nca | nichido contemporary art

Kazuya Sakamoto

Born in Tottori, Japan, 1985
Currently lives and works in Tottori

Education

2012
BFA, Painting, Nagoya University of Art, Aichi

2014
MFA, Contemporary Art, Nagoya University of Art, Aichi

2017-18
Selected for the Agency for Cultural Affairs Program of Overseas Study in Taipei

Solo Exhibitions

2024
IN BLOOM, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan

2020
Spring ephemeral, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan

2018
Symbiosis, galerie nichido Taipei, Taipei

2017
Kazuya Sakamoto - Landscape gardening -, Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan

2016
Between Breaths, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan

2012
ALA Project No.9 Kazuya Sakamoto, ART LAB AICHI, Aichi, Japan

2010
a ripple, hinten, Aichi, Japan

Group Exhibitions

2024
Summer at Galerie Nichido Karuizawa, Galerie Nichido, Nagano, Japan

2023
◯△×□, CENTER/EDO, Tokyo, Japan
Natural Compositions, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan

2022
Young Okazaki vol.2, MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan

2021
Abstraction by CADAN, ISETAN ART GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
SITES UNSEEN - An endless call to life from the center -, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
Next World - Taguchi Art Collection x Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan
SMALL., nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan

2020
Routes to Roots, galerie nichido Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

2019
SMALL WORKS: an endless journey, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan

2017
Identity XIII - Je t’aime… moi non plus - A love journey through art - curated by Daisuke Miyatsu -, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan

2015
nca new generation project - Sensing Body, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
Fruitfulness - Contemporary Art in Toyokawa, Toyokawa City Sakuragaoka Museum, Aichi, Japan
Arts Challenge 2015, Aichi Arts Center, Aichi, Japan

2014
Some Like It Witty, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, China

2013
session, Art&Design center, Aichi, Japan
OPEN STUDio, artist run space i/o, Aichi, Japan

2012
Mitsudo III, ART LAB AICHI, Aichi, Japan
TOKYO WONDER SEEDS 2012, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

2011
Various Speeds, VOICE GALLERY, Kyoto, Japan

2010
party, hinten, Aichi, Japan
CIRCLE 2, Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts Satellite Gallery, Aichi, Japan

2009
Bikei Yusyu, Kasugai Civic Cultural Foundation Aichi, Japan
FRESH, R2, Chiba, Japan

Awards

2014
Niwa Incentive Student Daiko Foundation

2012
President’s Prize for Oustanding Student Nagoya University of Arts