Urara Tsuchiya
Urara Tsuchiya (b. 1979, Japan) lives and works between Glasgow and London. The artist’s expansive practice– spanning intricately constructed ceramics, immersive installations, costume, performance and video– is united by its subversion of kitsch or quotidian objects. Her work seemingly playful at first, has undercurrents questioning boundaries of acceptability, tensions in relationships, and traditional patriarchal structures. She has found inspiration everywhere from a naturist sauna, seedy hotel rooms, or interactions on dating apps. By adopting narratives from personal conversations and experiences, and popular culture, Tsuchiya is concerned with story telling and making us question our own concepts of what is or isn't acceptable.
Upcoming exhibitions: I licked it. It's mine, featuring Oh De Laval, Shafei Xia, and Urara Tsuchiya, The Museum of Sex NY (2024). Recent exhibitions include: Night Shades, with Corri-Lynn Tetz, 12.26 Dallas (2024), Comfortable hole, bye, Parcel Tokyo (2023). Recent solo exhibitions include: Throwing Caution to the Wind, Galerie Lefebre & Fils, Paris (2021), Auntie Urara’s Blabber Mouth, PAOS, Guadalajara (2021), Warm Drizzle, Gallery Golsa, Oslo (2020) and Home Bound, Ada Project, Rome (2020). Selected group exhibitions include: Pornotopia Revised, Kunsthalle Exnergasse Kex, WUK, Vienna (2022), On Being an Angel (with Motoko Ishibashi), Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery, Tokyo (2022) and Homeplace, V.O Curations, London (2021), amongst others.
Night Tree, 2023, glazed ceramic, 53 x 47 x 42 cm
Piggy’s Dream, 2022, glazed ceramic, 15 cm x 43 cm
Untitled (lamp), 2020, glazed stoneware, 30 cm x 26 cm x 40 cm
Untitled, 2019, glazed stoneware, 63cm x 44 cm x 23cm
Untitled, 2019, glazed stoneware, 13 cm tall
Untitled, 2019, glazed stoneware, 33 cm x 20 cm
Beef Case , 2019, glazed stoneware, 43 cm x 36cm x 19cm
Mini Bar, 2019, glazed stoneware with moving parts, 55 cm x 40 cm
Untitled, 2019, glazed stoneware, 58 x 23 x 38cm
Give us a Meow (still), 2019, video, 9 minutes 3 seconds
JUST cLoSE YoUR EYES anD IMaGInE I HaVEn’T EVoLVED’, 2016, glazed earthenware, 20 cm x 7 cm x 10 cm
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Panda Bowl (commission), 2020, glazed earthenware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Installation view, Room Service, Union Pacific, 2016
Room Service, Union Pacific, 2016
Room Service, Union Pacific, 2016
Room Service, Union Pacific, 2016
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
World Doesn't Revolve Around You, 2023, glazed ceramic, 78 cm x 74 cm x 64 cm
Untitled, 2020, glazed earthenware, approx 30 x 18 cm
Installation view of Frieze Focus booth 2019
Why Men Love Bitches, 2019, paint on silk, 62 cm x 52 cm
Untitled, 2019, glazed stoneware, 20 cm x 20 cm
Untitled, 2019, glazed stoneware, 20 cm x 20 cm
Untitled (Sauna), 2019, glazed stoneware, 42 x 30 x 30 cm
Untitled, 2019, glazed stoneware, 28 x 70 x 39cm
Give us a Meow (still), 2019, video, 9 minutes 3 seconds
Untitled (Elsa fountain), 2019, glazed earthenware, 80 cm x 73 cm
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Installation view, Room Service, Union Pacific, 2016
Installation view, Room Service, Union Pacific, 2016
Room Service, Union Pacific, 2016
Room Service, Union Pacific, 2016
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable
Just Close Your Eyes and Imagine I Haven’t Evolved, 2016, glazed earthenware and stoneware, dimensions variable