Kohei Nawa
1975 Born in Osaka. Based in Kyoto, Japan
Professor at Kyoto University of the Arts
Director of Sandwich Inc.
Education
| 2003 | Kyoto City University of Arts, Ph.D. Fine Art Sculpture |
| 1999 | Royal College of Art, Sculpture course, exchange program |
| 1998 | Kyoto City University of Arts, B.A Fine Art Sculpture |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2023 | “Cosmic Sensibility,” Pace Gallery, Seoul / South Korea |
| 2022 | “Focus,” RICOH ART GALLERY, Tokyo / Japan |
| 2021 | “TORNSCAPE” SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo / Japan |
| 2020 | “Oracle,” GYRE GALLERY, Tokyo / Japan |
| 2019 | “Recent Works,” PACE Gallery Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| 2018 | “Biomatrix,” SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo / Japan |
| 2017 | “VESSEL,” ARARIO GALLERY SHANGHAI, Shanghai / China |
| 2015 | “MOVEMENT,” ARARIO GALLERY SHANGHAI, Shanghai / China |
| 2013 | “KOHEI NAWA | SANDWICH-CREATIVE PLATFORMFOR CONTEMPORARY ART,” EYE OF GYRE, Tokyo / Japan |
| 2012 | “Kohei Nawa-TRANS | SANDWICH,” Hankyu Umeda Gallery, Osaka / Japan |
| 2011 | “GRID-Synthesis KOHEI NAWA,” B Gallery, Tokyo / Japan |
| 2010 | “Synthesis,” SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo / Japan |
| 2009 | “Transcode,” Gallery Nomart, Osaka / Japan |
| 2008 | “PixCell,” Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing / China |
| 2007 | “PixCell,” Ierimonti Gallery, Milan / Italy |
| 2006 | “AIR,” Nomart project space cube & loft, Osaka / Japan |
| 2005 | “Drawings,” studio J, Osaka / Japan |
| 2004 | “Catalyst,” Nomart project space cube & loft, Osaka / Japan |
| 2003 | “CELL-osmosis,” UPLINK GALLERY, Tokyo / Japan |
| 2002 | “Kyoto Art Map, NAWA Kohei,” Gallery Maronie, Kyoto / Japan |
| 2001 | “Art Synapse 2001, NAWA Kohei,” Gallery Maronie, Kyoto / Japan |
| 2000 | “ANIMAZUMO,” Gallery SOWAKA, Kyoto / Japan |
Group Exhibitions
| 2024 | “-Hyakunengo Art Festival -Uchiboso Art Festival,” KURKKU FIELDS, Chiba / Japan “Absolute Chairs,” Saitama Museum of Modern Art, Saitama / Japan |
| 2023 | “Iris van Herpen. Sculpting the Senses,” Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris / France “Data is the New Oil,” THE REFERENCE, Seoul / South Korea “SUMMER FESTIVAL from the Taguchi Art Collection,” Kagoshima City Museum of Art, Kagoshima / Japan “Rolling the gray muds of dream,” Mtk Contemporary Art, Kyoto / Japan “Art in Love with Design ♡ Design Envious of Art,” Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka / Japan “MOT Collection: Membrane of the Time / Breathing,” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo / Japan “TAGUKORE: Dunno A Thing About Art (But I Like It),” Kadokawa Culture Museum, Saitama / Japan |
| 2022 | “Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams,” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo / Japan “The trace of Hakushu – What’s Art Camp Hakushu?,” Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba / Japan “Since 1989 NOMART,” Ginza Tsutaya Books GINZA ATRIUM, Tokyo / Japan “MAM Collection 015: Welcome to the Fairyland,” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo / Japan “OKETA COLLECTION “Mariage: From Antiques to Contemporary Art”,” WHAT MUSEUM, Tokyo / Japan “N/World,” MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto / Japan “Range of the Senses: What It Means to “Experience” Today,” National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka / Japan |
| 2021 | “Treasure 1” Gallery Nomart, Osaka / Japan “Living in symbiosis with Forest and Water,” Nagano Prefectural Art Museum, Nagano / Japan “Reborn-Art Festival 2021-22,” Miyagi / Japan “NO SIDE” Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store, Contemporary gallery, Tokyo / Japan “Next World – Taguchi Art Collection x Iwaki City Art Museum,” Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima / Japan “Kiinseido,” Meiji Jingu, Tokyo / Japan “TAIYO,” MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto / Japan |
