ARCH is pleased to announce the exhibition Sleep Walk by Yu Nishimura (b. 1982 Japan).

Yu Nishimura lives and works in Japan. In 2004 he graduated from Tama Art University, Oil Painting Course, Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art and Design.
Depicting universal mental landscapes with personal language, Yu Nishimura infuses his work with animism that echoes both Japanese anime and street photography. There are no defined themes of gender, race, or politics, but the work decants a poetry and passion for the world that ultimately becomes a political act of resistance, a rereading of the universe around us, recounting the aura of everyday life by placing it in an emotional and dreamlike pictorial space.
Yu Nishimura often refers, in his painting practice to the notion of “portrait”, referring to, beyond human portraiture, to a quality in various painted situations such as a person walking alone in a forest, animals doing different things, a car speeding away, landscape elements. One of the characteristics of his paintings is that they are constructed with overlaid layers of painterly elements, such as contours of a figure and planes of color, all overlapped with slight misalignment. The image thus becomes fluid and presents afterimage-like effects.
“The focus of this show is on the surface and background of the works. I would like to select paintings that allow the audience to move between the foreground and background of each individual work as well as the connections between the works. The main context is the juxtaposition of indoor and outdoor spaces, the distance between people, and the intermingling elements of the changing seasons.” -Yu Nishimura

Solo & duo shows (selection): 
The Sequel: Twin Boat Songs - Verdigris Vessel, two-person show with Kazuaki Takezaki, Echigo-Tsumari, Tōkamachi (JP)(2023); DECEMBER LIGHT, La Società delle Api, Monaco (MC)(2023); State of Stillness, Crèvecœur, Paris (FR)(2022); Ebb Tide, Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw (PL)(2021); Scene of beholder, Crèvecœur, Paris (FR)(2020); Around October, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo (JP)(2020); Aperto 09 Nishimura Yu -paragraph, Kanazawa 21st Century Museum, Ishikawa (JP)(2018); portrait, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo (JP)(2017); projection, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo (JP)(2016); project N 61, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo (JP)(2015); TWS-Emerging 202 Yu Nishimura:The Senery Carried, TWS Hongo, Tokyo (JP)(2013); Haruhi Painting Triennale: Artist Series Vol.65 Yu Nishimura, Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum, Aichi (JP)(2010).

Group shows (selection):
Drop Scene, Chapter NY, New York (US)(2024); Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood, Blum, Tokyo (JP)(2024); “Pictures Girls Make” : Portraitures, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (US)(2023); L’INCONTRO, Le Quai, Monaco (MC)(2023); Portraits, Crèvecœur, Paris (FR)(2023); CADAN Yurakucho, Tokyo (JP)(2023);TRACK, DASH, STROKE, Goya Curtain, Tokyo (JP)(2023); Open Storage: 25 Years of Collecting, The Warehouse, Dallas (US)(2022); Tiere, MD BAR, Cologne (DE)(2022); An Exhibition with Little Information, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (MOCA Busan), Busan (KR)(2022); Natural Function, Spiral Garden, Omotesando, Tokyo (JP)(2022); Shifting Glances, Simone Subal Gallery, New York (US)(2022); Space, Laurel Gitlen, New York (US)(2022); Gute Nacht, curated by Oriane Durand, Braunsfelder, Cologne (DE)(2022); FLOWERS & BIRDS, Tomio Koyama, Tokyo (JP)(2021); The Prophetic Pictures, Crèvecœur, Paris (FR)(2021);L’INCONTRO, curated by Cristiano Raimondi, Le Quai, Monte Carlo (MC)(2021); Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (MOCA Busan), Busan (KR)(2021);Emerging japanese painters, SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong (HK) (2021); Next World, Taguchi Art Collection x Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima (JP)(2021);  Eli Bornowsky & Yu Nishimura, King’s Leap, New York (US)(2021); The Sentimental Organization of the World, Crèvecœur, Paris (FR)(2020);Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum, Aichi (JP)(2020);CADAN Showcase 03, CADAN Yurakucho, Tokyo (JP)(2020); Twin Boat Songs, duo with Kazuyuki Takezaki, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo (JP(2020); Triple traveler -Tea ceremony, Ikaruga-an, Seikeitei, the Nezu Museum, Tokyo (JP)(2019); VOCA 2019, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo (JP)(2019); beyond the reasons, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo (JP)(2019);ACT Vol. 1 –First Lingering Mist of Spring, Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) Hong, Tokyo (JP)(2019); Azamino Contemporary vol.9, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Kanagawa (JP)(2018); CONDO Shanghai, GALLERY VACANCY, Shanghai (CN)(2018); Contemporary Art of The 21st Century, Exhibition of Taguchi Art Collection, The Hiratsuka museum of art, Kanagawa (JP)(2018); Hikarie Contemporary Art Eye vol.9, supervised by Tomio Koyama -through the glasses, Shibuya Hikarie, Tokyo (JP)(2018);Contemporary tales from the province 5 -Susaki artist in residence, Susaki Machikado Gallery, Kochi (JP)(2018); Shell Art Award Artists Selection, The National Art Center, Tokyo (JP)(2017); Natsu no Tobira, Organized by Misako and Jeffrey Rosen, SHANE CAMPBELL GALLERY, Chicago (US)(2017); Spring Fever, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo (JP)(2017); Winter show, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo (JP)(2017);Contemporary tales from the province 4 -Susaki artist in residence, Susaki Machikado Gallery, Kochi (JP)(2016); Imprisoned, Jailbreak, Imprisoned, Jailbreak, KAYOKOYUKI, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo (JP) )(2016);FACE 2016: FACE Award Winners -The Way of Paintings 2016, Seiji Togo Memorial, Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo (JP)(2016); Scenes of Fragments, Akibatamabi 21, Tokyo (JP)(2016); Some Like Witty –Daisuke Miyatsu collection, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong (HK)(2014); Art Kurabiraki Fujiyoshida 2014, Ono Satoshi Open Studio, Yamanashi (JP)(2014); FACE 2014: Sompo Japan Art Award Exhibition, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo (JP)(2014); Shell Art Award 2013, The National Art Center, Tokyo (JP)(2013); Tokyo Wonder Wall 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (JP)(2012); YOKOHAMA 2011 Minato-Mirai, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa (JP)(2011); The 6th Kiyosu City Haruhi Painting Trienniale, Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum, Aichi (JP)(2009).

Awards:
Grand Prize, Koji Kinutani Prize 2017
Excellent Work Award, FACE 2014:Sompo Japan Art Award Exhibition
July Incentive Award -Kenjiro Hosaka, Shell Art Award 2013
Best Prize, The 6th Kiyosu City Haruhi Painting Triennale 2009

Selected collections:
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
AMOCA Wales - Artistic Museum of Contemporary Art
Kanazawa 21st Century Museum
Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum / Aichi
MWoods Museum
Taguchi Art Collection

Artist:
Yu Nishimura

Exhibition Period:
29.05.2024–14.09.2024

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