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Kai Yoda

Né en 1985 à Tokyo. Vit et travaille à Paris.

Kai Yoda, né en 1985 à Tokyo (Japon), vit et travaille à Paris. Artiste visuel diplômé du Royal College of Art de Londres, sa pratique interroge les frontières entre création humaine et processus algorithmique. Il développe une recherche picturale hybride, articulant dessin à la main, iconographie historique, photographie et intelligence artificielle.

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Sa démarche se nourrit de références littéraires et explore les notions de temporalité flottante, de mémoire et d’ambiguïté perceptive. L’artiste s’inscrit dans une démarche explorant les potentialités des médias numériques à travers des hybridations créatives et transculturelles. Ses installations articulent formes physiques et environnements virtuels, proposant des expériences immersives où réel et digital se croisent. Autour de ces paysages numériques, Kai Yoda intègre des éléments sculpturaux et des objets imprimés en 3D, évoquant une matérialité ancrée dans le monde naturel. Ces formes, à la fois abstraites et organiques, agissent comme des signes sensibles, témoins d’une réalité tangible au sein d’un espace fictif.
Sa pratique plus récente se concentre sur la peinture, à partir de laquelle il développe ses réflexions antérieures sur l’intervention numérique mêlée au vivant. À partir de croquis réalisés à la main, de photographies et de références à l’histoire de l’art, il nourrit le générateur d’images DeepDream, qui produit plusieurs itérations dont il retient certaines trames pour les retranscrire ensuite à l’huile. Ce va-et-vient entre dessin, iconographie, IA et peinture traditionnelle crée des images où l’empreinte humaine dialogue avec l’altération algorithmique.
Il cofonde en 2012 avec Virginie Ittah le duo Ittah Yoda au sein duquel il développe des environnements immersifs mêlant réalité virtuelle, sculpture, et peinture dans une perspective post-anthropocène et symbiotique. Ils rejoignent la Galerie Poggi en janvier 2022 qui leur consacre une première exposition personnelle au printemps 2023, en parallèle de plusieurs expositions collectives et personnelles au Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau aux Lilas (FR), au Musée des Beaux Arts d’Angers (FR) et au Centre International d’Art et du Paysage (FR).

Informations pratiques

Curriculum Vitae
Portfolio

Gallery Contact

Asta Keiller
a.keiller@galeriepoggi.com

Oeuvres

Kai Yoda, ROH Projects (ID), 2025, Exhibition view, "Split Body"

Kai Yoda, ROH Projects (ID), 2025

Exhibition view, "Split Body"

Kai Yoda, Mauricio, 2025, Oil on linen, dust, artist collected pigment, rabbit skin glue, gesso, 116.5 x 159 cm

Kai Yoda, Mauricio, 2025

Oil on linen, dust, artist collected pigment, rabbit skin glue, gesso, 116.5 x 159 cm

Kai Yoda, Aureliano, 2025, Oil on linen, dust, artist collected pigment, rabbit skin glue, gesso, 41 x 55 cm

Kai Yoda, Aureliano, 2025

Oil on linen, dust, artist collected pigment, rabbit skin glue, gesso, 41 x 55 cm

Ittah Yoda, Tokyo (JAP), 2025, Exhibition view, “Future of Nostalgia”, Photo : © Timothée Lambrecq

Ittah Yoda, Tokyo (JAP), 2025

Exhibition view, “Future of Nostalgia”, Photo : © Timothée Lambrecq

Kai Yoda, ROH Projects (ID), 2025, Exhibition view, "Split Body"

Kai Yoda, ROH Projects (ID), 2025

Exhibition view, "Split Body"

Kai Yoda, Arcadio, 2025, Oil on linen, dust, pigment collected by the artist, rabbit skin glue, French linen, Jakarta linen, stitching, 195 x 205 cm

Kai Yoda, Arcadio, 2025

Oil on linen, dust, pigment collected by the artist, rabbit skin glue, French linen, Jakarta linen, stitching, 195 x 205 cm

