Kyoto Meetings

Ulterior Gallery features work by New York-based artist Carrie Yamaoka. Yamaoka works across painting, photography, and sculpture, delving into the topography of surfaces, materiality, process, and the tactility of the barely visible.

A third-generation Japanese American, Yamaoka’s complex connection to Japan is both intimate and distant. The works on view at Kyoto Meeting reveal her diasporic, transcultural, and hybridized sensibility, reflecting the ties to her Japanese heritage.

Her resin paintings offer a reminder of what the static state and what the lifespan of an object could encompass. Stump 2, a photographic image of a stump printed on synthetic chiffon and shot by Yamaoka at Saihoji upon her return there in the spring 2024, engages with shifts in time, distance, and presence.

Yamaoka has exhibited at ICA Philadelphia, MoMA/PS1, Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou, the Wexner, Victoria and Albert Museum, MASS MoCA, among others. Her work is in the collections of the Buffalo AKG, the Art Institute of Chicago, Dallas Museum of Art, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Critically acclaimed in publications that include The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Artnews, The New Yorker, Time Out New York, Hyperallergic, Interview, Bomb, and Bijutsu Techo, Yamaoka is also a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and an Anonymous Was A Woman award, and was a founding member of the queer art collective fierce pussy, alongside Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, and Zoe Leonard.