Yuko Mohri

Mohri was born in Kanagawa, Japan in 1980 and now lives and works in Tokyo. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tama Art University in 2004 and a Masters of Fine Art from the Tokyo University of Arts in 2006. 

Yuko Mohri will represent Japan at the 60th Venice Biennale, curated by Sook-Kyung Lee, director of Whitworth Gallery, The University of Manchester.

In 2015, Mohri received a grant from the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) for a residency in the United States. The same year she also received the Grand Prix at the Nissan Art Award. In 2018, she undertook a residency in China having been appointed as an East Asian Cultural Exchange Envoy by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan and in 2022 she traveled to France as a Cité international des arts: Lauréats 2020 of Institut français. 

International solo exhibitions include I/O, Atelier Nord, Oslo (2021); SP., Sony Park, Tokyo (2021); Voluta, Camden Arts Centre, London (2018); Assume That There is Friction and Resistance, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan (2018). Mohri has been included in a number of international group shows including the Gwangju Biennale (2023); Biennale of Sydney (2022); Asian Art Biennial (2021); Bienal de São Paulo (2021); Glasgow International (2021); Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2021); Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Russia (2019); Palais de Tokyo, France (2018); Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (2018); Biennale de Lyon, France (2017); Centre Pompidou-Metz, France (2017); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2016); Yokohama Triennale (Japan, 2014), among others.

Mohri’s works are included in international institutional collections, including Centre Pompidou, France; M+, Hong Kong; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan; and the National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, Japan, Ashmolean Museum, England, among others.