YU NISHIMURA

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Yu Nishimura was born in 1982 in Kanagawa, Japan. Gained B.F.A in Oil Painting Course, Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art and Design, Tama Art University,Tokyo.
Recently, he presented his work in his solo show "Ebb tide" at Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw, 2021, "ELI BORNOWSKY & YU NISHIMURA" at KING’S LEAP, New York, 2021, "FLOWERS & BIRDS" at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2021, "Emerging Japanese Painters" at SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong, 2021, solo show "Around October" at KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo, 2020, solo show "scene of beholder" at Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris, 2020, "VOCA 2019" at The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, 2019, "ACT Vol. 1 –First Lingering Mist of Spring" at Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) Hongo, Tokyo, 2019, solo show "Aperto 09 Nishimura Yu -paragraph" at Kanazawa 21st Century Museum, Kanazawa, 2018, "Azamino Contemporary vol.9" at Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Kanagawa, 2018, "CONDO Shanghai" at Gallery Vacancy, 2018, "Contemporary Art of The 21st Century, Exhibition of Taguchi Art Collection" at The Hiratsuka museum of art, Kanagawa, 2018, "Natsu no Tobira, Organized by Misako and Jeffrey Rosen" at SHANE CAMPBELL GALLERY, Chicago, US, 2017, "FACE 2016: FACE Award Winners -The Way of Paintings 2016" at Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, 2016, solo show “project N 61" at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, 2015. Nishimura won "the Koji Kinutani Prize 2017" and "Shell Art Award 2013 -Kenjiro Hosaka’s prize" and "Excellent Work Award, FACE 2014" and "Best Prize, The 6th Kiyosu City Haruhi Painting Triennale 2009". Lives and works in Kanagawa.

• Around October / October 24 - November 29, 2020
• Twin Boat Songs / August 23 - September 27, 2020
• portrait / September 23 - October 22, 2017
• projection / June 25 - July 24, 2016

at night, 2022, oil on canvas, 162 × 194 cm

flowers in blue vase, 2022, oil on canvas, 53 x 45.5 cm

still life with pan, 2022, oil on canvas, 60.6 x 60.6 cm

waiting for the sun, 2022, oil on canvas, 194 × 162 cm

unripe fruits, 2022, oil on canvas, 35 x 27 cm

pulse, 2021, tempera on canvas, 162 × 162 cm

locus, 2021, oil on canvas, 41 × 31.8 cm

at station, 2020
Exhibition view, An Exhibition with Little Information, 2022, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (MOCA Busan), Busan / Korea
Photography by Jeongbiso

(from left) composition / cats, 2022; cat in space, 2022; education, 2019; Cat in the green, 2019
Exhibition view, GUTE NACHT curated by Oriane Durand, 2022, Braunsfelder, Cologne / Germany

face on hand, 2021, tempera on canvas, 33.3 x 24.2 cm
Photography by Marc Tatti

material and tools, 2021, tempera on canvas, 27.3 × 27.3 cm

overflow, 2021, tempera on canvas, 22 × 27.3 cm

bad boy, 2021, tempera on canvas, 65.2 × 53 cm

smile, 2021, oil on canvas, 227.3 × 162 cm

soft cube, 2021, oil on canvas, 27.3 × 41 cm
Photography by Mark Blower

night club, 2021, oil on canvas, 130.3 × 97 cm

school of fish, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 162 × 112 cm

bird in tree, 2021 tempera in canvas, 65.2 × 53 cm

falling apple, 2021, tempera on canvas, 53 × 45.5 cm

tiller, 2021, oil on canvas, 145.5 x 97 cm

swim, 2021, tempera on canvas, 24 × 19 cm

composition, 2021, oil on canvas, 31.8 × 41 cm

(from left) thicket, 2020 & a bird over sky, 2020
Exhibition view, Scene of beholder, 2020, Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris / France

(from left) sandy beach, 2020 & pause, 2020
Exhibition view, Scene of beholder, 2020, Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris / France

bats flying on the bank, 2019, oil on canvas, 60.6 x 72.7 cm

painting mind, 2019, oil on canvas, 53 x 45.5 cm

(from left) fruits and ceramics, 2019 & stop the bicycle, 2019
Exhibition view, ACT Vol. 1 –First Lingering Mist of Spring, 2019, Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) Hongo, Tokyo / Japan

(from left) rose and cat, 2019 & face, 2019
Exhibition view, ACT Vol. 1 –First Lingering Mist of Spring, 2019, Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) Hongo, Tokyo / Japan

waiting for the shooting star, 2019, acrylic, oil on canvas, 100 x 79.5 cm

over the bridge, 2019, oil on canvas, 50 × 60.6 cm

under the sky, 2019, oil on canvas, 27.3 × 41 cm

rain on the flower, 2019, oil on canvas, 53 × 45.5 cm

sleeping face, 2019
Exhibition view, Triple traveler -Tea ceremony, 2019, Ikaruga-an, Seikeitei, the Nezu Museum, Tokyo / Japan

pebbles in a river, 2019
Exhibition view, Triple traveler -Tea ceremony, 2019, Ikaruga-an, Seikeitei, the Nezu Museum, Tokyo / Japan

a girl listening, 2018, oil on canvas, 91 x 72.7 cm
photography by KIOKU Keizo

(from left) portrait, 2018 & scenery passing (out of town), 2018
Exhibition view, Aperto 09 Nishimura Yu -paragraph, 2018, Kanazawa 21st Century Museum, Ishikawa / Japan
photography by KIOKU Keizo

(from left) trees, 2018 & looking for, 2018
Exhibition view, Aperto 09 Nishimura Yu -paragraph, 2018, Kanazawa 21st Century Museum, Ishikawa / Japan
photography by KIOKU Keizo

(from left) pair in the car, 2018; red flower, 2018; behind the palm, 2018
Exhibition view, Aperto 09 Nishimura Yu -paragraph, 2018, Kanazawa 21st Century Museum, Ishikawa / Japan
photography by KIOKU Keizo

scenery passing (interval), 2018, oil on canvas, 194 x 259 cm

neon, 2018, oil on canvas, 181.8 x 227.3 cm

marine drive (after the rain), 2017, oil on canvas, 182 × 259 cm

let's look at here, 2017, oil on canvas, 228 x 182 cm