nonphysical reality #2025-9

Statement After viewing a large number of images on social media and other platforms, I capture the non-material, ambiguous "images" that linger in my mind and translate them onto the unmoving surface of a painting using tactile, material paint.
I focus on two key aspects that characterize these remembered "images": their ambiguous forms and their vivid sense of presence.
One of the standards I use in my process is whether the surface remains "unresolved"—whether my eyes, in attempting to grasp the composition, keep darting restlessly across the canvas, unable to find a single point of focus. Ai Nariyama

 1983 Born in Osaka
2009 Graduated from the Master’s Program in the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts, specializing in printmaking

Centered around the theme of "looking with doubt," the artist creates paintings through the medium of printmaking.   Main Solo Exhibitions
2024 gallery morning kyoto, Kyoto
*Held annually since 2009 in cities such as Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo. Main Group Exhibitions
2020 "Shell Art Award Artist Selection (SAS) 2020"
         Recommended by jury member Yasuyuki Nakai, The National Art Center, Tokyo
2023 "Osaka Art Festival" Enokojima Art Culture and Creative Center, Osaka
2024 "Spiral Independent Creators Festival" SICF25, Spiral, Tokyo
2024 Spiral Xmas Market 2024 Part3, Spiral, Tokyo
2025 "WAVE YELLOW" LURF GALLERY, Tokyo Main Awards
2023 metasequoia Kyomachibori Art Fair: Kazuma Ieiri Prize, Kintaro Takahashi Prize
2024 SICF25 "Exhibition Division": Runner-up Grand Prix