| 2020 | “Self Portrait,” Gallery Nomart, Osaka / Japan “250 Years of Kyoto Art Masterpieces,” Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto / Japan “OKETA COLLECTION: A NEW DECADE,” Spiral Garden, Tokyo / Japan “Cherish, your imagination,” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo / Japan “Chewing Gum IV,” Pace Gallery Hong Kong, Hong Kong “Animals in Art,” ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj / Denmark “Meiji Jingu Forest Festival of Art: Tenkukaikatsu,” Meiji Jingu, Tokyo / Japan “SCAI 30th Anniversary Exhibition,” SCAI PARK, Tokyo / Japan “The 32th Kyoto Art Culture Award Exhibition,” The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto / Japan |
| 2019 | “Miracle,” Gallery Nomart, Osaka / Japan “Globe as a Palette ; Contemporary Art from The Taguchi Art Collection,” Sapporo Art Museum, Hokkaido / Japan “SHITSURAI−The Arrangement of Contemporary Arts by Hideki Murayama,” Art Gallery X at Takashimaya Nihombashi,Tokyo / Japan “raison d’etre,” GUM OMOTESANDO, Tokyo / Japan “Globe as a Palette ; Contemporary Art from The Taguchi Art Collection,” Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido / Japan “Takahashi Collection,” Tsuruoka Art Forum, Yamagata / Japan “Throughout Time: The Sense of Beauty,” Nijo-jo Castle, Kyoto / Japan “Reborn-Art Festival 2019,” Miyagi / Japan “Takahashi Collection,” Tsuruoka Art Forum, Yamagata / Japan “Globe as a Palette ; Contemporary Art from The Taguchi Art Collection,” Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido / Japan "Conversations: Contemporary Asian Art,” Hermitage Museum & Gardens, Norfolk / USA "The Life of Animals in Japanese Art," The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. / USA “Globe as a Palette ; Contemporary Art from The Taguchi Art Collection,” Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art, Hokkaido / Japan “Tokyo Independent 2019,” Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo / Japan “Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition,” Wuzhen / China “Weavers of Worlds - A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art -,” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo / Japan |
| 2018 | “Buddha’s Life, Path to the Present,” The New Church Amsterdam, Amsterdam / Netherlands “COMPLEX - edition & multiple,” Gallery Nomart, Osaka / Japan “FUKAMI, a dive into Japanese aesthetics,” Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, Paris / France “AllStars,” Gallery Nomart, Osaka / Japan |
| 2017 | “GLOBAL NEW ART – The Essence of Taguchi Art Collection,” WOODONE MUSEUM OF ART, Hiroshima / Japan “Japanorama. A new vision on art since 1970,” Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz / France “Reborn-Art Festival 2017,” Miyagi / Japan “TAKAHASHI COLLECTION Mindfulness 2017,” Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata / Japan “Voice Of Asia,” ARARIO GALLERY SHANGHAI, Shanghai / China |
| 2016 | “Setouchi Triennale 2016: Inujima Art House Project,” F-Art House, Okayama / Japan “Aichi Triennale 2016: The column project, Trans-dimensional Photos: Images in the Future Tense,” Aichi / Japan “New Sensorium – Exiting from Failures of Modernization–,” ZKM, Karlsruhe / Germany “Commemorating 400 years of Rinpa – The Advent of Rinpa – Touring the “Rinpa Code” of the Pre-Modern / Modern / Contemporary,” Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto / Japan |