Ittah Yoda, Julian (Win series), 2024, Blown glass, olfactory artwork “Learning to Fly” created in collaboration with David Chieze (Luzi, Mark Buxton), 52 x 27 x 26 cm (5 kg), Photo : .Kit

Ittah Yoda, Julian (Win series), 2024

Blown glass, olfactory artwork “Learning to Fly” created in collaboration with David Chieze (Luzi, Mark Buxton), 52 x 27 x 26 cm (5 kg)

Ittah Yoda, MAC Lyon (FR), 2025, Exhibition view "Echos du passé, promesses du futur" © Luca Meneghel

Ittah Yoda, MAC Lyon (FR), 2025

Exhibition view "Echos du passé, promesses du futur" © Luca Meneghel

Ittah Yoda, "Incarnation", Group Show, Rencontres d'Arles (FR)

Ittah Yoda, "Incarnation", Group Show, Rencontres d'Arles (FR)

Exhibition view

Ittah Yoda, Tokyo (JAP), 2025, Exhibition view, “Future of Nostalgia”, Photo : © Timothée Lambrecq

Ittah Yoda, Tokyo (JAP), 2025

Exhibition view, “Future of Nostalgia”, Photo : © Timothée Lambrecq

Kai Yoda, Amaranta, 2025, Oil on linen, dust, artist collected pigment, rabbit skin glue, 120 x 160 cm

Kai Yoda, Amaranta, 2025

Oil on linen, dust, artist collected pigment, rabbit skin glue, 120 x 160 cm

Kai Yoda, Noah, 2025, Oil, oil stick, pigments collected by the artist in Lyon and other regions, rabbit skin glue on linen, 160 x 120 x 2.5 cm

Kai Yoda, Noah, 2025

Oil, oil stick, pigments collected by the artist in Lyon and other regions, rabbit skin glue on linen, 160 x 120 x 2.5 cm

Kai Yoda, Candra, 2025, Oil on linen, dust, pigment collected by artist, rabbit skin glue, Diptyque, 160 x 240 cm

Kai Yoda, Candra, 2025

Oil on linen, dust, pigment collected by artist, rabbit skin glue, Diptyque, 160 x 240 cm

Kai Yoda, Frieze London (GB), 2025, Exhibition view

Kai Yoda, Frieze London (GB), 2025

Exhibition view

Ittah Yoda, MAC Lyon (FR), 2025, Exhibition view "Echos du passé, promesses du futur" © Luca Meneghel

Ittah Yoda, MAC Lyon (FR), 2025

Exhibition view "Echos du passé, promesses du futur" © Luca Meneghel

Ittah Yoda, Julian, 2024

Ittah Yoda, Künstlerhaus Göttingen (DEU), 2025, Exhibition view, "Dander the Symbiocene", Photo : © Peter Heller

Ittah Yoda, Künstlerhaus Göttingen (DEU), 2025

Exhibition view, "Dander the Symbiocene", Photo : © Peter Heller

Kai Yoda, Pilar, 2025, Oil on linen, dust, artist collected pigment, rabbit skin glue, 27 x 35 cm

Kai Yoda, Pilar, 2025

Oil on linen, dust, artist collected pigment, rabbit skin glue, 27 x 35 cm

Ittah Yoda, POUSH, Aubervilliers (FR), 2024, Exhibition view, "Par la fumée", © Romain Demain

Ittah Yoda, POUSH, Aubervilliers (FR), 2024

Exhibition view, "Par la fumée", © Romain Demain

Ittah Yoda, Vincenzo, 2024

Ittah Yoda, AVA ; Luna ; Peter III, 2024. Courtesy of the artists & Galerie Poggi, Paris.

Ittah Yoda, AVA ; Luna ; Peter III, 2024. Courtesy of the artists & Galerie Poggi, Paris.

