Zai Nomura｜野村在

BIOGRAPHY

1979年兵庫県生まれ。ニューヨークを拠点に活動。2009 年、ロンドン大学ゴールドスミス校　MFA 取得。その後2013 年に、武蔵野美術大学造形研究博士後期課程造形芸術専攻作品制作研究領域修了。兵庫県で暮らしていた1995年、野村は阪神淡路大震災を経験し、この災害によって家族を失った。この出来事をきっかけに、自身の芸術との関係性について深く問い直し、アートのイメージや機能を通じて何を表現し、確立しようとしているのかを探求するようになった。ニューヨークと神戸を拠点に、生と死やその間に横たわるものを露わにすることを試みている。写真や彫刻を素地とした様々なメディウムを用いて、人間の本質や存在の在り方を問いかけている。サンパウロビエンナーレ2025、ソウルビエンナーレ2025に出展予定。

Zai Nomura was born and grew up in Kobe-city, west side of Japan, and has been working between Kobe and New York since 2020. Nomura received his Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Musashino University in Tokyo in 2013, and his MFA from Goldsmiths, the University of London in 2009. While living in Hyogo, he experienced the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995 and lost family members during the time of disaster. Following this, Nomura began to question his relationship with art and interrogate what he aims to establish and represent in the imagery and function of art. Recent exhibitions include: 333, Japan Society Gallery, New York, NY (2020); Mirror Behind Hole, gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan (2018); can’t rewind it, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2017, solo); and Aichi International Triennial 2016: Rainbow Caravan, Aichi, Japan (2016). From 2019 through 2021, Nomura received a grant from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs and participated in the artist in residency program at ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Program), Brooklyn, NY.

個展 | Solo Exhibitions

2022	Traces of Yours, permanent exhibition, Syodo island, Japan
2021	Echoes, Ulterior Gallery, NY, USA
2020	333, Japan Society Gallery, NY, USA
2019	IHI Innovation center, permanent installation, Yokohama, Japan
2018	Mirror Behind Hole ‒ Photography into Sculpture, Curated by Yuri Mitsuda, gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan
2017	can’t rewind it, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014	Accumulation 1, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013	additional fugitive, Harmas Gallery, Tokyo, Japan The Dry Land, gFAL, Tokyo, Japan
2010	Zai Nomura Solo exhibition, Harmas Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Beyond the Transform, gFAL, Tokyo, Japan

グループ展 | Group Exhibitions

2022	At six and seven, Ulterior Gallery, NY, USA Séance Fiction, MA Curatorial Practice, NY, USA
2018	MM-10th annual exhibition, Hitachinaka, Ibaraki, Japan
2015	Mortal, COEXIT-Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Color (Non-allegiance) Silhouette, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014	MM-10th annual exhibition, Hitachinaka, Ibaraki, Japan Continuous Temporality, COEXIST-Tokyo gallery, Tokyo, Japan Dynamics of expression, Harmas Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012	Galley x Hikarie, Shibuya Hikarie 8, Tokyo, Japan
2011	ULTRA03, Aoyama Spiral, Tokyo, Japan Art Court Frontier 2011, Art Court Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2009	GROUP/GROPE, Area 10, London, UK
2007	The Fall-In-Theatre Interim, Ashwin Street Gallery, London, UK
2006	Sevrin Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sevrin Contemporary Art Museum, Romania

レジデンス・受賞歴 | Residencies and Awards

2024	Shiseido Gallery Art Egg, Tokyo, Japan TOKAS Open8, Tokyo, Japan
2023	Yaddo Residency, NY, USA
2021	Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy
2019-20	International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn, NY, USA The Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs Grant, Tokyo, Japan
2016	Lagos Art, Private Artist’s Residency, Hamburg, Germany
2013	MMM First Prize
2005	Musashino Art University, Laboratory Prize

収蔵 | Public Collections

	SEASiON, Shodo-island, Kagawa, Japan
	RICOH, 3L building, Tokyo, Japan
	The Beige, Siem Reap, Cambodia
	IHI Innovation Centre, Kanagawa, Japan

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