Born in Chiba, Japan, 1956
Education
MFA, Tokyo University of the Arts, 1984
BFA, Tokyo University of the Arts, 1981
Lives and Works in Hidaka City, Saitama, Japan
One-Person Exhibitions
2023
Kawagoe City Art Museum, Kawagoe, Japan
A Bird in its Existence, Red Gold Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2021
Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan
2019
Gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan
2017
Blum & Poe, New York, NY
2016
Increasingly Expressionistic Work Necessitates Fortified Form that Disciplines, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2015
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2013
Hijiri (Hermit), Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2010
Birds in its Existence and Grid, M Gallery, Ashikaga, Japan
2009
Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008
A Bird in its Existence II [Part I], Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
A Bird in its Existence II [Part II], Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007
New Works, M Gallery, Ashikaga, Japan
2006
Keumsan Gallery, Heyri Art Village, Paju, South Korea
A Bird in its Existence, Gallery Kaze, Osaka, Japan
Gallery K, Seoul, South Korea
2005
A Bird in its Existence, Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004
New Works, M Gallery, Ashikaga, Japan
Phoenix Shokusocho, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Small Works, Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2003
Gallery Kaze, Osaka, Japan
Keumsan Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2002
Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
lwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan
2001
Reconsideration Ranging Difference–Broken Shelter, M Gallery, Ashikaga, Japan
1999
Saisourou, Saison Art Program Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Art Today 1999: Kazumi Nakamura, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
Saisorou, M Gallery, Ashikaga, Japan
1998
Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997
Kazumi Nakamura from 1987 to 1997, M Gallery, Ashikaga, Japan
1996
Broken Hermitage, Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo, Japan
1995
Nantenshi Gallery SOKO, Tokyo, Japan
1994
Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1993
Nantenshi Gallery SOKO, Tokyo, Japan
M Gallery, Ashikaga, Japan
1992
Fine Dinner & Contemporary Art – Kazumi Nakamura, Chez Pomre, Tokyo, Japan
1991
Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Tempest (New Y + C opened), Contemporary Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1990
Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1988
Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1987
Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Differential Painting, ESSES Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1985
Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1984
Gallery K, Tokyo, Japan
1981
Gallery Parergon, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibition
2023
The 6th Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts: Returning to Void and Dimension, Hubei Museum of Art and Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan, China (forthcoming)
Alternative Sea for Asia, curated by Moon Junghee and Seowoo Han, Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwanyang, South Korea
2022
Grasping at Clouds: Works from the Hara Museum and the Hara Rokuro Collections, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
2021
Super Fusion: 2021 Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, China
Abstraction, Isetan Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Mountains Carrying Suns, Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan
Noda Hiroji: Gathering Garden, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
Watercolor Revisited, Touching with the eyes, thinking with the hands, Tokyo Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
South South Tokyo, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2020
Psychic Wounds: On Art & Trauma, Curated by Gavin Delahunty, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX
5,471 miles, Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan
Collection: The Aesthetics of Contemporary Japan, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2019
Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s, Part 1, curated by Mika Yoshitake, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Weavers of Worlds, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Between Abstraction, Red Gold Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2018
New Wave: Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1980s, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Starting Points: Japanese Art of the '80s, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; traveled to Takamatsu Art Museum, Takamatsu, Japan; Shizuoka City Art Museum, Shizuoka, Japan 57th October Salon: The Marvellous Cacophony, Belgrade, Serbia
Face and Abstraction—Takahashi Collection, Kiyoharu Art Colony, Yamanashi, Japan
2017
A Trip through the Tokyo Station Gallery Collection from Railway Art to Picasso, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Takashi Murakami’s Super Flat Collection from Shohaku and Rosanjin to Kiefer, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
2016
Imago Mundi the Art of Humanity, Pratt Institute the Rubella and Norman Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Juxtapoz x Superflat, curated by Takashi Murakami, Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle, WA; traveled to Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2015
