Yuma Kishi (岸 裕真)

WORKS

  • Organs, 2024

  • Oracle Womb, 2024

  • cinema, 2021

  • protrusion #7, 2021

  • job (Gas Station Staff), 2021

  • protrusion #1, 2021

  • kokuhaku (confession), 2021

BIOGRAPHY

Kishi explores unknown forms of existence that emerge at the intersection of human and nonhuman, reframing AI as “Alien Intelligence” to pursue co-creative practices between the two. Since 2019, Kishi has built original AI models and designed proprietary training datasets as the foundation of this work. In collaboration with the self-developed model MaryGPT, which has curated nearly every project since 2023, Kishi produces paintings, sculptures, and installations that blur the boundary between artist and unknown other.

Solo exhibitions include Oracle Womb (√K Contemporary, Tokyo, 2025) and The Frankenstein Papers (DIESEL ART GALLERY, Tokyo, 2023). Group shows include DXP2 (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2024) and Beast — Chapter 2: BEAUTIFUL DAYDREAM (Maruka Building, Tokyo, 2024). Cross-disciplinary collaborations include research-based projects with the fashion label HATRA, artworks for leading Japanese bands such as RADWIMPS and King Gnu, and visual direction for composer Keiichiro Shibuya’s Android Opera.

Kishi has been selected for the Agency for Cultural Affairs Media Arts Creator Development Support Program 2025 and the CCBT Artist Fellowship 2025. Author of Michi tono Sōzō (lit. Creativity with the Unknown: Humanity’s Alien Encounter with AI, Seibundo Shinkosha). Born in Tochigi, Japan (1993); based in Tokyo.

 

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［Solo Exhibitions］
2025 Oracle Womb, √K Contemporary (Tokyo, JP)
2023 The Frankenstein Papers, DIESEL ART GALLERY (Tokyo, JP)
2022 Moon?, HARUKAITO by island (Tokyo, JP)
2021 Imaginary Bones, √K Contemporary (Tokyo, JP)
2021 Neighbors’ Room, BLOCK HOUSE (Tokyo, JP)
［Group Exhibitions］
2025 Yawarakana Mirai no Kōkogaku, CADAN Otemachi (Tokyo, JP)
2024 DXP2, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (JP)
2024 Beast — Chapter 2: BEAUTIFUL DAYDREAM, Maruka Building (Tokyo, JP)
2024 Poltergeist, Moto-Eigakan (Tokyo, JP)
2022 Made in Japan 3.0: Defining a New Phy-gital Reality, K11 Art Mall (Hong Kong, HK)
2022 UNKNOWN VISITORS, The National Art Center (Tokyo, JP)
2021 How to See Paintings Reprise, √K Contemporary (Tokyo, JP)
2020 Allelopathy in the Wasteland, Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery (Tokyo, JP)
2020 Mt. Fuji Exhibition 3.0, T-ART HALL (Tokyo, JP)

 

2025 Art Taipei 2025 (Taipei, TW)
2024 Kiaf Seoul 2024, COEX (Seoul, KR)
2024 Art OSAKA 2024, Osaka City Central Public Hall (Osaka, JP)
2022 TAIPEI DANGDAI 2022, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center (Taipei, TW)
2022 ART FAIR TOKYO 2022, Tokyo International Forum (Tokyo, JP)