YUMI KORI
Yumi Kori is a Japanese-born artist and architect who lives between New York and Tokyo. After graduating from Kyoto Prefectural University in 1983, she enrolled at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, where she graduated in 1995. From 1996 to 2004, she worked as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia and Barnard College. She has also lectured at numerous universities, including Yale University and the Pratt Institute. Since 2016, she has been a full-time professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture and Design, but left the position in spring 2025 to focus on her artistic practice.
Beyond her architectural projects and “teaching, Kori has created numerous art projects exhibited worldwide, including in Berlin, New York, Tokyo, Osaka, São Paulo, and Basel. Most of her installations are site-specific, created in close relationship with the memory, history, and context of the location, using light, sound, and architectural elements to transform existing spaces. Spaces we take for granted appear completely different through her interventions. The audience enters the” work, moves freely, and experiences with all five senses the hidden space that manifests there. Her intention is to break people’s preconceived ideas about space.
Recently, she has begun creating “Procedural Architecture” projects that challenge and modify people’s way of living, drawing inspiration from the ideas of Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins.
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