Mirror Neuron—Takahashi Collection, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014
Abstract Painting: After World War II in Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
2013
Yamato Collection VI: Key of the World, Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, Naha, Japan
Across the Vision: Scenery of the Painting, Joshibi Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
Minimal / Post Minimal-The Contemporary Japanese Art From 1970s, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomiya, Japan
Re: Quest—Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
50 Years of Painting in Japan, Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
The Site of the Soul, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
Imago Mundi [Collateral event at the Venice Biennale], Querini Stampalia Foundation, Venice, Italy
2012
35th Anniversary of The National Museum of Art, Osaka: the Allure of the Collection, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
10th Anniversary of Kawagoe City Art Museum: the Exhibition of the Great Collection, Kawagoe City Art Museum, Kawagoe, Japan
Charity Exhibition for the Victim of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Gallery Anita, Zama, Japan
Torn Light: Blue Catastrophe, Murasaki and Red Illusion, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
The Exhibition from the Collection in Summer: Contemporary Painting, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Japan
Across the Vision: Beyond the Sight, Joshibi Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
Permanent Exhibition, GALLERY KAZE, Osaka, Japan
10th Anniversary of Art Karen: Begin with the Art Journey, Gallery Karen, Yokohama, Japan
Selected Works from the Ohara Museum of Art, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Japan
2011
Charity Exhibition for the Victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Gallery Anita, Zama,
Pictorial Theory of Evolution, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
Restoration with the Power of Art, Now—Works from Art Museums of the Disaster Areas, University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Switchers 3 x 3: Joshibi University of Art and Design x Musashino Art University x Tokyo Zokei University, Ai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Charity Auction to Benefit the Reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Art of Our Time, Tokyo Bijutsu Club, Tokyo, Japan
Art Today 2011—Now and Then, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
What is the Art Center? Three Days Opening Party!, Joshibi University of Art and Design, Art-Center Prep-Room, Sagamihara, Japan
2010
Collection from Ohara Museum of Art, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomiya, Japan
Is Nouveau Realisme Still Hot?, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
Encounters in Chaos—Any Past Time Had Been the Future, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
Resistance and Obedience: the 110th Anniversary of Joshibi University of Art and Design, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2009
Caravan Pack up your caravan! We're leaving! To love, hope and chaos!, Nabis gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Caption Caption, Joshibi University of Art and Design Art Museum, Sagamihara, Japan
Contemporary Art: Seven Water Veins, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
Kawagoe City Art Museum Collection: Discovering Art in Koedo, Kawagoe City Art Museum, Kawagoe, Japan
Painting: Monochrome and Multicolor, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
Collection from Ohara Museum of Art: Be in Love with Masterpieces, Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
25th Anniversary of lwaki City Art Museum, lwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan
Charity Exhibition of People Drawing a Picture 2009: Art Works Filling the Small Gallery, Gallery Karen, Yokohama, Japan
12 Horizons—Perspectives of Contemporary Painting, Old Shimbashi Station – Railway History Exhibition Hall, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Form of Wind—Kazumi Nakamura / Mio Kaneda / Midori Terashima, Gallery Kaze, Osaka, Japan
Memorial Exhibition for Relocation, M Gallery, Ashikaga, Japan
Art of Japan and Europe in the 20th Century: Selected Works from the Collection of Fukuyama Museum of Art, Fukuyama Museum of Art, Fukuyama, Japan
The Prognosticator Man Ray and the Contemporary Art in the 20th Century: from the Collection, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
The Origin of Diversity: from the 1980s Collection, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
Contemporary Art Expression—Material & Technique From Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein to Senju Hiroshi, Yasumasa Morimura, Miran Fukuda, Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
2007
New Works 2007, Kawagoe Gallery, Kawagoe, Japan
Exhibition from the Collection: Similarity and Difference, Dialogue with Contemporary Art, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
China International Gallery Exposition, China World Trade Center, Beijing, China
The Diversity of Contemporary Art: Form, Color and Structure, Sezon Museum of Modern Art Karuizawa, Japan
Heyri Asia Project II Japanese Contemporary Art Festival, Heyri Art Village, Paju, South Korea
Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection—Japan/ Asia Today, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
