Asuka NAKAYAMA

Sat. Nov7, 2026 – Sat. Dec 12, 2026

Gallery Yamaki Fine Art is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Asuka Nakayama. Marking her seventh solo presentation at our gallery, this exhibition features an entirely new body of work.

Asuka Nakayama is a visual artist whose reputation continues to grow through her distinct imaginative vision and incisive perspective. Her practice has been recognized with numerous accolades, beginning with the digmeout Award at “via art OSAKA 2008,” followed by the Mayor’s Award at the Kyoto City University of Arts Exhibition in 2010, the Kyoto Shimbun Award at the “Kyoto Art for Tomorrow” in 2021, and the Fumiko Kametaka Sekiso-sha Award in 2024. Expanding her international reach, she was also invited to participate in the Japan-Korea Cultural Exchange Memorial Exhibition in 2025.

Asuka NAKAYAMA, blow up, 2026, 65.2cm × 53.0cm, oil on canvas , ©Asuka Nakayama

Throughout her career, Nakayama has consistently turned her gaze toward the paradoxical relationship between humanity and nature—a dynamic in which human beings coexist with nature while simultaneously seeking to control it for their own convenience. In her new painting, entangle, Nakayama renders an intricate and strangely captivating landscape where interior spaces merge with the natural world. Plant life invades human-ordered domestic environments, intertwining across boundaries. This scene reflects not only the relationship between nature and humanity, but also the intricacies of living alongside others.

For Nakayama, daily life and the growth of her children are inextricably bound to her artistic practice. Living alongside beings with minds and sensibilities distinct from her own, and navigating an unpredictable everyday reality where mutual influence shapes their shared life, profoundly informs the world she depicts.

The word “entangle” implies being intertwined, meshed, or drawn into something. Engaging with another may not be a matter of bending them to one’s will, but rather a process of undergoing transformation oneself. Navigating closeness and distance, togetherness and the preservation of individual boundaries, this constantly shifting equilibrium resonates not only within family life, but also in our relationships with nature and society at large.

Through these landscapes where disparate entities entwine, our relationship with the world around us may come into clearer focus. We cordially invite you to experience the rich and evocative visual world of Asuka Nakayama at our gallery, and to explore it from your own perspective.

Asuka NAKAYAMA, gem, 2026, 72.7cm × 72.7cm, oil on canvas , ©Asuka Nakayama

【Selected solo Exhibitions】
2011empirical garden, INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo
2011‘-florid table-‘, Gallery 16, Kyoto
2015‘Asuka NAKAYAMA –Niwasaki Kaiga 360°’, Okanoyama Museum of Art Nishiwaki, Hyogo
2016'Solo Show,' Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe
2017Art Fair Tokyo 2017 Gallery Yamaki Fine Art booth
2017'Solo Show,' Gallery 16, Kyoto
2017'Solo Show,' Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe
2017'Solo Show,' ELSA ART GALLERY, Taipei
2019'Solo Show,' Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe
2023'Solo Show,' Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe
2024'Solo Show,' Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe
2025'Solo Show,' Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe

【Selected Group Exhibitions】
2008‘via art OSAKA 2008’, Breeze Tower 7F, Osaka
2008‘Three persons exhibition’, Gallery Scarborough, Kyoto
2009‘Art1Camp 2009’, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunstbau, Osaka
2010‘Kyoto City University of Arts Exhibition’, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
2010‘Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2010’, Gyoko Chika Gallery, Tokyo
2011‘2010 Mitsubishi Shoji Art Gate Program Scholarship Exhibition, Omote-sando GYRE, Tokyo
2016Elsa Art Gallery booth, Art Taipei 2016, Taipei
2016‘Tamba Sasayama Machinami Art Festival 2016’, 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
2018‘Tamba Sasayama Machinami Art Festival 2018’, Kawaramnachi, Tsumairi Shoukagun, Hyogo
2019'Taipei Dangdai Art &Ideas', Gallery Yamaki Fine Art booth, Taiwan
2019’Flower and Art’, Okanoyama Museum of Art Nishiwaki, Hyogo
2019’VOCA exhibition 2019 The Vision Contemporary Art’, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2021‘Kyoto Art For Tomorrow 2021’, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto
2022'Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2022
2023”Summer night's dream" - Exhibition of female artists, emmy art+, Tokyo
2024”CADAN YURAKUCHO" Gallery Yamaki Fine Art Booth, Tokyo
2025“Study × PLAS: Asia Art Fair" Osaka
2025"Art Exhibition Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of Korea-Japan Exchange” Hyogo
2026"ARTFAIR TOKYO 20" Gallery Yamaki Fine Art Booth, Tokyo

【Awards】
2008via art OSAKA 2008: Digmeout prize
2010Kyoto City University of Arts Exhibition: Kyoto Mayor's prize
2021’Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2021’, Kyoto Shinbun Award
2024The Fumiko Kametaka Sekiso-sha for Award for Outstanding Female Painters
【Artist Information】
Asuka NAKAYAMA

SessionSat. Nov 7, 2026 - Sat. Dec 12, 2026　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