ARTISTS

Masayoshi NOJO

Mirage #16 110.0×130.0cm cotton on panel, acrylic, silver foil, aluminum foil 2017

Mirage #12 280.0×450.0cm cotton on panel, acrylic, silver foil, aluminum foil 2016

ART FAIR TOKYO 2017

Flicker #1,2,3,4 65.0×65.0×9.0cm mirror on panel, acrylic on transparent film, silver foil, aluminum foil 2017

haze #23 60.0×70.0cm cotton on panel, acrylic, silver foil, aluminum foil 2016

Where and when have I seen this scene? Has it been exactly my experience or not?
My pictures sometimes fill me up a sort of deja vu.
Though it's distinctive feature, contemporary convenient information‐oriented society make public apathy.
So we have to rethink what the experiences are.

My artworks are composed by fixing the memories of my real experiences using the photographs whic h I took by myself and will intervene in memory of appreciator.
Starting from defining a minimum constituent element of image of the memories in my brain is constructed by "color tone" and "form".
In the process of pursue the purity of these two agenda, act of drawing with the paintbrush is lost, then coincidences and a certain phenomenon filled my art works.
Visualized a mixture of concreteness and abstractness which immanent in our memories link to the appreciator's individual passed images.
Through this visual experience, they will begin to look for their memories to find exact places. In front of the image which appreciator ever seen somewhere, they will have to look for what did and do they see.

PROFILE
1989  Born in Kanagawa, Japan
2013  B.A. in Japanese Paintings at Kyoto University of Art and Design
2015  M.A. in Japanese Paintings at Kyoto University of Art and Design
AWARD
2009  Grand Prize, Tadasu no Mori Dessin Contest
2012  The 6th Seison Maeda Prize
The 8th World Painting Grand Prize
2013  Academic Prize, 2013 Kyoto University of Art and Design Graduation Exhibition
Grand Prize, Art Bar 2013 Creation of Kyoto
Albion Award 2013
Grand Prize, Turner Award 2013
TOKYO WONDER SEED 2013
2014  Kyoto University of Art and Design Graduate Diploma Exhibition Sagawa Art Museum Eiichi Kuriwada Special Award
EXHIBITION
2011  Art Auction -STORY vol.3-(Doshisha University, Kyoto)
Gashinten(Muromachi Art Court, Kyoto)
2012  Gen the 3rd(ex Rissei Elementary School, Kyoto)
Art Festival, Iwami the Blue 2012(Shimane, Japan)
The 8th World Painting Grand Prize Exhibition(Sekaido Shinjuku, Tokyo)
Mebae 2012(Galerie Aube, Kyoto)
INNOVATE, 3 Japanese Painters(Gallery Kato, Kyoto)
Gashinten(Muromachi Art Court, Kyoto)
2013  TOKYO WONDER SEED 2013(Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo)
2013 Kyoto University of Art and Design Graduation Exhibition(Kyoto University of Art and Design)
Graduation Exhibition pre-event, connect(Dohjidai Gallery of Art, Kyoto)
2014  Stories reconsidered by materials(T-Art Complex, Tokyo)
When the attitude becomes a form(ARTZONE, Kyoto)
This is where I learnt Nihonga(Galerie Aube, Kyoto)
Gashinten(The Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo)
2015  Brilliant Corners(Tokyo Arts Gallery, Tokyo)
Stars popped out of Chaos - Next generation of artists - Kyoto University of Art and Design(SPIRAL, Tokyo)
Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2015(Marunouchi Building 1F, Tokyo)
Kuriwada Eichi special award ceremony(Sagawa Art Museum, Shiga)
Postgraduate Exhibition(Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto)
2016 Masayoshi NOJO "Mirage"(Gallery Art Composition, Tokyo)
2017 Solo Exhibition "Mirage" (Tokyo Arts Gallery, Tokyo)
2020 Solo Exhibition "UNDER THE MOONLIGHT"(JD Malat Gallery, ロンドン)
ART FAIR
2016 ART FAIR TOKYO 2016(by Gallery Art Composition / Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo)
ART OSAKA 2016(HOTEL GRANVIA OSAKA, OSAKA)
2017 ART FAIR TOKYO 2017(by Gallery Art Composition / Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo)
ART JAKARTA 2017(by Gallery Art Composition / THE RITZ-CARLTON JAKARTA, PACIFIC PLACE, Indonesia)
2018 ART FAIR TOKYO 2018 (Gallery Art Composition, Tokyo)(Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo)
VOLTA NY 2018 (Gallery Art Composition, Tokyo)(PIER 90, New York)
KIAF2018 / ART SEOUL (Gallery Art Composition, Tokyo)(COEX, Seoul)
2019 ART CENTRAL(by Gallery Art Composition / Central harbourfront, Hong Kong)
2020 ART FAIR TOKYO 2020(by Gallery Art Composition / Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo)
COLLECTION
2016~ PIGMENT by Warehouse TERRADA
HOTEL MYSTAYS PREMIER Group
2019 Universal Music Japan(Tokyo)

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