10th Anniversary of Yoshio Kato Art Project Room: Yocchan's Room vol. 3, the Solo Exhibition of the Independent Curator, The Lives and Works of Contemporary Artists, Osaka Zokei Center, Osaka, Japan
Permanent Exhibition Part 3: Modern and Contemporary Art, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
Small Works for the Documentary of Koji Enokura by Liu Xu Guang, Space 23˚C, Tokyo, Japan
30th Anniversary: Collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan
2006
MOT Collection: Special Exhibition—Katsuro Yoshida / Kazumi Nakamura, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
Enjoyable House, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
Art in Caso / OSAKA 2006, Contemporary Art Space Osaka, Japan
2006 Asian [Soshitsu] From Particle to the Whole of Art in Asia, Bridge Gallery, Beijing, China
2005
Kazumi Nakamura / Naofumi Maruyama, Cafe Gallery Seihou, Shizuoka, Japan
Collection-re-Collection Toccata in the Fine Interval, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomiya,
Japan
The Best Selection of the Yokohama Museum of Art Collection, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
1st Pocheon Asian Art Festival, Pocheon Banwol Hall, Pocheon, South Korea
The Power of Painting: Painting Today Focusing on the Recent Acquisition, lwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan
Session of People Drawing a Picture 3, Gallery Karen, Yokohama, Japan
The Ando Collection: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Dynamic and Humorous, Hida Earth Wisdom Center, Takayama, Japan
Best of Collection: Japan, Fukuyama Museum of Art, Fukuyama, Japan
2004
Minamata - Kawasaki Exhibition, Art Garden Kawasaki, Japan
Permanent Collection: 50 Years of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo,
Tokyo, Japan
New Works 2004, Kawagoe Gallery, Kawagoe, Japan
Remaking Modernism in Japan 1900–2000, University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Closing Exhibition: From Now On, 23 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Exhibition of the Excellent Works Purchased by the Agency for Cultural Affairs: Art after the War, The Glitter of the Genius—From lkuo Hirayama, Takeo Yamaguchi to Hiroshi Senju, Koji Kinutani, Kawagoe City Art Museum, Kawagoe, Japan
Against the Light, Gallery Brocken, Tokyo, Japan
Color and Form, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
Session of People Drawing a Picture 2, Gallery Karen, Yokohama, Japan
111 Vanishment and Future: Works of Yutaka Matsuzawa and Other Works Selected by Him, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
New Expression of Asian Art Exhibition, Tainan Municipal Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan
2003
The Ando Collection: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection, Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Japan
The Power of Painting: Japanese Painting since 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Collection of Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
Contemporary Art from the Collection: Aesthetic Sense of Self-Innovation, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
Painting in Our Time, Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
The Love for the Land: Italy and Japan the 54th Michetti Prize, Michetti Museum, San Domenico Palace, Francavilla al Mare, Italy
Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection, Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Japan
The Session of People Drawing a Picture, Gallery Karen, Yokohama, Japan
Sekaino Mikata '03, Gallery Kaku, Tokyo, Japan
Yurinso in Fall Part 2: Learning a Lesson from the Past - Future in the Past, Yurinso, Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan
2002
The Unfinished Century: Legacies of 20th Century Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo,
Japan
New Works 2002, Kawagoe Gallery, Kawagoe, Japan
Kazumi Nakamura / Toru Nakamura, Cafe Gallery Seihou, Shizuoka, Japan
New Collection: Introduction of Contemporary Painting, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Vitality in Modernism Collection from lwaki City Art Museum, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomiya, Japan
Slanting House / Statements by the Artists in Japan Since 9.11, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2001
Image of Today V: Painting beyond Formalism for lnteractionism, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Chibajo Branch, Kumamoto, Japan
Pleasure of Retinal Paintings: Kazumi Nakamura / Ryuhei Yuasa, Contemporary Art Space Osaka and Gallery Kaze, Osaka, Japan
Special Permanent Exhibition: the Site of Consideration, Focusing on the Collection, lwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan
The Collection of Sezon Museum of Modern Art Curated by Yasuo Kobayashi: Politics of Brushstrokes / What makes Painting-like?, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection, Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Japan
2000
20th Century Masterpieces of Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
by the line, with the line, Saison Art Program Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Exhibition of Invisible Boundary: Metamorphosed Asian Art, Niigata Prefectural Civic Center Gallery, Niigata, Japan; traveled to Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomiya, Japan
Japanese Art in the 20th Century, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Sélectus: Kazumi Nakamura / Lee Ufan, 23 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kazumi Nakamura / Kenichi Wada, Kawagoe Gallery, Kawagoe, Japan
1999
