Shinji Turner-Yamamoto

Shinji Turner-Yamamoto is a Japanese-born, U.S.-based artist known for paintings, sculptures, and installations employing elemental materials such as trees, fossils, and minerals to create profound viewer connections with nature. His ongoing sculpture project Pentimenti (2010–) employs historic and natural elements as meditations on the universe. Additional projects include Sidereal Silence and the Quintessence series, begun in 2012 and inspired by waterfalls encountered in the Pacific Northwest wilderness.

Turner-Yamamoto studied at Kyoto City University of Arts and at Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna. His work has been the subject of solo shows at Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland; and Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, among others.