RIE NAGAI
1990 Born in Gumma, Japan
2012 Bachelor of Japanese painting in art department, Tohoku University of Art and Design, Yamagata, Japan
2014 Master of Japanese painting in art department, Tohoku University of Art and Design, Yamagata, Japan
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Burning Blue (Galerie Suiran, Gunma, Japan)
2022 Before Dawn (Galerie Suiran, Gunma, Japan)
2021 Nacht (Galerie Suiran, Gunma, Japan)
2020 Night (Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany)
2017 Area (Galerie Suiran, Gumma, Japan)
2013 AKA-NO-ANATA - Beyond the Red / Red you (Art room enoma, Sendai, Japan)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 The 9th Higashiyama Kaii Memorial Nikkei Nihonga Award(The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo)
2024 Art of Maebashi 2024(Arts Maebashi, Gunma)
2024 Re:Another Art of Maebashi 2024(Galerie Suiran, Gunma)
2023 Pola Museum Annex Exhibition2023 -Independence and Integration-(Pola Museum Annex , Ginza, Tokyo)
2023 Re:Another Art of Maebashi 2023(Galerie Suiran, Gunma)
2022 Idemitsu Art Award Artist Selection2022(The National Art Center Tokyo, Roppongi, Tokyo)
2022 4+3=1 (SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany)
2021 The rising generation 1x1+1= (The Museum of Sibukawa City, Gumma, Japan)
2021 The rising generation What can be seen in the Box vol.5 (The Museum of Sibukawa City, Gumma, Japan)
2020 Another Art of Maebashi (Galerie Suiran, Gumma, Japan)
2017 The rising generation What can be seen in the Box vol.4 (The Museum of Sibukawa City, Gumma, Japan)
2016 Shell Art Award 2016 be accepted (The National Art Center, Tokyo)
2016 Amadare (Galerie Suiran, Gumma, Japan)
2015 The rising generation13 Rie NAGAI Yuki YANAGISAWA (The Museum of Sibukawa City, Gumma, Japan)
2015 Nakanojo Biennale 2015 (Nakanojo Town,Gumma, Japan)
2015 Amadare (Galerie Suiran, Gumma, Japan)
2014 Tohoku University of Art and Design Graduation Exhibition in Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan)
2014 The light of Tohoku (gallery KUNIMATSU Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan)
2012 Art Aoi Iwami Art College Scholarship Japan Exhibition 2013 (Shimane, Japan)
2012 The Breath of Tohoku - dadacha -(gallery Surugadai Ginza, Tokyo, Japan)
2012 Art Aoi Iwami Art College Scholarship Japan Exhibition 2012 (Shimane, Japan)
ART FAIR
2023 Art Fair Tokyo 2023 (Pola Art Foundation, Tokyo, Japan)
2014 Fountain Art Fair New York 2014 (EMP Gallery, New York, USA)
2013 Suisse Montreux Art Fair 2013 (EMP Gallery, Switzerland)
2012 Shanghai Art Fair 2012 (EMP Gallery, Shanghai)
GRANT
2019 The Pola Art Foundation grant ( residency for Künstlerhaus Bethanien)
RESIDENCIES
2019 Studio residency for the international program, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany From Nov 1, 2019 to Oct 31, 2020, As a trainee of the Pola Art Foundation
2015 Nakanojo Biennale 2015, Nakanojo Town, Gunma, Japan
2013 “San-Yu-Syoku-San-Kai” Exhibition, Asahi Town, Yamagata, Japan
2012 Hijiori Lighting Project 2012, Hijiori Hot Springs, Yamagata, Japan
AWARD
2016 Selected Shell Art Award 2016
BIOGRAPHY
2021 Interview, Jomo Shimbun (daily newspaper), 6 March 2021
2020 Be Magazine #27 p24-27, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, ISSN 0946-3585
2019 Interview, Jomo Shimbun (daily newspaper)
2016 Interview: "Seasonal person", Jomo Shimbun (daily newspaper), 30 June 2016, p.7