Toward Clarity, Saison Art Program Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1998
Plane and Depth, Ashikaga Museum of Art, Ashikaga, Japan
Fujino International Art Symposium 1998 Summer Art Festival, Fujinocho, Japan
'98 Busan International Contemporary Art Festival: Light on the New Millennium—Wind from the Extreme Orient, Busan Metropolitan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea
1997
International Biennial of Water Color, Castle of Zaprice, Kamnik, Slovenia
Quantity and Quality—Selection from the Hara Museum Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
A Point of Contact—Korean Chinese Japanese Contemporary Art, Taegu Art & Cultural Hall, Taegu, South Korea
Field Work in Fujino, Fujinocho, Japan
Art Today 1997—Opera Aperta, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
On Healing: the Curative Power of Art, Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Japan
Spirit of Hypocrites, Kawagoe Gallery, Kawagoe, Japan
1996
Requiem—Koji Enokura and 33 Artists [Part 1], Saito Memorial Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Kawaguchi, Japan
7th Anniversary: My Favorite Five Artists + One [Part 2]," M Gallery, Ashikaga, Japan
1995
Spirit of Hypocrites, Galleria Finarte, Nagoya, Japan
Art in Japan Today, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
About Lines: Non-Existing Modernism and Invisible Realism, ltabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Allegory of Seeing 1995: Painting and Sculpture in Contemporary Japan, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Japan Today, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Circulating Currents—Japanese and Korean Contemporary Art, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, and Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Works on Paper, Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Field Work in Fujino 1995—Rising Green Labyrinth, Fujinocho, Japan
1994
Exhibition of the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu: Contemporary Art after 1960, Art Gallery of the Ogaki City Suitopia Center, Ogaki, Japan
Japanese Art after 1945: Scream against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Cross and Square–Grids, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Spirit of Hypocrites [Part 1], Galley Gen, Koshigaya, Japan
Experiment l, M Gallery, Ashikaga, Japan
Collection of Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art [Part 3], Saito Memorial Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art
Creativity in Asian Art Now [Parts 1 and 2], Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Aspects 1979–1994: 15th Anniversary of the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Japan
13th Parallel Art Exhibition: Painting in Full-Scale Development Phase Ill, a Cast of the Rhetoric, Espace Ohara, Tokyo, Japan
1993
Selection from the Permanent Collection, Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Japan
Japan in '90: The Proposal of 13 Artists, Folklore Museum, Rome, Italy; traveled to Dusseldorf
City Museum, Dusseldorf, Germany
Mycotrophy—Across Newman through Keita Egami / Kazumi Nakamura [Part 1], MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
Mycotrophy—Across Newman through Keita Egami / Kazumi Nakamura [Part 2], MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
Imaginary Landscape Art Stage No. 5, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Chibajo Branch, Kumamoto, Japan
Image and Afterimage from the Hara Museum Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1992
1st Transart Annual—Painting / Crossing, Yokohama Galleria Bellini Hills Gallery, Yokohama,
Japan
A Perspective on Contemporary Art: Among the Figures, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
TEMPVS VICTVM – Vitality in 80s, Espace Ohara, Tokyo, Japan
Museum City Tenjin '92 Mobile, Fence at the Nishitetsu Fukuoka Station, Fukuoka, Japan
Seductive Brush Marks: from the Late 19th Century to the Present Day, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Independent Drawing, MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Japan
10 Artists: Contemporary Japanese Art of the 1980-90s—from the Acquisition for the New Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1991
Hara Museum Collection—The Hara Annual Decade, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo,
Japan
7th Art Now Contemporary Art—The Mind of Japan, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
Paintings from the Showa Era (1926-1989)—Part 3: 1945 and After, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
3rd Anniversary Exhibition: Japanese Painting in the 20th Century, Fukuyama Museum of Art, Fukuyama, Japan
Poetics of Hue: A Message from Two Dimensions of Contemporary Painting, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
Japan Art Today: Diversity of Japanese Contemporary Art, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
1990
Painting / Japan: Emerging through Discontinuity, Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
My Favorite Five Artists + One, M Gallery, Ashikaga, Japan
Kazumi Nakamura / Kenichi Wada: NW in NW, Gallery NW House, Tokyo, Japan
Muramatsu in Fall 1990, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Hara Annual X, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum City Tenjin: Circulation of the Sensitivity—City in Gaze, Art in Action, Space Media MA, Fukuoka, Japan
Japan Art Today: Elusive Perspectives / Changing Visions, Cultural Center of Stockholm, Sweden; traveled to Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark; Helsinki Municipal Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland; Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Muscat 2nd Youth Biennale, Sultan Quaboos Sports Complex, Oman