| 2015 | “Jahresgaben 2015: Art - Can,” Gallery Nomart, Osaka / Japan “COSMOS / INTIME – La collection Takahashi,” Japanese Cultural Center in Paris, Paris / France “Kokufu’s work and colleagues,” ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka / Japan “THE HOSOMI COLLECTION AND THE CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS OF KYOTO,” Hosomi Museum, Kyoto / Japan “TAKAHASHI COLLECTION Mirror Neuron,” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo / Japan “Taguchi Hiroshi Art Collection A Walk around the Contemporary Art World after Paradigm Shift,” The Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Gifu / Japan “Prudential Eye Awards 2015,” ArtScience Museum, Singapore “Visual Deception II: Into the Future,” Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi / Japan |
| 2014 | “M Home: Living in Space RedStar Macalline Art Project,” Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing / China “THE MIRROR - Hold the Mirror up to nature -,” Nagoya Chamber of Commerce & Industry Hall, Tokyo / Japan “NOMART 25th Anniversary Event vol.3 FACTORY HOUSE,” Gallery Nomart, Osaka / Japan “NOMART 25th Anniversary Event vol.2 Speaking Sculpture,” Gallery Nomart, Osaka / Japan “Beyond and Between,” Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul / South Korea “Appetizing Art: When Art Meets Food,” Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa / Japan “Visual Deception II: Into the Future,” Bunkamura The Museum, Tokyo / Japan “Museum of Art in Waao!! – exciting Art x Craft Exhibition,” Urasoe City Museum of Art, Okinawa / Japan “NOMART 25th Anniversary Event vol.1 Favorite Books,” Gallery Nomart, Osaka / Japan “mission [SPACE×ART]-beyond cosmologies,” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo / Japan “ULTRA × ANTEROOM exhibition,” HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO, Kyoto / Japan “Making Links: 25 years,” SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo / Japan |
| 2013 | “AICHI TRIENNALE 2013,” Aichi / Japan “Inujima Art House Project,” F-Art House, Okayama / Japan |
| 2012 | “Parallel Japanese Worlds,” A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu / China “PEKE 1, Talk Session and Exhibition,” Gallery Nomart, Osaka / Japan “LADY DIOR AS SEEN BY,” DIOR GINZA, Tokyo / Japan |
| 2011 | “BOX,” Gallery Nomart, Osaka / Japan “Artists with Arario 2011, Part 1,” ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL, Seoul / South Korea “Beyond,” SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo / Japan “Glasstress 2011,” Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti, Venice / Italy “SPIRITUTAINMENT,” 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok / Thailand “Bye Bye Kitty,” JAPAN SOCIETY, New York / USA |
| 2010 | “Trans–Cool TOKYO: Contemporary Japanese Art from MOT Collection,” Singapore Art Museum, Singapore “NIPPON ART NEXT,” Kyoto University of Art and Design University . Tohoku University of Art and Design, Gaien Campus, Tokyo / Japan “CITY2.0–The Evolutionary Theory of Contemporary City on the WEB Generation,” EYE OF GYRE, Tokyo / Japan “14th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh 2010,” Dhaka / Bangladesh “Living in Evolution,” Busan Biennale 2010, Busan / South Korea “PRODUCT,” Gallery Nomart, Osaka / Japan “Trans–Cool TOKYO: Contemporary Japanese Art from MOT Collection,” Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok / Thailand “Franks-Suss Collection,” Saatchi Gallery, London / UK “Great New Wave: Contemporary Art from Japan,” Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia / Canada |
| 2009 | “Animamix Biennial-Visial Attract and Attack,” Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei / Taiwan “Hitoshi Nomura: View From Space, From Here On…,” ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka / Japan “The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art,” Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland / Australia “WAR & ART IV – Terror and Simulacrum of Beauty -,” Kyoto University of Art and Design, Galerie Aube, Kyoto / Japan “From Home to the Museum: Tanaka Tsuneko Collection,” The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Wakayama / Japan “neoteny japan, Takahashi Collection,” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo / Japan “Reborn,” Gallery Nomart, Osaka / Japan “MOT Field of Dreams,” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo / Japan “VOCA 2009,” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo / Japan |
