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Kohei Nawa
(
Japanese
, born 1975)
Kohei Nawa
PixCell - Hanafuda #5 (Hanami-de-ippai),
2006
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Biography
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Timeline
1975
Born in Osaka, Japan
1994 - 1998
Kyoto City University of Art, B.A. Fine Art Sculpture
1998 - 1999
Royal College of Art, Sculpture course, Exchange program
1998 - 2000
Kyoto City University of Art, M.A. Fine Art Sculpture
2000 - 2003
Kyoto City University of Art, Ph.D. Fine Art Sculpture
2003
Selected Artists in Kyoto 2003, highest award, Japan
Kirin Art Award 2003, encouragement prize, Japan
Grant of the city of Osaka (Sakuya Konohana Prize)
Grant of the city of Kyoto
2004
Sakuya Kono Hana Prize (Art), Osaka, Japan
Grant of the Asian Cultural Council /Japan-United States Arts Program, New York
2005
The Japan-United States Arts Program, Asian Cultural Council, residency in New York
2006
Art Scope 2005-2006, DaimlerChrysler Foundation in Japan, residency in Berlin, Germany
Kyoto Cultural award 2006, Kyoto, Japan
2007
Jury’s prize of Roppongi Crossing 2007
2009
Directed “Sandwhich”, a creative platform for production
Lives and works in Kyoto, Japan
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Exhibitions
2015
Kohei Nawa Exhibitions in 2015:
Kohei Nawa: FORCE
, Scai The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
2013
Kohei Nawa Exhibitions in 2013:
Kohei Nawa: Director / TRAUMARIS, TRAUMARIS
, Tokyo, Japan
Kohei Nawa: Garden
, Gallery Nomart, Osaka, Japan
Kohei Nawa: Manifold Document
, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea
Kohei Nawa: Sculpture Garden
, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
2012
Kohei Nawa Exhibitions in 2012:
Kohei Nawa | Sandwich
, Hankyu Umeda Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Kohei Nawa – Trans
, Arario Gallery, Ceonan and Seoul, Korea
2011
Kohei Nawa Exhibitions in 2011:
Kohei Nawa: Grid_Synthesis
, B Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kohei Nawa – Synthesis
, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2010
Kohei Nawa Exhibitions in 2010:
Kohei Nawa: Synthesis
, Scai the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
2009
6th Asia Pacific Triennale, Brisbane
Cell, Vera Munro, Hamburg (solo)
L_B_S, Maison Hermes, Tokyo (solo)
TORSO, Nomart Edition/Project Space, Osaka, Japan (solo)
Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
Great New Wave: Contemporary Art from Japan, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Canada
2008
Parallel World, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Hawaii
2007
PixCell, ierimonti gallery, Milan, Italy (solo)
ArtScope 2005-2006, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin
Roppongi Crossing 2007, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Banquet: A Feast for the Senses, Pacific Asia Museum, California, USA
Amuseland 2007 Beautiful Dreamer, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan
Rendez-vous project exhibition, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan
Let's Go to the Museum! Enjoying Modern Art with Dick Bruna, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
Hydridity: The Evolution of Spaces and Spaces in 21st Century Art, 21c Museum, Kentucky, USA
Selection from the Hara Museumfs Permanent Collection, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
AIR, Nomart Edition / Project Space, Osaka, Japan (solo)
2006
GUSH, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Art Scope 2005-2006, Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2005
show window art direction, Maison Hermés, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Drawings, studio J, Osaka, Japan (solo)
Diverse Ways of Happiness Japan Art Program Exhibition, EXPO 2005 AICHI, Aichi, Japan
Visualize-The history and the futurescape of visual media,Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
ISCP open weekend, ISCP studio, New York
Nimbi and Penumbrae, d.u.m.b.o. arts cente, New York
Valencia Biennal Agua sin ti no soy, Valencia, Spain
catalyst, Nomart Edition / Project Space, Osaka, Japan (solo)
WINTER SHOW, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
Premonition-S, Gallery SOWAKA, Kyoto, Japan
OSAKA - ART - KALEIDOSCOPE, OSAKA 04, CASO, Osaka, Japan
0409 science fiction, INAX GALLERY 2, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Sotto, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
Hi-energy field, Temporary contemporary, Tokyo, Japan
Cafe in Mito 2004, Art Tower Mito - Contemporary art gallery, Ibaraki, Japan
Hi-energy field, KPO KIRIN PLAZA, Osaka, Japan
Have We Met?, Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Japan
2004
multiples, Nomart Edition / Project Space, Osaka, Japan
PixCell, Studio J, Osaka, Japan (solo)
CELL-osmosis, UPLINK GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Selected Artists in Kyoto, Kyoto Cultural Museum, Kyoto, Japan
trans- , Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
PixCell, Nomart Edition/Project Space, Osaka, Japan (solo)
Art Court Frontier 200, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, Japan
KIRIN ART AWARD 2003 Tokyo, HILLSIDE FORUM, Tokyo, Japan
Take Art Collection, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan
2003
KIRIN ART AWARD 2003 Osaka, KPO KIRIN PLAZA, Osaka, Japan
OMAMORI, Gallery MARONIE, Kyoto, Japan
2002
Kyoto Art Map, NAWA Kohei, Gallery MARONIE, Kyoto, Japan (solo)
CELL, Nomart Edition / Project Space, Osaka, Japan (solo)
Art in CASO, CASO, Osaka, Japan
Art Synapse, NAWA Kohei, Gallery MARONIE, Kyoto, Japan (solo)
Boomerang Art Project Report, Gallery SOWAKA, Kyoto, Japan
Boomerang Art Project Exhibition, Saw You, GAK, Bremen, Germany
2001
Image and Materiality, Nomart Edition / Project Space, Osaka, Japan
NOMART 01, CASO, Osaka, Japan
FEEDBACK, Gallery SOWAKA, Kyoto, Japan
2000
ANIMAZUMO, Gallery SOWAKA, Kyoto, Japan (solo)
Boomerang Art Project, First Throw, Galerie WeissRaum, Kyoto, Japan
Art Synapse 2000, Gallery MARONIE, Kyoto, Japan
Wool in Wool IWATE, Koiwai Farm, Iwate, Japan
Boomerang Art Project in Kyoto, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
1999
OSMOSIS, Royal College of Art Gulbankian Gallery, London, UK
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Public Collections
The Art Foundation, Kentucky, U.S.A. Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin Franks – Suss Collection, London Hara Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Mori Art Museum, Tokyo The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo National Gallery of Victoria, Melborne Pigozzi Collection, New York Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia Ritz Carlton Kyoto, Kyoto Sovereign Art Foundation, Hong Kong Takamutsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan Yaguchino-Watashi Station, Tokyo
Literature
2014
Mission [SPACE x ART] - Beyond Cosmologies (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Seigensha, 2014; Nawa, Kohei and Sandwich. Creative Platform for Contemporary Art. Kyoto-shi: Gagugei Shuppansha, 2014; Simple with Soul (exhibition catalogue). [Seoul]: Arario Museum, 2014.
2011
Giubilei, Francesca, ed. Glasstress 2011 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Demetrio Paparoni, Bonnie Clearwater, Lidwij Edlekoort et al. Venice: Marsilio Editori, 2011; Kohei Nawa: Synthesis (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Kkaakasha, 2011; Koyama, Taisuke. Sandwich Textures: Taisuke Koyama Collaboration with Kohei Nawa/Sandwick. Tokyo: Artbeat Publishers, 2011.
2008
Knelman, Sara. Great New Wave: Contemporary Art from Japan (exhibition catalogue). Victoria: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 2008.
