Painting
Website: https://nakayashiki.wixsite.com/tomonari
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thomyashiki/
Educational Background
TOMONARI NAKAYASHIKI (b.1977) graduated from Kyoto Seika University in 2000. Based in Kyoto,
In recent years, Nakayashiki has been using masking tape as a “material/medium” in his paintings, similar to the way paint is used, creating unique layered and textured works that are suggestive of collages or paper cutouts. The masking tape sometimes becomes a line or a color plane, and can also be a physical layer on the canvas. When the paint, masking tape, peeling, transparency of the medium, and space on the canvas is in complete harmony, the relationship between figure and ground becomes blurred, and the inaccuracy and fragility of our visual recognition (perception, intuition, conception) become manifest.
Statement
I aspire to create paintings that evoke a gaze where the distinction between subject and object becomes blurred. When a person views the painting, s/he is simultaneously being seen by the painting, and both sides continuously exchange the stance of “seeing/being seen”. When transcending the boundary of the viewer and the viewed (subject and object merging), an “eternal gaze” naturally arises as an undifferentiated entity. It is my aim to create paintings that evoke such a gaze.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Bakaraku, 2kw Gallery, Shiga
2023 To-morrow andto-morrow-and tomorrow, Creeps inthis petty-pace from-day today, KOKI ARTS, Tokyo
2022 Masking Effect, EUREKA, Fukuoka
2018 Perpetual Perspectives, KOKI ARTS, Tokyo
2014 Surge, KOKI ARTS, Tokyo
2013 Alive, Gallery Den mym, Kyoto
2012 Big Day Coming, Gallery PARC, Kyoto
2010 Dream of Memories, Gallery ARTE, Kagawa
2007 ANTENNA, Gallery ARTE, Kagawa
2003 Osmazome, STREET GALLERY, Hyogo
2003 The Doubtful Balance, Gallery ARTE, Kagawa
2002 NAKAYASHIKI Tomonari Solo Exhibition, O Gallery eyes, Osaka
2000 NAKAYASHIKI Tomonari Solo Exhibition, Gallery Coco, Kyoto
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 JAPAN / KOREA Art Communications 9, The Terminal Kyoto, Kyoto
2024 Yanagawa Contemporary Art Project Ⅱ, Yanagawa City, Fukuoka
2024 Open Artists’ Studio 2024, A.S.K – Atelier Share Kyoto, Kyoto
2024 Contemporary Art – Ibaraki 50th Anniversary Special Exhibition, Ibaraki City Onikuru, Osaka
2023 Beside Gaze, Atelier Mitsushima, Kyoto
2022 Forms of Boundaries, EUREKA, Fukuoka
2023 JAPAN / KOREA Art Communications 8, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2023 Yanagawa Contemporary Art Project, Yanagawa City, Fukuoka
2023 The Revival of Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art “The Only Museum Shop”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
2023 Open Artists’ Studios 2023, A.S.K – Atelier Share Kyoto, Kyoto
2022 JAPAN / KOREA Art Communications 7 GIFT, Oharano Studio Gallery, Kyoto
2022 KOKI ARTS 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, KOKI ARTS, Tokyo
2022 Walking – To Walk is to Wander, to Think, to Grow to Know – Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto
2022 MASKING SCAPE, Ibaraki City Lifelong Learning Center, Osaka
2021 KOREA / JAPAN Art Communications 6 GIFT, Chunbuk Culture Center Forest Gallery, Cheongju, Korea
2021 Kaleidoscope, YIRI ARTS, Taipei, Taiwan
2021 Second Foundation — Gene Pool of Art, YIRI ARTS, Taipei, Taiwan
2021 Another Encounter – in Daejeon, Morris Gallery, Daejeon, Korea
2021 A climate of Dialogue Again – Korean Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Schema Art Museum, Cheongiu, Korea
2021 Walking – An Intersection of Sensation and Thinking – Musashino Art University, Tokyo
2021 JAPAN / KOREA Art Communications 5 ONDO: Temperature “Round Trip Letter” The Terminal Kyoto, Kyoto
2021 TOMORROW’S BRIDGE, Oarbt, United Kingdom
2020 KOREA / JAPAN Art Communications 5 ONDO: Temperature -Round Trip Letter-, Chunbuk Culture Center Forest Gallery, Cheongju, Korea
2020 Limitation and Transcendence “Duality, its phenomenology and metaphysics” Space 31, Hyogo
2020 Mail – Order Drawing Exhibition 2020, From Kyoto
2020 Artist’s Crossing 2020, Kaede Gallery, Osaka / ART SPACE ELICONA, Fukushima
2019 Small Art for Small Spaces by KOKI ARTS, Tenoha Daikanyama, Tokyo
2019 OPEN STUDIO × 10, A.S.K – Atelier Share Kyoto, Kyoto
2019 KOREA / JAPAN Art Communications 4 ONDO: Temperature -Convection That Never Ends-, Ochang Gallery, Cheongju Museum of Art, Cheongju, Korea
2019 wks. Feast “HEISEI”, GALLERY wks., Osaka
2018 World Peace KOREA – JAPAN Art Exchange Exhibition in Seoul, Gallery ZEINXENO, Seoul, Korea
2018 Golden Ratio of the Miracle -Eternal Meeting-, Finch Arts, Kyoto
2018 AMP × PhotoMusic “New Fantasmagoriana” @ kumagusuku, KYOTO ART HOSTEL kumagusuku, Kyoto
2018 ASK – 7 Artists, ART OFFICE OZASA, Kyoto
