Michiko Nakatani1981 -

Received VOCA encouragement award in 2010. Completed Meisterschülerstudium at Academy of Fine Arts Dresden in 2012. The artist has presented negative reliefs made of synthetic resing poured into gypsum. In order to explore "how the image to be", she presents respective artworks with consideration to their consistencies and relationality in a space. She moved to a house in Mie where her grand father once lived since 2014 and has been running a project to exhibit artwork only on the respect of the aged day in the renovated space of a factory.

Biography

1981　Born in Tokyo, Japan
2005　B.A. in Sculpture, Tama Art University, Tokyo
2010　Graduated from Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
2012–2014　Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists (Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Germany) Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan
2014　Masterscholar degree, Hochschüle für Bildende Kunst Dresden
Lives and works in Mie, Japan

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Solo Exhibitions

2022 Michiko Nakatani: Boat of Presence and Absence / Sukuu, Sukuu, Sukuu ,Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022 Michiko Nakatani drawing exhibition, Merry-go-round KYOTO, Kyoto, Japan
2021 Michiko Nakatani : Drawings in the drawer, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2019　Mask in the Bright Day / Harden the Night, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2019　In Their Own Little Cosmos, Yanaguihara Yoshitatsu Memorial Galleries in Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie, Japan
2018　the ship carrying water, Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo
2017　When I get old II, Omuro Museum, Mie, Japan
2017　I sing all day, Plazanorthgallery, Saitama, Japan
2016　When I get old, Omuro Private Museum, Mie, Japan
2015　From a dark place to a bright place, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo
2015　Row, Boat, Showcase Gallery Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Kanagawa, Japan
2014　souzou no kage, Morioka Shoten, Tokyo
2014　souzou no kage, Sculpture Gallery of Tama Art University, Tokyo
2014　Schatten der Vorstellung (Shadow of Imagination), Galerie Grafikladen, Dresden, Germany
2014　Souzou no Yoroi, Galerie Rothamel, Frankfurt, Germany
2012　Impression, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo
2011　a place between being and non-being, Art Gallery 1/ Yokohama Art Museum, Kanagawa
2011　Michiko Nakatani, Shin-Minatomura Under 35 Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
2010　Image Existing There, Morioka Shoten, Tokyo
2009　Beautiful Fish, BankART 1929 MINI Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan

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Group Exhibitions

2023 Solidaholic, TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY-VIEWING ROOM / Osaka
2022 Musashino Art University Museum / Tokyo
2022 Kiaf SEOUL 2022, COEX / Krea
2022 Collections of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2022 Yukihisa Isobe Memorial Echigo-tsumari Kiyotsu Soko Museum of Art、Niigata, Japan
2019 Beyond Unevenness, Musee Hamaguchi Yozo : Yamasa Collection, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018, Nigata, Japan
2017 6th exhibition AGAIN-st Sculpture of Peace, NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo
2017 Horror Vacui, Produzenten | Galerie, Dresden, Germany
2016 ALL LIVING THINGS, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
2016 Rediscovering Three-Dimentional Art in Japan, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Gunma, Japan (2017 traveled to Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Japan)
2016 Trick, Trick, Hat trick, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
2015 Das muss man gesehen haben!, Städtische Galerie Dresden, Germany
2014 Wuchernde Wiederholung, Vorüberziehende Gedanken, Japanisches KulturInstitu Kölnt, Germany
2014 je näher, desto ferner / between places, GEH8 Kunstraum und Ateliers e.V., Dresden, Germany
2014 NEW MASTERS, SO FAR, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany
2014 Transparency, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo
2013 Tohoku, Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt, Germany
2013 3rd exhibition AGAIN-st Dependent Sculpture, Tokyo University of the Arts
2013 Sapporo Art Stage / Art Street 2013, Chikaho Sapporo Station Underpass, Hokkaido, Japan
2012 Nakatani Michiko + Shimura Nobuhiro, Hiyori Art Center, Miyagi, Japan
2012 Koganecho Bazaar 2012, Koganecho Area Managementcenter, Kanagawa, Japan
2011 Life Story, Akiba Tamabi, Tokyo
2011 ganz nah der vorstellung, Galerie Rothamel, Frankfurt, Germany
2010 VOCA–The Vision of Contemporary Art 2010, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2010 tmp. potemka / vice, versa Berlin leipzig, tmp.plate, Berlin
2010 DRESDEN DEINE MUSENNESTER, Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt, Germany
2010 back to the drawing board, GEH8 Kunstraum und Ateliers e.V., Dresden, Germany
2009 nichts mit–ung, Villa Eschebach, Dresden, Germany
2009 POTEMKA GROP SHOW!!, GALERIE POTEMKA, Leipzig, Germany
2008 Mensch und Tier, GEH8 Kunstraum und Ateliers e.V., Dresden, Germany
2008 Fadenkreuz – osten Woher wir kommen und wohin wir gehen, GEH8 Kunstraum und Ateliers e.V, Dresden, Germany
2008 gehaeus, Gallery Delikatessenhaus, Leipzig, Germany
2007 Achtung Kunst!!, Ega-Park, Erfurt, Germany
2007 dresdens junge dinger, Kunstverein / Kunsthaus Viernheim, Germany
2007 Teens, Doppel-D, Dresden, Germany
2007 wie wir einfach so verschwinden könnten, Gruenland, Dresden, Germany

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Awards

2010　VOCA Encouragement Prize, The Vision of Contemporary Art 2010, Tokyo
2014　Catalogue Funding, Landeshauptstadt Dresden, Germany
2021　The 31st Takashimaya Art Prize
2023　The Teijiro Nakahara Award / Hokkaido

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Collection / Public Art

BankART1929, Kanagawa, Japan
The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Limited, Tokyo
Städtische Galerie Dresden, Germany

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