Rimi Yang was born in Osaka, Japan in 1962. Improvisational and instinctual, Yang’s paintings are intuitive balancing acts of color, texture, and technique brought forth from a self-professed chaotic emotional duality. Her work reflects a subtle blending of her Korean but Japanese-raised roots with life lived largely on the West Coast. This is seen through a juxtaposition of traditional and contemporary compositions infused with cultural imagery. Whether figurative or abstract, she builds up and tears down surfaces to search for reason. This produces vibrant and colorful explorations rich with iconic imagery spanning Eastern and Western art history. In 1986 Yang studied at Bowling Green University where she won First Place in Prints and Marietta Kirschner Wigg Print awards. In 1991 she migrated west to Los Angeles were she studied at California State University, the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art and Otis College of Art and Design followed by a summer in Florence, Italy at the Florence Academy of Art. In 2007 she spent time in residency at Pouch Cover Foundation in Canada. She has exhibited across the United States, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Europe. Yang’s paintings mix the complexity of abstract and collage techniques with a prominent central figure.
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Rimi Yang is an ethnic Korean who was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. In 1986 she moved to the Ohio where she studied at Bowling Green University and then in 1991 to Los Angeles where she studied at California State University and the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, the Otis College of Art and Design and spent a summer in Florence, Italy, studying at the Florence Academy of Art. She has lived and worked near the ocean in Santa Monica since 1991.
Yang is known for her intense enthusiasm for vibrant color which is manifested in both her figurative and her abstract paintings. After many years in the field of books she has come later to art, making up for that tardiness with her passion for her solitary studio practice.
Celebrating the chaotic emotional duality that exists in life in her art, she revels in the confusion mankind creates in its attempt to order the un-orderable and to explain the unexplainable. Adhering to Joseph Campbell’s dictum that the best things in life are those you cannot explain her paintings are intuitive, instinctive, balancing acts of contrasts.
Building up and tearing down of surfaces and images searching for reason where none exists, for that imaginary perfect world of equilibrium on each canvas. Creating a new language with each work, using each as a stepping stone to the next she is dedicated to making each painting better than her last. That Yang’s work is universal in spirit yet personally intimate is evident upon viewing the non-deconstructed whole.
Intensely curious about both Eastern and Western art history, Yang reveals new meaning by deconstructing iconic images of each culture, borrowing images from masterpieces; flower paintings by Fantin Latour, Japanese woodblock of Geisha by Eizan, portraits of madams by Ingres. At the same time, Yang tries to cultivate new methods of paintings by mixing up different techniques from various painting styles, escorting viewers down the path to Rimi’s unique and mysterious wonderland.
Yang has exhibited in California, Florida, Georgia, New York, and Oho in the United States. British Columbia and Newfoundland in Canada and more recently her work has been exhibited in Europe.
2004 |
Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, Los Angeles, CA |
Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA |
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2003 |
The Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy (Summer) |
1991 |
California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA |
1987 |
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH |
2015 |
Solo Show, Couture Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden |
Two Person Show, Russell Collection , Austin, TX |
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2014 |
Solo Show, Stricoff Fine Art, New York, NY |
“Isogaba Marare” Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, Canada |
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Two Person Show, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland |
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“Year of the Horse” Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
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“Cosmic Dance” Joanne Artman Gallery, Languana Beach, CA |
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Solo Show, Blue Rain Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ |
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2013 |
Two Person Show, Tew Gallery, Atlanta, GA |
Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland |
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Couture Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden |
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Two Person Show, Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
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2012 |
Two Person Show, Stricoff Fine Art, NY |
Couture Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden |
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Sol Art, Dublin, Ireland |
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Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
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Tew Galleries, Atlanta, GA |
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Fabien Castanier Gallery, Studio City, CA |
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Christian Hohmann Gallery, Palm Desert, CA |
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2011 |
Russell Collection, Austin, Texas |
Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, Canada |
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Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland |
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Stricoff Fine Art, New York, NY |
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Tew Galleries, Atlanta, GA |
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Jean De Merry ‘Grand Couture,” Melrose Place, Los Angeles, CA |
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2010 |
Joanne Artman Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA |
Stricoff Fine Art, New York, NY |
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“Yin and Yang’ Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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2009 |
“Pointing at the Moon” Skotia Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, Canada |
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Joanne Artman Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA |
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Cella Gallery, North Hollywood, CA |
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B&K Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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Stricoff Fine Art, New York, NY |
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Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, Canada |