Exhibition view of Arcadia, Bally Foundation, Lugano, Switzerland, 2024-2025 © Andrea Rossetti.

Ittah Yoda, Olivier, 2024

Ittah Yoda, Fondation Bally, 2024, Exhibition view, © Andrea Rosetti

Ittah Yoda, Fondation Bally, 2024

Exhibition view, © Andrea Rosetti

Ittah Yoda, Arts AlUla, Obis Tertius - 1

Ittah Yoda, Noor, 2024

Ittah Yoda, CIAPV - Île de Vassivière, 2023, "Diplomaties Terrestres", Exhibition view, © Andrea Rossetti

Ittah Yoda, CIAP - Île de Vassivière, 2023

"Diplomaties Terrestres", Exhibition view, © Andrea Rossetti

Ittah Yoda, Huidenclub, Rotterdam (NL), 2024, Exhibition view, "Design Sediments'

Ittah Yoda, Huidenclub, Rotterdam (NL), 2024

Exhibition view, "Design Sediments'

Ittah Yoda, Exhibition view, "Incarnation", Group Show, Rencontres d'Arles (FR)

Ittah Yoda, "Incarnation", Group Show, Rencontres d'Arles (FR)

Exhibition view

Ittah Yoda, Allan, 2023, Oak from the island of Vassivière, brushed brass, perfume, 152 x 63 x 88 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Poggi, Paris, © Andrea Rossetti

Ittah Yoda, Allan, 2023

Oak from the island of Vassivière, brushed brass, perfume, 152 x 63 x 88 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Poggi, Paris, © Andrea Rossetti

Ittah Yoda, VR, Body Alights, 2019, Screenshot from VR

Ittah Yoda, VR, Body Alights, 2019

Screenshot from VR

Ittah Yoda, Rosso, 2021, Exhibition view, "Le temps scintille et le songe est savoir", Double Séjour, Clichy (FR), 2021

Ittah Yoda, Rosso, 2021, "Le temps scintille et le songe est savoir", Double Séjour, Clichy (FR), 2021

Exhibition view

Ittah Yoda, "Incarnation", Group Show, Rencontres d'Arles (FR)

Ittah Yoda, "Incarnation", Group Show, Rencontres d'Arles (FR)

Exhibition view

Ittah Yoda, Rosso, detail, 2021, Carved beech, polyamide fibers, 240 x 90 x 73 cm

Ittah Yoda, Rosso, detail, 2021

Carved beech, polyamide fibers, 240 x 90 x 73 cm

Ittah Yoda, Exhibition view, "Incarnation", Group Show, Rencontres d'Arles (FR)

Ittah Yoda, "Incarnation", Group Show, Rencontres d'Arles (FR)

Exhibition view

Ittah Yoda, CIAPV - Île de Vassivière, 2023, "Diplomaties Terrestres", Exhibition view, © Andrea Rossetti

Ittah Yoda, CIAP - Île de Vassivière, 2023

"Diplomaties Terrestres", Exhibition view, © Andrea Rossetti

Ittah Yoda, CIAPV - Île de Vassivière, 2023, "Diplomaties Terrestres", Exhibition view, © Andrea Rossetti

Ittah Yoda, CIAP - Île de Vassivière, 2023

"Diplomaties Terrestres", Exhibition view, © Andrea Rossetti

Ittah Yoda, CIAPV - Île de Vassivière, 2023, "Diplomaties Terrestres", Exhibition view, © Andrea Rossetti

Ittah Yoda, CIAP - Île de Vassivière, 2023

"Diplomaties Terrestres", Exhibition view, © Andrea Rossetti

Ittah Yoda, Galerie Poggi, Paris, 2023, "At the Edge of Dreams", Exhibition View © Andrea Rossetti

Ittah Yoda, Galerie Poggi, Paris, 2023

"At the Edge of Dreams", Exhibition View © Andrea Rossetti

Ittah Yoda, "Incarnation", Group Show, Rencontres d'Arles (FR)

