Ikumi Nagasawa

Ikumi Nagasawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, 1980, and graduated from Joshibi University graduate school of art and design, Major in Painting.

Since 2007 Tokyo based artist Ikumi Nagasawa has been keeping her painting shows actively in Tokyo and Shanghai. Recent years she spread her activity in Switzerland and Hong Kong, etc. Her paintings, with sense of loveliness but also showing sorrow or loneliness motif, depict widely evaluated contemporary young generation.

1980    Born in Tokyo
2004    Graduated from Joshibi University of art and design, Major in Painting.     (Excellent prize by Graduation painting)
2006    Graduated from Joshibi University graduate school of art and design, Major in Painting.

Solo Exhibitions
2017 a break in the clouds, gallery NIJI,Tokyo
2013 I will hold you, Office339 gallery, Shanghai
2010 Flutter, The Foundry Gallery, Shanghai
I can fly, Tokyu, Tokyo
2009 I’ve got the key, NODA CONTEMPORARY, Nagoya
2008 I hear, v-gallery, Basel
I know you know it, The Foundry Gallery, Shanghai
2007 I wish I won’t get lost, Gallery Musashino, Tokyo
Incoming refusal, Gallery Seishou, Tokyo
Shelter, Gallery Ai, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions
2010
Face-Group Exhibition of Korean, Chinese, Japanese Contemporary Art, Korean Cultural Service in Shanghai
Haven’t you heard?, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong
Animamix Biennial, Moca (Shanghai), Today Art Museum (Beijing), Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangdong)
2009 Young Contemporary Artists Show, MATUZAKAYA, Nagoya
8888 Group Show, Andrew James Art, Shanghai
2008 If you’re happy, clap your hands, Andrew James Art, Shanghai
Art Here Now, Shonandai MY Gallery, Tokyo
2007 Switching Channels, OFFICE(R), Tokyo
SIGG+MOGRA, Omotesando Hills, Tokyo
Private, Refined Nest Gallery, Shanghai
2006 Present of December, Gallery Musashino, Tokyo
2005 Open the door, Gallery seira, Tokyo
JUFA, art space Hue, Seoul