AYANO YAMAURA / Artist

Born in Kochi, 1991. 

I observe phenomena that appear on the surfaces of natural things — lichens that resemble letters, forms that suggest human shadows, traces of bark peeling and spreading. 
I am drawn to moments when life emerges as sign within the natural world. 
I collect plants, extract their colors, and watch as those colors shift through oxidation and drying — moving between drawing and record. A painting is not a completed image. 
It exists as a phenomenon that rises, briefly, within a relationship of material and time.

Education

2013 — Studied abroad at Visva-Bharati University, Faculty of Arts, Santiniketan, India
2011 — Enrolled in the Department of Art and Design, Faculty of Arts, Saga University of Arts
2007 — Studied painting under  Issshen Morimitu at Issshen Morimitu art Studio

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026 — The 34th Nagaokakyo Exhibition, Bambio Building 1, Kyoto "Kyoto Shimbun Prize"
2022 — Lithographic Vol.5, Gallery MARONIE, Kyoto
2017 — Mebae Exhibition, Art Space MEISEI, Kyoto
2016 — Circulation and Wave: The Power of Art, Drawing Performance, Saga University of Arts, Kyoto
2015 — The 39th National Print Exhibition, Machida City International Print Museum, Tokyo

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