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Shota Nakamura

BornNationalityBased In
N/AJapaneseBerlin
Biography

Shota Nakamura applies oils until something intuitively clicks and the painting lifts off the ground. His ruminative images are largely occupied by mosaic landscapes and quiescent figures. Certain junctures in his palette produce a hyperreality that rages against the natural world. Any figural presence is apparitional, as though the human subject were merely an echo. Nakamura introduces the viewer to his experience of daily rituals, extracting the light as it blares through his studio or domestic windows then consigning its essence to oils on canvas. The elastic boundary between interior and exterior is well represented by Nakamura in his interweaving of personal narratives and painting-as-subject. ...

Selected Artworks
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Shota Nakamura
Untitled, 2023
180 x 140cm
Sigh
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Shota Nakamura
Untitled, 2023
181 x 227.3cm
Untitled
Shota Nakamura
Untitled, 2023
181 x 227.3cm
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Shota Nakamura
Untitled, 2023
194.3 x 150.5cm
by the lake
Shota Nakamura
by the lake, 2023
195.6 x 150.5cm
three pear on the table
Shota Nakamura
three pear on the table, 2023
140.3 x 180.3cm
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Shota Nakamura
Untitled, 2023
90.2 x 140.3cm
Untitled (marsden hartley)
Shota Nakamura
Untitled (marsden hartley), 2023
140 x 90.2cm
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Shota Nakamura
Untitled, 2023
100.3 x 140.3cm
sigh
Untitled (blue night)
Shota Nakamura
Untitled (blue night), 2023
38 x 30cm
reader
Shota Nakamura
reader, 2023
38.4 x 30.2cm
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Shota Nakamura
untitled, 2024
180 x 140cm
sleeper
SUMMER TABLE
Shota Nakamura
SUMMER TABLE, 2023
80 x 120cm
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