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Yu Nishimura

Born in 1982 in Kanagawa.
Lives and works in Kanagawa (JP)

Education

2004 Graduated from Oil Painting Course, Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art and Design, Tama Art University

Solo and duo exhibitions

2024 Sleep Walk, ARCH, Athens (GR)
Synopsis, Sadie Coles, London (GB)
2023 The Sequel: Twin Boat Songs - Verdigris Vessel, two-person show with Takezaki Kazuyuki, Echigo-Tsumari, Tōkamachi (JP)
December Light, La Società delle Api, Monaco (MC)
2022 State of Stillness, Crèvecœur, Paris (FR)
2021 Ebb Tide, Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
2020 Scene of beholder, Crèvecœur, Paris (FR)
Around October, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo (JP)
2018 Aperto 09 Nishimura Yu -paragraph, Kanazawa 21st Century Museum, Ishikawa (JP)
2017 portrait, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo (JP)
2016 projection, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo (JP)
2015 project N 61, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo (JP)
2013 TWS-Emerging 202 Yu Nishimura:The Senery Carried, TWS Hongo, Tokyo (JP)
2010 Haruhi Painting Triennale: Artist Series Vol.65 Yu Nishimura, Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum, Aichi (JP)

Group exhibitions

2024 Mon Cherie Coco, Institut Français de Tokyo, Tokyo (JP)
Long Museum, Shanghai (CN)
How Did You Come into the World?, Taguchi Art Collection + Hirosaki Museum Contemporary Art, Aomori (JP)
Café Crèvecœur, Montesquiou (FR)
Let’s see, ArtSpace @ HeluTrans, Singapore (SG)
On Ma, Pedro Cera, Lisbon (PT)
Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood, BLUM, Tokyo (JP)
Drop Scene, Chapter NY, New York (US)
2023 “Pictures Girls Make” : Portraitures, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (US)
L’INCONTRO, Le Quai, Monaco (MC)
Crèvecœur, Paris (FR)
CADAN Yurakucho, Tokyo (JP)
TRACK, DASH, STROKE, Goya Curtain, Setagaya (JP)
2022 Open Storage: 25 Years of Collecting, The Warehouse, Dallas (US)
Tiere, MD BAR, Cologne (DE)
An Exhibition with Little Information, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (MOCA Busan), Busan (KR)
Natural Function, Spiral Garden, Omotesando, Tokyo (JP)
Shifting Glances, Simone Subal Gallery, New York (US)
Gute Nacht, curated by Oriane Durand, Braunsfelder, Cologne (DE)
Space, Laurel Gitlen, New York (US)
2021 FLOWERS & BIRDS, Tomio Koyama, Tokyo (JP)
The Prophetic Pictures, Crèvecœur, Paris (FR)
L’INCONTRO, curated by Cristiano Raimondi, Le Quai, Monte Carlo (MC)
Emerging japanese painters, SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong (HK)
Next World, Taguchi Art Collection x Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima (JP)
Eli Bornowsky & Yu Nishimura, King’s Leap, New York (US)
2020 The Sentimental Organization of the World, Crèvecœur, Paris (FR)
Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum, Aichi (JP)
CADAN Showcase 03, CADAN Yurakucho, Tokyo (JP)
Twin Boat Songs, duo with Takezaki Kazuyuki, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo (JP)
2019 Triple traveler -Tea ceremony, Ikaruga-an, Seikeitei, the Nezu Museum, Tokyo (JP)
VOCA 2019, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo (JP)
beyond the reasons, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo (JP)
ACT Vol. 1 –First Lingering Mist of Spring, Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) Hong, Tokyo (JP)
2018 Azamino Contemporary vol.9, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Kanagawa (JP)
CONDO Shanghai, GALLERY VACANCY, Shanghai (CN)
Contemporary Art of The 21st Century, Exhibition of Taguchi Art Collection, The Hiratsuka museum of art, Kanagawa (JP)
Hikarie Contemporary Art Eye vol.9, supervised by Tomio Koyama -through the glasses, Shibuya Hikarie, Tokyo (JP)
Contemporary tales from the province 5 -Susaki artist in residence, Susaki Machikado Gallery, Kochi (JP)
2017 Shell Art Award Artists Selection, The National Art Center, Tokyo (JP)
Natsu no Tobira, organized by Misako and Jeffrey Rosen, SHANE CAMPBELL GALLERY, Chicago (US)
Spring Fever, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo (JP)
Winter show, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo (JP)
2016 Contemporary tales from the province 4 -Susaki artist in residence, Susaki Machikado Gallery, Kochi (JP)
Imprisoned, Jailbreak, Imprisoned, Jailbreak, KAYOKOYUKI, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo (JP)
FACE 2016: FACE Award Winners -The Way of Paintings 2016, Seiji Togo Memorial, Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo (JP)
Scenes of Fragments, Akibatamabi 21, Tokyo (JP)
2014 Some Like Witty –Daisuke Miyatsu collection, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong (HK)
Art Kurabiraki Fujiyoshida 2014, Ono Satoshi Open Studio, Yamanashi (JP)
FACE 2014: Sompo Japan Art Award Exhibition, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo (JP)
2013 Shell Art Award 2013, The National Art Center, Tokyo (JP)
2012 Tokyo Wonder Wall 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (JP)
2011 YOKOHAMA 2011 Minato-Mirai, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa (JP)
2009 The 6th Kiyosu City Haruhi Painting Trienniale, Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum, Aichi (JP)

Awards

2017 Grand Prize, Koji Kinutani Prize 2017
2014 Excellent Work Award, FACE 2014:Sompo Japan Art Award Exhibition
2013 July Incentive Award -Kenjiro Hosaka, Shell Art Award 2013
2009 Best Prize, The 6th Kiyosu City Haruhi Painting Triennale

Public and institutional collections

Musée national d’art moderne - Centre Pompidou
LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art
AMOCA Wales - Artistic Museum of Contemporary Art
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
Fondation Lafayette Anticipations
Long Museum, Shanghai
MWoods Museum
Kanazawa 21st Century Museum
Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum
The Taguchi Art Collection