Yukine Yanagi (b.1998) is a Chinese-Japanese artist currently living and working in Rhode Island. Yukine’s mysterious and meditative paintings depict an inner world confronted by, and projected onto, the natural world to capture the profound personal and existential meanings observed in nature. In her paintings, elemental forms and gestural marks reveal otherworldly spaces that reflect themes of hope within the coexisting framework of absence and presence, wonder and terror, and yearning and detachment. Working within the conceptual lineage of the German Romantic movement and influenced by Eastern philosophy and spirituality, Yukine developed an abstract language containing marks that become symbolic representations of specific feelings suspended in time, elemental forms that capture the phenomenology of patterns and systems found in nature, and figurative allusions to the self as both witness and participant.
She holds a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI). Recently, she has presented a solo exhibition at G/ART/EN Gallery (Como, Italy), and group exhibitions at Analog Diary (Beacon, NY), Latitude Gallery New York (NYC, NY), and SPY Projects (Los Angeles, CA).
YUKINE YANAGI
Lives and works in Providence, RI.
Education
2016 - 2020 BFA Painting, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI
Solo Exhibition
2025 (upcoming) Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
2023 “The Ultraviolet Principle”, G/ART/EN Gallery, Como, Italy
Group Exhibition
2024 “Long Walk Off a Short Pier: Abstraction and the Afterlife”, Analog Diary, Beacon, NY
2023 “Red Thread”, co-curated by Anne-Laure Lemaitre, Latitude Gallery New York, New York, NY
2023 "Chromazones", Analog Diary, Beacon, NY
2023 “Pinecone Compass”, curated by Aaron Pierce, Apt 13 Gallery, Providence, RI
2023 "Scene", Apt13 Gallery, Providence, RI
2023 "Affinities", co-curated by Sophronia Cook, SPY Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2022 "Caveman Crucibles", Apt13 Gallery, Providence, RI
2022 "Three-Legged Crow", Latitude Gallery New York, New York, NY
2020 "The BFA Student Show", Serving the People, Online Show
2020 “Painting Senior Show I”, RISD Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2019 “Redefine” Shanghai Young Art Fair, Shanghai Shimao Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China.
2019 “Painting Triennial”, RISD Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2019 “Basta Cosí: The Lemon has Been Squeezed”, Palazetto Cenci, Rome, Italy
2019 “Titles; Interaction, Translation, and Pieces”, Gallerie Bibliothé, Rome, Italy
Public Collection
The Bunker Art Space, West Palm Beach, FL