Born in Osaka, Japan
ARTISTS
Nobuyuki Osaki
Departing from his interest in the world around him and how it is perceived, Nobuyuki Osaki has been exploring how to express “uncertainty of reality”. Through unique materials and production methods he developed, he has been posing questions on the fictionality and reality of society by using the phenomenon and the process of the “disappearance of images”. In recent years, reflecting on how the prediction of the future or the past events are assumed as “reality”, he has produced works that profoundly examine the ambiguity of images as well as memory and time, and trigger feelings of vagueness or nostalgia.
Born 1975, Osaka. Osaki received a BFA in Print Making from Kyoto City University of Arts in 1998, and a MFA from Graduate School of Kyoto City University of Arts in 2000. Recent exhibitions include Noemi Weber/ Nobuyuki Osaki (Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany, 2017), CONSTELLATIONS: Practice for Unseen Connections/ Discoveries (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2015), VOCA 2013 (honorable mention/ Ueno Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2013), The Position 2012 (Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, 2012), NEW PHASES in CONTEMPORARY PAINTING – A Curator’s Message 2012 (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, 2012), and Haut. Mythos und Medium (Kunsthaus, Hamburg, 2011).
WORKS
EXHIBITIONS
NEWS
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[Exhibition] Nobuyuki Osaki “Chishima Real Estate Collection Exhibition”2022.07.06 - 2022.07.11
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[Exhibition] Nobuyuki Osaki “3rd PATinKyoto Print Art Triennale in Kyoto 2022”2022.04.12 - 2022.05.08
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[Exhibition] Nobuyuki Osaki “BEYONDE THE SURFACE”2021.07.03 - 2021.08.06
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[Exhibition] Nobuyuki Osaki “LINKING TRANSFORMATIONS”2020.09.26 - 2020.11.29
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[Exhibition] Nobuyuki Osaki “Fading, Emerging and Extending Memories”2019.07.13 - 2019.08.03
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- Nobuyuki OSAKI
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1975
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2000
MFA Graduate School of Kyoto City University of Arts
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1998
BFA Print Making Department of Kyoto City University of Arts
- SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2022
Travel Journal, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo
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2019
Fading, Emerging, and Extending Memories, Galleria Finarte, Nagoya
Buenos Aires, Gallery PARC, Kyoto -
2018
Multiple Lighting, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo
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2017
Multiple Lighting, MIKIKO SATO GALLERY, Hamburg
Multiple Lighting, Gallery Hosokawa, Osaka -
2015
HAMBURG ON HAMBURG, MIKIKO SATO GALLERY, Hamburg
Display of Surface, galerie 16, Kyoto
Reparatur-Trace Trip,Time capsule, YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY, Tokyo -
2013
Trace Trip – Time Capsule, MIKIKO SATO GALLERY, Hamburg
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2012
Reversible Stories, Gallery Hosokawa, Osaka
scribble, YUKA TSURUNO, Tokyo
portraits of mirror, NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo -
2011
Climbing the World, MIKIKO SATO GALLERY, Hamburg
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2010
dimension wall, Gallery HOSOKAWA, Osaka
falls, YUKA CONTEMPORARY, Tokyo
Portraits of mirror, standing pain cube, Aichi -
2009
Phantom-water drawing-, MIKIKO SATO GALLERY, Hamburg
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2008
Phantom, galerie 16, Kyoto
Meltdown, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto -
2007
meltdown on the reality, Gallery Jin, Tokyo
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2004
Landscape, Luce Verde open space, Ehime
Skin of Images, Gallery Jin, Tokyo -
2003
Cutaneous Respiration, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka
Distance of Interval, CAI, Hamburg
Between Inside and Outside, Kunstraum, Duesseldorf -
2002
Distance of Interval, O-gallery eyes, Osaka
Distance of Interval, O-gallery eyes, O-gallery U.Ps, Tokyo -
2001
Between Inside and Outside, galerie 16, Kyoto / inart gallery, Osaka
Between Inside and Outside, inart gallery, Osaka - SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2022
3rd PATinKyoto Print Art Triennale in Kyoto 2022, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto
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2021
Beyond the Surface, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg
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2020
LINKING TRANSFORMATIONS, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel
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2019
Rokko Meets Art 2019, Mt. Rokko, Kobe
Another Summer Vacation, Mite-Hanasou in a Wonderful World, Sakura City Museum of Art, Sakura
Grand Reopening Exhibition: Aichi Art Chronicle 1919-2019, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya
Aufbrechen, Barlach Halle K, Hamburg -
2018
small is beautiful, MIKIKO SATO GALLERY, Hamburg
