Yudai Nakaya

Born in Kanagawa, based in Tokyo.

Yudai Nakaya's practice begins with a sense of dissonance felt in the face of a single event. He re-describes that event from multiple perspectives—human, society, animal, plant, time, machine—and turns the gaps that emerge between these descriptions into works.

Each project is numbered as a "Case": one Case is a body of multiple descriptions surrounding one event. A Case is never complete; descriptions from new perspectives are added over time. As long as there are events in the world, the Cases will continue to grow.

Grants

2026 Grant for Arts Activities, The Asahi Shimbun Foundation

Collections

2026 Thierry Thieû Niang Collection, Paris, France

Butterflies Dream of Human #4 – Butterflies Dream of Human, ED 1/2

Solo Exhibitions

2027 "One is many" ACF、Fukuoka

Art Fairs / Art Festivals

2026 SICF Fukuoka, ONE FUKUOKA BLDG, Fukuoka *

2026 NAFAS Festival Tokyo, BUoY, Tokyo *

2026 Trolls in the Park, Tokyo

2026 Independent Tokyo, Tokyo

2025 UNKNOWN ASIA, Osaka

2025 Kudoyama Art Festival, Wakayama

2025 Trolls in the Park, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions

2026 IAG AWARDS, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Tokyo

2025 IAG AWARDS, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Tokyo

2025 GAKUTEN, The National Art Center, Tokyo

2025 Asia Digital Art Award Exhibition, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka

2025 ACT Art Award Exhibition, The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Tokyo

2025 SM-size Art Award Exhibition, Nishiwaki City Okanoyama Museum of Art, Hyogo

2025 ACTA+ ART AWARD Finalists Exhibition, COIL, Yamaguchi

2025 Shoto Museum of Art Open Call Exhibition, Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo

2025 Sakai City Exhibition, Sakai City Cultural Hall, Osaka

2024 ACTA+ ART AWARD, Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower Atrium, Tokyo

2024 NARU FES - ARTEAT, +NARU NIHONBASHI, Tokyo

2024 Asia Digital Art Award Exhibition, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka

2007 Spiral Bank Exhibition 9×9, Spiral, Tokyo

Awards

2026 ACF Open Call, Selected Project

2026 Finalist, IAG AWARDS

2026 Selected, SHIBUYA AWARDS

2025 Jury Award, GAKUTEN

2025 Special Prize, Annual Photography Awards

2025 Finalist, IAG AWARDS

2025 Finalist, Metro Ad Creative Award

2025 Selected, Kudoyama Art Festival (Open Call)

2025 Selected, ACT Art Award Exhibition

2025 Selected, SM-size Art Award Exhibition

2025 Selected, Shoto Museum of Art Open Call Exhibition

2024 Grand Prix, Asia Digital Art Award — Video Category

2024 Grand Prix, ACTA+ ART AWARD

2023 Honorable Mention, Asia Digital Art Award — Still Image Category *

2023 Selected, Watowa Art Award *

2009 Good Design Award

Publications

2026 One and Many Transparent Liquids

2025 CURATED ARTWORKS 2024–2025

Editorial

2026 Visual Direction, Interdisciplinary Poetry Journal Koo

Critical Texts

2026 Osamu Watanabe, “A Landscape of Vast Oblivion” , note (on Last Milk)

2025 Osamu Watanabe, “The Ethical Potential of Contemporary Art” , note (on H.Garden)

Broadcast / Public Screens

2026 All Night Nippon, Nippon Broadcasting System

2026 Outdoor screen, Tokyu Kabukicho Tower, Tokyo

2026 In-vehicle signage, taxi app GO

2026 Public signage, Kariya City, Aichi

Press

2025 Tokyo Art Beat

2025 Tokyo Shimbun

2024 Tokyo Shimbun

2024 Yamaguchi Shimbun

2009 NNN News Real Time, Nippon TV

2009 Mezanew, Fuji TV

2009 Tokudane!, Fuji TV

2009 Super J Channel, TV Asahi

2009 The Yomiuri Shimbun

2009 The Mainichi Shimbun

2009 The Asahi Shimbun

2009 The Nikkei

Lectures

2012 Shibu6gumi, Tokyu Department Store, Tokyo

2012 CROOZ Inc., Tokyo

2011 Otemachi NEWS College, Sankei Shimbun, Tokyo

2010 Good Design Expo, Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo

2009 Author talk, Sanctuary Books, Tokyo

2009 Lecturer, Tokyo Contents Producers Lab, Tokyo

Jury

2026 Koo Poetry Open Call Vol.1

2025 Gratitude Poem Contest, MAR apelar

Community Engagement

2021–2026 NPO Anata no Ibasho (A Place for You)

PR

MARPH

ArtSticker

* Under a different name