Yuko Mohri

Sound, found objects and a first US museum solo show

An artist of events

Yuko Mohri is a Tokyo-based artist, born in Kanagawa, Japan, in 1980, who makes sculpture, installation and two-dimensional work. Her own biography describes a practice concerned not with composition or construction but with “events” and “incidents” that change in response to environmental conditions, and with the movement inherent in them. She holds an MA in inter-media art from Tokyo University of the Arts.

Venice and beyond

Mohri represented Japan at the 2024 Venice Biennale with Compose in the Japan Pavilion, and a homecoming version, Recompose, opened at the Yokohama Museum of Art in 2026. Recent solo exhibitions include Entanglements at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan and Centro Botín in Santander, and Piano Solo at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul; she received the Calder Prize 2025. In 2015 an Asian Cultural Council grant brought her to New York for six months, the same year she won the Nissan Art Award Grand Prix, and in 2016 she was artist-in-residence at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Camden Arts Centre in London. Her work is held by the Centre Pompidou, M+ in Hong Kong and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, among others.

Unviolated Imperfection

At The Bass in Miami Beach, Unviolated Imperfection, on view from September 17, 2026 to May 30, 2027, is her first solo exhibition in a US museum. In Decomposition, slowly decaying South Florida fruit wired with electrodes generates shifting tones and light. A new version of Moré Moré (Leaky), first shown in Venice, rebuilds her water circuit from secondhand objects found in Miami, after the improvised leak repairs she observed in Tokyo’s underground stations. Piano Solo completes the sequence with chance and sound. The title answers the architecture scholar Aaron Betsky’s 1990 book Violated Perfection.

In The Circuit Report

Our report on the Bass exhibition treats it as a reason to plan Miami Art Week beyond the fair tents, and our guide to Yuko Mohri x David Horvitz covers the December 3 performance in which the Los Angeles artist works with her Piano Solo while Mohri acts as a moving microphone stand. In Wynwood, the Margulies Collection’s new season includes her kinetic sculpture Moré Moré (Leaky): Falling Water Given #8 (2026), described in our Margulies Collection coverage.

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