2018 Identity XIV – curated by Mizuki Endo – Horizon Effect, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo
2018 JAPAN / KOREA Art Communications 3, ART SPACE SAGA / ART SPACE RAN, Kyoto
2018 OPEN STUDIO × 4, A.S.K – Atelier Share Kyoto, Kyoto
2018 Group Exhibition vol.9 PRISM 2018, Contemporary Art Gallery Zone, Osaka
2017 Dribble 2, 2kw Gallery, Shiga
2017 KOREA / JAPAN Art Communications 2 Cross Point, Chunbuk Culture Center Forest Gallery, Cheongju, Korea
2017 New Fantasmagoriana Slide Show, KYOTO ART CENTER, Kyoto
2017 wks. Feast, GALLERY wks., Osaka
2017 OPEN STUDIO × 5, A.S.K – Atelier Share Kyoto, Kyoto
2017 Big Sensation, Gallery Den mym, Kyoto
2017 1. Certains Regards à Paris, The European Representative Office of Hyogo Prefecture, Paris, France
2016 Winter Show, KOKI ARTS, Tokyo
2016 KOREA / JAPAN Art Communications, ART SPACE SAGA, Kyoto
2016 Dribble, 2kw Gallery, Osaka
2015 Gengenten 2015, Moritakaya, Fukushima
2015 Visual Sensation Vol.6, Gallery Den mym, Kyoto
2014 The Re – Enchantment of the World, 2kw Gallery, Osaka
2013 Kyoto Current 2013,Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art Annex, Kyoto
2013 KCUA Transmit Program #04: KYOTO STUDIO, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto
2013 [Watashi] to [Sekai] , Hankyu Umeda Main Store, Osaka
2013 Soluble Fish – Continued Realities – Gallery FLEUR, Gallery PARC, Kyoto
2012 Romantic Winter Scene, Nishinomiya Hankyu, Hyogo
2012 HER NAME IS ABSTRA, Daido Soko, Kyoto
2012 [FUKUSHIMA ART PROJECT] × [Fukushima ∞ Kyoto] Former Rissei Elementary School, Kyoto
2011 Shiwaku HONJIMA – Cultivate the Fields and Arts – 2011, Gallery ARTE, Kagawa
2011 Multiple, Prinz, Kyoto
2010 IWAKI ART TRIENNALE 2010, Iwaki City, Fukushima
2010 Food for the Senses, CASO, Osaka
2009 ART LINK PROJECT 2009, Manabejima, Okayama
2009 ESSENCE, Tenjinyama Cultural Plaza, Okayama
2008 NANTAN ART LINK 2008, Hekitei, Kyoto
2007 Toyota Art Competition’07, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
2006 Artist in KASASHIMA, Kasashima, Kagawa
2004 8va, Gallery ARTE, Kagawa
2004 ENGIMONO – connection, Gallery ARTE, Kagawa
2003 Proof of Painting, CASO, Osaka
Selected Art Fairs
2024 ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2024 / from KOKI ARTS, Fukuoka Convention Center, Fukuoka
2024 ART OSAKA 2024 / from KOKI ARTS, Creative Center Osaka, Osaka
2023 Art Collaboration Kyoto 2023 / from KOKI ARTS, Kyoto International Conference Center Event Hall, Kyoto
2023 ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2023 / from KOKI ARTS, Marine Messe Fukuoka Hall B, Fukuoka
2023 ART OSAKA 2023 / from KOKI ARTS, Osaka City Central Public Hall, Osaka
2023 One Art Taipei 2023 / from YIRI ARTS, Hotel Metropolitan Premier Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 Art Collaboration Kyoto 2022 / from KOKI ARTS, Kyoto International Conference Center Event Hall, Kyoto
2022 ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2022 / from KOKI ARTS, Fukuoka International Congress Center, Fukuoka
2022 ART OSAKA 2022 / from KOKI ARTS, Osaka City Central Public Hall, Osaka
2022 Art Tainan 2022 / from YIRI ARTS, Silks Place Tainan, Tainan, Taiwan
2022 One Art Taipei 2022 / from YIRI ARTS, The Sherwood Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2021 OneOffs International Art Fair 2021 / from YIRI ARTS, W Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2021 ART TAICHUNG 2021 / from YIRI ARTS, Millennium Hotels and Resorts, Taichung, Taiwan
2021 ART KAOHSIUNG 2021 / from YIRI ARTS, City Suites – Kaoshsiung, Kaoshsiung, Taiwan
2021 Art Collaboration Kyoto / from KOKI ARTS, Kyoto International Conference Center Event Hall, Kyoto
2021 ART OSAKA 2021 / from KOKI ARTS, Osaka City Central Public Hall, Osaka
2019 ART OSAKA 2019 / from KOKI ARTS, Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka
2018 ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2018 / from KOKI ARTS, Hotel Okura Fukuoka, Fukuoka
2018 ART OSAKA 2018 / from KOKI ARTS, Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka
2017 ART KAOHSIUNG / from KOKI ARTS, City Suites – Kaoshsiung, Kaoshsiung, Taiwan
2017 ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2017 / from KOKI ARTS, Hotel Okura Fukuoka, Fukuoka
2017 ART OSAKA 2017 / from KOKI ARTS, Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka
2016 ART OSAKA 2016 / from KOKI ARTS, Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka
2015 ART OSAKA 2015 / from KOKI ARTS, Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka
2015 Young Art Taipei / from KOKI ARTS, Sheraton Grande Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 NEW CITY ART FAIR Taipei / from KOKI ARTS, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park Taipei, Taiwan
Awards
2007 Toyota Art Competition’07, Jury Prize