Yuli Yamagata’s works are nurtured by a pop imagery that turns them into objects charged with a familiar strangeness. She often works with sewing and pieces of ordinary fabrics found in popular stores to build a very peculiar visual universe. She is specially interested in a mixture of images and references, ranging from classic design to the vibrant colours of athlete’s lycra attires, to develop dynamic works that embody and combine anatomic volumes, fast-food visions and elements of popular culture in textile assemblages, paintings and sculpture. The formal alternation of the bulky and the thin, the gigantic and the tiny, places the artist's practice in the condition of hyperbole, as if her works were always on the verge of screaming, whether out of fright or laughter.
Yuli Yamagata was born in Sao Paulo in 1989. She lives and works in Sao Paulo.
Her most recent solo exhibitions include: Afasta Nefasta, Ordet, Milan (2022); Sweet Dreams, Nosferatu, Anton Kern Gallery (2021); Insônia, Fortes d'Aloia & Gabriel (2021); NERVO, MAC Niterói, Niterói (2021); Microwave Your Friends, Invitro Cluj, ClujNapoca (2019); Tropical Extravaganza: Paola and Paolina, Secs Niterói (2018); Honra ao Mérito, UFRJ Forum, Rio de Janeiro (2017); X-Treasure Hunt, Pinacoteca de São Bernardo, Sao Paolo (2017); Paisagem Modelo (Sticker Album), Centro Cultural São Paulo, (2016).
Recent group exhibitions include: The Postmodern Child, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Gallery 3·4·5(B1), Busan (2023); Brave World, Telegraph Gallery, Wien (2023); Who tells a tale adds a tail Denver Art Museum, Denver (2022); Are Artworks Contemporary?, Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon (2022); I Could Eat You, Casa da Cultura Comporta (2022); The Artsy Vanguard 2021 Collection, Mana Contemporary, Miami (2021); Os Monstros de Babaloo, Fortes d'Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo (2021); Farsa, Secs Pompéia, São Paulo, 2020; Samba In The Dark, Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2020); Esqueci de Acordar, Diablo Rosso Gallery, Panama City (2020); Punk Alegria Tropical. Fuck U Mr. President, Galeria Dandi, São Paulo (2019); A parte maldita: um esboço, SIM Galeria, São Paulo (2019); A Burrice dos Homens, Galeria Bergamin & Gomide, São Paulo (2019); Perdona que no te crea, Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (2019); Rocambole, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2019); La Proxima, Despacio, San José, (2018); Rocambole/ RolyPoly, Pivô Art & Research, Sao Paulo (2018); Reverse Bias, SIM Gallery, Sao Paulo, (2018); Sensitive Surfaces, CCBB Rio de Janeiro (2018); Synthetic nature, Unicamp, Campinas, (2018); A Grandiosa Festa Junina de Santo Antônio do Abacaxi, Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro (2018); Disfarce, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, Brasil (2018); Novas Poéticas 2016, Fundação Museu do Futuro, Curitiba (2016).
Latinidad On Its Own Terms, Denise Zubizarreta, Hyperallergic, 2023
The Artsy Vanguard 2021: Yuli Yamagata, Ela Bittencourt, Artsy, 2021
With Art Basel Parcours, contemporary art explodes in the city, Michele Humbert, exibart, 2021
Marta Mestre on Yuli Yamagata's Gota, MADRAzine #11 – July 2020
Sofia Gotti on Yuli Yamagata's Milho na manteiga, MADRAzine #7 – March 2020
Yuli Yamagata on Intimacy, Self Worth and Chewing Gum, by João Mourão, Luís Silva, CURA Magazine 31° edition, 2019
Yuli Yamagata: Artist in 'Who tells a tale adds a tail' at the Denver Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, 2022
PIPA Award Nomination, 2019
The Postmodern Child
Installation view at Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan
December 17th 2022 - April 23rd 2023
Installation view at Casa da Cultura, Comporta
July 5th - August 28th 2022
Afasta Nefasta
Installation view at Ordet, Milan
April 1st - May 28th 2022
Sweet Dreams, Nosferatu
Installation view at Art|Basel Parcours in Passion for Beds Shop, Basel, Switzerland
September 20th - September 26th, 2021
Sweet Dreams, Nosferatu
Installation view at Art|Basel Parcours in Passion for Beds Shop, Basel, Switzerland
September 20th - September 26th, 2021
Nervo
Installation view at MAC Niterói, Niterói, Brazil
March 20th - June 27th 2021
Nervo
Installation view at MAC Niterói, Niterói, Brazil
March 20th - June 27th 2021
Nervo
Installation view at MAC Niterói, Niterói, Brazil
March 20th - June 27th 2021
Installation view at Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugal
September 10th - October 31st, 2020
Installation view at Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugal
September 10th - October 31st, 2020
Microwave Your Friends
installation view at Invitro, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
October 5th - December 15th, 2019
Microwave Your Friends
installation view at Invitro, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
October 5th - December 15th, 2019
Rocambole in Portugal is Literally Roll Cake
Installation view at Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, Portugal
February 23th - April 27th, 2019
Rocambole in Portugal is Literally Roll Cake
Installation view at Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, Portugal
February 23th - April 27th, 2019
Rocambole in Portugal is Literally Roll Cake
Installation view at Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, Portugal
February 23th - April 27th, 2019
Rocambole in Portugal is Literally Roll Cake
Installation view at Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, Portugal
February 23th - April 27th, 2019
Interruptions
Installation view at Pinta Art Fair, Miami, Florida, USA
December 5th - 9th, 2018
Rocambole/Roly-Poly
Installation view at Pivô, São Paolo, Brazil
June 9th - July 21st, 2018
Rocambole/Roly-Poly
Installation view at Pivô, São Paolo, Brazil
June 9th - July 21st, 2018
Tropical Extravaganza: Paola and Paulina
Installation view at Sesc Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
February 20th - May 31st, 2018
Tropical Extravaganza: Paola and Paulina
Installation view at Sesc Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
February 20th - May 31st, 2018
Synthetic Nature
Installation view at Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil
2018
Honra ao Mérito
Installation view at UFRJ Forum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2017
Disfarce
Oswald de Andrade Cultural Office, Sao Paulo, Brazil
August 12th - October 28th, 2017
X - Treasure Hunt
Pinacoteca de Sao Bernardo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
March 27th - May 17th, 2017