Rui Yamaguchi

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Since 2016, he has been active on the internet under the name "professional unemployed". Without prescribing a specific occupation, he expresses himself as a break dancer, poet, and YouTuber, crossing genres and locations. He has launched projects such as 《Travel with One Smartphone (2017)》 and 《The 100 Interviews (2018)》 using crowdfunding as a starting point. He has become a pioneer of a way of life that symbolizes the social era, with sponsors attached to his activities. In 2019, he will begin presenting works in the field of contemporary art under the name "Rui Yamaguchi. He intervenes in cities and platforms using conceptual methods to visualize the fluctuation of boundaries and human agency.

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1991 Born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan 2022 Master of Advanced Art Expression, Tokyo University of the Arts Solo Exhibition 2020 "Suchness" JOINT GALLERY HARAJUKU, Tokyo Group Exhibition 2020 "100 People 10" Nihombashi Logs Building, Tokyo 2021 "Born New Art" Shibuya Scramble Square, Tokyo Tokyo 2021 "AIR 1/2F" BnA Alter Museum, Kyoto 2021 "artwork fukuoka" Whask, Fukuoka 2021 "GRADATION" Shibuya Parco, Tokyo 2021 "Any Kobe with Arts 2021" Kobe Kitano Darvish Court, Kobe 2021 @Art Kobe" Kobe Art Center Grand Salon, Kobe 2022 "ON MY WAY" Under the Mango Tree, Berlin, Germany 2022 "ATLAS 2022" Tokyo University of the Arts Toride Campus, Ibaraki 2022 "A-TOM ART AWARD 2022 Vernacular and Dawn" Court Yard HIROO, Tokyo Art Fair 2021 ART BEIJING 2021, Beijing, China Artist-in-Residence 2021 BnA Alter Museum, Kyoto Art Festival 2021 SUMIDA Mukojima EXPO , Tokyo Commission 2021 Karakusa Corporation "PRDX PARADOX TOKYO" 21SS ARTISTS COLLABORATION PROJECT Awards 2014 OVR DRV 4.0 Boston B-boy Solo Battle Runner-up 2015 BUZZ STYLE vol. 9 FINAL B-boy Crew Battle Winner 2020 PERSOL Work-Style AWARD 2020 Diversity Category Nomination 2022 A-TOM ART AWARD 2022 Sponsor Company 2018- ONWA Corporation 2019- Ritsun STC Corporation Interviews and Media Appearances 2019 "Are you using your smartphone well? (written by Yuka Koishi, Magazine House)" 2020 "Young People's New Normal: Generation Z, Living the Corona Disaster (written by Megumi Ushikubo, Nikkei Premier Series)" Published in 2020 New R25 "I understand~! I thought I was in trouble every time someone sympathized with me." "Why "Professional Unemployed" Ruttei left SNS" 2020 Published in TIMELINE Self-transformation of a "professional unemployed" who has mastered freedom! He chose contemporary art over 3 million yen." 2022 Abema Prime 2022 FUTURE GATEWAY "As a professional unemployed artist and as an artist. Rui Yamaguchi rethinks the art industry with everything he's ever known" 2022 TAKURAMI LAB "Showing failures and detours makes a project more interesting. Ruttei-san, a professional unemployed artist [Art no TAKURAMI]" on TAKURAMI LAB