Yashiki (b.1983) was born in Japan and spent his childhood in San Diego, California, USA. After returning to Japan, he studied fashion and spent most of his twenties in the apparel scene before embarking on a career as an artist. These two elements, his childhood experience of being surrounded by people of diverse origins and cultural backgrounds, and his perception of our lives and life itself as viewed through the lens of clothing, have greatly influenced Yashiki's creative process to this day. Yashiki's paintings are fundamentally different from those typically created with paint and paintbrushes. The material for his paintings is actual clothing worn by someone else, which he uses as the basis for sewing his own paintings. Yashiki speaks of clothing as ""the remains of someone's life. And that is why he starts by talking to the owner of the garment, researching the past and present, and interpreting the owner's personality. The smells that the owner's life has imbued into the garment, the memories of life such as stains and frayed edges, and the history of the garment spun by the designer or brand that produced and sold it. In other words, he treats even the ordinary memories associated with materials such as ""making"" ""selling"" and ""wearing"" as elements of his paintings. The act of ""telling a story of someone's existence, a memory,"" is another significant topic in his paintings, which is embodied by the techniques he uses. He uses a technique called ""Kimekomi,"" which has its roots in the Edo period (1603-1868), and which is now used in the creation of hina dolls. Hina dolls are a type of Japanese ritual utensil used to avoid bad luck that befalls young children, and he introduces this context into his paintings in a reversed manner. Clothing used by Yashiki is something that someone makes for someone else and someone gives to someone else, and from a different perspective, clothing as a material is generally the fruition of someone's thoughts and wishes for someone else. Yashiki sublimates ""Kimekomi"", a doll making technique for thinking/wishing for the future, into a monumental painting technique for passing the thought/wished-for future on to the next level. He says, ""I think, at least for me, when you're trying to preserve someone as a painting, the clothes they used help create more rawness than the paint."" Many of his paintings are portraits, but they offer a different perspective on the usual conventions of the genre. The physicality that identifies the individual, such as facial features, detailed skeletal structure, and flesh, is thoroughly eliminated from the painted figures. The inherent texture of clothing weakens the distinction by shading, and at first glance it may appear that there is no distinction between the figure and the landscape in his paintings, and that realism and novelty as a representation of the figure are rare. However, once you realize that his paintings are painted using clothing that was actually worn and lived with by someone else, you will arrive at the raw reality that is there. These facts indicate that Yashiki is attempting to show us a new phase of painting by combining his fundamental theme of ""proving and narrating existence"" with techniques, materials, and the genre of portrait painting. The genre of portrait painting was, until the advent of photography in history, the most dominant means of preserving and conveying the form of a particular person in two-dimensional form. With the advent and spread of photography, however, portraiture shifted away from realistic expression toward a narrative of interiority, emotion, and thought. Nevertheless, Yashiki dares to focus on these fundamental points in the history of portraiture. To preserve the fact that something or someone existed, and to pass it on. By confronting and reconsidering the historical significance of portraiture, the exhibition will not be a ""portrait to express a certain emotion or thought,"" as has been the case since the 1980s, but rather a painting that contains indirect physical information, memories, and feelings through a production method that uses clothing that was actually worn by someone, and thereby create a portrait that is a ""painting to tell a story of existence. By doing so, he is revitalizing portraits as ""paintings that tell stories of existence. BACKGROUND： 1983 Born in Tokyo, Japan 1983～1990 Lived in San Diego, State of California, United States of America 1990～1996 Lived in Tokyo, Japan 1996～1999 Lived in Singapore 2003～2009 Major of Art Fabric course, Sugino Fashion College, Tokyo, Japan PRIZE： 2021 Grand Prize of Crafts / The 56th Kanagawa Art Exhibition 2021 2020 Award of Audience, Incentive award of Wacoal study hall Kyoto / SICF21 2020 Selection of SOMPO Japan Koa Art Award / FACE 2020 2019 Outstanding performance award / ART OLYMPIA 2019 2019 Award of New York / The 54th SHOWA KAITEN 2019 Award of Tokio Marine Nichido / The 54th SHOWA KAITEN 2019 Honorable Mention Award / 1st Tagawa Art Biennale 2018 Grand Prize / YUZAWAYA Creative Grand Prize Exhibition 2007 New face award / JFW JAPAN CREATION TEXTILE CONTEST 2008 SOLO EXHIBITION： 2023 -to be continue- / Art Capsule + / Tokyo, Japan -Boundary Laundry- / FOAM CONTEMPORARY / Tokyo, Japan -hand in hand- / Koichi Yamamura Gallery / Tokyo, Japan -ONLY HOLY STORY- / Gallery Nichido / Tokyo, Japan 2022 - FLOW & CONNECT- / Hiro Okamoto Gallery / Tokyo, Japan 2021 - touch point - / WACOAL STUDY HALL KYOTO / Kyoto, Japan - PAUSE - / Shibuya Living Tokyo / Tokyo, Japan EXHIBITIONS： 2023 2023 Spring Group Show / VINS Gallery / Taipei, Taiwan 2022 Speak FOR / NOT GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan Art in Tokyo YNK / Tokyo, Japan - ALL Blue - / ISETAN Shinjuku / Tokyo, Japan - THE NOW THE NEW THNE NEXT - / Shibuya Fashion Week 2022 / Tokyo, Japan Art Exhibition for New Star 2022 / Hankyu Umeda / Osaka, Japan 2021 - certainly you exist - / ISETAN Shinjuku / Tokyo, Japan - Re MARENCO - alfrex / ISETAN Shinjuku / Tokyo, Japan - section - / spiral hall Omotesando / Tokyo, Japan UNIQLO TOKYO -intersection of UNIQUE CLOTHING WAREHOUSE- / Tokyo, Japan 2020 -THE POWER OF CHOICE- / ISETAN Shinjuku Restyle / Tokyo, Japan 2019 -ANTI EASY- / ISETAN Shinjuku / Tokyo, Japan 2009 Hanae Mori and Young Artists / Mito Art Museum Tokyo touring exhibition / Tokyo, Japan Hanae Mori and Young Artists / Mito Art Museum / Ibaraki , Japan Curriculum Vitae ART FAIRS： 2023 LA Art Show 2023 / Los Angeles, America Art Fair Tokyo 2023 / Tokyo, Japan MEET YOUR ART FAIR, RE:FACTORY / Tokyo, Japan Art Fair Asia Fukuoka 2023 / Fukuoka, Japan MEET YOUR ART FAIR, TIME TO CHANGE / Tokyo. Japan 2022 DAEGU international art fair 2022 / Daegu, Korea Art Taipei 2022 / Taipei , Taiwan Art Fair Asia Fukuoka 2022 / Fukuoka, Japan Meet Your Art Festival 2022 / Tokyo, Japan ART BUSAN 2022 / Busan, Korea Kunst Rai Art Amsterdam 2022 / Amsterdam, Netherlands 2021 PARIS 2021 MODERN ART FAIR / Paris, France 2019 PARIS 2019 ART ELYSEES / Paris, France