Ittah Yoda, "Incarnation", Group Show, Rencontres d'Arles (FR)

Exhibition view

Ittah Yoda, Basile, 2023, Lithography ink painted on canvas, spray paint, oil stick, handmade pigment processed by the artist, 157 x 116,5 cm

Ittah Yoda, Basile, 2023

Lithography ink painted on canvas, spray paint, oil stick, handmade pigment processed by the artist, 157 x 116,5 cm

Ittah Yoda, Allan, 2023, Oak from the island of Vassivière, brushed brass, perfume, 152 x 63 x 88 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Poggi, Paris, © Andrea Rossetti

Ittah Yoda, Allan, 2023

Oak from the island of Vassivière, brushed brass, perfume, 152 x 63 x 88 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Poggi, Paris, © Andrea Rossetti

Ittah Yoda, Galerie Poggi, Paris, 2023, "At the Edge of Dreams", Exhibition View © Andrea Rossetti

Ittah Yoda, Galerie Poggi, Paris, 2023

"At the Edge of Dreams", Exhibition View © Andrea Rossetti

Ittah Yoda, Garance, 2022, Oil on canvas, lithographic print, 157 x 116.5 x 2.5 cm, SOLD

Ittah Yoda, Garance, 2022

Oil on canvas, lithographic print, 157 x 116.5 x 2.5 cm

Ittah Yoda, Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau (FR), 2023, Exhibition view of "Futurs Antérieurs"

Ittah Yoda, Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau (FR), 2023

Exhibition view of "Futurs Antérieurs"

Ittah Yoda, Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau (FR), 2023, Exhibition view of "Futurs Antérieurs" © EPonsaud

Ittah Yoda, Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau (FR), 2023

Exhibition view of "Futurs Antérieurs" © EPonsaud

Ittah Yoda, Paris + by Art Basel, Galerie Poggi, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris (FR), 2022, View of galerie Poggi's Booth

Ittah Yoda, Paris + by Art Basel, Galerie Poggi, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris (FR), 2022

View of galerie Poggi's Booth

Ittah Yoda, VR, Body Alights, 2019, Screenshot from VR

Ittah Yoda, VR, Body Alights, 2019

Screenshot from VR

Ittah Yoda, Foreign Domestic, NYC (USA), 2022, Exhibition view of "Alter" (Solo Show)

Ittah Yoda, Foreign Domestic, NYC (USA), 2022

Exhibition view of "Alter" (Solo Show)

Ittah Yoda, Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris (FR), 2022, Screenshot from VR

Ittah Yoda, Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris (FR), 2022

Screenshot from VR

Ittah Yoda, The Armory Show, NYC (USA), 2022, View of Galerie Poggi's Booth

Ittah Yoda, The Armory Show, NYC (USA), 2022

View of Galerie Poggi's Booth

Ittah Yoda, Sol, 2022, Glass paste and brushed brass structure, 14 x 23 x 23 cm

Ittah Yoda, Sol, 2022

Glass paste and brushed brass structure, 14 x 23 x 23 cm

Ittah Yoda, Milo, 2022, Oil on canvas, lithographic print, handmade pigment by the artist, 55 x 41 x 2.5 cm

Ittah Yoda, Milo, 2022

Oil on canvas, lithographic print, handmade pigment by the artist, 55 x 41 x 2.5 cm

Ittah Yoda, Never the same ocean BP #03, 2022, 2 brushed brass, 4 blown glass, Dunaliella Salina microalgae liquid, carded cotton, Variable dimensions

Ittah Yoda, Never the same ocean BP #03, 2022

2 brushed brass, 4 blown glass, Dunaliella Salina microalgae liquid, carded cotton, Variable dimensions

