Asuka Nakayama: "disaster" oil on painting, F100, 2024Asuka Nakayama Solo exhibition
Wed. October 30, 2024 – Wed. December 4, 2024
Gallery Yamaki Fine Art is pleased to present Asuka Nakayama’s solo exhibition. In her fifth solo show at our gallery, we will feature new paintings focusing on the relationship between “things that influence each other,” such as humans and nature, parents and children, and society and individuals, with “erosion” as the keyword. Nakayama has been exploring “the relationship between humans and nature, where mutual coexistence and domination are entwined,” and has depicted illusionary scenes of living spaces with neatly arranged furniture and natural landscapes with lush vegetation. Nakayama’s gaze, which considers the relationship between humans and nature, including natural disasters and environmental destruction, gradually turned to her own life as she struggled to raise her children while feeling the daily loss of contact with society after starting a family.
Nakayama says, “The slogan ‘diversity’ has been permeated in recent years, and when I look at a society where the intrusion of others under the word causes various debates and flaming, I think that the relationships among individuals, families, societies, and nations have not changed that much, and it makes my daily life seem both grand and ridiculous.”
Nakayama’s works, which are dedicated to new subjects such as the relationship between parents and children and between society and individuals, seem to symbolically represent the inside of those of us striving for relation to others with different values, and to an ever-changing society and lifestyle while trying hard to find a place for dialogue.
Nakayama was born in Hyogo, Japan in 1986. After completing a master’s degree in painting at Kyoto University of the Arts, she lives and works in Hyogo. In 2015, Nakayama had her first solo museum exhibition at the NISHIWAKI OKANOYAMA MUSEUM OF ART. She also participated in the VOCA Exhibition (at The Ueno Royal Museum, in 2019) known as a steppingstone to success for young artists. Also, Nakayama won the Kyoto Newspaper Prize at the Kyoto Prefecture New Artists Exhibition (Kyoto Museum of Art, 2021). Her humorous and critical work has attracted a lot of attention. We hope you will visit us and enjoy her ambitious pieces, which Nakayama says, “I have no choice but to paint now.” We hope you will visit and enjoy Nakayama’s works at this exhibit.
【Selected solo Exhibitions】
2023'Solo Show,' Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe
2019'Solo Show,' Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe
2017'Solo Show,' ELSA ART GALLERY, Taipei
2017'Solo Show,' Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe
2017'Solo Show,' Gallery 16, Kyoto
2017Art Fair Tokyo 2017 Gallery Yamaki Fine Art booth
2016'Solo Show,' Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe
2015‘Asuka NAKAYAMA –Niwasaki Kaiga 360°’, Okanoyama Museum of Art Nishiwaki, Hyogo
2011empirical garden, INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo
2011‘-florid table-‘, Gallery 16, Kyoto
【Selected Group Exhibitions】
2023”Summer night's dream" - Exhibition of female artists, emmy art+, Tokyo
2022'Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2022
2021‘Kyoto Art For Tomorrow 2021’, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto
2019’Flower and Art’, Okanoyama Museum of Art Nishiwaki, Hyogo
2019’VOCA exhibition 2019 The Vision Contemporary Art’, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2019'Taipei Dangdai Art &Ideas', Gallery Yamaki Fine Art booth, Taiwan
2018‘Tamba Sasayama Machinami Art Festival 2018’, Kawaramnachi, Tsumairi Shoukagun, Hyogo
2017Elsa Art Gallery booth, 2017 Young Art Taipei, Taipei
2017‘Renewal Open Exhibition’, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art Oji Branch Haradanomori Gallery, Hyogo
2016Elsa Art Gallery booth, Art Taipei 2016, Taipei
2016‘Tamba Sasayama Machinami Art Festival 2016’, Kawaramnachi, Tsumairi Shoukagun, Hyogo
2011‘2010 Mitsubishi Shoji Art Gate Program Scholarship Exhibition, Omote-sando GYRE, Tokyo
2010‘Kyoto City University of Arts Exhibition’, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
‘Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2010’, Gyoko Chika Gallery, Tokyo
2009‘Art1Camp 2009’, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunstbau, Osaka
2008‘Three persons exhibition’, Gallery Scarborough, Kyoto
‘via art OSAKA 2008’, Breeze Tower 7F, Osaka
【Awards】
2021’Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2021’, Kyoto Shinbun Award
2010Kyoto City University of Arts Exhibition: Kyoto Mayor's prize
2008via art OSAKA 2008: Digmeout prize
【Artist Information】
Asuka NAKAYAMA
SessionWed. Oct 30, 2024 - Wed. Dec 4, 2024 Closed on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays
Hours11:00－13:00 / 14:00－18:00
PlaceGallery Yamaki Fine Art
Venue3-9-5-2F Motomachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0022
ContactTEL: 078-391-1666 FAX : 078-391-1667 MAIL: info@gyfa.co.jp
AccessOne minute walk from Motomachi Station, West exit (JR/ Hanshin Line)
ChargeFree