Method consideration, Aichi University of the Arts, Aichi
Expanding Perception, Aichi University of the Arts Art museum
Attitude for Critic : Expression In-between Media and Society, ART LAB AICHI, Aichi
NEUERDINGS 2018, MIKIKO SATO GALLERY, Hamburg -
2017
Noemi Weber/ Nobuyuki Osaki, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany
Melting Point, Program of Exchange of the Landscapes, Satellite Gallery of Aichi University of the Arts, Nagoya (Film screening)
clas 10-3, Nagoya University Project Gallery「clas」, Nagoya
Melting Point 2, MEM, Tokyo (Film screening) -
2016
Geijutsu ha Mori kara Hajimaru, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Aichi
TEGAMI Project, Künstlerhaus Hamburg e.V., Hamburg/ The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
DISEGNO /JAPANISCHE ZEICHENKUNST DER GEGENWART, MIKIKO SATO GALLERY, Hamburg
Through the Window-Contemporary Art in Kasugai, Cultural Forum Kasugai, Aichi -
2015
The art is a system to perceive themselves, Galleria Finarte, Nagoya
60 JAHRE KUNST IN HAMBURG, Affenfaust Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
CONSTELLATIONS: Practice for Unseen Connections/ Discoveries, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo -
2014
KUNST frübhing 2014, Gleishalle am Güterbahnhof, Bremen
The Expanding Horizon: An Exhibition of Japanese Contemporary Art, 53 Art Museum, Guangzhou
Pre-exhibition, carnation and contemporary art, Kishiwada Culture Hall, Osaka -
2013
CIECLE3, TURNER GALLERY, Tokyo
Scenes Changing, Gallery Hosokawa, Osaka
TRICK-DIMENSION, tolot/heuristic SHINONOME, Tokyo
The Vision of Contemporary Art 2013, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
FORMS IN FLUX, Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya -
2012
NEW PHASES in CONTEMPORARY PAINTING – A Curator’s Message 2012, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo
Various Drawings, YUKA TSURUNO, Tokyo
The Position 2012, Contemporary Art from Nagoya, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi
Forms in Flux: A Collaboration between Aichi Prefectural University + SMFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston -
2011
Haut. Mythos und Medium, Kunsthaus, Hambrug
TOUGEN, masayoshi suzuki gallery, Aichi -
2010
AICHI GEEN, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, Aichi
volatilecolors, masayoshi suzuki galler, Aichi
Aichi ART no Mori, Toyo Logistics Tenant building, Aichi -
2009
Exhibition as media 2009 “drowning room”, Kobe Art Village Center, Kobe
Context of Media, Nagoya Art University, Aichi
12th Japan Media Arts Festival, The National Art Center, Tokyo
exotic, Aichi Children’s Center, Aichi -
2008
Double Reality, Aichi Prefectura Art Center Garelly H・I, Aich
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2007
5-7-5, Kunsthaus, Hamburg
Re-Act, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Distance of Printmaking, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
Independent 2007, Aichi Prefectura Art Center Garelly H・I, Aich -
2006
Dream of Dreaming -Diary of Mon 13th- , GALLERY RAKU, Kyoto
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2005
Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection I: The Seeing “I”, Kyoto City Museum of Art, Kyoto
Enhanced Organism, CASO, Osaka -
2004
Power of Printmaking, Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto
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2002
ISEA2002 Mediaselect Program-The immortal space, Nagoya Citizens Gallery Yada, Aichi
Selected Artists in Kyoto-2002, Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto -
2001
Nomart Projects 2001-Image on Image, Nomart Editions Project Space, Osaka
PRIMARY STATEMENT, O-Gallery eyes, Osaka -
2000
Contemporary Prints Competition, Osaka Contemporary Art Center
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1998
Prints Artist of the New Generation’98, Gallery coco, Kyoto
KAVC Art Annual – Thinking of Photo Images, KAVC, Kobe
The 50th Kyo-ten, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
PRINTS 10, City Gallery I.M,Osaka - AWARDS
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2017
Sakuya Konohana Award, Osaka City
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2015
Encouragement Award, Award for Artists from Nagoya City
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2013
The award of fine work, VOCA 2013, The Ueno Royal Museum
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2008
12th Japan Media Arts Festival (Jury Recommended) , the Agency for Cultural Affairs
Art Contest 2008, Kyoto Art Center -
2001
Kyo-ten2001 (Purchase Prize), Kyoto municipal Museum of Art Award
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1998
Exhibition of Kyoto City University of Arts (Matubara Award), Kyoto City University of Arts
The 50th Kyo-ten (Suda Prize), Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art -
1996
The 21st Annual Exhibition (Purchase Award), The Association of Japanese Art Colleges (also in ’97,’98 and ’99)
- GRANTS AND RESIDENCES
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2019
Artist-in-Residence Program, LA IRA DE DIOS, Buenos Aires
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2003
Artist-in Residence Program ART-EX, Osak Prefectural Govemment, Osaka
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2002
The 4th Art Documents Support Program, Shiseido Co., Ltd.