Ittah Yoda, Frieze No.9 Cork Street, 2022, Booth view, © Galerie Poggi

Ittah Yoda, Frieze No.9 Cork Street, 2022

Booth view, © Galerie Poggi

Ittah Yoda, Chalisée, 2023, Lithographic ink painted on canvas, airbrush paint, oil sticks, pigment handmade by the artist, 157 x 116,5 cm

Ittah Yoda, Chalisée, 2023

Lithographic ink painted on canvas, airbrush paint, oil sticks, pigment handmade by the artist, 157 x 116,5 cm

Ittah Yoda, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville (FR), 2022, Exhibition view

Ittah Yoda, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville (FR), 2022

Exhibition view

Ittah Yoda, Fiminco, Romainville (FR), 2022

Ittah Yoda, Fiminco, Romainville (FR), 2022

Ittah Yoda, Never the same Ocean, VA 19, 2021, Original and unique lithograph, BFK Rives paper, lithographic inks, Japanese pigments, 45 x 29,5 cm (60 x 43 cm framed)

Ittah Yoda, Never the same Ocean, VA 19, 2021

Original and unique lithograph, BFK Rives paper, lithographic inks, Japanese pigments, 45 x 29,5 cm (60 x 43 cm framed)

Ittah Yoda, Lei (II), 2021, Glass paste, laser cut and welded aluminum support, 20 x 11 x 10 cm

Ittah Yoda, Lei (II), 2021

Glass paste, laser cut and welded aluminum support. 20 x 11 x 10 cm

Ittah Yoda, Galerie Poggi (FR), 2021, Exhibition view of "Never the Same Ocean"

Ittah Yoda, Galerie Poggi (FR), 2021

Exhibition view of "Never the Same Ocean"

Ittah Yoda, Galerie Poggi (FR), 2021, Exhibition view of "Never the Same Ocean"

Ittah Yoda, Galerie Poggi (FR), 2021

Exhibition view of "Never the Same Ocean"

Ittah Yoda, L’objet de tes nuits blanches I, 2021, Sculpture in glass paste, 18kg, 22 x 35 x 14 cm

Ittah Yoda, L’objet de tes nuits blanches I, 2021

Sculpture in glass paste, 18kg, 22 x 35 x 14 cm

Ittah Yoda, Never the Same Ocean, VB 4, 2021, Original and unique lithograph, BFK Rives paper, lithographic inks, Japanese pigments, 45 x 29,5 cm (60 x 43 cm framed)

Ittah Yoda, Never the Same Ocean, VB 4, 2021

Original and unique lithograph, BFK Rives paper, lithographic inks, Japanese pigments, 45 x 29,5 cm (60 x 43 cm framed)

Ittah Yoda, Exhibition view, "Le temps scintille et le songe est savoir", Double Séjour, Clichy (FR), 2021

Ittah Yoda, "Le temps scintille et le songe est savoir", Double Séjour, Clichy (FR), 2021

Exhibition view

Ittah Yoda, Untitled, 2021, Lithography on aluminum plate, 120 x 174 x 10 cm

Ittah Yoda, Untitled, 2021

Lithography on aluminum plate, 120 x 174 x 10 cm

Ittah Yoda, Never the Same Ocean, KB 08, 2021, Original and unique lithograph, BFK Rives paper, lithographic inks, Japanese pigments, 45 x 29,5 cm (60 x 43 cm framed)

Ittah Yoda, Never the Same Ocean, KB 08, 2021

Original and unique lithograph, BFK Rives paper, lithographic inks, Japanese pigments, 45 x 29,5 cm (60 x 43 cm framed)

Ittah Yoda, Inarou III, detail, 2020, Cast Aluminium, sanded and brushed, 44 x 33 x 31 cm

Ittah Yoda, Inarou III, 2020

Cast Aluminium, sanded and brushed, 44 x 33 x 31 cm

Ittah Yoda, Inarou III, detail, 2020, Cast Aluminium, sanded and brushed, 44 x 33 x 31 cm

