Amane Nakamura

Amane Nakamura was born in Gifu in 2002. She is currently enrolled in the Master's program in Oil Painting (Studio 6) at Tokyo University of the Arts.

She creates figurative paintings that bridge the context of Japanese animation with the formal traditions of Renaissance art. Sparked by how metaphors in anime backgrounds—such as wind, distance, and boundaries—hint at human emotions and relationships, she explores concepts of "density of information" and "construction of detail" to recreate contemporary landscapes using both stylistic frameworks.

2024 Exchange program at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) while attending Nagoya Zokei University

2026 Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2026, Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery (Tokyo)

2026 CADAN Study Vol.1 “GABE6” – Usukubo Laboratory, CADAN Otemachi (Tokyo)

Amane Nakamura (b.2002)

Tokyo, Japan

Instagram: @amane_nakamura13

Email: a.nakamura.contact@gmail.com

Education

2026-2028(Current)

MFA Tokyo University of the Arts, Painting

2022-2026

BFA Nagoya Zokei University, Art Expression

2024 Exchange Program, Academy Minerva, the Netherlands

Solo Exhibition

2023 "Zoom In, Zoom Out" Mikan House (Aichi)

Group Exhibitions

2022 Shinzui Exhibition , Aichi, Japan

2023 as windows, OGU MAG+, Tokyo, Japan

Here and there, here and there, wherever I wonder, places here and there, Nagoya Zokei University, Aichi, Japan

2024 ZINE Exhibition, Nagoya Zokei University, Aichi, Japan

3rd Year Expo, Minerva Academy , Groningen, Netherlands

2025 ACT Art Grand Prize Exhibition 2025, Art Complex Center, Tokyo, Japan

Paintings that Open Up Tomorrow: 43rd Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2025 ZERO Exhibition, Toyonaka Cultural Arts Center, Osaka, Japan

21st Belladonna Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Link Your World to Me, Nagoya Zokei University, Aichi, Japan

After That = Or, Or,, Chateau Koganei, Tokyo, Japan

Progress, Kawaijuku Art Institute, Aichi, Japan

2026 26th CBC Soar! Memories of a Twenty-Year-Old Exhibition, Aichi Museum of Art, Japan

Nagoya Zokei University Graduation Exhibition 2026, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan

Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2026, Gyoukouchika Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

CADAN Study Vol.1“GABE6”- Usukubo Laboratory, CADAN Otemachi,Tokyo, Japan

Grants and Awards

2023 Nagoya Zokei University Academic Encouragement Scholarship

ABLE INC. Cultural Promotion Foundation Scholarship 2023 Course B

2024 Nagoya Zokei University Academic Encouragement Scholarship

Daiko Foundation Scholarship (Undergraduate)

Higashi Honganji Scholarship (Support for Exchange Students)

9th Hoshino Coffee Art Contest

2025 2025 ZERO Exhibition

43rd Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition: Paintings that Open Up Tomorrow

Nagoya Zokei University Academic Encouragement Scholarship