Yamanishi creates wood sculptures mainly inspired by the motif of subject missing entities such as cloth, strings, and balloons. By layering images that evoke lightness, softness, and thinness as opposites to the hardness, weight, and lumpiness of the material wood, she makes a sense of visual discomfort, and explores the essence of the existence of light, shadow, gravity, air, and other phenomena that fill the world around us. She attempts to capture the essence of the existence of these phenomena.
Anna Yamanishi was born in 1990 in Osaka, Japan and currently based in Kyoto, Japan. She received M.F.A in Crafts, Urushi Lacquering from Kyoto City University of Arts.
Her major solo exhibitions are “Awai no Katachi” Gallery Suujin, Kyoto, 2018, “unposing things”, 2kw gallery, Shiga, 2022 and “sensational scale” GALLERY crossing, Gifu, 2022 (Japan).
Major group exhibitions are “The Eyes of the Skin“ MARUEIDO gallery, Kyoto, 2023, “Visualize” haku kyoto, Kyoto, 2024 and “From the Oblivion,” POOLSIDE GALLERY, Ishikawa, 2024 (Japan).
In 2025, won a Woman Artist Residency Award at ZONAMACO by Fundatión Casa Wabi and got an invitation to their Artist Residency Program in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico.