Eri Yagi

Art Collaboration Kyoto 2025

422 Iwakura Osagicho, Sakyo Ward
Kyoto, 606-0001, Japan

November 14 - 16, 2025

Drawing on the tradition of classical graphic traditions, Japanese folklore, patterns, and food, Yagi Eri creates meticulously crafted works on panel with graphite and watercolor. While the customs of eating and the dinner table are central to her universe, the world she depicts is as opulently haunted by creatures from Japanese folklore as it is by fragmented narratives. It is at once strange, unsettling and beautiful.

Eri Yagi (b. 1994, Okinawa, Japan) lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. Recent solo exhibition includes The Half-fishman’s Table (半魚人のテーブル), Gallery Blue 3143, Tokyo, 2024. Recent group exhibition includes Watercolours, Chapter III, XYZ collective, Tokyo, 2023.

Hook, Secret, Tails, Milk, Kindness (釣り針、秘密、尻尾、牛乳、やさしさ), 2024. Watercolor and pencil on washi paper mounted on gessoed wood panel, 16 1/8 x 12 1/2 in (41 x 31.8 cm)

Hook, Secret, Tails, Milk, Kindness (釣り針、秘密、尻尾、牛乳、やさしさ), detail

Today, Gentle (今日は優しく), 2025. Watercolor and pencil on washi paper mounted on gessoed wood panel, 28 5/8 x 20 7/8 in (72.7 x 53 cm)

You come from far away. (遠くから来たんだね), 2025. Watercolor and pencil on washi paper mounted on gessoed wood panel, 23 7/8 x 16 1/8 in (60.6 x 41 cm)

You come from far away. (遠くから来たんだね), detail

No one understand #2 (誰もわかってくれない #2), 2025. Watercolor and pencil on washi paper mounted on gessoed wood panel, 23 7/8 x 35 7/8 in (60.6 x 91 cm)

No one understand #2 (誰もわかってくれない #2), detail

First contact (ファースト・コンタクト), 2025. Watercolor and pencil on washi paper mounted on gessoed wood panel, 23 7/8 x 17 7/8 in (60.6 x 45.5 cm)