Biography:
In her works such as "Toge-no-Ochaya," expresses the girls who live their lives as prostitutes and wait on the men in yukaku, the red-light district. She draws the girls into the works using the original supports of hers and clear colors. There lie both fuzoku customs those days in the Edo-period, and her own eroticism, which makes the viewer feel strange.
She draws the world of yukaku, which has been sensitively designed from her own creation, based on the consideration into early times in Japan. The way she introduces into her works is used quite differently or variously, and some of the works have the realistic world those days (such as a series of "Toge-no-Seikatsu," on which she draws the real lives of the girls as prostitutes), while the others have Yamaguchi's imaginary world (such as a series of "Kinu-Ginu," on which you can imagine that the girls are reflected into the patterns on kimono), and a series of "Kami-sama," on which the girls are posing similar to the likes of the Buddha sitting in his trademarks position). These pluralistic kinds of worlds are clearly drawn definitely as a parallel world or a mixed view, making us inspired into the various expansions each work has.

Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibitions

2004 Oyasumi Shaheen Contemporary ( Cleveland )
2003 Sukutoko (ROBERTS & TILTON GALLERY/Los Angels )
2002 Kinuginu (Gallery Eve/Tokyo)
Ai Yamaguchi(STEFAN STUX GALLERY/New York )
2001 Shou mon rai fuku (SHIBUYA SEIBU ART GALLERY/Tokyo)
2000 Kamuro (Kanazawa)

group exhibitions

2004 Fiction. Love-Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art(Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei / Taipei)
OFFICINA ASIA (Galleria d'Arte Moderna / Bologna)