Yuko Nasu

A graduate of the prestigious MA Fine Art program at Central Saint Martins, London, Yuko Nasu brings a unique fusion of traditional fine art sensibility and high-end digital design expertise.

After establishing a professional career in the gaming industry as a CG designer and gaining recognition in the London art scene, she entered a decade-long period of introspection. Now, she returns to the global stage with her profound series, "Imaginary Portrait."

Her work is a poignant critique of the "melancholy of consumer society," exploring the dissolution of individual identity in an age of over-information. Through the masterful use of ink bleeds and fragmented digital layers, she captures the "presence of absence"—inviting viewers to project their own memories and solitude into her faceless subjects.

Based in Japan, she continues to challenge the boundaries between the physical and the digital, the self and the anonymous.

2006 MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London UK
1997 BFA Visual Design, Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto Japan

2009 Jerwood Drawing Prize
2008 Jerwood Contemporary Painters
2006 Bloomberg New Contemporaries

-----solo show

2010 Quinquennial , Stour Space, London, England
2009 detective, I-MYU projects, London, England
John Doe , the Arts Gallery, London, England
Shadow Mirror- Imagined portraits of unknown people , Void Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2007 Imaginary Portrait , Zizi Gallery, London, England


-----selected group show

2010 Depth Charge - Henrijs Preiss & Yuko Nasu, James Freeman Gallery, London, England
Shadowside, Bo.Lee Galley, Bath, England
3AM '..sounds eternal..." , Cobden Club, London, England
BAD IGLOO LUST, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, England
FACE, Shanghai, China
The Franks-Suss Collection - Phillips de Pury & Company The Saatchi Gallery, London, England
A Visual Dialogue Bo.Lee Gallery, Bath, England
2009 The Ivy The Ivy Restaurant, London, England
Off Centre Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
NO-ism Bodhi Gallery, London, England
Five Years Sesame Gallery, London, England
2008 Jerwood Contemporary Painters Jerwood Space, England & Wales
Art Beijing 2008 Beijing, China
The Future 50 Project Space Leeds, England

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