Kengo Nakamura

Kengo Nakamura’s Contemporary Japanese-Style Painting / 中村ケンゴ的當代日式繪畫

Kengo Nakamura’s solo exhibition will be held at AKI Gallery in Taiwan. The exhibition will feature new works created since his first solo exhibition in Taiwan in 2021, as well as his new series of paintings of Japanese hiragana “Hiragana Painting”, in addition to his previous series.

We are pleased to announce Kengo Nakamura’s solo exhibition “Kengo Nakamura’s Contemporary Japanese-Style Painting” at AKI Gallery in Taiwan. Nakamura studied Japanese painting at Tama Art University and its postgraduate course, and has created unique paintings with motifs that represent contemporary society, such as emoticons in emails, manga balloons and character silhouettes. These works are produced with Japanese painting techniques and he has also studied its colours and textures in recent years. In addition to collaborating with creators from other genres, he is also involved in organising exhibitions and symposia, and is one of the leading artists of our time. With growing international reputation, Nakamura had his first solo exhibition in Taiwan at AKI Gallery in 2021, and he also exhibited in “Scenery in Mock-up” at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts in Taipei in the same year. In August 2024, his second solo exhibition at AKI Gallery will be held. This exhibition will focus on his new paintings since the last exhibition there, and in addition to previous series such as “Without Me”, “Shinbun Itchi” and “Japanese Frogs”, it will also feature a new series of paintings of Japanese hiragana “Hiragana Painting”, comprehensively for the first time. 

In the 1990s, Nakamura attempted to connect pop culture and traditional painting, and in recent years his interest has shifted to the relationship between Japanese culture, including East Asian culture, and modern painting, with Hiragana Painting series, “Ego Mandala”, “○△□” from Shinbun Itchi series, *“Modern Lovers” and *“JAPANS” series amongst the new initiatives.

*Not shown in this exhibition

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