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Kohei Nawa

(Japanese, born 1975)

Kohei Nawa

Direction #120, 2014

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Kohei Nawa

Moment#171, 2022

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Kohei Nawa

Moment Photography (2022:01_35mm_film_color#3), 2022

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Kohei Nawa

Element-Black#1, 2018

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Kohei Nawa

Moment#125, 2019

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Kohei Nawa

Grid #6, 2011

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Cell System #1, 2022

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Biography

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

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

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.

Kohei Nawa

(Japanese, born 1975)

Kohei Nawa

Kohei Nawa

Kohei Nawa

Kohei Nawa

Kohei Nawa

Kohei Nawa

Kohei Nawa

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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