Shingo Yamazaki’s paintings examine diasporic identity, cultural hybridity, and the shifting meanings of home. Influenced by his upbringing in Hawaiʻi and his current home in Los Angeles, his work reflects on what it means to live between cultures, and how belonging can feel both familiar and foreign. As a Japanese and Korean American shaped in part by his family’s Zainichi history, referring to Koreans living in Japan across generations under Japanese occupation, Yamazaki considers what is preserved, what is hidden, and what becomes difficult to access within family histories.
Yamazaki studied at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and received a Bachelors of Arts focused in Painting. His work has been shown in recent exhibitions at Volery Gallery, Dubai, Charlie James, Los Angeles, Jonathan Carver Moore, San Francisco, Steven Zevitas Gallery , Boston, and Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles. Yamazaki has been a recipient of the Innovate grant, finalist for the Hopper Prize, and has been an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts. He has been featured recently in publications such as Flux Magazine Issue 45, New American Paintings Issue 163, BOOOOOOOM 'Tomorrow's Talent' volume II, and Friend of the Artist Volume 13. Shingo currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
