Kota Yoshida

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I'm based in The Hague, Netherlands, originally from Tokyo, Japan. Born 1990. A year and a half of solo travel around the world became the turning point that led me to art.

Wood grain is a physical record of cosmic rhythm. Time, weather, gravity, seasons, the rotation of the earth — these are the forces that have slowly inscribed themselves into matter. To follow that grain with a brush is to integrate the self into the whole — something far older and larger than the individual. I call this practice Cosmic Rhythm.

In recent years, I have been working with reclaimed wood collected from the streets of the Netherlands. Each piece carries its own form, its cracks, its scars — quiet evidence of an unknown life lived nearby. I wash it, and bring it back as art. By weaving into the work elements of ukiyo-e and iwa-enogu mineral pigments, I am confronting an identity that living abroad has made newly visible to me.

At the foundation of this practice is the Law of Dependent Origination — the understanding that all things exist through mutual relationship. Nature and humanity. Past and future. The individual and the whole. All of it, one.

Self-taught

Solo Exhibition
Graining of the cosmos | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Acibadem IMC | 2025
Cosmic Rhythm | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | The Art Of September Gallery | 2024-25
U+Me | Tokyo, Japan | Atelier U+Me | 2024
Iramukarapute | Nagano, Japan | Iramukarapute |2023
Qi | Tokyo, Japan | Atelier U+Me | 2023
Sublimation | Tokyo, Japan | Tsukiji-Honganji shrine | 2022
Oneness | Tokyo, Japan | Ba-Wa Cafe | 2022

Group Exhibition
Amsterdam, Netherlands | WIHH Gallery | 2023
New York, The USA | Van Der Plas Gallery | 2022
Tokyo, Japan | VOSTOK | 2022
Bangkok, Thailand | 6060 ART SPACES | 2022
Milano, Italy | M.A.D.A Art Gallery | 2021
Fuerteventura, Spain | M.A.D.A Art Gallery | 2021
Tokyo, Japan | Atelier JIYUDA | 2021
Tokyo, Japan | Gallery Kanon | 2021
Tokyo, Japan | Atelier JIYUDA | 2021
Tokyo, Japan | Gallery Kanon | 2020
Tokyo, Japan | Temple University | 2019