Statement

Yuriko started working on the On Earth se- ries right af ter the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.

These works are a rethinking of the relationship be- tween humans and natural forces, and the ways they exist within the same world and share its interrelated complexity. Her double-layer technique involves placing two photographs on top of one another and meticulously cutting thin vertical strips of the top layer to reveal slivers of the image beneath. This merging of two images creates an effect of vibration, where movement and stillness play off each other and lines between two and three-dimensional space are blurred.

Biography

Yuriko Kubota continues exploring her double-layer technique, which involves placing two photographs on top of each other and meticulously cutting thin vertical strips of the top layer to reveal slivers of the image beneath. This merging of two images creates an effect of vibration, where movement and stillness play off each other, and lines between two and three-dimensional space are blurred. Yuriko studied oil painting at Joshibi University of art and design in Tokyo, Japan. Approaching photography as an extension of her painting, she uses it as a tool to study and reconfirm her thoughts as well as record what she feels in her journey through life.

Curriculum Vitæ

Education

2004-2007 study photography under a photographer, Shin Sugino, Toronto, Canada
1997-2001 Joshibi University of art and design  (B.A fine art oil painting) Tokyo, Japan

Solo Exhibitions

2013 Out of grey, De luca gallery , Toronto , Canada
2011 On Earth, Pikto Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2010 Slices of Life, Art Labor Gallery, Shanghai, China
2007 Recent works, Pikto Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Group Exhibitions

2022 Youniverse, Galerie Youn, Montreal, Canada
2013 Paysages affectifs , Galerie Youn , Montreal ,Canada
2009 Flash Forward 2009, Foto week central4, Washington DC, USA
2009 Flash Forward 2009, Lennox Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2009 Proof16, Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada
2008 Surface dwellers, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2008 Ichigo-ichie, Consulate General of Japan, Toronto, Canada
2007 Photo lab, Gendai Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2002 Girlie exhibition, Art guild, Tokyo, Japan
2001 Landscape 3, pepper’s gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Fuuka, plan b, Tokyo, Japan

Awards

2009 Flash Forward 2009

Auction

2013 Art Barrage (An art auction for War child)
2012 SNAP12! (A photographic fundraiser for the AIDS committee of Toronto.)
2011 Art Barrage (An art auction for War child)
2010 SNAP10! (A photographic fundraiser for the AIDS committee of Toronto.) 
2009 SNAP09! (A photographic fundraiser for the AIDS committee of Toronto.)