Mirage#58, Synthetic paper, acrylic paint, silver leaf, aluminium foil, 1100×2300mm

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

2024
REST IN SILVER/ JD Malat Gallery (London, UK)
2023
Constant mutation / Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery (Tokyo, Japan )
Immerse yourself in the transitory nature, Open Creation Project/ What Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
2021
Stillness /YUKIKO MIZUTANI (Tokyo, Japan)
2020
Under the Moonlight/ JD Malat Gallery (London, UK)
2017
Mirage/ Tokyo Arts Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2016
Mirage/ Gallery Art Composition (Tokyo, Japan)


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2024
Observation/ YUKIKOMIZUTANI (Tokyo, Japan)
2023
Summer Exhibition / JD Malat Gallery (London, UK)
2022
ACTIVATE KOGEI + ART GINZA2022/ Matsuya Ginza (Tokyo, Japan)
Foreshadowing/ Eslite Gallery (Taipei, Taiwan)
MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2022 / Ebisu Garden Place (Tokyo, Japan)
2021
Duo Young Artist Exhibition/ Hotel Metropolitan KAWASAKI (Kawasaki, Japan)
Kuriwada Eichi special award 10th Anniversary Exhibition/ Sagawa Art Museum (Shiga, Japan)
2020
Abstraction & The Natural World/ JD Malat Gallery (London, UK)
Meiji Jingu Forest Festival of Art “Shikansuiyo Beautiful Forest and nature” /Meiji Jingu Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
THE CONTEMPORARY HUMAN CONDITION / JD Malat Gallery (London, UK)
2019
Summer Exhibition 2019/ JD Malat Gallery (London, UK)
Shimogamo Cultural Debate / Shimogamo Saryo, Kyoto , Japan
2017
( 刓 . 婉 . 完 ) Group Exhibition / ujang art gallery (Seoul, South Korea)
2015
Stars Popped out of Chaos - Next generation of artists - Kyoto University of Art and
Design/ SPIRAL (Tokyo, Japan)
Kuriwada Eichi Special Award Ceremony/ Sagawa Art Museum (Shiga, Japan)
Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2015/ Tokyo, Japan


ART FAIRS
2025
Art Fair Tokyo 2025/ by YUKIKOMIZUTANI (Tokyo, Japan)
2024
Art Fair Tokyo 2024/ by YUKIKOMIZUTANI (Tokyo, Japan)
2022
ARTIST’S FAIR KYOTO / by YUKIKOMIZUTANI（Kyoto, Japan）
2021
Art Fair Tokyo 2021/ by YUKIKOMIZUTANI (Tokyo, Japan)
2020
Contemporary Istanbul/ by JD Malat Gallery (Istanbul, Turkey)
2019
ZONA MACO/ by JD Malat Gallery (CDMX, Mexico)
Contemporary Istanbul/ JD Malat Gallery (Istanbul, Turkey)
Art Central Hong Kong 2019 / by Gallery Art Composition (Hong Kong)
2018
Art Fair Tokyo 2018/ by Gallery Art Composition (Tokyo, Japan)
VOLTA NY/ Gallery Art Composition (PIER 90 NY, USA)
KIAF 2018 ART SEOUL / by Gallery Art Composition (Seoul, South Korea)
ARTIST’S FAIR KYOTO / by Gallery Art Composition（Kyoto, Japan）
2017
Art Fair Tokyo2017/ by Gallery Art Composition (Tokyo, Japan)
Art Jakarta/ Gallery Art Composition (Jakarta, Indonesia)
2016
Art Fair Tokyo 2016/ by Gallery Art Composition (Tokyo, Japan)
Art Osaka / by Gallery Art Composition (Osaka, Japan)
2015
ART TAIPEI 2015 / by Gallery Art Composition (Taipei)



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.