Ittah Yoda, Inarou III, detail, 2020

Cast Aluminium, sanded and brushed, 44 x 33 x 31 cm

Ittah Yoda, Exhibition view, "Le temps scintille et le songe est savoir", Double Séjour, Clichy (FR), 2021

Ittah Yoda, "Le temps scintille et le songe est savoir", Double Séjour, Clichy (FR), 2021

Exhibition view

Ittah Yoda, Never the same Ocean, KA 11, 2021, Original and unique lithograph, BFK Rives paper, lithographic inks, Japanese pigments, 45 x 29,5 cm (60 x 43 cm framed)

Ittah Yoda, Never the same ocean, KA 11, 2021

Original and unique lithograph, BFK Rives paper, lithographic inks, Japanese pigments, 45 x 29,5 cm (60 x 43 cm framed)

Ittah Yoda, Exhibition view, "Body Alights - a fragmented memory", Sprout Curation, Tokyo, 2018

Ittah Yoda, "Body Alights - a fragmented memory", Sprout Curation, Tokyo, 2018

Exhibition view

Ittah Yoda, Exhibition view, "Hestia", Group Show, 2021

Ittah Yoda, "Hestia", Group Show, 2021

Exhibition view

Ittah Yoda, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (SE), 2021, Exhibition view of "The Owls Are Not What They Seem" (Group Show)

Ittah Yoda, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (SE), 2021

Exhibition view of "The Owls Are Not What They Seem" (Group Show)

Ittah Yoda, Exhibition view, "Le contour de tes rêves", Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR), 2020

Ittah Yoda, "Le contour de tes rêves", Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR), 2020

Exhibition view

Ittah Yoda, VR, Body Alights, 2019, Screenshot from VR

Ittah Yoda, VR, Body Alights, 2019

Screenshot from VR

Ittah Yoda, Exhibition view, "Le contour de tes rêves", Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR), 2020

Ittah Yoda, "Le contour de tes rêves", Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR), 2020

Exhibition view

Ittah Yoda, "Body Alights - a fragmented memory", Sprout Curation, Tokyo, 2018

Ittah Yoda, "Body Alights - a fragmented memory", Sprout Curation, Tokyo, 2018

Exhibition view

Ittah Yoda, Exhibition view, "No History of Its Own", Rupert at apiece, Vilnius (LT)

Ittah Yoda, Vue de l'exposition No History of Its Own, Rupert at apiece, Vilnius, LT

Exhibition view

Actualités & Presse

Expositions à la Galerie

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Anniversaire de l’Art

Group Show

13 - 24 Janvier 2026

Dream Machine

Group Show

4 - 20 Septembre 2025

The Last Museum

Group Show

16 Mai - 2 Août 2025

Sophie Ristelhueber, What The Fuck !

Solo Show

5 Novembre 2024 - 1er Février 2025

La Première Pierre

Group Show

13 Octobre - 2 Décembre 2023

Ittah Yoda, À l’Orée des Songes

Solo Show

27 Avril - 31 Mai 2023

Ecce Homo

Group Show

02 Jul. – 13 Aug. 2022

Paul Mignard, Nopal

Solo Show

6 Nov. - 23 Déc. 2021

Foires

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FRIEZE LONDON 2025

Group Show

15 – 19 Octobre 2025

ARCO Madrid 2025

Group Show

5 – 9 Mars 2025

ART PARIS 2024

Group Show

4 - 7 Avril 2024

PARIS + PAR ART BASEL 2023

Group Show

20 – 22 Oct. 2023

THE ARMORY SHOW 2023

Group Show

8 – 10 Septembre 2023

PARIS + PAR ART BASEL 2022

Group Show

20 – 23 Oct. 2022

THE ARMORY SHOW 2022

Group Show

8 – 11 Sept. 2022

FRIEZE No.9 CORK STREET 2022

Group Show

03 – 23 May 2022

ARCO Madrid 2022

Group Show

23 – 27 Feb. 2022