Yumi Karasumaru

Yumi Karasumaru (烏丸 由美) is a Japanese artist. She lives and works in Bologna, Italy, and Kawanishi, Japan.

Early life and education
Karasumaru was born in Osaka, Japan. She lives and works in Bologna, Italy and Kawanishi, Japan. She graduated from the sculpture department of Kyoto City University of Arts and from the Italian National Academy of Fine Arts (Bologna) painting course.

Selected solo exhibitions

 * 2023 "温故知新 - Forming new art from classics", KATSUYA SUSUKI GALLERY, tokyo, Japan
 * 2021 "Woven - つむぐ ", KATSUYA SUSUKI GALLERY, tokyo, Japan
 * 2018 "Facing Histories ", Galleria I VOLPINI, Bologna, Italy
 * 2016 "Facing Histories", Bologna Museum of Modern Art (MAMbo),  Bologna, Italy
 * 2015 "Facing Histories", Roppongi Hills A/D gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 * "Facing Histories", @Kcua Kyoto City University Arts Art Gallery, Kyoto Japan
 * "Facing Histories in Hiroshima", Prefectural Gallery, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima,Japan


 * 2014 "Spriti evanescenti - Dal Giappone al Marfisa d'Este", Palazzina di Marfisa d'Este, Ferrara, Italy
 * "Facing Histories", Galerie Houg, Lyon, France


 * 2013 "Tokyo – Monogatari", Studio Carlotta Pesce, Bologna, Italy
 * 2011 "Tokyo Stories – Vol. 3", Galerie Houg, Lyon, France
 * 2010 "It's Our Tokyo Stories", Mizuma Action (Mizuma Art Gallery), Tokyo, Japan
 * 2009 "Tokyo Stories",fabioparisartgallery, Brescia, Italy
 * 2006 "Bunshin – Everyday Life", Mizuma Action (Mizuma Art Gallery), Tokyo, Japan
 * 2005 "Tokyo AGERS", fabioparisartgallery, Brescia, Italy
 * 2004 "Facing Histories",Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine, Udine, Italy
 * 2002 "Facing Histories",Marcel Scheiner Gallery, Hilton Head Island, United States
 * 1999 "Hino Izuru Kuni Yori", Galleria Luigi Franco Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
 * "Toki No Fuin", Prefectural Gallery, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
 * "Modern Crimes", Viafarini, Milan, Italy


 * 1998 "Spazioaperto", Galleria d'Arte Moderna Bologna, Bologna, Italy
 * 1996 "Toki No Fuin", Art Forum Gallery, Merano, Italy
 * 1995 "Banzai", Galleria Guido Carbone, Turin, Italy

Selected group exhibitions

 * 2021 "+Divenire. Dove inizia il numero di esodo", Corciano Festival, Corciano, Italy
 * 2019 "Turn over #1", Galleria Paola Verrengia, Salerno, Italy
 * 2018 "Lari- gli spiriti protettori della casa", Triennale di Milano, Superstudio, Milan, Italy
 * "EX-NOVO", Fondazione Plart, Naples, Italy


 * 2017 "Roberto Daolio – vita e incontri un criticod’arte attraverso le opere di una collezione non intenzionale"
 * Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), Bologna, Italy


 * 2016 "Tam Tam: Normali Meraviglie, la Mano", Triennale di Milano
 * "La Casa do ut do – Art for Hospice – i valori dell’abitare", Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Bologna, Italy


 * 2015 "Silent @Kcua" – @Kcua Kyoto City University Arts Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
 * 2014 "Shown Or To Be Shown", Galerie Houg, Lyon France
 * 2012 "Do ut do – Art for Hospice", Spazio Carbonesi, Bologna, Italy
 * 2009 "Run, Jump and Throw – Athletics in international Contemporary Art", the Berlin City Hall, Berlin, Germany
 * "Second Skin"　Spazio Paraggi, Treviso, Italy


 * 2007 "Red Hot – Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, U.S.A.
 * 2006 "La Donna Oggetto – Miti e metamorfosi al femminile 1900-2005", Castello di Vigevano, Vigevano, Italy
 * 2005 "Chronos – il tempo nell'arte dall'epoca barocca all'eta contemporanea", Il Filatoio, Caraglio, Italy
 * "Altre Lilith – Le Vestali dell’Arte – Terzo Millennio"Scuderie Aldobrandini per l’Arte, Frascati, Italy
 * "Bologna COntemporanea", Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
 * "XIV Quadriennale di Roma", Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna di Roma, Rome, Italy


 * 2004 "Far East – Volume 1, Yu Hirai + Yumi Karasumaru", Agenzia04, Bologna, Italy
 * "Comunita – Community", Premio Internazionale d'Arte "Ermanno Casoli settima edizione" Cartoteca Storica Regionale ,Serra San Quirico, Italy
 * "Female Dignity – Inszenierung der Weiblichkeit in der modernen Kunst", Schloss Ulmerfeld, Ulmerfeld, Austria
 * "Officina Asia", Galleria d'arte Ex-Pescheria, Cesena, Italy


