Born 1965, Osaka, Japan. While still as masters student at the Kyoto City University of Arts, Yanobe traveled to Europe to view the “masterpieces” of art, however returned disappointed; he could not relate to the western “masterpieces.” This inspired him to pursue investigations of his own culture, proposing his attraction to Japanese animation and science fiction as his starting point. It was films such as Godzilla and the catastrophic imageries contained in it that worked as an inspiration for him to experiment with producing works related to the post-atomic tradition, running in parallel with his own apocalyptic imagination of Japan. Yanobe’s Environmental Survival Suits have become a logo for him, embodying both a sense of humour, paranoia, and also an obsessive preoccupation on the apocalyptic catastrophe. Yanobe currently lives and works in Osaka.

1965年生于日本大阪。在他还是一名京都城市艺术大学的硕士生时，ヤノベケンジ就去了欧洲旅行，参观艺术的诸多“杰作”，然而却失望而归；他无法与西方的“杰作”产生共鸣。这件事情激励他追求探索自己的文化，并打算将起点放在日本动画和科幻小说上，以此作为自己获取成功方式。《Godzilla》（库拉斯）这类电影和其中的灾难景象激发了他实验创作后原子能传统作品的灵感，并不断地与他自己所设想的日本作比较。ヤノベケンジ的《环境求生系列》成为他自己的标志，同时包括了幽默、偏执和一种对于未来大灾难的强烈紧迫感。ヤノベケンジ目前在大阪生活和工作。