Okuda Yuta With Gratitude

After studying fashion design in Japan and England, Okuda Yuta began working as a designer for the fashion brand TAKEO KIKUCHI. In 2016, Okuda became an artist, and since then has been actively participating in solo and group exhibitions in Japan, a solo exhibition in New York, building his career with continuous production and presentation.

The exhibition will introduce Okuda’s works in the theme of “with gratitude,” in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, realizing that the things he had taken for granted were extraordinary events all along.

For a time, Okuda used to express with fine details consisting of meticulously calculated lines, but for the past few years has switched to focus on presenting works of “flowers” which put emphasis on “serendipity.” The flowers expressed in various colors have a strong pop image, but each individual petal is delicately drawn. The motifs are said to be based on the memories of childhood that he arrived at as he was “salvaging himself.”

Okuda Yuta

Born in Aichi, 1987

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019

Gallery+Cafe blanka, Aichi
Interior cafe & gallery World Times, Hyogo
Ellipse Tokyo, Tokyo
NishiikeMart, Tokyo
KIRIKO the MUSEUM, Tokyo
REFECTOIRE, Tokyo
The Micro Museum, Tokyo
Boundary line of bleeding, gallery 201, Tokyo

2020

Black to Colourful, Gallery ISHIKAWA, Tokyo
With Gratitude, Ellipse Tokyo, Tokyo
eplus LIVING ROOM CAFE & DINNING, Tokyo
gallery 201, Tokyo

2021

With Gratitude, Mizuma & Kips, NY
WITH GRATITUDE, elephant Studio, Tokyo
gallery 201, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019

Monochrome, Binokigen, Tokyo
Le cial bleu, Tokyo

2020

Food chain, TOMOHIKO YOSHINO GALLERY, Tokyo

Art Fair

2019

ART TAIPEI 2019, Taipei World Trade Center

2020

artTNZ, TERRADA ART COMPLEXⅡ, Tokyo

2021

ART NAGOYA 2021, Nagoya Kanko Hotel, Aichi

Publications

2017

Hana to Ikimono Utsukushiku Sensaina Nurie Colourful Black, Kawade Shobo Shinsha