Kousuke Nakamura

**Artist Statement**

I explore the conditions through which existence emerges by working with provisional structures that are precariously sustained through support, connection, and uneven distributions of weight. The lines and structures that appear within my works are not resolved forms, but unstable states suspended between formation and collapse.

I use painting as a site for testing the generation of structures and the flow of forces. By extending these investigations into three-dimensional constructions made from wood, wire, fabric, and other materials, I move between surface and space, perception and materiality. Through painting, sculpture, drawing, and photography, I seek moments in which invisible relationships and traces of absence take shape as images.

**Born**

2000, Fukuoka, Japan

**Education**

* 2026 B.F.A., Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan

* 2026–Present M.F.A. Candidate, Oil Painting, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan

**Awards**

* 2024 Ataka Prize Scholarship Fund Award

**Exhibitions**

* Jul. 2024

*YADORU (To Inhabit)*, Third-Year Off-Campus Workshop, Department of Oil Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Hōmeikan Main Building (Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan), Tokyo

* Oct. 2024

*Fuzai Todoke (Notice of Absence)*, Third-Year D Course Off-Campus Workshop, Department of Oil Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Nakamachi no Ie, Kitasenju, Tokyo

* Oct. 2024

*triangle cycling*, Exhibition of Internal Award Recipients, Department of Oil Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Yuga Gallery / Sculpture Studio / Room 113, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo

* Nov. 2024

*REAL TIME IN KIRYU*, Kiryu Art Research Report Exhibition, Oil Painting Laboratories II & V, Tokyo University of the Arts, Kiryu

* Jan. 2025

*INTORO2*, Third-Year Exhibition, Department of Oil Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Daikanyama Hillside Terrace, Tokyo

* Jan. 2026

Graduation Works Preliminary Review Exhibition, Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo

* Jan. 2026

Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation Works Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo

* Jun. 2026

*CADAN Study Vol.1 “GABE6” – Usukubo Laboratory*, A Project by Oil Painting Laboratory 6, Tokyo University of the Arts, Supported by CADAN Youth Committee COBRA, XYZ Collective, Tokyo