


Natsuyuki NAKANISHI
Artist News
Natsuyuki NAKANISHI
- 1935
- Born in Tokyo
- 1958
- Graduate in Painting, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (BFA)
- 1962
- Carried out Happenings on the Yamanote train line with Jiro Takamatsu
- 1963
- Exhibit in the 15th Yomiuri Indépendent Exhibitions. Found Hi Red Center with Jiro Takamatsu and Genpei Akasegawa
- 1965
- Started Collaborating with Budo dancers, Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ono
- 1968
- Involved in the establishment of Bigakko Art School
- 1969
- Opened “Nakanishi Atelier” at Bigakko Art School
- 1972
- Workshop at same School with the theme “On the ‘shape of Painting’ through the Vessel of Sleep or Bridge”
- 1996-2003
- Professor of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Oil Painting course
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 1967
- “Nakanishi Natsuyuki,” Minami Gallery(also ’73, ’76), Tokyo (cat.)
- 1980
- “Nakanishi Natsuyuki arc・ellipse,” Gatodo Gallery / Shigeru Yokota Gallery (‘81, ‘83, ‘90, ‘94, ‘97, ‘99), Tokyo (cat.)
- 1984
- “Painiting of May,” Nishimura Gallery (‘86, ‘88, ‘90, ‘92, ‘95),Tokyo(cat.)
- 1985
- “Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Painting 1980-85,” Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyusyu, Japan (cat.)
- 1987
- “Natsuyuki Nakanishi,”The Seibu Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art / Seibu Takanawa, karuizawa (cat.)
- 1995
- “Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Hopscotch at the Summit, Drawings 1969-1972,” Aichi Prefectural Museum Art, Nagoya, Japan (cat.)
“Touching Down on Land and Touching Down on Water,” The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan (cat.)
- 1997
- “Natsuyuki Nakanishi Toward Whiteness, Intensity, Presence,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (cat.)
- 2002
- “Natsuyuki Nakanishi,” Aichi Prefectural Museum Art, Nagoya, Japan(cat.)
- 2003
- “Two Places - From the Picture Field to the Picture Impulse,” The University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo
- 2004
- “Halation: the moon close behind, sounds ahead”, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 1961
- “Adventure in Today's Art of Japan,” The National Museum of Art, Tokyo (cat.)
- 1965-1967
- “The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture,” San Francisco Museum of Art/Denver Art Museum, Denver / Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois / Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha / Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts/The Museum of Modern Art, New York / Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore / Milwaukee Art Center, Wisconsin (cat.)
- 1974
- “Japan: Traditional und Gebenwart,” Stadtische / Kunsthalle Dusseldorf
“Japan pa Louisiana,” / Louisiana Museum Humlebaek Denmark / Götvös Museum of Sweden (cat.)
- 1981
- “The 1960s: A Decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art,” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (cat.)
- 1983
- “Fünf zeitgenössische Künstler aus Japan,” Stadrische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany (cat.)
- 1985
- “Reconstructions: Avant-Guarde Art in Japan 1945-1965,” Museum of Modern Art, Oxford/Fruit Market, Edinburgh, UK (cat.)
- 1986
- “Japon des avant-gardes 1910-1970,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
- 1994-1995
- “Japanese Art After 1945: Scream against the Sky, “ Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama Japan / Guggenheim Soho, New York (cat.)
- 2004
- “Roppongi Crossing”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (cat.)
Selected Commissioned Works
- 1997-98
- Design the Opera stage for “Three Sisters,(Music: Peter Eötvös / Director: Ushio Amgatsu), Opera, Lyon, France
- 1998
- “Touching Down on Land and Touching Down on Water I, II, III, IV” VR Techno Center (Design: Richard Rogers), Gifu
- 2002
- “Four Moons for Shiodome” Head office of Dentsu (Architectural Design: Jan Nouvel), Tokyo

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