Jinn Yagi

2005年 『HONESTY』etw 京都
2020年 KG+　『Unnatural Nature』 LS STUDIO&Gallery（京都）
2021年 KG+　『曖昧な境界線模様』 LS STUDIO&Gallery（京都）
2022年 『LGBTQ+』 京都弁護士協会
KG+ 『私と人の境界線模様』 LS STUDIO&Gallery（京都）
JINN YAGI SOLO EXHIBITION at TUNE STAY KYOTO（京都）
2023年 KG+ 『Sensitive daily life and panicky nights』
backs Gazai Gallery （京都）
2024年 『輪廻 循環の断片』 KG+ backsGazaiGallery
カンヌ国際映画祭 Marche de Cannes （フランス）
映画WILDBOYS作品出品
Kuu Moments of Circularity THE IW GALLERY（ニューヨーク）
2025年 『20 years』 KG + アートスペース感 （京都)
2026年　社会的レイヤー Social Layer – The Comfort of Silence アートスペース感 （京都)

2022年 グループ展 『私の仕事展』 Fuji Photo salon & AMS Gallery (京都＆大阪)
2023年 第5回JPS会員有志関西展Fuji Photo salon & AMS Gallery (京都＆大阪)
2024年 第6回JPS会員有志関西展　Fuji Photo salon & AMS Gallery (京都＆大阪)
2025年 ・第7回JPS会員有志関西展「Professional Eyes」
Fuji Photo salon & AMS Gallery　(京都＆大阪)
・13th Discover the One Japanese Art 2025 in Paris
Espace Cinko (フランス)
・第12回清州国際現代美術展 シェマ美術館 （韓国）
「**間（ま）をつくる」ー 韓と日のあいだに（京都ホールKeiryu）
・ニコンプラザ東京・大阪THE GALLERY（ザ・ギャラリー） 2025
・ディファレント京町堀アートフェア2025
・NEWYORK EMPIRE STORES Traveling Exhibition
　KUU – Moments of Circularity Jinn Yagi & Mabo
　Curated by Vida Sabbaghi
・MINERVA 2026 in London　Mall Galleries　West / East / North Galleries
・第４回カズナカガワ展　大阪
・ヨジュ国際写真祭 KG + SPECIAL 2026　京都駅ビル7階
・icon Contemporary Photography Exhibition 2026　渋谷東京 at SHIBUYA SACS
・ディファレントアートフェア　淀屋橋ステーションワン 30F 大阪

2012年 地球へのおくりもの 映像制作 銀座POLA　(東京)
2024年 映画WILDBOYS（プロデュース）（フランス）
昭和電業・季の美　（大阪・京都）

2017年 映像と音楽をシンクロするインタラクティブテーブル作品
『SHUFFLE』制作 （イギリス）
インタラクティブウィンドウディスプレイ　（イギリス）

Jinn Yagi | Artist & Photographer

Born in Kyoto, Japan, Jinn Yagi completed the Master’s Program in Interactive Design & Media at Middlesex University in London, earning a Master of Arts degree. He is a member of the Japan Professional Photographers Society (JPS). After holding his first solo exhibition in 2005, he marks the 20th anniversary of his artistic practice in 2025.

In September 2024, Yagi presented a solo exhibition at THE IW GALLERY in Brooklyn, New York, curated by Vida Sabbaghi, running for over a month. In 2026, a traveling exhibition was presented at EMPIRE STORES beneath the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, where the works remained on view for nearly a year within the historic architectural space.

Working from photography as a point of departure, Yagi moves between sculpture, textile, and installation, allowing multiple mediums and materials to intermingle. His works evoke the invisible distances, silences, and fragile boundaries embedded within contemporary society, allowing them to linger within space itself.

Yagi’s practice is characterized by an attempt to redefine photography not merely as a documentary medium, but as an “image summoned into space” — one that draws in borrowed landscapes, extracted color, emotional contours, and the aura residing within people and places. In particular, he has focused on transparent divisions reminiscent of the acrylic barriers installed between people during the pandemic, transforming the sediment of language, emotion, and residual memory into material experiences that exceed the flat surface of photography.

His body of work brings into presence the invisible tensions that emerge between individual and society, body and system, memory and history, both spatially and visually, in the space between people themselves.

In recent years, influenced by his mother’s background as a sculptor, Yagi has expanded into three-dimensional expression using lightweight materials such as Styrofoam. By dissolving the contours between photography and sculpture, he explores new modes of perception and embodied experience. His approach introduces sculptural physicality and environmental scale into an image culture historically confined to flatness, quietly unsettling the institutional frameworks through which photography has traditionally been understood.

Solo Exhibitions
2005 – HONESTY, etw, Kyoto
2020 – Unnatural Nature, KG+, LS STUDIO & Gallery, Kyoto
2021 – Ambiguous Border Patterns, KG+, LS STUDIO & Gallery, Kyoto
2022 – LGBTQ+, Kyoto Bar Association, Kyoto
Patterns of Boundaries Between Me and Others, KG+, LS STUDIO & Gallery, Kyoto
JINN YAGI SOLO EXHIBITION, TUNE STAY KYOTO, Kyoto
2023 – Sensitive Daily Life and Panicky Nights, KG+, backs Gazai Gallery, Kyoto
2024 – Rinne: Fragments of Circulation, KG+, backs Gazai Gallery, Kyoto
WILDBOYS film screening, Marché du Film, Cannes Film Festival, France
Kuu: Moments of Circularity, THE IW GALLERY, New York
2025 – 20 years, KG+, Art Space Kan, Kyoto
2026 - Social Layer – The Comfort of Silence Artspace Kan Kyoto Japan

Group Exhibitions
2022 – My Work Exhibition, Fuji Photo Salon & AMS Gallery, Kyoto and Osaka
2023 – 5th Kansai JPS Member Exhibition, Fuji Photo Salon & AMS Gallery, Kyoto and Osaka
2024 – 6th Kansai JPS Member Exhibition, Fuji Photo Salon & AMS Gallery, Kyoto and Osaka
2025 – 7th Kansai JPS Member Exhibition: Professional Eyes, Fuji Photo Salon & AMS Gallery, Kyoto and Osaka
13th Discover the One Japanese Art 2025 in Paris, Espace Cinko, France
The 12th Cheongju International Contemporary Art Exhibition, SEMA Museum of Art, South Korea
“Creating Ma (間) — Between Korea and Japan”(Kyoto Hall Keiryu)
2025 - Nikon Plaza Tokyo / Osaka THE GALLERY
2025 - Different Kyomachibori Art Fair
2026 - NEWYORK EMPIRE STORES Traveling Exhibition
KUU – Moments of Circularity Jinn Yagi & Mabo Curated by Vida Sabbaghi
2026 - MINERVA 2026 in London Mall Galleries – West / East / North Galleries
2026 -The 4th Kazu Nakagawa Exhibition, Osaka
2026 -Yeoju International Photo Festival
“Dialogue of Earth” in KG+ SPECIAL Kyoto Station Building
2026 - icon Contemporary Photography Exhibition
2026 at SHIBUYA SACS, Tokyo
2026 - Different Art Fair in Yodoyabashi Station One 30F Osaka

Main Video Works
2012 – Gift to the Earth, video installation for POLA Ginza, Tokyo
2024 – WILDBOYS (Producer), France
Showa Dengyo & KI NO BI promotional videos, Osaka & Kyoto

Main Interactive Media Projects
2017 – SHUFFLE, interactive table artwork synchronizing video and music, UK
Interactive window display project, UK