Yutaka Inagawa (b.1974 in Tokyo, currently lives and works in Onomichi, Japan) received MA in Fine Art from the Chelsea College of Arts in 2004, and his BA in Painting from the Tokyo University of the Arts in 1997. He is also an Associate Professor in the Art and Design Department at Onomichi City University.
A contemporary Japanese artist and artist-curator, Inagawa delves into the complex relationships between digital and immaterial realms, remapping timestamps and constructing holistic landscapes in his work. By demonstrating an immaterial logic, Inagawa weaves together cultural misinterpretations and multiple logics, embracing a multi-core, porous structure in rhizome. Inagawa's installations, often composed of everyday materials like leftover ice lolly bars and used furniture, bridge the gap between the tangible and the immaterial while offering a glimpse into his personal life and the conditions of the city he inhabits. As an artist-curator, Inagawa has organized various experimental exhibitions, using the exhibition format as a collaborative space that reflects his intentions, those of other artists, and the material and spatial reality. By incorporating elements of illogicality, he challenges conventional understandings of our reality and encourages us to reevaluate our connections to the ever-changing fabric of existence.
Inagawa is a founding director of ONLY CONNECT (2015-) and Floating Urban Slime/Sublime (2017-); both are mini-labs which use experimentation as a driving force for international art projects. Selected exhibitions and projects include Fluxosphere at UUH OOH, Hong Kong (2023, solo exhibition), Say to Day, an online collaboration with curator Ying Kwok (2020-2021), eASY mECHAISM｜符と思う (solo show) at MOU Onomichi City University Museum, Onomichi, Japan (2022), Another Pair of Eyes (artist-curator) at Duddell’s, Hong Kong (2019), ONLY CONNECT OSAKA (artist-curator) at Creative Center Osaka, Osaka (2019), I say Yesterday, You Hear Tomorrow. Vision from Japan (group show) at Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy (2018), Collaboration with Glass Magazine for “belief” issue (2015), and Sensory Cocktails (solo show) at Gallery Zandari, Seoul (2009).