Selected Bibliography
References: Exhibition Catalogues & responses
Jasanoff, S. (2021). Response to Yoi Kawakubo’s If the Radiance of a Thousand Suns were to Burst at once into the Sky IV. Picturing the Invisible.
Berger, C.; Toyama, T. (2018). In I/body/ghost exhibition catalogue. Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London.
Yokohama Triennale 2020 — Afterglow. Organising Committee for the Yokohama Triennale (2020).
Roppongi Crossing 2019 — Connexions. Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, Tokyo (2019).
Yokohama Triennale 2017 — Islands, Constellations and Galapagos. Seigensha, Kyoto (2017).
The 10th Shiseido art egg. Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo (2016).
References: Newspapers & online
Masuda, Y. (2025). 「核問題、アートで考える：川久保ジョイ個展」日本経済新聞（夕刊）, 11 March.
Matsumoto, S. (2025). 「見えぬもの 時をかけた侵食：川久保ジョイ展」朝日新聞, 25 February.
木村絵理子 (2025). 「見えざる脅威と畏怖の表象 ―『川久保ジョイ：LEFT IS RIGHT』」美術評論＋, 21 February.
アートテラー・とに～ (2025). 「川久保ジョイ Left is Right－45億年の庭と茹でガエル－」27 January.
Koide, N. (2025). 「核の暴力どう伝えるか：現代美術家 川久保ジョイ個展」埼玉新聞, 6, 14 January.
Hosaka, N. (2024). 「核、原発に向き合う表現」埼玉新聞, 13 November.
「『核の暴力性』をアートで考察」朝日新聞（朝刊・埼玉版）, 2 November 2024.
Kurosawa, A. (2016). 「見えない記憶 受け渡す」産経新聞（夕刊）, 12 February.
岡部あおみ (2015). 「異文化の結実に出会う」東京新聞, July.
References: Journals & magazines
Takahashi, M. (2026). “3.11 and counting: Fifteen years on from the Fukushima catastrophe in Japan.” Financial Times Weekend Magazine, 22.
Denman, T. (2025). “Atomic Legacies.” Art Monthly 488 (July/August): 6–9.
Leissle, A. (2024). “Art Under a Thousand Suns.” ArtReview, May, 96–97.
Van Heerden, A. (2020). “Post-nuclear environments and non-anthropocentric art.” South African Journal of Art History 35(2).
「アートの環境をよりフェアにするために」インタビュー『美術手帖』114–121頁 (2020).
Davre, A. (2019). “Revealing the Radioactive Contamination after Fukushima in Japanese Photography.” Trans Asia Photography 10(1).
Nakao, T. (2016). “Between the sun and the sea.” Bijutsu Techō, April, 188–189.
References: Books & book chapters
Cherry, A. (2026). “Making catastrophe visible: Photography, time, and matter.” In The Analog Revisited: Questioning the Technical Image in a Digital Age, ed. R. C. Hoogland, 127–149. Vernon Press.
Takahashi, M. (ed.) (2025). Picturing the Invisible. Fw:Books.
Winther-Tamaki, B. (2022). Tsuchi: Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese Art, 216–218. University of Minnesota Press.
Chatriot, A. (2022). L’Art contemporain Japonais à Fukushima : reconquête artistique d’un territoire condamné.
大原美術館 編 (2021). 『大原美術館+ 作品151と建築』山陽新聞社.
Davre, A. (2021). “Yoi Kawakubo: Biographie de l’artiste.” In Dans l’œil du désastre — Créer avec Fukushima, 71. Éditions Philippe Picquier / Thierry Marchaisse.
Ferrier, M. (2021). Dans l’œil du désastre — Créer avec Fukushima, 70–88. Vincennes: Marchaisse.
山本浩貴 (2019). 『現代美術史 — 欧米、日本、トランスナショナル』209–210. 中央公論新社.
Carpenter, E. et al. (2016). The Nuclear Culture Source Book, 98, 104. London: Black Dog Press.
Teaching & supervision
2025 · Jul — MA Intercultural Practice Summer Program, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London, United Kingdom, with Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan.
2020 · Sep — Special Lecture on Arts Management, Tohoku University of Art and Design, Yamagata City, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.
Invited talks & panels
2025 · Dec — “Atomic Bomb Survivor Stories Through Art”, UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), online.
2023 · 2 Mar — “What does it mean to remember Fukushima in the UK today? COVID, Climate Change, and Ukraine”, Howard Theatre, Downing College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
2020 · Dec — “Contemporary art after COVID and its ecology”, Art Platform Japan webinar series, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, online.
2018 · Feb — “Moves Like Sand: Collective Practices and Site-Specific Critique in Japanese Contemporary Art 1960s to the Present”, with Miryam Sas, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
2015 · May — “Post 3.11: What Can Art Do? Four Years On: Art and the Disaster”, The Free Word Centre, organised by the Japan Foundation, London, United Kingdom.
2014 · Oct — “Art after Fukushima and Tohoku”, keynote, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom.
Conferences & symposiums
2026 · 1–4 Sep — “Performing Temporal Irresolution: Art, Temporality and the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant”. Annual Conference, Royal Geographical Society, London, United Kingdom — panel: Grounding nuclear imaginaries.
2025 · Sep — Energy Infrastructures and their Communities Symposium, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom.
2024 · Apr — Annual Conference, Association for Art History, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
Written pieces
2026 — Kawakubo, Y., “Study for a Zekkei and the Landscape of Hopelessness”. Studies in Atomic Bomb Literature (原爆文学研究), no. 24: 198–201.
2025 — Kawakubo, Y., “Photography and Materiality: Accounts from the No-return Zone of Fukushima”. Chapter 2 in Art Encounters in the Nuclear Age: Radiant Objects, ed. Jessica Holtaway. London: Routledge. → https://www.routledge.com/Art-Encounters-in-the-Nuclear-Age-Radiant-Objects/Holtaway/p/book/9781041030843
About
Yoi Kawakubo (he/him, b. 1979, Spain/Japan/UK) is a international artist with multicultural background who explores the ontology of structures regarding justice and legitimacy, the unearthing of marginalised historical narratives and the analysis of social issues such as the ethics of financial markets or the problems of nuclear energy. He addresses these topics by employing a variety of strategies, derived especially from photography, film, experimental literature, the conceptualist investigations in art since the 1960s and the logics of financial markets.