Yuki Itoda

Who is Yuki Itoda?

Yuki Itoda is a Japanese artist. After finishing Suidobata Art Academy and graduating from Funabashi Art School in 2003, Subsequently, Yuki Itoda started exhibiting his work in art galleries in Tokyo, and was represented by Zenshi Gallery. He works in a variety of media, including oil, acrylic, spray paint, and neon. His work draws on an array of techniques ranging from traditional oil painting to graffiti and experimental video. Sometimes starkly simple, elsewhere striped and patterned like tacky retro jumpsuits seen through a kaleidoscope, his works alternate between an endearing vulnerability and an infectious retinal assault. Prolific Japanese artist and founder of Geisai, Takashi Murakami, took early notice of his work and became Yuki’s first commercial collector in 2006. In 2007, Itoda collaborated with the group AVAF on the exhibition “Space for your Future: Recombining the DNA of Art and Design” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. More recently, Itoda was invited to participate in the 2009 Armory Show VIP Reception at the St. Regis Residences. The group show, to which Itoda contributed over 70 paintings, was titled “The Girls from Kyoto and other Japanese Contemporary Masters,” and received immediate critical attention. From 2007 to 2011 Yuki Itoda showed his work in numeral US galleries, as well as in Berlin, Prague, Moscow and London. He also participated in several international art projects and festivals.