西村大樹 Daiki Nishimura

Born in 1985, Osaka. He started working as an artist after graduating from Osaka University of Arts. He became more active overseas after being selected as a finalist for the Concorso Arte Milano in 2016. He currently resides in Osaka prefecture. Focusing on environmental issues, he expresses the gap between the “seen” world and the “perceived” world. He has participated in numerous gallery exhibitions and art fairs in Europe, America and Asia.

2009 B.F.A. Osaka University of Art
2011 M.F.A. Osaka University of Art

Solo Exhibitions
2010 “The flowing river never stops”, Honen-in Temple, Kyoto, Japan 
2011 “untitled” Fugen-in Temple, Koyasan, Wakayama, Japan
2011 “Who is he?” Honen-in Temple, Kyoto, Japan
2012 “Filled with now away from now” spectrum gallery, Osaka, Japan
2012 “Moon & Sun” Honen-in Temple, Kyoto, Japan
2012 “The world always lies in the quiet night when bells are ringing” Sentoku-ji Temple, Osaka, Japan
2013 “Today seems to be like yesterday” spectrum gallery, Osaka, Japan
2013 “After the Explosion of Horizon” Honen-in Temple, Kyoto, Japan
2014 “THE NIGHT OF SUN AND BONES” spectrum gallery, Osaka, Japan
2014 “In the sea of glass fragments” Honen-in Temple, Kyoto, Japan
2015 “Black rain” spectrum gallery, Osaka, Japan
2015 “White rain” Honen-in Temple, Kyoto, Japan
2016 “GATE” spectrum gallery, Osaka, Japan
2017 “VISIBILITY : INVISIBILITY” spectrum gallery, Osaka, Japan
2017 “Unmeasurable weight of death which is becoming lighter” Honen-in Temple, Kyoto, Japan
2018 ”Wildfire” spectrum gallery, Osaka, Japan
2019 “Trinity – Lives, which are lighter than a feather : Part Ⅰ” Honen-in Temple, Kyoto, Japan
2019 “Trinity – Lives, which are lighter than a feather : Part Ⅱ” spectrum gallery, Osaka, Japan
2020 “Melt, Create and Be in the world” Honen-in Temple, Kyoto,
2021 “And no one was left” MARUEIDO JAPAN, Tokyo
2022 “Things surrounding me” Honen-in Temple, Kyoto, Japan
2022 “The landscape where I am standing” spectrum gallery, Osaka, Japan

Group Exhibitions
2009 Three Person Show, Kita Museum, Nara, Japan
2009 “Tokyo Wonder Seed” Group Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
2010 “Tokyo Wonder Seed” Group Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
2011 “Element: Water” two person show, spectrum gallery, Osaka, Japan
2012 “Transience: Beyond the Horizon” Japanese Friendship Garden / BALBOA PARK SAN DIEGO USA
2013 spectrum selection 2013, spectrum gallery, Osaka, Japan 
2013 “Painting ＆ Ceramic Two Person Show Daiki NISHIMURA, Osamu INAYOSHI” spectrum gallery, Osaka, Japan
2014 Three Person Show, spectrum gallery, Osaka,  Japan
2014 “Winter Luxe” Osaka, Japan
2016 spectrum selection 2016, Kyoto, Japan
2017 « Jeunes artistes émergents » GALERIE Akié Arichi, France
2018 « Jeunes artistes émergents » GALERIE Akié Arichi, France
2022 Nozawa Art Project, Nagano
2023 “LANDSCAPE here and there” MARUEIDO JAPAN, Tokyo

Art Fairs
2013 ART SANTA FE 2013, spectrum gallery, USA
2015 ART SAN DIEGO 2015, spectrum gallery, USA
2015 UNKNOWN ASIA ART EXCHANGE OSAKA 2015, Osaka, Japan
2016 MASTERPIECE LONDON 2016, Katie Jones Japanese Art, UK
2017 Affordable Art Fair / MILAM, Carte Scoperte Art Gallery, Italy
2017 Wop Art Lugano, Carte Scoperte Art Gallery, Switzerland
2017 YOUNG INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR ♯11 PARIS, GALERIE Akié Arichi, France
2017 PAD London 2017, Katie Jones Japanese Art, UK
2018 Affordable Art Fair / MILAM, Carte Scoperte Art Gallery, Italy
2018 Wop Art Lugano, Carte Scoperte Art Gallery, Switzerland
2019 ARTISTS’ FAIR KYOTO 2019, Kyoto,Japan
2019 Affordable Art Fair / SINGAPORE, Y Art Project, Singapore
2019 Affordable Art Fair / MILAM, Carte Scoperte Art Gallery, Italy
2022 Osaka Kansai International Art Fair, Marueido Japan Osaka, Japan
2022 Affordable Art Fair / Hong Kong, Touch Gallery, Hong Kong
2022 Affordable Art Fair / SINGAPORE, Y Art Project, Singapore
2023 Osaka Art Festival

Awards
2009 Osaka University of Art Graduation Award, First Prize 
2009 Tokyo Wonder Seed, selected
2010 Tokyo Wonder Seed, selected
2015 UNKNOWN ASIA ART EXCHANGE OSAKA 2015, Judges Prize 
2016 Young Creators Award 2016, First Prize
2016 Concorso Arte Milano 2016, Finalist
2022 Kaika Tokyo Award 2022, selected

Collections
2015 AMAN RESORTS AMAN TOKYO
2015 HOTEL PLAZA OSAKA　
2022 Kijyu

Since the death of my father who was an environmental assessor and wild bird researcher, and the Great East Japan Earthquake (March 11), I have been focusing on environmental issues as a problem that our current society faces. The environmental destruction and climate change caused by human activities have been a fatal impact to earth, especially in the 200 years after the industrial evolution, during this Anthropocene Epoch including the current day we live in.
I paint images of radioactive contamination, black rain, wildfires that burn all over the world, flood and natural disasters as a contemporary landscape in my work. Paintings are fictional but also the story that leads to reality. They help to rethink the truth and gain a deeper understanding of how the world should be.

I think his work is very interesting, for various reasons, first of all I think that it is important that in these times, art touches environmental issues in order to create consciousness, and secondly, I think his technique is quite good, one can see that he likes to experiment, and the work is fresh and at the same time melancholic, beautiful and strong. 

（Bosco Sodi）