| 2008 | “Black State,” studio J, Osaka / Japan “The Echo,” ZAIM, Kanagawa / Japan “Parallel World,” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo / Japan “JAPANESE GROUP SHOW SENJIRU - INFUSION,” Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich / Switzerland “Great New Wave: Contemporary Art from Japan,” Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario / Canada “Vivid Material,” Tokyo University of Arts, Tokyo / Japan |
| 2007 | “Roppongi Crossing 2007: Future Beats in Japanese Contemporary Art,” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo / Japan “ArtScope 2005/2006”, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin / Germany |
| 2006 | “Material: White Book,” Nomart project space cube & loft, Osaka / Japan “A MUSE LAND 2007 Beautiful Dreamer,” Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido / Japan “Smooth Sailing for BEARING NSK Bearing Art Exhibition,” Spiral Garden, Tokyo / Japan “Banquet: A Feast for the Senses,” USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena / USA “Art Scope 2005/2006,” Hara Museum, Tokyo / Japan “Collection of Hara Museum,” Hara Museum ARK, Gunma / Japan “Hybridity: The Evolution of Spaces and Spaces in 21st Century Art,” 21c Museum Hotels, Louisville / USA |
| 2005 | “Valencia Biennial - Agua sin ti no soy,” Valencia / Spain “Nimbi and Penumbrae,” Dumbo Arts Center, New York / USA “ISCP open weekend,” ISCP Studio, New York / USA “Visualize - The history and the futurescape of visual media,” Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo / Japan “Diverse Ways of Happiness - Japan Art Program Exhibition,” EXPO 2005 Aichi Global Common 2, Aichi / Japan “Diverse Ways of Happiness – Proposal Drawing Exhibition,” Spiral, Tokyo / Japan |
| 2004 | “Jahres Gaben,” Nomart project space cube & loft, Osaka / Japan “Have We Met?,” Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo / Japan “Hi-energy field,” Tamada Projects Art Space, Tokyo / Japan “Cafe in Mito 2004,” Art Tower Mito - Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Gallery, Ibaraki / Japan “Hi-energy field,” KPO Kirin Plaza, Osaka / Japan “sotto,” Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto / Japan “Multiples,” Nomart Editions / project space cube & loft, Osaka / Japan “OSAKA -ART- KALEIDOSCOPE, OSAKA 04,” CASO, Osaka / Japan “Premonition-S,” Gallery Sowaka, Kyoto / Japan “WINTER SHOW,” SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo / Japan |
| 2003 | “KIRIN ART AWARD 2003 Osaka,” KPO Kirin Plaza, Osaka / Japan “Take Art Collection,” Spiral, Tokyo / Japan “KIRIN ART AWARD 2003 Tokyo,” Hillside Forum, Tokyo / Japan “Art Court Frontier 2003,” ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka / Japan “OMAMORI,” Gallery Maronie, Kyoto / Japan “trans,” Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto / Japan “Selected Artists in Kyoto (Grand Prix),” The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto / Japan |
| 2002 | “Art in CASO,” CASO, Osaka / Japan |
| 2001 | “boomerang art project Report,” Gallery Sowaka, Kyoto / Japan “Saw You – boomerang art project,” GAK, Bremen / Germany “NOMART 01,” CASO, Osaka / Japan “Nomart Projects 2001, Image and Materiality,” Nomart Edition / project space, Osaka / Japan |
| 2000 | “FEED BACK,” Gallery Sowaka, Kyoto / Japan “boomerang art project 2000-2001,” Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto / Japan “Wool in Wool IWATE,” Koiwai Farm, Iwate / Japan “Art Synapse 2000,” Gallery Maronie, Kyoto / Japan “boomerang art project, First Throw,” Galerie Weissraum, Kyoto / Japan |
