Yukari Kaihori is a practicing artist known for exploring the intricate relationship between objects/things and the idea of a more-than-human world. Her research is around Japanese folk animism to consider where the essence of materiality begins and ends by imagining a life force within materials. Drawing on site-situated practice where artworks are a part of the ecology of the installation site, Kaihori often begins her projects by researching inside and outside of the exhibition space and locality of the site to find the objects/things that dwell in the given space and produce installation work with sculptures.

Recent exhibitions include Remains, at Kamiyama Artist Residency ( 2024), Two inches off the Ground, at Grace Aotearoa (2024), Eight thousand layers of moments, at Gus Fisher (2024), Living Things, at Ma Umi Residency ( 2023), two sides of the moon, at Te Tuhi (2023), Touching Time, at Audio Foundation (2022), Wiggling together, Falling apart at Michael Lett gallery (2022), all in Tāmaki Makaurau. The Moon and the Pavement, at The Physics Room in partnership with Ashburton Art Gallery (2022), In Search for Deities, at RM Gallery (2022).

Kaihori is a recipient of Creative New Zealand/ Foundation North Asian Artist Grant in 2022 and 2023, Pollock Krasner Foundation grant (2015). She have attended artist residencies in Aotearoa, USA, Germany and Japan including Ma Umi (Ishigaki, Japan, 2023), Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus (Schwandof, Germany, 2017), Virginia Creative Center for the Arts (USA, 2016, 2017).