Biography
Ryoichi Nakamura was born in 1982 in Tokyo. Painter
He entered the Department of Fine Art in Tokyo Zokei University in 2002and withdrew in 2004 to pursue a career in Berlin.
He spent the next four years in Berlin, as artist-in-residence at Kunsthaus Tacheles, then founding and organizing an exhibition space
for young artists, Gallery Waschaus. In 2006, he audited Katharina Grosse's course "Abstraction, Realism and Virtual Reality"
at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissenssee. In 2008 he returned to Japan and has since been involved in residences and exhibitions
in Japan and abroad. He won the grand prize of the Fourth Article Art Award in 2011.
Award
2011...4th Article Award. Grand Prize (Tokyo)
School history
2006.04...Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissenssee.KHB( Germany )
................Prof.Katharina Grosse.
................Guest listener. Summer term.
2004.04...Tokyo Zokei university. Stop to study ( Japan )
2002.04...Tokyo Zokei university. Fine art, oil painting. Study ( Japan )
2001.04...Tachikawa art school. Fine art, Oil painting. Study ( Japan )
2000.03...Hino highschool. Normal studying. Graduate ( Japan )
1998.07...Exchange Program Between Tokyo and Berlin. Japan foundation
Solo Exhibition
2012.09...Niche Gallery ( Tokyo )
2011.10..."Ryoichi Nakamura". 4th Article Award. Turner Gallery ( Tokyo )
2009.09..."Confused Utopia" Gallery 156 ( Tokyo )
2005.10..."Ryoichi Nakamura" Gallery Rodolfo. Art en laboratorio ( Berlin )
2004.10...DIESEL DENIM GALLERY ART EXHIBITION ( Tokyo - Osaka )
2004.01..."Ryoichi Nakamura" La Girafa ( Berlin )
Group Exhibition
2011
11....."The Color of Future", Turner Gallery ( Tokyo )
07....."Japan Congo" Garage Center for Contemporary Culture ( Moscow, Russia )
04....."Ryoichi Nakamura＋Melissa Steckbauer＋Nobuyasu Sato". Kinosho Kikaku + Gallery156 ( Tokyo )
04.....4th Article Award. A winner exhibition. Turner Gallery ( Tokyo )
2010
09.....Kinosho Kikaku + Gallery 156 Selected show "My favorite works" ( Tokyo )
05....."Monochrome". Kinosho Kikaku + Gallery156 ( Tokyo )
2009
09....."Somebody" Lunch Project. Toronto School of Art. curated by Lyla Rye (Toronto)
2008
02.....Tim Ernst, Wolfgan Ganter, Hirofumi Matsuzaki, Ryoichi Nakamura,
..........Rebecca Tomas. Gallery Waschhaus( Berlin )
2007
12.....Gallery artist + Gerald Falo Sole, Nomad Quilombo and Familia do Cant. Gallery Waschhaus ( Berlin )
11.....Claus Deuerling, Ryoichi Nakamura, Sonja Kirschning. Gallery Waschhaus ( Berlin )
07.....Melissa Steckbauer, Ryoichi Nakamura. Gallery Waschhaus ( Berlin )
06....."48 Stunden Neukolln" An art festival ( Berlin )
05.....''Smash'' Gallery artist, Marcel Tasler, Gerald Falo Sole. Gallery Waschhaus ( Berlin )
2006
12.....Ryoichi Nakamura + Hirofumi Matsuzaki.Gallery Waschhaus ( Berlin )
11.....Gallery artists and Guest artists. Gallery Birthe Laursen ( Copenhagen - Denmark )
04.....''Feuer'' Forum in TIB, Room for art and culture.GSG ( Berlin )
2005
05....."China, Japan and Korea" Gallery Rodolfo ( Berlin )
2004
11.....ABC kunstservice ( Berlin )
10.....ABC kunstservice ( Berlin)
09.....ABC kunstservice ( Berlin )
05.....''Isst du gerade meinen Tofu?'' Backfabrik ( Berlin )
2003
12.....''Portrait'' La Girafa ( Berlin)
Art fair
2011...ASYAAF2011. Hongik University ( Seoul )
2010...Art Fair Kyoto 2010, Hotel Monterey ( Kyoto )
Work shop
2008.02...
The Work shop in the gallery waschhaus with the students of
the Benjamin Franklin Ober School ( Berlin )
(Supported by Gevobag and Rudi Gleichifeld foundation for culture and art)
Artist in Residence
2009.05-07.....Toronto School of Art. Independent Summer Residence. (Toronto)
2004-2005......Kunsthouse Tachles (Berlin)
Working history
2010- Kinosho Kikaku + Gallery 156 (Japan)
2008-2009...Toriado Space Communication Company ( Japan )
2008.04...Mori yu gallery Tokyo. Internship. ( Japan )
2006.05...Gallery Waschhaus Berlin ( Germany )
Personal history
2010.04...Working as an assitant of Kinosho Kikaku-Gallery156
2009.05...Stayed in Toronto and worked at Toronto school of Art
2008.03...Live and work in Tokyo
2008.03...Move to Tokyo
2006.05...Open the gallery waschhaus in Berlin
2006.05...Supported by Rudi Gleichifeld Foundation for culture and art(Berlin)
2006.04...Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissenssee.KHB( Berlin )
................Prof.Katharina Grosse.
................Guest listener. Summer term.
2005.06...A regular artist of the gallery Rodolfo ( Berlin )
2004.03...Work at the studio in the Kunsthouse,Tacheles(Berlin )
2003.03...Live and work in Berlin
2003.03...Move to Berlin
2002.04...Tokyo Zokei university,Fine art, oil painting. (2004, stop to study)(Tokyo)
2001.04...Tachikawa art school, Fine art, Oil painting(Tokyo)
2000.03...Hino highschool, Normal studying(Tokyo)
1998.07...Exchange Program Between Tokyo and Berlin. Japan foundation