Ko Kirk Yamahira

For the month of September, Russo Lee Gallery presents the moment of immersing themselves in the same space in front of the piece, untitled by Ko Kirk Yamahira. This new body of work invites viewers to consider the tension and harmony between internal and external forces. At the heart of Yamahira’s practice is the act of deconstruction and reformation. The canvas is unraveled thread by thread and reconfigured into new forms. Through this meditative act, notions of time and structure blur, allowing layered ideas and evolving surfaces to emerge. Yamahira’s works are an immersive dialogue between form, time, and presence.

Ko Kirk Yamahira was born in Los Angeles. Currently he lives and works in Seattle, WA. Yamahira’s work is in numerous private and public collections including Microsoft, Port of Portland, Facebook/Meta, City of Bellevue, Frye Art Museum, King County Public Art Collections, and SoHo House. He has participated in multiple solo and group exhibitions in galleries in the United States and Japan, both individually and as a member of the artist collective SOIL (~2021). Yamahira was the recipient of the Kayla Skinner Special Recognition Award from the Seattle Art Museum in 2017, and was recently awarded the inaugural Grand Prize Award presented by the Alden Mason Foundation.

the moment of immersing themselves in the same space in front of the piece, untitled

September 4 – 27, 2025

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