Artists

Natsuyuki NAKANISHI

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

2024
"Natsuyuki Nakanishi: 1962 - 2011," SCAI PIRAMIDE, Tokyo, Japan
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

2024
"Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
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
"Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s - 1990s", National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul, Korea / Singapore National Gallery, Singapore
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," Museum of Modern Art, 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

Public Collections

Agency for Cultural Affairs
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Dentsu Inc. headquarters, Tokyo, Japan
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Gifu Techno Plaza, Gifu, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan
Japan Foundation
Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
Long Museum, Shanghai, China, Japan
Mitaka City, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
Museum of Contemoprary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Oita Museum of Art, Oita, Japan
Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano, Japan
Shiga Museum of Art, Shiga, Japan
Shiogama City Community Center, Miyagi, Japan
Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Midtown,Tokyo, Japan
Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Tochigi, Japan
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, Toyama, Japan
Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
The Warehouse Dallas, Texas, USA
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan