Green Pillars

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