Natsuyuki NAKANISHI

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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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