Mai Yokoyama Japanese, b. 1989

BACK_Y is pleased to present Solar Phantasm, a solo exhibition by Japanese artist Mai Yokoyama, opening on May 21, 2026. Centered on the question of authenticity and perception, Yokoyama’s practice examines the shifting relationship between digital image-making, painting, and time. Through works that move between iPad drawings, watercolor studies, and oil painting, the artist constructs layered visual structures in which images continuously evolve through accumulation, transformation, and residue.

'Rainbow,' presented as YIRI ARTS' thematic exhibition during Taipei Art Week and ART TAIPEI 2025, using this natural phenomenon as a point of departure to reflect on its symbolic weight, cultural significance, and emotional resonance across time and place.　 A rainbow appears after rain, brief, luminous, and unpredictable. It stretches...

Interwoven Realities places five distinct artistic languages side by side to stage a cross-cultural arena of dialogue. From the density of classical painting to the lightness of digital transposition, from figurative projections of memory to abstract inscriptions of space, viewers are invited to navigate multiple modes of looking and to...

The solo exhibition, titled 'Hidden Mountain,' revolves around a series of new paintings by Mai Yokoyama. The exhibition takes inspiration from the cultural artifacts left behind by the 'Hidden Christian' movement during the strict prohibition of Christianity in Japan's Tokugawa Shogunate era (17th-18th century). Last summer, Mai Yokoyama embarked on...