Yutaka Inagawa (b. 23 Feb 1974) is a Japanese artist trained in painting, line drawing, and photography who specialises in exploiting digital photomontage. Biography Born in Tokyo, Japan, he grew up in the Ikebukuro district. In 1997, he graduated first in his class at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, then went on to gain a master's degree in fine arts in 2004 from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, England. Since then he has lived and worked in London. His art blends the delicate and the grotesque, juxtaposing photographic fragments, line art and painting to produce complex abstract works. His work is inspired by the uneasy lack of harmony between tradition and modernity in the fast-paced, constantly changing urban world. He sees parallels between his work and the way in which his home city, Tokyo, has absorbed western conventions into Japanese culture without any proper synthesis or reconciliation. He builds his organic-looking images from bizarre collections of carefully cut out photographic elements - including machinery, fish, road signs, leaves, weapons, furniture - the everyday alongside the unusual - the threatening with the benign - but skillfully intertwined so that the original forms are almost indiscernible. Inagawa's work has been on display in numerous exhibitions throughout the world. He was shortlisted for the Celeste Art Prize in both 2006 and 2007. Exhibitions 1996: "Sanyou-Ten", Myu Gallery, Kanda, Tokyo, Japan 2004: XHIBIT 04, The Arts Gallery, London 2004: MA fine art show, Chelsea College of Art and Design 2005: Galerie Suty, Coye-la-Forêt, France 2005: St'Art, Strasbourg Art Fair, Strasbourg, France 2005: "Hybrid", Style Cube Zandari, Seoul, South Korea 2005: Summer Exhibition 2005, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2006: "Synchro-Tron", Aqffin Gallery, London 2007: New Art Center, New York City 2008: "Cosmopolis", Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London 2008: "Around the Clock", I-MYU, London 2008: "Nonplace overlay", Bodhi Gallery, London 2009: "Sensory Cocktails", Gallery Zandari, Seoul, Korea 2009: "Crazytokyo", Galerie Suty, France 2013: "Slow Life: Generation in Exchanges", Yachiyono Oka Museum of Art, Akitakata, Hiroshima 2016: "OTAK JEPUN", Lorong Kekabu, Kuala Lumpur 2014–15: "Yutaka Inagawa: The Invasion of Cyberspace", curated by Christina Mitrentse, Unit 24 Gallery, London 2017–18: "Floating Urban Slime/Sublime", presented and directed by Yutaka Inagawa, Art Gallery Miyauchi, Hiroshima External links References Japanese artists Living people People from Tokyo University of Tokyo alumni 1974 births