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2001
The 16th Holbein Schoarship Grant, HOLBEIN WORKS, LTD.
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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[Catalogues]
VOCA 2013 The Vision of Contemporary Art, The Ueno Royal Museum, 2013, p.x38 – 39
POSITION 2012 Contemporary Art from Nagoya-The World seen from this Position, Nagoya City Art Museum, 2012, p.16 – 17
Claus, Mewesp, Haut. Mythos und Medium, Kunsthaus Hamburg, 2011, p. 12 – 13, p. 70 – 73
AICHI GEEN, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, 2010, p. 82 – 85
Daydream C.P.N, Daydream Committee, 2010, p. 22 – 23
Aichi ART no Mori, Aichi ART no Mori Committee, 2010, p. 96 – 97
Art Initiative Project Exhibition as media 2009 “drowning room”, Kobe Art Village Art Center, 2010
From Home to the Museum: Tanaka Tsuneko Collection, Nomart, Inc, 2009
exotic’ 07, 08, 09, Media Select, 2009, p. 6 – 7
Catalogue of 12th Japan Media Art Festival, Media Art Festival Committee, 2009, p. 24
Akiniwa, Fuminori, SHANGRI − LA CHANDELIER, SHANGRI − LA CHANDELIER Committee, 2008, p. 10 – 13, p. 36
Re − Act, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007, p. 34 – 35, p. 57
Dream of Dreaming, Kyoto University of Art and Design Gallery RAKU, 2006
ACRYLART 2003, HOLBEIN WORKS, LTD., 2003
Nobuyuki Osaki Solo Exhibition “Cutaneous Respiration”, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, 2003
Toshio, Mikiwa, Distance of Interval, Shiseido, 2002[Articles]
Seno, Takeharu, Journal VOL.16 NO1, The Virtual Reality Society of Japan, 31 March 2011, p. 25 – 30, p. 31 – 33
Kawasaki, Shohei / Hasegawa, Yuko (Supervisor), ANA MEETS ART, Inflight Magazine of ANA Group, January 2011, p.161
Tanaka, Yukiko, REAR No. 24, Rear Production, 6 August 2010, p.161
REAR No. 23, Rear Production, 31 March 2010, p. 59
The world artists absorb in: A contemporary art exhibition in Kobe, Kobe News Paper, 20 November 2009
Mainichi News Paper evening edition, 18 November 2009
Kobuki, Takafumi, Osaki Nobuyuki: Meltdown, Bijyutu Techo magazine, 1 April 2008, p. 234
Yamanaka, Hideyuki, Kyoto Art Center 2008, Osaki Nobuyuki / Aiko Miyanaga, Kyoto News Paper, 16 February 2008
Contemporary
KANSAI PRINTS 1950’s – 2000’s, Bigaku Shuppan, 17 October 2007, p. 317 – 318, p. 550
Journal 2007 No.36, The University of Art & Print Studies in Japan, 1 May 2007, p. 43 – 46
Oka, Kenta, Sankei News Paper, 19 January 2005
Meister, Helga, Heiter Jahrmarkt – Kunst, WZ, 10 March 2003
Achenbach, Dorothee, Traumbilder: real und unwirklich, Duesseldorf Stadtpost, 14 February 2003
Fukagaya, Maho, Review: Gallery, Kyoto News Paper, 8 December
Ota, Kakinuki, Review: Gallery, Kyoto News Paper, 2 July 2000[Others]
Kobuki, Takafumi, Nobuyuki Osaki solo echibition – dimention wall –, artscape, 29 November 2010
Fukuzumi, Ren, Nobuyuki Osaki “falls”, artscape, 24 November 2010
Kobuki, Takafumi, Exhibition as media 2009 “drowning room” , artscape, 2009
Kobuki, Takafumi, Nobuyuki Osaki – Fantam, artscape, 18 September 2008
Sakai, Chiho, Nobuyuki Osaki – Fantam, artscape, 17 September 2008
Kobuki, Takafumi, Kyoto Art Center 2008: Nobuyuki Osaki / Aiko Miyanaga, artscape, 16 February 2008
Sakai, Chiho, Kyoto Art Center 2008: Nobuyuki Osaki / Aiko Miyanaga, artscape, 13 February 2008
Kobuki, Takafumi, Exhibition Review, artscape, July, August 2006
Hara, Kumiko, Exhibition Review, artscape, July 2006
Hara, Kumiko, Exhibition Review, artscape, January 2004 - PUBLICATION
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Melting World, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, 2012
Distance of Interval, Shiseido, 2002 - COLLECTION
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Machida City Museum of Print Art, Tokyo
Kyoto City Museum of Art
Kyoto City University of Arts
Contemporary Print Center, Sannohe
Sekiguchi Private Museum of Art, Tokyo
The Museum of Modern Art, WAKAYAMA (Unit work) - ARTIST WEBSITE