西川由里子

Born in 1996 in Japan. Grew up in Chiba and Kagoshima, Japan.

In 2014, enrolled in university and began full-fledged production activities, while also working on stage art for theater productions and collaborating with residents of depopulated areas, and threw herself into multiple art activities to expand his field of painting expression. In 2018, graduated from Nihon University College of Art with a bachelor's degree.

Currently based in Tokyo.

Representative series include motifs of bottles and apples. Bottle's work uses mixed media forms such as oil painting, dyeing, photographic prints, and sewing. The “aesthetics of blank spaces” and pictorial spaces inherent in the Japanese aesthetic are depicted as layers of air, revealing richly colored stripes.

In 2023, the first book of her apple series, “Image of Apples,” was published, and included a review by the curator of the Yokohama Museum of Art in Japan, Ko Minamishima.

She has exhibited at ART FAIR TOKYO (2024, 2023/Tokyo, Japan) as the main act at the GALLERY KTO booth, and also exhibited at ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA (2024, 2023, 2022/Fukuoka, Japan) and Affordable Art Fair Shanghai (2023/Shanghai, China).

She is one of the most talented artists in the world today.