PROFILE
1982 Graduated from the Department of Fine Arts,
Faculty of Art, Osaka University of Arts,
majoring in Painting
2016 Completed the Doctoral Program in Art,
Graduate School of Art, Osaka University of Arts
(second semester) and received a Ph.D. in Fine Arts
Juror for the “Collabo Art 21” exhibition
for people with disabilities, sponsored
by Kansai Electric Power Co.
Board member of the Society of Ethno-Arts,
Board member of the Tsukamoto Academy
Alumni Association,
Member of Sculpture Space, New York Others
1985 Art Now (Hyogo Prefectural
Museum of Modern Art)
1987 Awarded the 4th Yoshihara Jiro
Prize Art Competition
1990 Awarded the “Sakuyakonohana Award”
(Osaka City, Fine Arts Division,
Contemporary Art)
1992 “Today’s Artists Series 25
– Nakanishi Manabu Exhibition”
Sponsored by the Osaka Prefectural
Contemporary Art Center
Mito Annual ’92: Big Diary/Small Story
(Mito Art Tower) Contemporary Art Gallery)
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
(now Japan Post) Kinki Post Office
“Hometown Stamp/Osaka Castle and OBP”
design(issued September 18, 1992)
1994 Osaka Prefecture ART-EX:
Artist-in-Residence
Stayed in Düsseldorf, Germany,
and held a solo exhibition
1995 Jeju Island Pre-Biennale
-From Island to Island-
(Jeju Island, South Korea)
1996 ’96 Selected New Artists Exhibition
(Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art)
2002 “Nebra Circuit/Nakanishi Manabu Exhibition”
Organized by Kyoto Art Center
2005 “From Image to Surface”
Organized by Ibaraki City Board of Education
(Ibaraki City Gallery, Osaka)
2007 Solo exhibition at Pratt
@MWPI Gallery in New York, USA
2008 Created “Symbiosis/GOLD CIRCLE,”
a sculpture commemorating the 60th anniversary
of Ibaraki City’s founding
2010 “Sakuyakonohana Art Festival 2010,”
sponsored by the City of Osaka
(Osaka City Central Public Hall)
2013 Fifty Years of Japanese Painting
(Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art)
Forms in Art: Close Forms, Distant Forms
(Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art)
2014 10th World Painting Grand Prize Exhibition
(Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)
2015, 2016 Sponsor’s Award
(Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art)
2015 Tokushima Museum of Modern Art
25th Anniversary Exhibition:
“25 Doors to Enjoying Human Expression”
Solo Exhibition: “Nakanishi Manabu: The World of Form”
(Tokushima Museum of Modern Art
Sponsored Exhibition Gallery)
2017 “Shinkomiya Exhibition”
(Itami City Itami Gochokan / Former Okada Residence
and Sake Brewery / Former Ishibashi Residence)
2018 “New Wave: Contemporary Art of the 1980s”
(National Museum of Art, Osaka)
2019 To celebrate the 25th anniversary
of the opening of the Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art,
a solo exhibition titled “Behavior of Vortices” will be held.
2021 Nakanishi Manabu 2010-2020 Exhibition
A decade of recent works
by NAKANISHI, Manabu
PORT ART & DESIGN TSUYAMA
(Port Art & Design Tsuyama)
Okayama Solo Exhibition
“Aspects of Form” -Polymorphous-
(Ibaraki City Kawabata Yasunari Literary Museum)
2023 “Nakanishi Manabu 40th Anniversary
of Creative Activity -Eternal Landscapes-”
(Abeno Harukas Kintetsu Main Store)
●Public Collection
Osaka Prefectural Contemporary Art Center
(Currently Osaka Prefectural Enokojima Cultural
Arts Creation Center)
Tokushima Prefectural Museum of
Modern Art Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Sakura Art Museum
Goethe-Institut Munich
Ibaraki City Kawabata Yasunari
Literature Museum
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
(now Japan Post)
Kawachinagano City
Ibaraki City
Inagawa Town
Other
●In recent years, he has been holding
space-themed workshops at various locations,
including the Itami City Crafts Center
(now the Itami City Museum).
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