Gallery & Bakery Tokyo 8min, the art gallery and bakery-café space in Kyobashi, Tokyo, hosts "RAW," a new solo exhibition by artist Mai Yoneyama (米山舞), from Saturday, December 5, 2026 to Tuesday, February 9, 2027.
Full details on the exhibition and the works on view are available on the ArtSticker event page.
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About the Exhibition
Mai Yoneyama, who is active as an illustrator, animator and artist, presents a new solo exhibition starting Saturday, December 5, 2026.
Based in Tokyo, Yoneyama has worked in animation production and, moving between still images, video and three-dimensional work, has been searching for ways to fix images drawn digitally into real space and physical matter. In recent years, alongside layered acrylic works and relief works, Yoneyama has presented sculptures and an outdoor sculpture, "Reflection," that stands about 4 meters tall.
Through these efforts, Yoneyama has kept returning to one question: what is the "raw" quality (生, nama) of an artwork? An image is conceived in a sketch, lines are chosen, color and light are layered digitally, and the result is converted into an object. Yoneyama regards every one of these acts — drawing, selecting, processing and reproducing — as a raw act of creation that works on the image.
In this exhibition, multiple stages of drawing, such as the sketch, the line drawing and the finish, are each fixed onto a different material, exploring how an image can exist as an artwork. It is also a first for both the artist and Tokyo 8min: the exhibition is held in two parts, with the works on display swapped out partway through the run.
At a time when images are shared and consumed at enormous speed, where does the uniqueness of a work come from? The exhibition offers a space in which the traces of the act of drawing rise up as matter.
Exhibition Statement
In the artist's own words:
I have continued to try to fix digitally drawn images onto real materials and spaces.
A drawn image exists as data, and is copied, shared and consumed. Within that, what is the "raw" quality (生) of a work for me? I wanted to ask this question anew.
A sketch that notes down an idea. The act of choosing lines. Color and light layered digitally. And the output that converts the image into matter.
When I looked back at the process step by step, my own "raw" quality was certainly present in every state.
In "RAW," I fix each of these states onto a different material, layering them or separating them, so that the multiple forms a single image holds can emerge.
The image that was once on the other side of the screen now exists here as matter.
I would be happy if you could find in it the "raw" quality that I felt.
Mai Yoneyama
Exhibition Details
Exhibition: Mai Yoneyama New Solo Exhibition "RAW"
Dates: December 5, 2026 (Saturday) – February 9, 2027 (Tuesday)
- Part 1: December 5, 2026 (Saturday) – January 15, 2027 (Friday)
- Part 2: January 16, 2027 (Saturday) – February 9, 2027 (Tuesday)
Artist: Mai Yoneyama
Hours: 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Exhibition changeover: On Friday, January 15, 2027, the last day of Part 1, the gallery is open until 4:00 PM (the bakery operates as usual).
Year-end and New Year hours:
- Thursday, December 31, 2026: shortened hours (8:00 AM – 5:00 PM)
- Saturday, January 2 – Sunday, January 3, 2027: shortened hours (8:00 AM – 5:00 PM)
Closed: Friday, January 1, 2027
Admission: Free
Venue: Gallery & Bakery Tokyo 8min
Address: TODA BUILDING 1F, 1-7-1 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031
Access:
- Tokyo Metro Ginza Line "Kyobashi Station" Exit 6 — 3-minute walk
- Tokyo Metro Ginza Line "Nihonbashi Station" Exit B1 — 5-minute walk
- JR Lines "Tokyo Station" Yaesu Central Exit — 8-minute walk
Organizer: The Chain Museum (ArtSticker)
Cooperation: Applibot
Exhibition page: https://artsticker.app/events/168137
About the Artist
Mai Yoneyama (米山舞) is an illustrator, animator and artist from Nagano Prefecture.
After working at an animation company as an animation director, character designer and visual developer, Yoneyama began creating illustrations for book covers and advertisements. While also presenting work as a video director for commercials and music videos, Yoneyama held a first solo exhibition, "SHE," in 2019, followed by "EGO" in 2021. That same year, Yoneyama exhibited at START ART FAIR 2021, where "00:00:00:00," a work that strings together 16 images and crosses the boundary between time-based and spatial art, presented the artist's own personal history as an artwork and was well received.
In 2023, with "EYE," Yoneyama expanded printing and other expressive techniques and presented layered acrylic works and relief works, and in 2024 Yoneyama was selected for ARTISTS' FAIR KYOTO 2024. In the solo exhibition "arc," held in Tokyo and Kyoto from 2025 to 2026, Yoneyama presented sculptural works, and at "ART SCRAMBLE" at Grand Front Osaka also unveiled "Reflection," an outdoor sculpture about 4 meters tall.
Starting from animation and moving between still images, video and three-dimensional work, Yoneyama continues to explore the possibilities of a unique form of expression that carries drawn lines all the way into space.
- Instagram: @yoneyamai
- X: @yoneyamai
About Gallery & Bakery Tokyo 8min
Gallery & Bakery Tokyo 8min is a space combining an art gallery with a bakery and café, produced jointly by The Chain Museum, which operates ArtSticker, and Fonz (フォンス), which operates THE CITY BAKERY. It aims to be an art space open to the city, located in the heart of Tokyo, where urban development is increasingly focused on art and culture as well.
The space occupies the first floor of TODA BUILDING, which opened on November 2, 2024, where TODA CORPORATION runs a variety of art programs under the concept "ART POWER KYOBASHI." The interior was designed by DDAA, the practice led by architect Daisuke Motogi.
In a space reminiscent of a museum designed for art, the spotlight falls on artists with promising futures. A bakery and café inside the art space offers a place to linger after viewing art or to talk over impressions with others. The space is designed for more than viewing artworks, as a place where visitors may find themselves wanting to talk with someone while enjoying a meal.
Gallery & Bakery Tokyo 8min official Instagram: @tokyo8min
