Yuka Mori (b.1991) was raised in Shiga prefecture and is currently based in Kyoto. Using Japanese-style painting mineral pigments and surfaces, Mori creates work focused on two primary subjects: people and plants. With a strong interest in the body and a contemplative approach to the boundary between humans and the natural environment, Mori’s work conjures a visceral continuum of fusion between people and other people, people and plants, or plants and other plants. Other works attempt to depict the circulation between inside and outside as mediated through windows and based on the idea of a building as a living organism. Mori’s practice also includes a series of life drawings of plants, and a series entitled Mesh that features organic yet chaotic net-like botanical forms.

In recent years, Mori’s major exhibitions include Mist and Dew* (Yutaka Kikutake Gallery Kyobashi, 2026), Ghost-like Hover* (ATLA, Los Angeles, 2025), Intertwined—Playful Mesh* (Gallery crossing, Gifu, 2025), Materiality in Progress: Exploring New Materialism in Contemporary Art (Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, 2025), Yuka Mori - Teppei Yamada “Liminal Acts” (LOKO gallery, Tokyo, 2024), Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama (Okayama, 2024), Yuka Mori Exhibition* (toutou gallery, Okayama, 2023), Portrait in the Rain* (Dohjidai Gallery, Kyoto, 2021), The New Kyoto Nihonga Exhibition 2020 (Museum -EKi- KYOTO and Hotel Granvia Kyoto, 2020), and Spreading Vein* (Gallery SUJIN, Kyoto, 2019). Mori studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris as an exchange student in 2015, and was a 2022 artist in residence at art biotope Nasu. She is the recipient of the 2024 Pommery Prize Kyoto Grand Prize.

*solo exhibition