Born 1972, Ishikawa, Kanazawa, Japan
Lives and works in Kanazawa, Japan
Education
1997 Kanazawa College of Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Squirm, Unseal Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Group Exhibitions
2007 Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Mark Moore Gallery booth, Miami, FL
Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Mark Moore Gallery booth, New York. NY
2006 Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Mark Moore Gallery booth, Miami, FL
Ultrasonic International I, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Self-represented, New York, NY
2005 Geisai-7, Tokyo Big Site, Tokyo, Japan
Party-The Horror Pop Pieces, D&Department Gallery Wall, Tokyo, Japan
Scope Art Fair, New York, NY
2004 Gensai-6, Tokyo Big Site, Tokyo, Japan
Yokono Artworks and the Horror of Daily Life, Ono Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Another Movement 2004, Kanazawa City, Japan
2003 Artists by Artists, Mori Museum, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan
Gensai-4, Tokyo Big Site, Tokyo, Japan
Gensai-Museum, Mori Tower 24F. Tokyo, Japan
2002 Link @ Performing Square, Kanazawa Citizen Art enter, Satoyama no Ie Kanazawa, Japan
Poem, Calling Out of Mind Suisei Club Nuit, Kanazawa, Japan
2001 ART, House, Today, Kanazawa Citizen Art Center, Satoyama no Ie Kanazawa, Japan
Nothing but Art Play, Suisei Club Nuit, Kanazawa, Japan
Shining at Night, Oxydol, Kanazawa, Japan
2000 Y/N Collaboration, Parc Katamati, Kanazawa, Japan
Gen-ten, Ueno Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Working Point 2000, Kanazawa Citizen Art Center Pit5, Kanazawa, Japan
1999 Little Alter 1999, Meromeropotti, Kanazawa, Japan
Poem, Calling Out of Mind, Suisei Club Nuit, Kanazawa, Japan
1998 Yokono Kenichi Solo Exhibition, Parc Katamati, Kanazawa, Japan
1997 Memories of Monochrome, Asanogawa Gallery, Kanazawa, Japan
Awards and Residencies
2005 Artist in Residence at McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
Artist in Residence at ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Program), New York, by ACC (Asian Cultural Council) Fellowship, NY
NY Public Art fund director, Tom Eccles Prize
2003 Art Tower Mito, Contemporary Art Center chief director, Eriko Ousaka Prize
Bibliography
"[Pact] Most Favored Nation" (illustration image), Harper's Magazine, May 2008, p. 24
Ayers, Robert. "Armory Week: A Year Later, A Fair Better", ArtInfo, February 25, 2007, http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=28335&c=221
"Kenichi Yokono Artist Interview", www.horror.com, 10 August 2006
"International art with youthful edge," Los Angeles Times, July 28, 2006, p. E23.
Ayers, Robert. "Armory Show Report: Ancillary Fairs", ArtInfo, March 12, 2006,
http://www.artinfo.com/articles/story/13441/armory_show_report_ancillary_fairs
Rubin, Josh. "Kenichi Yokono," Cool Hunting, June 1, 2006, www.coolhunting.com/archives/2006/06/kenichi_yokono