Biography
“Ayaka Nakamura" creates paintings and video works under the theme of “the existence of life", aiming to create delicate yet strong visuals.
She was featured in “100 Filmmakers 2015" (BNN Publishing).
Her live painting on a 7m wide and 3m high panel at Roppongi Art Night in 2016 was well received, and he began to do live painting at events.
She is active both in Japan and abroad, and has had solo exhibitions at Bunkamura Box Gallery (Tokyo), Enatsu Gallery (Tokyo), and EPIC (Tokyo).
She has participated in group exhibitions at EPICENTRO ART (Berlin), White Box (NY), WAH Center (NY), Anthology Film Archives (NY), ART FORMOSA (Taipei), and OLA Galleri & Ateljé (Sweden). In recent years, he has also been active in the United States, Denmark, and China.
She won the Grand Prix in the first edition of “ARTIST NEW GATE", an art contest to discover new large-scale artists.
2009-2013 attended Musashino Art University, Tokyo JP (BA Fine Art, Printmaking).
Staying artist in residency and working all over the world, US, Denmark, Shanghai and Tokyo and Kyoto in Japan.
【Statement】
The world moves us the moment we open the window, the sunset we see on our way home, or after the rain. I wanted to paint those moments.
At first, I drew landscapes, but then I began to focus on the air and emotions that I felt from the landscapes.
The improvisational lines and accumulation of materials represent the movement and gathering of life, and the paintings between abstract and figurative are connected to the viewer's memory of the landscape.
Each of us is a tiny being, but the gathering of many lives makes up this large universe.
Even if we are not directly involved, the lives that exist in this world create the present moment, and we are a part of it.
Every scene is a momentary miracle woven by the interplay of life, and no two will ever be the same.
And when you find yourself in it, the world looks beautiful.
To look at a landscape may be to look at yourself.
To paint a landscape may be to paint you, to paint yourself.
I hope that when you look at my work, it will connect with some part of you.
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