Yuji Agematsu

Japanese | 1956

Yuji Agematsu is a Japanese Asian Modern & Contemporary artist who was born in 1956. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Whitney Museum of American Art have featured Yuji Agematsu's work in the past.

Yuji Agematsu in the news

Yuji Agematsu has been featured in articles for ARTFORUM, VernissageTV and Glasstire. The most recent article is Our Favorite Stories of 2025 written for Colossal in December 2025.

Past Exhibitions

Natural Mystics

The Warehouse

Dallas | Texas | USA

Sep 27, 2025 - Jan 31, 2026

Yuji Agematsu: 2023–2024

Judd Foundation, New York

Lower Manhattan | New York | USA

May 10, 2025 - Aug 30, 2025

Graffiti

Museion, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea

Bolzano | Italy

Mar 29, 2025 - Sep 14, 2025

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Articles

Our Favorite Stories of 2025

Colossal Dec 29, 2025

As we reflect on 2025, we’re taking a peek into our archive to spotlight some of the stories we’re still thinking about.

Ruth Foundation Names 2026 Ruth Award Recipients

ARTFORUM Dec 23, 2025

The Ruth Foundation for the Arts has revealed the five winners of its Ruth Award: Yuji Agematsu, Ranu Mukherjee, Will Rawls, Ellen Sebastian Chang, and Anna Martine Whitehead.

Yuji Agematsu

ARTFORUM Dec 01, 2025

To relegate Yuji Agematsu’s tiny sculptures to the realm of assemblage seems reductive.

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Coverage

“ ..Agematsu’s schematic drawings, printed in an accompanying brochure, trace his routes and detail how they have been mapped onto the space of the Whitney’s theater, where images are projected onto freestanding... ”
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Whitney Museum of American Art

“ ..What Agematsu presents is clearly marked by his decidedly alchemical touch... ”
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Lulu

“ ..These sequences map three routes the artist followed, labeled as A, B, and C... ”
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Whitney Museum of American Art

“ ..For over thirty years, Agematsu has walked the city’s streets daily with his attentions acutely turned to the mundane and the overlooked, to the detritus of urban life... ”
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Miguel Abreu Gallery, Eldridge Street

“ ..Instead of an identity cut through by the pervasive contemporary forces of mediation, differentiation, and alienation, Agematsu has discovered a knowledge of the local—of the reciprocity of the particular... ”
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Miguel Abreu Gallery, Eldridge Street