Yoshiyuki Okuyama was born in 1991 in Tokyo. He began producing photographic works in 2009 and marked his debut with the receipt of the 34th New Cosmos of Photography Excellence Award in 2011. Ever since, he has continued to produce works that center on the theme of contradiction and the mixture of contrary elements such as representation and abstraction. Okuyama won The 47th Kodansha Publishing Culture Awards, Photography Award with BACON ICE CREAM (Parco Publishing, 2015) in 2016. His publications include Girl (PLANCTON, 2012), The Town You Live in (SPACE SHOWER BOOKS, 2017), As the Call, So the Echo (AKAAKA Art Publishing, 2017), POCARI SWEAT (SEIGENSHA Art Publishing, 2018), Los Angeles / San Francisco (Union publishing, 2018), The Good Side (Editions Bessard, 2020), flowers (AKAAKA Art Publishing, 2021), BACON ICE CREAM-Taiwan Edition (Uni Books, 2021), Ton! Tan! Pan! Don! (bookshop M, 2021) and BEST BEFORE (SEIGENSHA Art Publishing, 2022) and windows (AKAAKA Art Publishing, 2023). Okuyama’s major solo exhibitions include “Girl” Raum1F, Tokyo (2012), “BACON ICE CREAM” PARCO Museum, Tokyo (2016), “THE NEW STORY” POST, Tokyo (2016), “As the Call, So the Echo” Gallery916, Tokyo (2017), “The Town You Live in” Omotesando Hills Space O, Tokyo (2017), ”White Light” Canon Gallery S, Tokyo (2019), and “windows” amanaTIGP, Tokyo (2023).

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