CV

Yuko MOHRI
B. 1980 in Kanagawa, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo.
Yuko Mohri is an artist who creates installation and sculpture not to compose (or construct) but rather to focus on “events” that constantly shift according to environment conditions. In recent years, she has also explored this idea through video and photography.
She was born 1980 in Kanagawa, Japan. She received her MA in Inter-media Art from Tokyo University of the Arts. In 2015, Mohri received a grant from the Asian Cultural Council for a 6-month residency in New York. That same year she received the Nissan Art Award’s Grand Prix. In 2016, Mohri was an artist in residence at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and Camden Arts Centre, London. In 2018, she became an East Asian cultural exchange envoy, visiting four cities in China. In 2019, she received a grant from the Institut français for a three-month residency in Paris.
Recent personal exhibitions include “Yuko Mohri: Compose” (Japan Pavilion, Venice, 2024), “Piano Solo: 12th January, 1900” (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul, 2025), “On Physis” (Artizon Museum, Tokyo, 2024), “Moré and Moré” (Aranya Art Center, Hebei, 2024), “I/O (In Oslo)” (Atelier Nord, Oslo, 2021), “Parade (a Drip, a Drop, the End of the Tale)” (Japan House São Paulo, São Paulo, 2021), “SP. by yuko mohri” (Ginza Sony Park, Tokyo, 2020), “Voluta” (Camden Arts Centre, London, 2018), and “Assume That There Is Friction and Resistance” (Towada Art Center, Aomori, 2018). She has also participated in numerous international group exhibitions including The 14th Gwangju Biennale (Horanggasinamu Art Polygon, Gwangju, 2023), The 23rd Biennale of Sydney (Pier 2/3 and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2022), The 2021 Asian Art Biennial (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, 2021), The 34th Bienal de São Paulo (Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, São Paulo, 2021), Glasgow international 2021 (The Pipe Factory, Glasgow, 2021), The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2018), “Japanorama: New Vision on Art since 1970” (Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2017) , The 14th Biennale de Lyon (Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, 2017) and Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016 (Kochi, 2016).
Her works are in the collections of Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), Centre Pompidou (Paris), M+ (Hong Kong), Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon (Lyon), The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto (Kyoto), Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts (Taoyuan), and Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane) etc.

Compose. text by Sook-Kyung Lee, Azusa Hashimoto. conversation with Vicente Todolí, Gaku Kondo. Milan: Mousse Publishing, Apr. 2024.
I/O. text by Tomoko Yabumae. Oslo: Atelier Nord, Sept. 2021
Assume That There Is Friction and Resistance. text by Emma Lavigne, Kazuko Koike, Minoru Hatanaka, Kodama Kanazawa. interviewed by Taisuke Shimanuki. Tokyo: Getsuyosha, Feb. 2019
After the Echo. text by Chiaki Sakaguchi. Tokyo: After the Echo Project, Oct. 2018
Yuko Mohri. text by Sam Belinfante. London: Camden Arts Centre, July 2018
Grey Skies. poem by Sayaka Ohsaki. text by Hitoshi Nakano, Satoko “Tetta” Sugimoto. Kanagawa: Fujisawa City Art Space, Feb. 2018
Yuko Mohri. text by Richard Wentworth, Mark Rappolt, Edward Ball. London: White Rainbow, Apr. 2017.
ArtReview Asia, Autumn 2016, ArtReview, 2016 [cover, interview]
Yuko Mohri Anmerkung – Art Hack Day Transmediale, BCCKS (Tokyo), 2014 [e-book]
MORE MORE Tokyo [Water Leak Tokyo], BCCKS (Tokyo),2012 [e-book]

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Centre Pompidou, Paris
M+, Hong Kong
Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
The Nissan Art Collection, Kanagawa
Obayashi Foundation, Tokyo
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
S-House Museum, Okayama
Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts, Taoyuan
Takahashi Collection, Tokyo
Tokai Tokyo Securities, Tokyo
Towada Art Center, Aomori
Ueshima Museum Collection, Tokyo
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa