KISARAGI BIJUTSU STUDIO

About Artist

Tomoaki Nawa

Nawa was the first student from Yamagata to enroll in the Oil Painting Course at the Tokyo University of the Arts on his first attempt. While in graduate school, he studied in Milan as an Italian government-sponsored student. After returning from Italy, he obtained a doctorate in materials research of nihonga.
Not affiliated with any specific art groups, he lives in his nature-rich hometown, Higashine, Yamagata, where he pursues "realistic painting not as a moving image." His dedicated efforts to master the reality that exists between visual perception and memory evoke the work of the earliest oil painters in Japan.

Tomoaki Nawa
1976 Born in Higashine, Yamagata
1998 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Course
2000 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts Master’s Course
2002 L'espoire Solo Exhibition at Ginza Surugadai Gallery, Tokyo
2003 Studied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano (Italian Government sponsored scholarship)
2006 Obtain a Doctorate from Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts Doctor’s Course
2007 Solo Exhibition in Yamagata
2011 Solo Exhibition at Kashiwa, Chiba
2012 Solo Exhibition "Weathering" at Matsuyama, Ehime/Takatsuki, Osaka
2013 Solo Exhibition "Four Seasons Landscape" at Ikebukuro, Tokyo "Weathering" at Fukui/Kobe/Chiba/Matsuyama/Yao, Osaka
2014 Solo Exhibition "Weathering" at Kashiwa/Kobe/Osaka
2015 Solo Exhibition "Weathering" at Tokorozawa, Saitama
2016 Solo Exhibition "Weathering" at Omiya, Saitama/Asahikawa, Hokkaido
"Top Runners of Contemporary Art" Exhibition at Takamatsu, Kagawa
2017 Solo Exhibition "Weathering" at Chiba/Yonago, Tottori/Funabashi, Chiba/Hiroshima
2018 Solo Exhibition "Weathering" at Hiroshima/Kobe/Takatsuki
2019年 Solo Exhibition "Weathering" at Yonago
Group Exhibition “6th scene” at Ikebukuro/Hiroshima/Yokohama
2020年 Solo Exhibition "Weathering" at Tennoji
Present Based in Higashine, Yamagata, Nonaffiliated artist

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