Yasunari NAKAGOMI
1957 Born Yamanashi
2005 President of International Artists Exchange Exhibition
Education
1984 B.A. Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo
2007-08 Program of Overseas of Japanese Government
California State University Bakersfield, Researcher
Awards & Grants Received
2014 Pio Monte della Misericordia Dedication Napoli ITALIA
The Osano Memorial Foundation Grant
2007-08 Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japanese Government
2002-12 Yamanashi mecenat Foundation, Corporate Grant
2001 Ooki Foundation Grant
1994 Fukuoka City Public Art Award
1991 Kofu City Public Art Award
One Person Exhibitions (extract)
2015 Myokoen Gallery Nagoya Japan
2014 Pio Monte della Misericordia Napoli ITALIA
Villa di Donato -ART1307 Napoli ITALIA
Makii Masaru Fine Arts Tokyo
Sakuragi Fine Arts Tokyo
Gallery Ansei Fukuoka
2013 LA Artcore Brewery Annex Los Angeles USA
2012 i Gallery DC ,Yamanashi
2010 Koshundo Gallery,Yamanashi
2008 LA Artcore Brewery Annex Los Angeles USA
Evolving Gallery San Francisco USA
2007 Gallery Iraka Yamanashi
Gallery Kingyo Tokyo
LA Artcore Union Center for the Arts Los Angeles USA
2005 Makii Masaru Fine Arts Tokyo
Gallery Iraka Yamanashi
Hanakatei Gallery Yamanashi
GALLERY ECHO Yamanashi Pref. Museum
Gallery Kingyo Tokyo
2004 LA Artcore Union Center for the Arts Los Angeles USA
Gallery Kingyo , Tokyo
2003 Open Studio Los Angeles USA
2002 Yamanashi Pref. Museum
2000 Yamanashi Pref. Museum
Group Exhibitions (extract)
2015 “Space of restructuration” Maruzen Gallery Marunouchi Tokyo
3rd Int’l Exchange Show US-JP Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
2014 Jazz Live Collaboration at Bonappetit Nakanobu Tokyo
2 nd Art Fair Sapporo Cross Hotel Sapporo Hokkaido
2013 9th Int’l. Art Festival Bangkok/Naresuan Univ. Phisanulok Thailand
"reclaim" Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum/ Sakuragi Fine Arts
2012 "Minazuki no Mizu" Makii Masaru Fine Arts Tokyo
Art Platform- Los Angeles Int’l Art Fair, Santa Monica USA
"Still Autumn" Makii Masaru Fine Arts Tokyo
2011 7th Int’l Art Festival Bangkok/Burapha Univ. Chonburi Thailand
East Japan great earthquake disaster charity art show Koshundo Gallery
2010 "Sulle tracce di Luca Giordanoacce"Villa Bruno in San Giorgio Napoli Italy
"Ethnic diverse artists of Southern California" LA ARTCORE LA. USA
”OVER TONE” Int’l Art Show Kanagawa Pref. Hall Yokohama
2009 2nd US-JP Exchange Show Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum/ Makii Masaru Fine Arts
LA ARTCORE LosAngeles USA (Artist & Organizer)
5th Int’l Art Festival Chiang Rai Univ./ Bangkok Thailand
The Queen's Gallery Int’l Art Festival 2009/ Bangkok Thailand
The Greater Mekong Sub-region Art sans Frontiers 2009/ Luang Phrabang Laos
2008 'NEAR WEST' Makii Masaru Fine Arts Tokyo (Artist & Organizer)
2007 San Luis Obispo Art Center, San Luis Obispo, CA USA
Bakersfield College Jones Gallery Bakersfield, CA USA
1st US-JP Exchange Show Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum/Gallery Kingyo
LA ARTCORE LosAngeles USA (Artist & Organizer)
2006 Kofu City Hall Gallery, Yamanashi
Andrewshire Gallery Los Angeles USA
International Art Show Bangkok / Pathumthani Thailand
Gallery Goto 3 person show Tokyo
2004 Don O'Melveny Gallery W.Hollywood USA
2003 Lotus Gallery Los Angeles USA
Gallery DAN Melrose 2 person show Los Angeles USA
2002 LA Artcore Gallery, "Time to believe" Los Angeles USA
1991 Selected New Artists(’96, ’98) Yamanashi Pref. Museum
1990~14 ‘Origin’ Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
1988~09 ‘Praxis’ Yamanashi Pref. Museum
1984~05 New art~Now Here’ Yamanashi Pref. Museum
Corporate and Public Art Placements (extract)
Hotel Gran Paradiso Sorrent Italia
Pio Monte della Misericordia Napoli Italia
Clark Center for Japanese Art & Culture Hanford California USA
Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis Minnesota USA
Taylor Institute New York USA
Royal Queen's Gallery Bangkok Thailand
Yamanashi Pref. Museum
Grand Hyatt Tokyo Hotel Roppongi Tokyo
Sheraton Hotel Hiroshima
Sheraton Hotel Riyadh Saudi Arabia
XIV ARIMA-Rikyu, Arima Hyogo
Kinparo Kinosaki Hiyoriyama Hotel Hyogo
Lily Residence Bangkok Thailand
Kofu 1st High School Yamanashi
Isawa High School Yamanashi
Danrokan Hotel Kofu Yamanashi
Fujiya Hotel Kofu Yamanashi
Sumitomo Izumi Nishi Shinjuku Bldg. Tokyo
Nautilus Club Akasaka/Ochanomizu
Villa-fontaine Hotel Shinsaibashi Osaka/Hakozaki Tokyo
Fukuoka Diamond Build. Public Art Award Fukuoka
Bunka Gakuen Univ. & Fashion Institute, Tokyo / Nagano
Rosea Isawa, Rosea Fuefuki Yamanashi
Gallery IRAKA Yamanashi
Kyosai Hospital Yamanashi
Poh-chang Acad. Bangkok, Phathun Thani Univ., Chiang Rai Univ., Burhapa Univ.
Naresuan Univ., Thai
Luang Prabang Univ. Luang Prabang Laos
Statement for The traveling Canvas
Once Mark Rothko said that the painting should ignore the individual trifling memory for the universality of the painting itself. On the other hand, I think that we can create the universality by weaving trifling memory which is deep inside of the individual.
I think that this might be a different root toward the same goal.
This project is the new trial that can be established by technology of this century and a human relationship, and I am interested in it very much.
I search the inner world of my accumulated personal memories of visual experiences which I bring to life through my landscape-series as many other contemporary artists express the world from a unique individual perspective. However, it is said by viewers and collectors of my landscapes that there is a universality that is expressed in my work as well as my unique inner personal visual memories of the world traveled, observed, and experienced by me.
The universality view of the painting expressed by observers does not reflect or my unique expression of my personal visualized memory expressed in my paintings by each unique brush stroke, color palate used, or reflections of light as sky and land shapes meet at the horizon point. Universality should be but a brief trifling moment in the viewing of my contemporary landscape series.
But, when I produce landscapes perceived by others as universal in expression, elements or overall content by a contemporary or traditional art medium methodology in pursuit of personal visions residing within my memory---they are not pure of visual influence and compromise, just like my everyday life.
My sight, my sense of touch, and my sense of smell impact my self-expression brought out in my landscapes. All of my senses are unique to me but are also universal to mankind and influenced and impacted by the experiences that surround me and shared by others, are thereby universal.
In other words, I believe that human beings visual experiences can be resonated with others in deep fundamental place, such as when something unique in form or visual content detail in my painting might touch at the heart of the person seeing it, my work is complete by human connection to my visual expression.
May 28 2016
