Artist
Nami Yokoyama｜横山奈美
BIOGRAPHY
横山 奈美（1986年、岐阜生まれ）2012年愛知県立芸術大学大学院美術研究科油画領域修了。同大学で准教授を務める。日常の「見えない存在」に光を当て、精緻な油彩技法で描く作品で知られる。生活の中で消費され捨てられる物を描く《The first object》シリーズや、ネオンをモチーフにガラス管や背後に存在する配電線、フレームまで克明に描く《ネオン》シリーズなど。近年では、出会った人々に書いてもらった筆跡をネオン管で再現し、画面に描く《Shape of Your Words》を制作している。ものを見て描くという行為を通し、人やものに与えられた役割や制度を再考している。
Nami Yokoyama (b. 1986, Gifu) completed her MFA in Oil Painting at Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts in 2012. She currently serves as an Associate Professor at the same university. She is known for works painted with meticulous oil painting techniques to shed light on the “invisible existences” of everyday life. Her practice includes The first object series, which depicts items consumed and discarded in everyday life, and the Neon series, in which she vividly renders neon signs down to the details of glass tubes, wiring, and frames that exist behind them. In recent years, she has been producing Shape of Your Words, a series in which she recreates the handwriting of people she has encountered using neon tubes and translates them onto the canvas. Through the act of observing and painting, she re-examines the roles and systems imposed upon people and objects.
個展 | Solo Exhibitions
| 2024 | Remembering Someone in the Distance, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| NANJO SELECTION vol.4 : Nami Yokoyama – Big Sky Mind, N&A Art SITE, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2023 | Shape of Your Words, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2021 | Artist in Museum AiM Vol.11 YOKOYAMA Nami: forever, Atelier, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan |
| 2020 | Memories of Love and Me, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Nobody is here, Kenji Taki Gallery, Aichi, Japan |
| 2019 | Aperto10 Nami Yokoyama: Memories of Love and Me, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan |
| Memories of Love and Me, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2018 | Jiritsu (standing by oneself), Kenji Taki Gallery, Aichi, Japan |
| 2016 | Over Again, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2014 | Landscape, Gallery M, Aichi, Japan |
| That was a mountain and it was also a river. Yesterday was I myself and I was also my husband, HARMAS GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2013 | Proof of 1 = infinity, Jikka, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2012 | Nami Yokoyama Solo Exhibition, Hidari Zingaro, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2011 | Lighthearted Prank, Warped Scenery, Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery Yada, Aichi, Japan |
グループ展 | Group Exhibitions
| 2025 | Collection 2, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan |
| Shape of Your Shadows, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Healing Fiction, Keteleer Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium | |
| Love Fashion: In Search of Myself, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2024 | Collection 2024 II – Living / Rooms, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan |
| LOVE Fashion: In Search of Myself, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan | |
| Lines – Aligning your consciousness with the flow, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan | |
| The 4th Crosswaves in Art Belonging: Achievements of Artists from Gifu, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan | |
| 2023 | Body, Love, Gender, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea |
| New Horizon: Vision of the Future, Arts Maebashi, Gunma, Japan | |
| Special Reopening Exhibition: Before/After, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan | |
| The Vision of Contemporary Art 2023, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2022 | Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| Fluctuation – be with light –, kojin kyoto, Kyoto, Japan | |
| Repetition and Peace — I Repeat I Day After Day., Borderless Art Museum NO-MA, Shiga, Japan | |
| What is Real? — Contemporary Artists — Living and Depicting, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi, Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama, Fukuyama, Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Kurume City Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan | |
| Sunset/Sunrise, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan | |
| 2021 | 2021, Kenji Taki Gallery, Aichi, Japan |
| Ueda Kaoru and the World of Realistic Paintings,The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Japan | |
| Welcome, Stranger, to this Place, Chinretsukan Gallery, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2020 | From the museum collection 2020: third period, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan |
| VISION part 1: On Light / Light On: in the celebration of 25th Anniversary of the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan | |
| 2019 | STUDIO KODAI vol.1, CAPSULE, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2017 | Nissan Art Award 2017, BankART Studio NYK, Kanagawa, Japan |
| 2016 | INTERWOVEN: Aichi University of the Arts 50th Anniversary exhibition, Nagoya Citizens’ GalleryYada, Aichi, Japan |
| Sky Over II, Art Lab Aichi, Aichi, Japan | |
| The 19th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan | |
| 2015 | Lagrangian point: Perspective-customize, Gallery PARC, Kyoto, Japan |
| The Vision of Contemporary Art 2015, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2014 | After History: in celebration of the publication Unknown History, NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo, Japan |
| It a Zoo Kushi, See Saw gallery, Nagoya / Satellite Gallery of Aichi University of the Arts, Aichi, Japan | |
| Reaching for the Real, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan | |
| 2013 | CIRCLE 3,TURNER GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan |
| Unknown Series No.4: Unknown History, Ayumi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Draw the World, Art Lab Aichi, Aichi, Japan | |
| 2012 | The Door, Opening and Closing, Talion Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| Drawings, Standing Pine, Aichi, Japan | |
| Wonder Seeds 2012, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2011 | “petit” GEISAI#15, Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center Taito-kan, Tokyo, Japan |
| WAKUWAKU SHIBUYA, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2010 | PARTY, hinten, Aichi, Japan |
| SUPER NATURAL POWER, Dining Hall, Aichi University of the Arts, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan | |
| 1000hinten, hinten, Aichi, Japan | |
| 2009 | Super Natural Power, Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery Yada, Aichi, Japan |
収蔵 | Public Collections
| The National Museum of Art, Osaka | |
| Mori Art Museum | |
| The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu | |
| Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art | |
| Toyota Municipal Museum of Art | |
| Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. | |
| Aichi University of the Arts, University Art Museum |
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