Yukari Hotta

Yukari Hotta (b. 1979, Tokyo Japan) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. She holds a master’s degree from the Royal Danish Academy, School of Design.

Trained as a designer, her artistic practice sprouted a decade ago out of a desire to translate tactility and notions of nature into works produced by hand. Natural clays form the base of her practice, each presenting their own unique composition and color within Hotta’s final forms. While references to nature and the human body are present within her work, their forms are deliberately open in nature and invite the viewer to create their own narratives. Hotta views each piece as an individual character – often adding holes within her works so they can breathe.