Yuria Okamura is a Melbourne-based artist who has recently completed a Master of Fine Arts (Research) at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. She has previously graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in 2010 at RMIT University, Melbourne. In 2016, she was selected for the Abbotsford Convent Studio Start-up Residency, and the Bayside City Council Residency. Yuria has received a number of awards and scholarships, including the Stuart Black Memorial Travelling Scholarship, Ursula Hoff Institute Drawing Award, Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award, RMIT Honours Travelling Endowment Scholarship, RMIT Siemens Fine Art Scholarship, and Facetnate Visual Art Grant. Yuria has been showing her work in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including Five Walls Projects (Melbourne), Rubicon ARI (Melbourne), Kunstraum Tapir (Berlin, Germany), John Buckley Gallery (Melbourne), Langford 120 (Melbourne), Seventh Gallery (Melbourne), Japan Foundation Gallery (Sydney), and Mølla På Grim (Kristiansand, Norway). Her artwork has also been featured in the 12th issue of the Berlin-based Fukt: a magazine for contemporary drawing.

EDUCATION

2015      Master of Fine Arts (Research), H1, VCA, University of Melbourne
2010      Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), H1, RMIT University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Forms and Diagrams (For Harmonic Ideals), Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2014
Geometric Findings, Five Walls Projects, Footscray

2012
Shifting, Langford 120 (the wall), North Melbourne
Inside is Outside, Outside is Inside, Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy
Ma: Space between here and there, Japan Foundation Gallery, Sydney

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
Imbue, Rubicon ARI, North Melbourne

2015
Who is Mr Favisar? Trocadero Art Space, Footscray

2013
Natürlich, Takt Kunstraum, Berlin, Germany

2012
Rubicon ARI Gallery Launch, Rubicon ARI, North Melbourne

AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES

2016
Stuart Black Memorial Travelling Scholarship
Abbotsford Convent Start-up Program Studio Residency, Melbourne

2015
Ursula Hoff Institute Inc. Drawing Award
Incinerator Art Award – Finalist

2014
Calleen Art Award – Finalist

2013
Takt kunstprojektraum residency, Berlin, Germany

2012
Blake Prize – Shortlisted
Facetnate! Visual Art Grant, the Japan Foundation Sydney

2011
Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award
Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award – Finalist
RMIT Honours Travelling Endowment Scholarship

2010
Siemens RMIT Fine Art Award
RMIT Vice Chancellor’s Award for Academic Excellence

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2016
In Conversation with Yuria Okamura, Jean Kemshal-Bell, Abbotsford Convent News,
http://abbotsfordconvent.com.au/blog/in-conversation-with-yuria-okamura

2014
Yuria Okamura at Five Walls Gallery, Meg Crawford, Weekend Notes,
http://www.weekendnotes.com/yuria-okamura-five-walls-gallery/

2013
Featured in Fukt #12: A magazine for contemporary drawing, Berlin