30th Anniversary of the Peter Stuyvesant Collection, The Factory of Turmac Tobacco Company, Zevenaar, Netherlands
1989
Makoto Ito / Kazumi Nakamura / Koji Sagawa, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Image of Today Ill: Vision beyond Construction for Deconstruction, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Japan
Painting Concerning the Painting 2 – Form in AC, Gallery Haku, Osaka, Japan
Contemporary Art Exhibition for Raising Relief Fund to the Victim's Family in China with Sympathy, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Drawing as Itself, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Japan '89, Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
Inaugural Exhibition: My Collection, M Gallery, Ashikaga, Japan
1988
Professors, Assistants, Students of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Space Niki, Tokyo, Japan
8 Drawings, Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Selected Works, ESSES Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1987
Art Today 1987: A Slap in the Face of Tasteful Public, Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Takanawa, Japan
Art In Flux – I Fevering Surface, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
23rd 'Artists Today' Exhibition: Phases Material, Table and Apocalypse, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1986
1986 Spring Show [Part 1], Gallery K, Tokyo, Japan
Analogy '86, Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Kazumi Nakamura / Kenichi Wada, Gallery Haku, Osaka, Japan
Five Expressions, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1985
The Critical Point in Art, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Exhibition: Scene, University Gallery, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
1982
Swimming Pool, Further Educational Institution, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
1981
New Air Generation, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1980
Ueno '80 [Part 3], University Gallery, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
Ueno '80 Hot Sence, University Gallery, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
1978
Size 50 White Canvas Exhibition, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
Awards
2015
Japan Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize
2007
Takashimaya Art Award
2001
Takashimaya Cultural Foundation: Takashimaya Art Award
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Catalogues
2021
Delahunty, Gavin, Cindy Rachofsky, Howard Rachofsky, Allan Schwartzman, Robert Storr, Beatriz Colomina, Griselda Pollock, et al. Psychic Wounds: On Art & Trauma. New York City: MW Editions, 2021, 185.
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Yoshitake, Mika. Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s. Milan: Skira, 2020.
2019
Painting and.... Tokyo: Musashino Art University, 2019.
2015
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2014
Minimal | Post Minimal: The Contemporary Japanese Art from 1970s. Utsunomiya, Japan: Utsunomiya Museum of Art, 2014.
NAKAMURA Kazumi. Tokyo: National Art Center, 2014.
2013
Minimal | Post Minimal: The Contemporary Japanese Art from 1970s. Utsunomiya, Japan: Utsunomiya Museum of Art, 2013.
2007
The Transmitted Light – Kazumi Nakamura Anthology. Tokyo: Reifu Shobo, 2007.
2002
Kazumi Nakamura. Iwaki, Japan: Iwaki City Art Museum, 2002.
1999
Art Today. Tokyo: Karuizawa, Japan: Sezon Museum of Modern Art, 1999.
1991
Kazumi Nakamura. Osaka, Japan: Kodama Gallery, 1991.
Selected Articles and Reviews
2021
“Kazumi Nakamura Exhibition at Blum & Poe.” Tokyoweekender.com, May 13, 2021.
2019
Birmingham, Lucy. “Parergon.” Artillery Magazine, February 26, 2019.
Cha, Olivian. “From Monumental to Microscopic, These Works Changed the History of Art in Japan.” Frieze.com, March 13, 2019.
Noyes, Chandra. “Galleries Celebrate Influential Modern Japanese Art in ‘Parergon.’” Art&Object.com, April 3, 2019.
2015
Ferraz, Maria Silvia. “Kazumi Nakamura: Blum and Poe.” Bamboo (Brazil), September 2015.
Mizota, Sharon. “Gloppy Abandon Meets Elegant Restraint at Blum & Poe’s Kazumi Nakamura Exhibition.” Los Angeles Times, September 21, 2015.
Whalen, Danielle. “5 Shows Not to Miss in Los Angeles.” Blouinartinfo.com, September 13, 2015.
2014
Kim, Sang Woo. “Nakamura Kazumi at The National Art Center, Tokyo.” Japan Times, March 12, 2014.
“Nakamura Kazumi.” Art Limited, March 2014.
Sawayama, Ryo. “Kazumi Nakamura Interview.” Bijutsu Techo vol. 66, no. 1005 (June 2014).
2013
“Kazumi Nakamura Exhibition at The National Art Center, Tokyo.” Time Out Tokyo, 2013.
2003
Koplos, Janet. “Shadows and Symbols.” Art in America (April 2003): 75-77.
1989
“Kazumi Nakamura.” Bijutsu Techo vol. 41, no. 606 (March 1989): cover, 94-101.
Museum and Public Collections
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea
Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Fukuyama Museum of Art, Fukuyama, Japan
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan
Kawagoe City Art Museum, Kawagoe, Japan
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Japan
Museum of Art, Kōchi, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan
Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX
Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Utsunomiya, Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomiyam Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan