Japan
Hankyu men’s × Tagboat Art Show, Tokyo, Japan
SYNESTHESIA, Tokyo, Japan
"BEYOND" Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan
Art Future Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Black&White Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan

2021
100人10 Exhibition, Shinwa Auction, Tokyo, Japan
GIFT Exhibition, What Cafe, Tokyo, Japan
What is Art ? Exhibition, What Cafe, Tokyo, Japan
NIHON Super Flat Solution, Ye Fine Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
TAGBOAT ART SHOW× Hankyu MEN’S TOKYO, Hankyu MEN’S TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan
Non-Address, Tokyo, Japan, Gallery Tagboat, Tokyo, Japan
artworks fukuoka, Whask, Fukuoka, Japan
IIME FUKURAME Returns 2021, Matsuzakaya, Tokyo, Japan
IAG AWARDS 2021, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Tokyo, Japan
IIME FUKURAME 2021, Matsuzakaya, Tokyo, Japan
Art Kaiho-Ku, LAUNCH, Tokyo, Japan
Art Book / Art Goods, BankART KAIKO,Yokohama, Japan

2020
Independent Tokyo 2020, Tokyo Portcity Takeshiba, Tokyo, Japan
Shinwa Auction, GINZA Medical Building, Tokyo, Japan
Epic Painters vol.7”, THE blank GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
Cover, Ofuro Sou, Kawasaki, Japan

2019
Artist in Residence, BankART Station, Yokohama, Japan
Independent Tokyo 2019, Asakusabashi HULIC HALL, Tokyo, Japan
Sanson Bar Art Night, Jibu-Tei, Okayama, Japan

ART FAIRS:

2022
Art Busan 2022,Busan, Korea
Art Fair Tokyo 2022, Tokyo Japan

2021
Guangzhou Contemporary Art Fair 2021, Guangzhou, China
ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair 2021, Shanghai, China
JINGART 2021, Beijing, China
Art Beijing 2021, Beijing, China

2018
Art Nagoya, Hotel Nagoya Castle, Nagoya, Japan
Kobe Art Marche, Kobe Meriken Park Oriental Hotel, Hyogo, Japan

2016
Spectrum Miami, Miami, FL
Art Expo New York, New York, NY

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