Yonezawa Shu

Born in Tokyo, Yonezawa Shu is an artist and animator. She explores the physicality of characters in contemporary digital animations as well as the spiritual physicality and emotions of living creatures in actual spaces, and the atmosphere of the spaces that animation inhabits through painting, moving image, poetry, texts, physical phenomena, and more. Her major work and solo exhibitions include “HAPPY BIRTH” (2023, Parco Museum Tokyo), “Newborn Friends” (2023, BLOCK HOUSE), “OPEN SITE 7: no name” (2022, Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo), “Extinct Anima at Planet Samsa” (2022, former site of Odaka Binding Factory), and “Obake no Bʹ: The Movie” (2022, NTT InterCommunication Center), and she also co-curated the music event “Everything Beautiful Appearing in Nature” (2022–23).Last Updated: 2025.02