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Ryuhei Yokoyama is a photographer born in 1979.  With the theme “What is a city?,” his work focuses on street snapshots using black and white film, creating images of the city in flux using different perspectives and approaches. His recent works include the WALL series, which focuses on the existence of graffiti. Yokoyama’s works have been exhibited in both Japan and abroad, including “2019 Dali International Photography Exhibition” (2019, Dali, China) and “off the record vol.12 aube artistique” (2019, In )( between gallery, Paris). His major monographs include Graffiti History of Mice Dancing with Light, Beautiful as if Written on Paper Scraps Rolling in the Wind (2018, BUFFALO PRESS). 
 
EXHIBITION
2022 solo exhibition「HOLES and SCARS」, KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY, Tokyo
solo exhibition「RYUHEI YOKOYAMA SOLO EXHIBITION」, VOLTA NEWYORK 2022
solo exhibition「THE WALL SONG / Rebellion and Freedom」, +81 GALLERY kyoto, Kyoto
2021 group exhibition「SOME KINDA FREEDOM」, KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY, Tokyo
solo exhibition「THE WALL SONG」, BAF STUDIO tokyo, Tokyo
2020 solo exhibition「WALL stanza」, BAF STUDIO tokyo, Tokyo
solo exhibition「WALL stanza」, Fujii Daimaru, KG+ KYOTOGRAPHIE, Kyoto
2019 solo exhibition「WALL」, haku gallery, Kyoto
solo exhibition「WALL」, Books OGAKI, Kyoto
Dali International Photography Exhibition 「A new generation of Japanese Photographers」, China
group exhibition「off the record vol.12 aube artistique 」, In )( between gallery, PARIS
2017 solo exhibition KG+ KYOTOGRAPHIE SATELLIET EVENT "Silence and Stillness" , Jyunpu Elementary School, Kyoto
2011 group exhibition, "A city and things" at "Fanatic Monochrome",
"Exploration of Monochrome Expressions Through Art" and the Bachelor of Visual Arts at Osaka Seikei University ,Kyoto
2006 participated in issuing “Photography Magazine 81LAB." as the art director published the photograph collection, "Press the button of the camera like a drunken pianist do" also held the solo exhibition with the same title as the photograph collection at the main store of Aoyama Book Center and Jiyugaoka Branch , Tokyo
 
PUBLISHING
2018 published the photograph collection, "A beauty as like written on paper scraps rolling in the wind, graffiti history of both light and dancing rat."
2016 published the photograph collection, "After all, the streets continue like lyrics written by rat in the city."
2014 published the photograph collection, "The brief 'graffiti-like' history - The story of the city with light and still objects, as vulnerable as that graffiti left out in the open."
2006 published the photograph collection, "Press the button of the camera like a drunken pianist do"
2003 published the photograph collection, "TOKYO, UNTITLED
 
And some other works for group exhibitions.