 * 2003 "Muta. Menti & Mut. Azioni", D406 Galleria d'arte contemporanea, Modena, Italy
 * 2002 "Small Works", Marcel Scheiner Gallery, Hilton Head Island, U.S.A.
 * "Lavori Domestici", Via Magenta,14, Varese, Italy
 * "Mountain Way – I sentieri dell'arte per la montagna", Palazzo Frisacco, Tolmezzo


 * 2001 "Tutto l'odio del Mondo", Palazzo dell' Arengario, Milan
 * "Auguri d'Artista 2001", Mart Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy
 * "Groupshow", Marcel Scheiner Gallery, Hilton Head Island, U.S.A.
 * "Figure del Novecento 2. Oltre l'Accademia", Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
 * "My Opinion", Palazzo Lanfranchi, Pisa, Italy


 * 2000 "Insights", Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome, Italy

Selected performances

 * 2020 "The Story-teller, il narratore 2020 – Il nome di quell’uomo è Pasquale " ,
 * at Galleria de Foscherari, Bologna, Italy
 * “Yumi-transformer, Life changing program 2020-2021” on 24th and 25th June at Galleria de’ foscherari,Bologna, Italy
 * “The Story-teller, il narratore 2020 – Il nome di quell’uomo è Pasquale",
 * on 24th January at Galleria de’ foscherari, Bologna, Italy


 * 2019 "The Bumper Car Kodanshi - Circolare", at the amusement park, Baggio, Milano, Italy
 * "The Story-teller, Kataribe 2019 – Make yourself at home", from 1st to 3rd of February, at artist’s home studio,in the program of ART CITY – Arte Fiera 2019, Bologna, Italy


 * 2018 "The Story-teller, Il narratore 2018 – The Four Pop Songs" at I VOLPINI for ArtCity
 * Bologna, 31 January, Bologna, Italy


 * 2017 "Facing Histories in Hiroshima- versione speciale per Torino 2017", Museo Ettore Fico,
 * 4th of November, Turin, Italy
 * "Story-teller, il narratore-special version for Naples 2017 " ,at Palazzo Caracciolo di San Teodoro in Naples, 15 June, Naples,Italy


 * 2016 "Facing Histories in Hiroshima", Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna(MAMbo), 6 August,
 * Bologna, Italy


 * 2015 "Facing Histories in Hiroshima", @Kcua Kyoto City University Arts Art Gallery, 6, 9
 * August, Kyoto Japan
 * "Facing Histories in Hiroshima", at Ateliersi, Bologna, Italy


 * 2014 "Korosù-to Kill – Special version for, Marfisa 2014",
 * at Palazzina Marfisa d'Este in Ferrara,Italy
 * "The Story-Teller, Kataribe 2014", at Galerie Houg, Lyon, France


 * 2013 "The Story-Teller, il narratore", at Studio Carlotta Pesce, Bologna, Italy
 * "The Story-Teller, il narratore", "KOROSù-to Kill" at Ex-chiesa di San Mattia, Bologna
 * ( the event of Arte Fiera – ArtcCity Bologna)


 * 2011 "The Story-Teller", at Gallerie Houg, Lyon, France
 * 2010 "The Story-Teller", at Mizuma Action (Mizuma Art Gallery), Tokyo
 * 2009 "The Story-Teller", at Coin department store, Treviso
 * "The Story-Teller", at fabioparisartgallery, Brescia


 * 2006 "Koros-Aikiru (I Kill)", at Mizuma Action (Mizuma Art Gallery), Tokyo
 * 2002 "Facing Histories", Marcel Scheiner Gallery, Hilton Head Island, USA
 * 2001 "Kataribe – the narater" ( Domestic Art ), at Dt. G. Masini & Dr. M. Paoletti,
 * 16 September, Pisa


 * 2000 "Insights – glimpses and actions between public and private spaces",
 * Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome
 * "Bunshin", Galleria Civicadi Arte Contemporanea Trento, Trento
 * "Serata Fluxus", Chiostri di S. Domenico - ex Stalloni, Reggio Emilia


 * 1999 "Bunshin", Galleria Luigi Franco Arte Contemporanea, Turin
 * "Domestic Art on Tour", at Dr. M. De Michelis & Dr.A Kohlmayer, 18 May, Venice
 * "Domestic Art on Tour", at Dr. Gemma De Angelis Testa, 2Oth of April, Turin
 * "Domestic Art on Tour", at Dr. Ruben Levi, 24 February, Turin
 * "Domestic Art on Tour", at Dr. Claudio Guenzani, 11 February, Milan


 * 1998 "Domestic Art on Tour", at Dr. Patrizia Brusarosco (Via Farini), 16 December, Milan
 * "Short Story of Japan", Sancarlino Theater – Brescia Music Art Festival – Brescia
 * Television program "Le Notti dell'Angelo", Italia 1

Books

 * 2016 "Korosu – Io Uccido – コロス- I Kill" Kappa Edizioni
 * 2015 "Facing Histories – フェーシング・ヒストリーズ　烏丸由美　"Pubblicato da Facing Histories Committee