ARTIST

TAISHI NISHI

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 " (Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, 2020), "Taishi Nishi + Yosuke Yano " (8/ART GALLERY TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY, Tokyo, 2017-18), and "Kyoto City University of Arts transmit program 2017" (Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto, 2017).

BIOGRAPHY

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

CV

2020: shiseido art egg
2016: Selected at Shell Art Award 2016
2015: Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2015 – Grand Prix

EXHIBITIONS

2020: Solo Exhibition“GHOST DEMO” SHISEIDO GALLERY, Tokyo
Solo Exhibition“Looking at the Other Side of the Moon” Finch Arts, Kyoto
2018: Solo Exhibition “NIGHT SEA JORNEY” GALLERY ZERO, Osaka
2017: Solo Exhibition “CONDUCTOR” GALLERY ZERO, Osaka
2016: Solo Exhibition“Kuroie” ARTZONE, Kyoto

Taishi Nishi

Sculpture： Lucid dream guides,

2018

Painting：A grain of light floats on the sea,

2018

Sculpture：Ceramic clay, porcelain clay, linen, wool and pigments
H66.0×W29.0×D25.0cm

Painting：Nails, aqueous alkyd resin, oil, charcoal and pigment on canvas
140.0×120.0cm