YU NISHIMURA
b. 1982, JapanYu Nishimura was born in 1982 in Kanagawa, Japan, where he lives and works.He often refers, in his painting practice, to the notion of ‘portrait’, referring to, beyond human portraiture, to a quality in various painted situations such as a person walking alone in a forest, animals doing different things, a car speeding away, landscape elements. One of the characteristics of his paintings is that they are constructed with overlaid layers of painterly elements, such as contours of a figure and planes of colour, all overlapped with slight misalignment. The image thus becomes fluid and presents afterimage-like effect.
His recent solo exhibitions include ARCH Foundation, Athens (GR), Echigo-Tsumari Museum (duo exhibition with Kazuaki Takezaki), Tōkamachi (JP), La Società Delle Api - Le quai, Monaco (MC), Crèvecœur, Paris (FR), Kayokoyuki, Tokyo (JP), Kanazawa 21st Century Museum, Ishikawa (JP) and Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo (JP).
His recent group exhibitions include Chapter NY (US), Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (KR), The Warehouse, Dallas (US), Goya Curtain, Setagaya (JP), Taguchi Art Collection, Fukushima (JP), Nezu Museum, Tokyo (JP), The National Art Center, Tokyo (JP), The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo (JP), The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa (JP), The National Art Center, Tokyo (JP), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (JP).
His work is in numerous public collections, including Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (FR), AMOCA Wales-Artistic Museum of Contemporary Art (WA), Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum / Aichi (JP), The Taguchi Art Collection (JP), M Woods Museum (CN) and the Kanazawa 21st Century Museum (JP).
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