Yukiko NAKANO

Born in Tokyo and currently based there.

Creates paintings that evoke a sense of floating, inspired by intriguing or curious scenes encountered in daily life or dreams, while drawing upon fragments of memory.

1989

Born in Tokyo, Japan

Lives and works in Tokyo

2013

Gained B.F.A in oil painting from Tama Art University, Tokyo

2015

Gained M.F.A in oil painting from Tama Art University, Tokyo

Awards

2024

Grants for Overseas Study by Young Artists, Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation, Fellowship, Japan (SomoS Arts Berlin, Berlin,Germany)

2021

Selected for the 2021 Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japanese Government ‘Support Program for Continuation of Cultural and Artistic Activities’

2020

Selected for the Ogasawara Toshiaki Memorial Foundation’s ‘Special Emergency Grant for the New Coronavirus’ (contemporary art).

2018

20th “1_WALL” Graphics, Judges’ Award Selected by Atsuki Kikuchi

2017

Emerging 2018

2016

Tokyo Wonder Wall 2016

The 31st HOLBEIN SCHOLARSHIP

TURNER ACRYL GOUACHE BIENNALE 2016 Honorable Mention

2015

Tokyo Wonder Seed 2015

Solo Exhibitions

2024

Awake to Dream, SomoS Arts, Berlin

2023

Station bench, mountains outside the window, SAKAINOMA cafe&hotel KUMA, Osaka

MOVE, ROOF, CONTOURS, Ai Gallery, Tokyo

West-facing room, monorail, iGallery DC, Yamanashi

2022

Shoji, dawn or evening, Ai Gallery, Tokyo

A little far away, MOONSTAR Factory Ginza,Tokyo

In a place I don’t know much about, Kameido Art Center, Tokyo

2021

Mountains in the distance, outside the window, the road to the station, ARTDYNE, Tokyo

Where you can walk, where you can bike, where you can go in your sleep, Ai Gallery, Tokyo

That Time and This Day, Gallery Yukihira, Tokyo

2020

The usual place, museum shop T, Tokyo

At that time, I was taking a walk, Ai Gallery, Tokyo

2019

Continue, interrupt, blur, and see again, Ai Gallery, Tokyo

2018

Emerging 2018 Yukiko Nakano exhibition “What I overlooked”, TOKAS Hongo, Tokyo

Far Town, Near Place, Ai Gallery, Tokyo

2017

-Speech from the Gallery- Perspectives on the New Generation 2017 Yukiko Nakano Exhibition ”Nearby Vacant Lots, Distant Views”, Ai Gallery, Tokyo

Old Diary, Commuting and Walking, circle (gallery & books), Tokyo

2016

Changing Landscape, Ai Gallery, Tokyo

2015

Yukiko Nakano Exhibition, Ai Gallery, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions

2023

Kunitachi Art Center Open Studio Program [GEI SHOW HALL 2023], Maiko Jishu, Yukiko Nakano, byproducts market, Kunitachi Citizen Art Small Hall, Tokyo, Japan

Letter from a travel, museum shop T, Tokyo

2022

MUCHI Yukiko Nakano, Then let’s plant flowers here, NEHAN TOKYO, Tokyo

Gallery Yukihira 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery Yukihira, Tokyo

Freestyle pottery vol.2, museum shop T, Tokyo

Freestyle pottery×KAC Freestyle pottery vol.3〜whose work is this?〜, Kameido Art Center, Tokyo

2021

Ordinary than Paradise: As if Nothing Happened, Akibatamabi21, Tokyo

2020

Winter Group Show “In This Age” Yasuhide Kunimoto, Ayako Inoue, Yukiko Nakano, Kumi Oguro, Co-organized by Nii Fine Arts Tokyo and ARTDYNE, Tokyo

October Show / Yasuhide Kunimoto and Yukiko Nakano, co-organized by Nii Fine Arts Tokyo and ARTDYNE, Tokyo

Tee Upcycle, OMOTESANDO ROCKET, Tokyo

2019

What makes a painting a painting, Akibatamabi 21, Tokyo

Okazaemon’s Domestic Art Festival 2019: Connecting Seeing and Creating, Okabiru Department Store, Aichi

2016

Tokyo Wonder Wall Selected Works Exhibition 2016, TWS Shibuya, Tokyo

2015

Five Art University Exhibition, The National Art Center, Tokyo

Tokyo Wonder Seed Selected Works Exhibition 2015, TWS Shibuya, Tokyo