Nachi Usuda

臼田那智

I wish for the moment one comes into contact with my art to bring pure wonder, joy and beauty. For this I, as an instrument, process inputs into something positive, documenting the outcome.
Be it something dirty, such as scraps, that I incorporate in my art and give them a new, beautiful side–
Be it a stale sense of values, that I flexibly reshape–
Or be it emotion normally kept hidden inside, that I set free and let run wild, uncovering one's true colors. Meeting another gives birth to such change.
To me, continuing to bring about change is intricately connected to life itself. As such, the color linked to life, red – the color of the human body – features frequently in my work.

born in 1991 in Nagano, Japan / raised in Tokio / living in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki, Japan Education Graduated in Japanese Painting from the College of Art and Design at Musashino Art University, Japan in 2014 (BA in Art and Design)

Project
2017-2018"Art Trial at Umezu 2017", at the Hitachiota Special Support School and Umezu Hall, Ibaraki, Japan
2017-“Plastic Practice Project”, in Nakaminato, Hitachinaka, Ibaraki
Artist in Residence
2017“Dai-Kyoto in Maizuru 2017”, in Maizuru, Kyoto, Japan
2016“Kyoto Re-Search 2016”, in Maizuru, Kyoto
Solo Exhibition
2016“Show of The color called live & Portrait” in Gallery cafe Cherry Red, Kokubunji, Tokyo Japan
2012“So Kindly”, at the Musashino Art University Kodaira Tokyo
Group Exhibiton
2018“Kinokuni Train Art 2018” on the Shopping Street in Tanabe, Tanabe, Wakayama Japan
2017“Photo and Painting of The Two” in Gallery Cafe Cherry Red, Kokubunji, Tokyo
2017“Kinokuni Train Art 2017” at the JP-Kinokuni Line Nachi station, Nachikatsuura, Wakayama
2017“MMM Minato Media Museum 2017” in Byakkagura, Nakaminato, Hitachinaka, Ibaraki
2017“Musashino Art University Festival” in Galley Cafe Jalona, Akasaka Minato, Tokyo
2017“SICF 18” in Aoyama Spiral, Minato, Tokyo
2016“MMM Minato Media Museum 2016” in Byakkagura, Nakaminato, Hitachinaka, Ibaraki
2016“Musashino Art University Festival” in Gallery Cafe Jalona, Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo
2016“30th Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program” in Omotesando Gyre, Shibuya, Tokyo
2016“The M Exhibition –Artists from Musashino Art University” in Gallery Pio, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
2015“Kokubunji Art Gallery” in Bar Sei, Kokubunji, Tokyo
2015“Musashino Art University Festival” in Galley Cafe Jalona, Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo
2015“Kokubunji Art Gallery” in Asian Restaurant Nikainozousan, Kokubunji, Tokyo
2014“Musashino Art University” in Gallery Cafe Jalona, Minato, Tokyo
2014“The Five Tokyo Art Universities’ Graduation Exhibition” in the national art center, Tokyo
2014“Musashino Art University’s Graduation Exhibition” at the Musashino Art University, Kodaira, Tokyo
2013“Atmosphere” at the Musashino Art University, Kodaira, Tokyo
2013“Art and Temple” in Myōkengu-Toukouin, Fukuo, Tokyo
2013“The 43 Windows“ at the Musashino Art University, Kodaira, Tokyo
2012“Musashino Art University Market” in Orionshobo in Lumine-Tachikawa, Tachikawa, Tokyo
2012“Design Festival vol. 35” in Tokyo Big Sight, Kōtō, Tokyo
2011“Sprout-Emerging Japanese Artists in NY Exhibition” in 2/20 Galley, New York, USA
2011“The Incomplete Eyes” at the Musashino Art University, Kodaira, Tokyo
2011“Design Festival vol. 33” in Tokyo Big Sight, Kōtō, Tokyo
Prize
2017 “Hitachinaka Block –Hitachinaka Chamber of Commerce”, MMM Minato Media Museum 2017
2016 “New Face Award”, The M Exhibition –Artists from Musashino Art University
2016 Prize, 30th Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program
2016 “SSS, Special Award from Students and Supervisor” &
“Hitachinaka Block –Hitachinaka Chamber of Commerce”, MMM Minato Media Museum 2017
2012 “Japanese Painting Award”, Japanese Painting Labor at the Musashino Art University
Public Art
2016Post & Fresco, at the Minato Kindergarten, Hitachinaka, Ibaraki
2015Fresco, at the Trattoria Lepre, Maikata, Osaka, Japan
Permanent Exhibition
2015Ein Relief, im Asian Restaurant Nikainozousan, Kokubunji, Tokyo
2015Sechs Bilder & zwei Zeichen, im Bar Sei, Kokubunji, Tokyo