Gallery Vacancy is pleased to announce artist Yuichi Yokoyama’s first solo exhibition in Shanghai, Yuichi Yokoyama 1994–2024, on view through August 24, 2024. As an artist, Yokoyama deliberately separates his manga from his paintings, but the distinctive connections between the two are what make his works interesting. According to the artist, he chose manga over painting as his means of artistic expression because manga is more important to him. However, in recent years, Yokoyama’s worldwide exhibitions not only included paintings in the traditional sense, but also showed a large amount of manga-related works as well as “Name,” manga sketches that are considered least important and displayable in Japanese manga tradition. To this day, Yokoyama’s manga practice has re-entered the scope of contemporary…