Eri Yoshihara

Eri Yoshihara was born in Osaka-fu in 1959. She graduated from Kyoto Saga University of Arts in 1983, majoring in printing. She held her first solo exhibition at Ban Gallery in 1984, presenting works using a unique “laminating technique” in which real tea bags, luggage tags, newspapers, etc. were sandwiched between print paper and traditional Japanese ganpishi paper and pressed. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Japan and abroad, including the Wakayama International Print Biennale (The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama) in 1985 and the Ljubljana International Print Biennale (Slovenia) in 1987. In “Mr. M.’s Room” in 1986, she arranged actual objects, prints, and paintings on the walls, creating a work that encompassed the viewer as well. From the 2000s, she began to create a tableau series using cheesecloth. In 2000, she held a solo exhibition in Milan. In her pictures, in which familiar things are carefully displayed, the absence of a person who should be there can be conspicuously felt.