BIOGRAPHY | Kazuhiro Yamada

BIOGRAPHY

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Yamada Kazuhiro is an artist born in Oita Prefecture. His exquisite artwork has won numerous prestigious awards and has been exhibited in some of the most renowned galleries in the art world.

Some of these exhibitions include the France-Japan Multinational Contemporary Art Exhibition held at the National Art Center, Tokyo, with special support from the Salon d’Automne International, as well as the International ARC Salon Exhibition at Sotheby’s in New York City, USA, and at MEAM in Barcelona, Spain.

In 2019, he received the Chairman's Choice Award -the first Japanese artist ever- at the 14th International ARC Salon Competition, an International Figurative Art Competition hosted by Art Renewal Center, in the USA. His work was selected out of more than 4,300 works from 73 countries across 6 continents.

In 2025, two of his artworks were selected for 《Lunar Codex》, an international cultural heritage project, in which the ARC , the host of 《the International ARC Salon Competition》, participated.

In the 《Lunar Codex》 project, two of his artworks will be sent to and preserved on the Moon as part of the cultural heritage of the 21st century, alongside works created by contemporary artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers selected from around the world. The 《Lunar Codex》 project is implemented through NASA's 《CLPS-TO-20A》 program, which is associated with NASA's 《Artemis program》—an initiative aimed at landing humans on the Moon for the first time since the Apollo program.

As an official member of Salon d'Automne, a French art organization established in 1903, his artworks have been exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, an international salon exhibition hosted by the organization in Paris every autumn, as well as in some European countries and New York.

Exhibition

■2025

Salon d'Automne 2025 (Paris, France)

The Almenara Art Prize 2025 Online Exhibition (Cordoba, Spain)

■2024

Salon d'Automne 2024 (Paris, France)

The Almenara Art Prize 2024 Online Exhibition (Cordoba, Spain)

Salon d'automne 2023-24 (Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France)

■2023

Figurativas 2023 (MEAM Museu Europeu d’Art Modern, Barcelona, Spain)

■2022
Salon d'automne 2022 (Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France)

■2021
Salon d'automne 2021 (Paris, France)

15th International ARC Salon Exhibition at The MEAM (Barcelona, Spain)

15th International ARC Salon Exhibition at Sotheby's, NY (Sotheby's, NY, USA)

Salon d'automne Virtual Exhibition (Paris, France)

■2020
Salon d'automne 2020 (Paris, France)

LE SALON D'AUTOMNE PRESENTE SECTION JAPONAISE (Paris, France)

France-Japan Multinational Contemporary Art Exhibition 2020 (The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan)

14th International ARC Salon Virtual Exhibition at Sotheby's, NY (Sotheby's, NY, USA)

■2019
14th International ARC Salon Exhibition at The MEAM (Barcelona, Spain)

Salon d'automne 2019 (Paris, France)

France-Japan Multinational Contemporary Art Exhibition 2019 (The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan)

■2018
Salon d'automne 2018 (Paris, France)

France-Japan Multinational Contemporary Art Exhibition 2018 (The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan)

Japanese Today's Visual Art Exhibition in Spain (Gijón, Asturias, Spain)

■2017
Salon d'automne 2017 (Paris, France)

France-Japan Multinational Contemporary Art Exhibition 2017 (The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan)

Japanese Today's Visual Art Exhibition in Italy (Sicilia, Italy)

■2016
Salon d'automne 2016 (Paris, France)

France-Japan Multinational Contemporary Art Exhibition 2016 (The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan)

Japanese Today's Visual Art Exhibition in Corsica (Bastia, Corsica, France)

■2015
France-Japan Multinational Contemporary Art Exhibition 2015 (The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan)

Awarded

■2024

17th International ARC Salon Competition [Selected Finalist]

■2023

Figurativas 2023 [Selected Finalist]

16th International ARC Salon Competition [Selected Finalist]

■2021

15th International ARC Salon Competition [Selected Finalist]

■2019

14th International ARC Salon Competition [Awarded Chairman’s Choice Award]

France-Japan Multinational Contemporary Art Exhibition 2015 [Awarded Grand prix]

■2018

13th International ARC Salon Competition [Selected Finalist]

France-Japan Multinational Contemporary Art Exhibition 2015 [Awarded Second prize]

■2015

France-Japan Multinational Contemporary Art Exhibition 2015 [Awarded Second prize]