Shino Yanai

Happy and Glorious

My practice uses humour to explore concepts of otherness, from the muteness of animals to the grandiloquence of nationalism.

Degrees
BA Music, Kobe College (Instrumental music, Piano major), 2002; MA, BA Japanese Painting, Tama Art University, 2010; MA Inter Media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts, 2012

Experience
Guest Lecturer, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, Okinawa, 2014; Fellowship of grant from the POLA Art Foundation, 2014-2015; Fellowship of Overseas Study Programme for Artists, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, 2017-2018

Exhibitions
Crisis youth get creative: ‘Young Generations in Japan and Europe: Crisis, Mobility and Creativity’ workshop, Sainsbury institute for the study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich, 2016; Artist Talk 'Blue Passages' Conversation with Dr Jonathan Whitewall, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, 2016; WHAT WE SEE, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 2013; Brave New World – re-enchanting utopia, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, 2013; Solo exhibition, Blue Passages, White Conduit Projects, London, 2016; Mediarc International Festival of Architecture 'Proiezioni sezione Festival Internazionale, Now You See Me Parigi 2017' Le Murate Progetti Arte Contemporanea, Florence, 2017; Journées internationales du film sur l'art 10e édition, Art Public – Now you see me, Auditrium, Louvre museum, Paris, 2017

Awards
Yuka Uematsu Prize (Curator, The National Museum of Art, Osaka), Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi, 2012

Publications
ART iT, Bijutsutecho, End of war in the decade of the 2010s, by Adrian Favell, 2012; El Punt Avui, The Blue Passages, by Pilar Parcerisas, 2016