Yumi Onose was born in Japan. Yumi's passion in traveling and learning lead to her study of visual arts and performance. She was invited to be artist-in-residence and exhibited in Poland in 2003, created art for contemporary dance piece Red Dream directed by Keiko Ninomiya in 2006, and exhibited Evolving Forms with Harvey Chan in 2007. She has performed in Something about Gender (2009), we see their work on friday and on saturday they respond to it" (2010) and 24h of butoh and it is not butoh (2010), all directed by Claudia Wittmann in Toronto.