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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.


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

PRIZE:
2021
TRiCERA Award / 100人10 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
SICF22, Spiral Hall, 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

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