Artists

Natsuyuki NAKANISHI

Profile
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
Selected Commissioned Works

Profile

2004: Professor of Kurashiki University of Science and Arts (-2007)
1996: Professor of Tokyo University of the Arts, Oil Painting course (-2003)
1972: Workshop at Bigakko Art School with the theme "On the 'Shape of Painting' through the Vessel of Sleep or Bridge"
1969: Opened “Nakanishi Atelier” at Bigakko Art School
1968: Involved in the establishment of Bigakko Art School
1965: Started collaborating with Butoh dancers, Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ono
1963: Exhibited in the 15th Yomiuri Indépendent Exhibition Formed Hi Red Center with Jiro Takamatsu and Genpei Akasegawa
1962: Carried out Happenings on the Yamanote line train with Jiro Takamatsu and Hiroshi Kawani
1958: Graduate in Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts (BFA)
1935: Born in Tokyo ( - 2016)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022: "Natsuyuki Nakanishi: Rhythm of Space-time," Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China
2017: "Natsuyuki Nakanishi: I wish I cast seed toward the Sun," JOSHIBI University of Art and Design Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"Natsuyuki Nakanishi," SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
2014: "Natsuyuki Nakanishi: chiasme," SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
2012: "Natsuyuki Nakanishi: Rhyme, Clothespins Assert Churning Action, Passing Each Other: Receding Purple, Emerging White Spots," Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
2009: "Behind, Circle," SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
2008: "New Works, Chain of Painting, Forest of Light," Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2007: "Distant Canvas, Close Painting: An Experiment of Membrane Receiving Images through the "Expansion and Diffusion" of a Drawing," Kake Museum, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
2004: "Halation: the moon close behind, sounds ahead," SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
"QUARTET - Touching Down on Land and Touching Down on Water X," Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
2003: "Two Places - From the Picture Field to the Picture Impulse," The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
2002: "Natsuyuki Nakanishi," Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Aichi / Ehime Museum of Art, Ehime, Japan (cat.)
1997: "Natsuyuki Nakanishi: Toward Whiteness, Intensity, Presence," Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
1995: "Natsuyuki Nakanishi: Hopscotch at the Summit, Drawings 1969-1972," Aichi Prefectural Museum Art, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan (cat.)
"Touching Down on Land and Touching Down on Water," The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan (cat.)
1989: "Natsuyuki Nakanishi,”The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo; the Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan (cat.)
1985: "Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Painting 1980-85," Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyusyu, Fukuoka, Japan (cat.)
1984: "Painiting of May," Nishimura Gallery (also '86, '88, '90, '92, '95),Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
1980: "Nakanishi Natsuyuki: arc / ellipse," Gatodo Gallery / Shigeru Yokota Gallery (also '81, '83, '90, '94, '97, '99), Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
1967: "Nakanishi Natsuyuki," Minami Gallery (also ’73, ’76), Tokyo, Japan (cat.)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023: Mori Art Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition "Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2022: "MOT Collection: Rewinding the Collection 2nd," Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
"From Monet to Richter: Focus on New Acquisitions― Pola Museum of Art 20th Anniversary Exhibition," Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
2019: "Weavers of Worlds - A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art -," Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
2016: "Quiet Dislocations: Notes on Contemporary Art," Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
2015: "The Three-Cornered world :Kazuo Okazaki, Jun Isezaki and Natsuyuki Nakanishi," Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
"MOT Collection", Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
2014: "The Mirror: Hold the Mirror up to Nature," Nagoya Shoko Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan
"Making Links:25 years," SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
2013: "Two Years Later: Nature, Art and Requiem," The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Japan
"Hi-Red Center: the Documents of Direct Action," Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi / Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (toured until 2014)
2012: "Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde," MOMA, New York, USA
2011: "Beyond," SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
2010: "Iles jamais trouvees（Island Never Found)," Doge’s Palace, Genoa, Italy; Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art, Central Macedonia, Greece; Museum Art of Saint-Etienne Metropole, Saint-Etienne, France (toured until 2011)
2009: "Stillness into Color: Inframince of Moonlight," Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
2008: "Yokohama Triennale 2008 Time Crevassse," NYK Waterfront Warehouse (BankART Studio NYK), Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
"War & Art Ⅱ - Trace and Ghost of Beauty," Gallery Ove, Kyoto University of Art and design, Kyoto, Japan
2004: “Roppongi Crossing: New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art,” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
1994-95: “Japanese Art After 1945: Scream against the Sky,“ Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA; Guggenheim Soho, New York, USA(cat.)
1986: “Japon des avant-gardes 1910-1970,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (cat.)
1985: “Reconstruction: Avant-Garde Art in Japan 1945-1965,” Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; Edinburgh Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (cat.)
1983: “Fünf Zeitgenössische Künstler aus Japan,” Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany (cat.)
1981: “The 1960s: A Decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan (cat.)
1974: “Japan: Tradition und Gegenwart,” Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
“Japan pa Louisiana,” Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark; Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden; Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Oslo, Norway (cat.)
1965-67: “The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture,” San Francisco Museum of Art, California, USA; Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA; Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska, USA; Columbus Art Gallery and Museum of Art, New York, USA; Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland, USA; Milwaukee Art Center, Wiscinsin, USA (cat.)
1961: “Adventure in Today's Art of Japan,” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)

Selected Commissioned Works

2008: Stage design for the opera "LADY SARASHINA," (Music: Peter Eötvös / Director: Ushio Amagatsu), Opera, Lyon, France
2002: "Four Moons for Shiodome," Head office of Dentsu (Architectural Design: Jan Nouvel), Tokyo, Japan
1998: "Touching Down on Land and Touching Down on Water I, II, III, IV," VR Techno Center (Design: Richard Rogers), Gifu, Japan
1997-98: Stage design for the opera "Three Sisters," (Music: Peter Eötvös / Director: Ushio Amagatsu), Opera, Lyon, France