ARTISTS

Masayoshi Nojo

Mirage#12

Masayoshi Nojo, born in 1989, completed his MA in Japanese Paintings in 2015.
He fuses contemporary visual languages with Japanese aesthetics to explore themes of memory and the passage of time.

During his studies, he became interested in collective memory. His exploration of time and memory is achieved using an innovative variety of mixed media and other techniques. He selects mixed media, including photography, to eliminate the arbitrariness of creation. He abstracts form and colors from photographs as the minimum constituent elements of image in memories.

By disassembling and reconstructing his photographs with metal foils, the photographs, affected by both light and space transform into forms of faint existence, abstracting the factuality of photography. With this unique process, he conjures a sense of deja-vu in the viewer, evoking their memories from deep within subconscious.


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2022
“The Wheel of Time", Nihombashi Contemporary Gallery / Tokyo
2021
“Stillness", YUKIKOMIZUTANI / Tokyo
2020
“Under the moonlight", JD Malat Gallery / London
2017
“Mirage”, Tokyo arts gallery / Tokyo
2016
“Mirage”, Gallery Art Composition / Tokyo


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2022
“Foreshadowing”, ESLITE Gallery / Taipei, Taiwan
“MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2022”, Yebisu Garden Place / Tokyo
“ACTIVATE”, KOGEI + ART GINZA 2022
2021
“Group Exhibition”, Hotel Metropolitan KAWASAKI / Kawasaki, Japan
“Kuriwada Eiichi special award 10th Anniversary Exhibition”, Sagawa Art Museum / Shiga, Japan
2020
“JD Malat Gallery POP-UP Group Exhibition”, Gallerie 10 / St. Moritz, Switzerland
Meiji Jingu Forest Festival of Art “Shikansuiyo – Beautiful Forest and nature”, Meiji Jingu Museum / Tokyo
“THE CONTEMPORARY HUMAN CONDITION”, JD Malat Gallery / London
2019
“Group Exhibition”, JD Malat Gallery / London
“Shimogamo Cultural Debate”, Shimogamo – Saryo / Kyoto
2018
“Group Exhibition”, JD Malat Gallery / London
“Shimogamo Cultural Debate”, Shimogamo – Saryo / Kyoto
2017
“Group Exhibition”, ujang art gallery / Seoul
2015
“Kuriwada Eiichi special award exhibition”, Sagawa Art Museum / Shiga, Japan
“Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2015”, Marunouchi Building 1F / Tokyo
“Starts popped out of Chaos – Next generation of artists”, SPIRAL / Tokyo
“Brilliant Corners”, Tokyo Arts Gallery / Tokyo


ART FAIRS
2022
YUKIKOMIZUTANI, ARTIST’S FAIR KYOTO / Kyoto
2021
YUKIKOMIZUTANI , ART FAIR TOKYO 2021 / Tokyo
2020
JD Malat Gallery, Contemporary Istanbul 2020 / Istanbul, Turkey
2019
JD Malat Gallery, Contemporary Istanbul 2019 / Istanbul, Turkey
Gallery Art Composition, Art Central Hong Kong 2019 / Hong Kong
JD Malat Gallery, ZONAMACO 2019 / Mexico City, Mexico
2018
Gallery Art Composition, KIAF 2018 ART SEOUL / Seoul
Gallery Art Composition, VOLTA NEW YORK 2018 / New York
Gallery Art Composition, ART FAIR TOKYO 2018 / Tokyo
Gallery Art Composition, ARTIST’S FAIR KYOTO / Kyoto
2017
ART JAKARTA 2017 / Gallery Art Composition, Jakarta, Indonesia
ART FAIR TOKYO 2017 / Gallery Art Composition, Tokyo, Japan
2016
Gallery Art Composition, ART OSAKA 2016 / Osaka
Gallery Art Composition, ART FAIR TOKYO 2016 / Tokyo
2015
Gallery Art Composition, ART TAIPEI 2015 / Taipei, Taiwan


AWARDS
2014
Kyoto University of Art and Design Graduate Diploma Exhibition
Sagawa Art Museum Eiichi Kuriwada Special Award
2013
Academic Prize, 2013 Kyoto University of Art and Design Graduation Exhibition
Grand Prize, Art Bar 2013 Creation of Kyoto
Albion Award 2013
Grand Prize, Turner Award 2013
TOKYO WONDER SEED 2013
2012
The 6th Seison Maeda Prize
The 8th World Painting Grand Prize
2009
Grand Prize, Tadasu no Mori Dessin Contest


COLLECTION
Sagawa Art Museum, OCA Tokyo, Universal Music Japan, THE PRICE GALLERY TOKYO KIOICHO, HOTEL MYSTAYS PREMIER Group (Japan), Ueshiba Collection, DMG MORI CO., LTD.

Mirage#53 Synthetic Paper, acrylic, silver foil, aluminum foil 110×160cm 2020

Mirage#53 Synthetic Paper, acrylic, silver foil, aluminum foil 110×160cm 2020

Mirage #18 cotton on panel, acrylic, silver foil, aluminum foil, 200×160cm 2019

Mirage #18 cotton on panel, acrylic, silver foil, aluminum foil, 200×160cm 2019

Untitled cotton on panel, acrylic, silver foil, aluminum foil 110×73cm 2018

Untitled cotton on panel, acrylic, silver foil, aluminum foil 110×73cm 2018