OVERVIEW

Born in Kanagawa in 1995. Completed the Doctoral Program in Sculpture at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2024. Currently based in Saitama.

Nakazawa creates wooden sculptures with human bodies as motifs. The artist combines different techniques and materials, such as layering reliefs on carved surfaces and incorporating ceramics or synthetic hair into wood. This form of expression stems from a desire not to fix images that arise during the sculpture-making process.
She feels that “the environment and history exist prior to one’s existence, and from the moment of birth, one is connected to vast time and space, depending on them for existence.” From this connection, she aims to express the sensory link between oneself and the environment and the accompanying uncertainty of existence as a more universal concept through tangible sculptures.
Simultaneously, this creation process can be seen as an attempt to transcend the predetermined framework of the world, arising from the phenomenon within the sculpture that differs from reality.

Awards

2023 TOYAMA Award at A-TOM ART AWARD 2023, Japan
2022 The 3rd SICOH Award, Japan
Selected for the 22nd AAC, Japan
Selected for the 25th Taro Okamoto Contemporary Art Award, Tokyo, Japan
2021 Mitsubishi Estate Award at GEIDAI ARTS in Marunouchi 2021, Japan
Purchase Award for Graduation Works, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan

HISTORY

2024
“Face and eyes toward the space”, GALLERY SICOH, Tokyo, Japan
2023
“The pattern of the far away garden”, GALLERY SICOH, Tokyo, Japan

2024
“NAMERIKAWA Artist in Residence Exhibition” Old Main Building of Tanaka Elementary School, Toyama, Japan
“My Sculpture 2024” Gallery&Zakka Gigi, Kanagawa, Japan
“Life with trees”, Tokyo Midtown Hibiya, Tokyo, Japan
2023
“Tokyo University of the Arts Doctoral Program Final Exhibition”, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
“A-tom Art Award 2023”, COURTYARD HIROO, Tokyo, Japan
2022
“top fermentation”, Tennoz Central Tower, Tokyo, Japan
“Geidai Art Plaza Exhibition ‘Art Jungle’”, Geidai Art Plaza (Tokyo University of the Arts), Tokyo, Japan
“The 2nd Sculpture with the house”, Former Hirakushi Tanaka House, Tokyo, Japan
“The 25th Taro Okamoto Contemporary Art Award”, Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
2021
“Sculpture with the house”, Former Hirakushi Tanaka House, Tokyo, Japan
“GEIDAI ARTS in Marunouchi 2021”, Marunouchi Bldg. / Torch Tower, Tokyo, Japan
“Spring Board 2021”, Ueno Station break Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Geidai Art Plaza Exhibition ‘TABITEN/Anywhere but here’”, Geidai Art Plaza (Tokyo University of the Arts), Tokyo, Japan
“Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation Works Exhibitions”, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan