Lives and Works in NYC
Co-founder of AAI (Arts Action Initiative)
www.yukikonakashima.com
Instagram: @yukikoptg
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions:
2024 Arts on Paper NYC 2024, Pier 36, New York, NY
Where We Are, Li Tang Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Echos of Home, RIVAA Gallery, New York, NY
Abstract, Distortion & Fragmentation, Li Tang Gallery, Online exhibition, NY
A Selection of Abstractions, James Baird Gallery, Pouch Cove, NL, Canada
Invisible Room, Fairleigh Dickinson University Gallery, Teaneck, NJ
Invisible Room, ACC Gallery, Tenafly, NJ
2021 Almost Endless, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Altoona, PA
Mono, Mi-Sul online exhibition
2020 Emotionally Coded, The Clemente, NY, NY
2018-2019 Artist Co-Op, 2018, Miller Gallery, JCAL Arts Center, Jamaica, NY
2018 Basement Town- Represented Artist, Brooklyn, NY
2017-2018 Making Connections, Citi Deford Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2017 Making Connections, Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2016 Deeper and Closer, Fairleigh Dickinson University Art Gallery, Teaneck, NJ
2012 Sculpting Outside the Line, Foggy Bottom Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
2010 Simultaneous Presence Evergreen Museum & Library, Baltimore, MD
Heed the Machine St. Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn, NY
Lucid Directions Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
2009 New Tales for Our Age The Visual Arts Center, Summit, NJ
Fieza Projects London, England (participation to Brina Thurston's project)
Remarked Unknown Subdivision art, Long Island City, NY
2008 Trading Places Canco Lofts, Jersey City, NJ
2008 Show and Tell hpgrp Gallery , New York, NY
2007 One work/One talk hpgrp Gallery, New York, NY
2007 BABOOM!!! Red Saw Gallery, Newark, NJ
Momenta Project White Column, New York, NY
2007 Benefit Raffle Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
Shame Red Saw Gallery, Newark, NJ
2006 Keeping It Real The Garage, Jersey City, NJ
Cooper Union Summer Residency Exhibition Cooper Union, New York, NY
Works on Paper LBI Foundation, Loveladies, NJ
Connections Studio Montclair, Montclair NJ, Curated by Donald Kuspit
Go Figure Maryland Federation of Art, Baltimore, MD
On the Border of Realism MPG Contemporary, Boston, MA
2005 Receiver Series 2 (performance) Gallery 58, Jersey City, NJ
Tremor II (performance) City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
Rural…Urban…&…Otherwise City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2004 Limit Edge Boundary Asymptote City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2003 Body Speech Seven Degrees Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
D.U.M.B.O. Under the Bridge Festival DUMBO Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
Ten Performances Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Message from Body IV Pepper’s Loft Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Reviews
“Madness.” OyeDrum Magazine No. 5, New York NY, Spring/Summer 2022
(https://oyedrum.com/do-you-find-it-hard-to-write-poem-kylie-hough-art-by-yukiko-nakashima/)
“Fortress.” Vellum Magazine no. 26, New York NY, May 12, 2022
(https://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/2235051?__r=81117)
“no. 43 Artist Interviews.” ArtReveal Magazine, London November 10, 2018
(https://www.artrevealmagazine.com/tag/yukiko-nakashima/)
“At Baltimore’s Evergreen estate, outdoor sculpture exhibit is surprising.” The Washington Post May 14, 2010. Going Out Guide, Museum section.
“Sculpture at Evergreen 6: Simultaneous Presence.” BMOREART April 27, 2010.
“Visual Arts Center Premieres New Exhibit." Summit Patch September 12, 2009. Articles section.
“Garage art work is raw, real with mixed identities.” The Jersey Journal October 27, 2006. Art Review.
“National Show at Foundation, ‘Works of Art on Paper,’ Rips.” The Sandpaper July 12, 2006. section two.
“Connecting art and the everyday.” Star Ledger August 1, 2004. arts section.
Education:
2001 – 2003 The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts
New Brunswick, NJ, M.F.A.
1995 – 2000 The City College of New York, CUNY, New York, NY, Department of Art, B.A.
Residencies:
2022 The Pouch Cove Residency, Newfoundland, Canada
2006 The Cooper Union, New York, NY, Summer Residency Program
Artist's Talk and Panel Discussion:
2024 Dada Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023 RIVAA Gallery, New York, NY
Fairleigh Dickinson University Art Gallery, Teaneck, NJ
2016 Fairleigh Dickinson University Art Gallery, Teaneck, NJ