Shingo Yamazaki

BIOGRAPHY

Shingo Yamazaki (b. Honolulu, Hawai‘i) is a Los Angeles–based artist whose practice explores the psychological terrain of home, memory, and cultural hybridity. Drawing from his mixed Korean and Japanese American heritage and his upbringing in Hawai‘i, Yamazaki constructs layered, atmospheric compositions that merge domestic interiors with natural landscapes—spaces where personal and collective histories overlap.

His works are characterized by veil-like glazes, translucent interjections, and obscured figures, invoking the fractured and mutable nature of memory. Through these shifting layers, Yamazaki invites viewers into liminal worlds that hover between the familiar and the unknown—spaces of in-betweenness shaped by migration, distance, and longing.

Yamazaki received his BA from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in 2014. His work has been exhibited at Steve Turner, Sow & Tailor, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Charlie James Gallery, River Art Gallery, and Richard Heller Gallery, among others. He is a recipient of the Innovate Grant, a Hopper Prize finalist, and has been featured in New American Paintings, BOOOOOOOM, Flux, Metal, and Friend of the Artist. In 2025, he will join the Headlands Center for the Arts residency program.