Nami YOKOYAMA
Shape of Your Words [in India 2023/8.1-8.19], 2024
The First Object, 2016
On a Woman Who Want to Be Venus, 2016
Biography
Born in 1986 in Gifu, Japan.
2010: B.F.A. in Oil Painting, Aichi University of the Arts
2012: M.F.A. in Oil Painting and Printmaking, Aichi University of the Arts
After basing her practice at STUDIO KODAI in Toride, Ibaraki, she currently lives and works in Seto, Aichi Prefecture.
Solo Exhibitions
2011: Light Mischief, Distorted Landscape, Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery Yada, Nagoya
2012: Hidari Zingaro, Tokyo
2013: Proof of 1=∞, JIKKA, Tokyo
2014: It was a mountain, and it was also a river. Yesterday it was myself, and it was also my husband., HARMAS GALLERY, Tokyo
2014: Landscape, GALLERY M, Nisshin, Aichi
2016: Start Over, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2018: Independence, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2019: LOVE and My Memories, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2019: Aperto 10 Nami Yokoyama: LOVE and My Memories, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Long-Term Installation Room, Ishikawa
2020: No One Is Here, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
2020: Love and My Memories, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2021: Artist in Museum AiM Vol.11 Nami Yokoyama: forever, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Studio, Gifu
2022: SLAP Artist Invitation Project Vol.1 Nami Yokoyama Shape of Your Words, iti SETOUCHI Cube 04, Fukuyama, Hiroshima
2023: Shape of Your Words, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo
2024: Thinking of Someone Far Away, Kenji Taki Gallery Roppongi, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions
2009: Super Natural Power, Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery Yada, Nagoya
2010: SUPER NATURAL POWER, Aichi University of the Arts Cafeteria 2F, Nagakute, Aichi
2010: PARTY, hinten, Nagoya
2011: TEAM 17 | WAKUWAKU SHIBUYA, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
2011: petit GEISAI #15, Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center 7F, Tokyo
2012: Wonder Seed 2012, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
2012: Drawing Exhibition, STANDING PINE, Nagoya
2012: Opening and Closing the Door, TALION GALLERY, Tokyo
2013: Draw the world, Art Lab Aichi, Nagoya
2013: Unknown Series No. 4, AYUMI GALLERY, Tokyo
2013: CIRCLE 3, TURNER GALLERY, Tokyo
2014: Groping Realism, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi
2014: Itazukushi, see saw gallery / Aichi University of the Arts Satellite Gallery, Nagoya
2014: After History, NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo
2015: The Vision of Contemporary Art (VOCA) 2015, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2015: Lagrangian point – Perspective Customize –, Gallery PARC, Kyoto
2016: The 19th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Kanagawa
2016: SKY OVER II, Art Lab Aichi, Nagoya
2016: INTERWOVEN, Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery Yada, Nagoya
2017: Nissan Art Award 2017, BankART Studio NYK 2F, Yokohama, Kanagawa
2019: STUDIO KODAI vol.1, CAPSULE, Tokyo
2020: 25th Anniversary Collection Exhibition VISION Part 1: On Light / Illuminating, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi
2021: WELCOME, STRANGER, TO THIS PLACE, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
2021: Kaoru Ueda and Real Painting, The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki
2022: Sunset / Sunrise, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi
2022: The Future of Realism: Contemporary Artists – Living and Capturing, Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa (Traveled to: Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi; Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama; Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima; Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata [2022-2023]; Kurume City Art Museum, Fukuoka [2023])
2022: Repetition and Peace: Repeating Myself Everyday, Borderless Art Museum NO-MA, Omihachiman, Shiga
2022: Yuragu: be with light, kojin kyoto, Kyoto [Curated by Fumio Nanjo]
2022–2023: Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2023: The Vision of Contemporary Art (VOCA) 2023, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2023: Renewal Open Commemorative Special Exhibition: Before/After, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
2023–2024: New Horizon: From History to the Future, Arts Maebashi, Gunma
2023: Body, Love, Gender, Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
2024: Cross Art 4: Belonging – New Places and Things Acquired, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu
2024: Beyond A and Z [Aichi University of the Arts Exhibition], Art Lab Aichi, Nagoya
2024: LOVE Fashion: When I Change My Clothes, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto / Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto [2024–2025] (Traveling Exhibition)
2024: Lines: Aligning Consciousness with the Flow, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa
2025: LOVE Fashion: When I Change My Clothes, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (Traveling Exhibition)
2025: Healing Fiction, Keteleer Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2025: Shape of Your shadows, Kenji Taki Gallery Nishishinjuku, Tokyo
Awards
2012: petit GEISAI #15, Jury Prize (Toru Kuwakubo Prize)
2012: Aichi University of the Arts, Excellent Art Work Prize / Excellent Student Prize
2016: 8th Koji Kinutani Prize, Encouragement Prize
2017: Nissan Art Award 2017, Audience Award