| 1999 | “OSMOSIS,” Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, London / UK |
Collaborations
| 2024 | “Planet [wanderer],” Grand Théâtre de Genève, Geneva / Switzerland “From the Edge,” YCC Kenmin Bunka Hall, Yamanashi / Japan |
| 2023 | “Planet [wanderer],” Kampnagel, Hamburg / Germany “Planet [wanderer],” Charleroi danse Les Écuries, Charleroi / Belgium “VESSEL,” Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona / Spain “VESSEL,” Festspielhaus Bregenz, Bregenz / Austria “VESSEL,” La Filature, Mulhouse / France |
| 2022 | “Mist,” Kwai Tsing Theatre, Hong Kong “Mist,” Rabozaal - Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam / Netherlands “Mist,” Amare, Den Haag / Netherlands “Mist,” CINEMA MASSIMO, Turin / Italy “VESSEL,” Teatro Fonderie Limone,Turin / Italy “Mist,” Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna / Austria “Mist,” Online broadcasts |
| 2021 | “Planet [wanderer]” Opéra de Rouen Normandie, Rouen / France “Planet [wanderer]” Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam / Netherlands “Planet [wanderer]” Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris / France |
| 2020 | “VESSEL,” Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris / France |
| 2019 | “VESSEL,” Cloud Gate Theater, Taipei / Taiwan “VESSEL,” Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide / Australia “VESSEL,” International Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam / Netherlands “VESSEL,” Théâtre National de Bretagne, Rennes / France “VESSEL,” Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London / UK “VESSEL,” La Monnaie, Bruxelles / Kingdom of Belgium |
| 2018 | “VESSEL,” Heath Ledger Theatre, Perth / Australia |
| 2017 | “VESSEL,” Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama / Japan |
| 2016 | “VESSEL,” Inujima / Japan “KOHTEI,” Shinshoji Zen Museum and Gardens, Hiroshima / Japan “VESSEL,” ROHM Theatre Kyoto, Kyoto / Japan |
| 2015 | “VESSEL,” Creative Center Osaka, Osaka / Japan |
Public Collections
| 0 | ARARIO SCULPTURE GARDEN, Cheonan / South Korea Conrad Osaka, Osaka / Japan Daimler Art Collection, Berlin / Germany Franks-Suss Collection, London / UK Ginza Tsutaya Books, Tokyo / Japan Hara Museum, Tokyo / Japan JAPIGOZZI Collection, New York / USA Long Museum, Shanghai / China Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / USA Mori Art Museum, Tokyo / Japan Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo / Japan National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne / Australia Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / Australia Shin-Marunouchi Building, Tokyo / Japan Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa / Japan Takenaka Corporation, Tokyo / Japan The Art Foundation, Kentucky / USA The Ritz-Carlton Kyoto, Kyoto / Japan The Sovereign Art Foundation, Hong Kong Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho, Tokyo / Japan Tokyo Midtown, Tokyo / Japan Toyota Art Collection, Aichi / Japan Toyosu Front, Tokyo / Japan Daimaru Shinsaibashi Store, Osaka / Japan Grand Hyatt at SFO, San Francisco / USA ShinPuhKan, Kyoto / Japan Hyogo Prefecture Kobe Kenmin Center, Hyogo / Japan Museum on Echigo-Tsumari, Niigata / Japan E.SUN Commercial Bank ltd., Taipei / Taiwan Naoshima Ryokan ROKA, Kagawa / Japan Wuhan Mixc, Wuhan / China COMICO ART MUSEUM YUFUIN, Oita / Japan Hauts-de-Seine / France SHINDO YARDS, Mie / Japan |
Awards
| 2019 | 32nd Kyoto Art Culture Award |
| 2018 | Pen CREATOR AWARDS 2018, Tokyo / Japan |
| 2017 | Distinguished Service, Kyoto Prefecture Cultural Award 2017, Kyoto / Japan |
| 2011 | Kyoto New Artist Award 2011, Kyoto / Japan |
| 2010 | First Prize, 14th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh 2010, Dhaka / Bangladesh |