Yuu Takamizawa (b. 1990, Tokyo)
Takamizawa presents installation-based works that take the infrastructures, conventions, and histories surrounding art as both motif and support, exploring the boundaries between artwork and object as well as questions of originality through objects, video, and photography. He has been active both in Japan and internationally. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Artificial Paradise (XYZ collective, Tokyo, 2024), Copies (King’s Leap, New York, 2022), a solo exhibition at imlabor (Tokyo, 2021), and a solo exhibition at 4649 (Tokyo, 2021). Group exhibitions include At the End of the Gaze (Cherry Hill, Cologne, 2025), Tokio Hotel (Galerie Tenko Presents, Berlin, 2024), No sleeper seats, that’s a mattress (Cherry Hill, Cologne, 2024), Presque Partout (FRAC Lorraine, Metz, 2024), and In The Shadows of Tall Necessities (Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, 2022), among others. Public Collections include: FRAC Lorraine, Metz.