About
Yuji Kumon is a physician, public health researcher, and interdisciplinary artist based in the Kansai region of Japan. His work explores how health, society, and everyday life intersect through medicine, public health, and art.
After training in medicine, an encounter with art in New York led him to begin his artistic practice, which later developed through graduate study in painting and drawing in Chicago. He later pursued public health, focusing on social determinants of health and health equity.
Working across artistic production, clinical practice, and public health, Kumon’s recent work explores everyday life, social isolation, dignity and indignity, and the tensions between individuals and society, often revealing contradictions and the ways vulnerability and resilience coexist in everyday life.
His practice brings together clinical experience, public health perspectives, and artistic inquiry to reflect on the conditions that shape human life, care, and well-being.