Kumi Yamashita is a Japanese Asian Modern & Contemporary artist who was born in 1968. Numerous key galleries and museums such as National Gallery Singapore have featured Kumi Yamashita's work in the past.Kumi Yamashita has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Observer in September 2024.
The oldest object on view documents an ugly reality, showing on brown paperboard one of the earliest known images of a slave in the US, accompanied by a bill of sale.
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..By assembling and integrating a variety of unfolded shapes into a seamless larger whole, Yamashita鈥檚 innovation is in revealing to the viewer the beauty hidden within each shape鈥檚 pattern, and in creating...
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