TANAKA NAGAMINE Ryosuke

Profile

 Born in Kagawa, Japan in 1990. Lives and works in Tokyo. Studied at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, Poland in 2016. Graduated with an MFA in Mural Painting from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2017.

Recent exhibitions
2025 “in your eyes,”  tata bookshop/gallery , Tokyo
2024 “Annoying but Interesting,” NITO, Tokyo
2023 “Asy - multiple silent tasks for being talkative,” Art Ka Bifun Ka Paichu, Tokyo
2022 “Plant a tree, and then,” aosubashi /Minamisoma, Fukushima,
2021“ALTERNATIVE KYOTO Landscape Rippers 3,”  Midono, Kyoto


Awards
2024 “Image Forum Institute of Moving Image Degree Show” Excellence award
2022 Minamisoma City Culture and Arts FUREAI Project Artist-in-Residence Minamisoma “Gunjyo Odaka”  Selected
2018 Agency for Cultural Affairs Artist-in-Residence Activity Support Program Move Arts Japan Artist in Residence program Bilateral Artist                    Exchange Program Taiwanån Selected

About works

What I want to value the most is "I in society." I believe that people who live in a society are not "others," they are "I." Society tends to group these individual selves together and turn them into passive beings. I believe that people living in society alongside “I” are not “others” but rather their own individual “I” living their own lives. What I aim to achieve with my art is to express the unique possibilities and unresolved emotions inherent in each individual “I”. More specifically, I want to use my art to learn more about each other and to find a way of living more actively. And, I take both my father and mother’s last names.