Artist

​YU NISHIMURA
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Biography / Works / Exhibitions
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Yu Nishimura was born in 1982 in Kanagawa, Japan, where he now lives and works. He utilizes multiple perspectives and overlaps layers of painterly elements with slight misalignment, trying to find imagery from memories to create accumulated narratives in a time-lag atmosphere. His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; National Art Center, Tokyo; Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa; Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo; and the Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum, Aichi. In October 2018, he will have his solo exhibition Aperto 09 Nishimura Yu at the Kanazawa 21st Century Museum in Ishikawa.

Yu Nishimura, A Car Running (Over the Bridge), 2017

Solo Exhibitions

2018    Aperto 09 Nishimura Yu paragraph, Kanazawa 21st Century Museum, Ishikawa, JP
2017    portrait, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo, JP
2016    projection, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo, JP
2015    project N 61, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2013    TWS-Emerging 202 Yu Nishimura: The Senery Carried, TWS Hongo, Tokyo, JP
2010    Haruhi Painting Triennale: Artist Series Vol.65 Yu Nishimura, Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum, Aichi, JP


Group Exhibitions

2018    Uncertain Landscape, Azamino Contemporary Vol. 9, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Kanagawa, JP
2018    Condo Shanghai: I Mean It When I Say XXX, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN
2018    Contemporary Art of the 21st Century, Exhibition of the Taguchi Art Collection, Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, JP
2018    through the glasses, Hikarie Contemporary Art Eye Vol. 9, supervised by Tomio Koyama, Shibuya Hikarie, Tokyo, JP
2018    Contemporary Tales from the Province 5 - Imaginary Reed, Susaki Machikado Gallery, Kochi, JP
2017    Shell Art Award Artists Selection, National Art Center, Tokyo, JP
2017    Natsu no Tobira, organized by Misako and Jeffrey Rosen, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, US
2017    Spring Fever, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo, JP
2017    Winter Show, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo, JP
2016    Contemporary Tales from the Province 4 - Susaki Artist in Residence, Susaki Machikado Gallery, Kochi, JP
2016    Imprisoned, Jailbreak, Imprisoned, Jailbreak, KAYOKOYUKI, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo, JP
2016    FACE 2016: FACE Award Winners - The Way of Paintings 2016, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, JP
2016    Scenes of Fragments, Akibatamabi 21, Tokyo, JP
2014    Some Like Witty – Daisuke Miyatsu collection, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, CN
2014    Art Kurabiraki Fujiyoshida 2014, Ono Satoshi Open Studio, Yamanashi, JP
2014    FACE 2014: Sompo Japan Art Award Exhibition, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, JP
2013    Shell Art Award 2013, National Art Center, Tokyo, JP
2012    Tokyo Wonder Wall 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, JP
2011    YOKOHAMA 2011 Minato-Mirai, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa, JP
2009    The 6th Kiyosu City Haruhi Painting Trienniale, Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum, Aichi, JP

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Awards

2017    Grand Prize, Koji Kinutani Prize, Osaka, JP
2013    Excellent Work Award, FACE 2014: Sompo Japan Art Award Exhibition, Tokyo, JP
2013    July Incentive Award - Kenjiro Hosaka, Shell Art Award, Tokyo, JP
2009    Best Prize, The 6th Kiyosu City Haruhi Painting Triennale, Aichi, JP


Collections

Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum, Aichi, JP
Taguchi Art Collection, Kanagawa, JP
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