Taishi Nishi was born in Osaka in 1983 and graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts in 2015 with a degree in oil painting. He currently lives and works in Shizuoka Prefecture. With the theme of the boundary between fiction and reality and anonymity, he creates paintings that evolve from charcoal drawings, ceramic works using black clay, and three-dimensional works in which mud is applied to clothing and then fired.
Major exhibitions include "14th shiseido art egg Taishi Nishi
PROFILE
| 1983 | Born in Osaka, Japan |
| 2006 | Graduated from Osaka University of Arts, B.F.A. in Painting Course |
| 2015 | Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts, M.F.A. in Oil Painting Course Currently, based in Shizuoka, Japan |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2020 | “GHOST DEMO” SHISEIDO GALLERY, Tokyo “Looking at the Other Side of the Moon” Finch Arts, Kyoto |
| 2018 | “NIGHT SEA JORNEY” GALLERY ZERO, Osaka |
| 2017 | “CONDUCTOR” GALLERY ZERO, Osaka |
| 2016 | “Kuroie” ARTZONE, Kyoto |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2021 | “Aliens 2” FINCH ARTS, Kyoto |
| 2020 | “Rollin’ Rollin” FINCH ARTS, Kyoto “EL MUNDO ALUCINANTE” GALLERY ZERO, Osaka |
| 2019 | “Nana Funo + Taishi Nishi -An incident touched the bottom-” 2kw gallery, Shiga |
| 2018 | “Curse and Celebrate” KUNST ARZT, Kyoto |
| 2018-2017 | “Taishi Nishi + Yosuke Yano-Thorn of Comfort-” 8/ ART GALLERY / TOMIO KOYAMA GALEERY, Tokyo |
| 2017 | “KCUA Transmit Program 2017” Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KUCA, Tokyo “LINES” GALLERY ZERO, Osaka |
| 2016 | “400 Years of Rinpa-Rinpa Forever-” The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto |
| 2015 | “Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2015”, Marunouchi Building Marucube, Tokyo, Japan “Art Osaka 2015 selected Show”, Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka, Japan |
| 2014 | “Working!” Galerie 16, Kyoto |
| 2013 | “Cho – Kyoto 2013” Contemporary Art Fair, Machiya in Kyoto – Model House Exhibition KYOMO,Kyoto “RAKUBI Exhibition” Kyoto City Rakuyu Junior High School, Kyoto |
| 2012 | “Prime number – Japanese contemporary Art to Raahe”, Galleria Myötätuuli, Raahe, Finland |
ACCOLADES
| 2020 | shiseido art egg |
| 2016 | Selected at Shell Art Award 2016 |
| 2015 | Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2015 – Grand Prix |
OTHERS
| 2014 | Bank of Kyoto Artist Support Program |
COLLECTIONS
Bank of Kyoto