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2007 |
Stricoff Fine Art, New York, NY |
Lowe gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA |
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2005 |
Art Amo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA |
2015 |
AAF Hong Kong; Singapore; London, England, UK |
LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA |
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2014 |
Art/Antiques, Dublin, Ireland |
AAF London, England, UK; Milan, Italy |
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2013 |
LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA |
Christian Hohmann Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA |
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“Silent Partner” IH Gallery, NY |
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LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA |
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AAF, Battersea, London, England, UK |
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2012 |
“Femme” Russell Collection Fine Art, Austin, TX |
“Angelenos” Fellini Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
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2011 |
Art San Diego, San Diego, CA |
“Amarcord” Fellini Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
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San Francisco Art Fair, CA |
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B&K Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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AAF NYC, NY; London, England, UK |
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Art San Diego, San Diego, CA |
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“Figure and Field”, David Jones |
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Contemporary Art, Venice, CA |
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"Naked" Group show at Skotia Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
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Art Hampton, Brigehampton, NY |
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Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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“Self Portrait Invitation” Group Show at July Nester Gallery, Salt Lake City, AZ |
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AAF Bristol, UK; London, England, UK |
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The Glasgow Art Fair, Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
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LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA |
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Edinburgh Art Fair, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
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Art Fair RDS, Dublin, Ireland |
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AAF Amsterdam, Holland; Bristol & London, England, UK |
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Fellini Gallery, Shanghai, China |
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The Asian Pacific Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China |
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Art in Review, Cella Gally, North Hollywood, CA |
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Moura Starr, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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Glasgow Art Fair, Scotland, UK |
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Art London, London, England, UK |
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Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada |
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Affordable Art Fair, Amsterdam, Holland |
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Edinburgh Art Fair, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
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‘"Curious and Curiouser" Galleri Rebecca Kormind, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY |
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Richmond Hill Gallery, Surrey, England, UK |
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James Baird Gallery, Pouch Cove, NL |
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Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY |
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Stricoff Fine Art, New York, NY |
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Art Miami, Miami, FL |
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VISIONI DELL’UMANITÀ, Roma, Italy |
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Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, Canada |
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2006 |
Stricoff Fine Art, New York, NY |
Affordable Art Fair New York, NY |
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Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, Canada |
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2005 |
Stricoff Fine Art, New York, NY |
Toronto International Art Fair, Toronot, Canada |
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Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, Canada |
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Art Amo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA |
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Solaris Gallery, West Hollywood, CA |
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Studio18LA, West Hollywood, CA |
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Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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Lankershim Art Gallery, North Hollywood, CA |
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Wet Paint at Studio 3 Art & Design Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1997 |
‘Aztlan and Beyond’, The Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA |
1988 |
37th Annual Undergraduate Art Exhibition, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH |
1987 |
36TH Annual Undergraduate Art Exhibition, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH |
2007 |
Residency At Pouch Cover Foundation, Canada, July/August |
Marietta Kirschner Wigg Print Award, 36th |
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1988 |
Annual Undergraduate Art Exhibition, Bowling |
Green State University, Bowling Green, OH |
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First Place in Prints, 36th Annual Undergraduate Art |
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Exhibit, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH |
2008 |
Traditional Homes, April |
2007 |
Thompson, Holly, “Radio Day,” Kyoto Journal, No. 68 |
2006 |
Chowdhury, Manosh, "Crow Home", Kyoto Journal, Metropolitan Home |
Cozy, David, “Donald Richie, Modernist - Tokyo Nights,” Kyoto Journal |
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Tong, Su, “How the Ceremony Ends,” Kyoto Journal |
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2005 |
McCarthy, Ralph F., “Rue & Me,” Kyoto Journal |
2002 |
McCarthy, Ralph F., “Rue & Me,” Kyoto Journal, Fall |
2001 |
Hiroyuki, Itsuki, “The Sunset-Colored Simca,” Kyoto Journal, Winter |
1987 |
Anon, Mid American Review (cover illustration) VIII, No. 1, Fall |
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