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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 NakamuraUntitled, 2023
180 x 140cm
Sigh
Shota NakamuraSigh, 2023
40 x 51cm
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Shota NakamuraUntitled, 2023
181 x 227.3cm
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Shota NakamuraUntitled, 2023
181 x 227.3cm
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Shota NakamuraUntitled, 2023
194.3 x 150.5cm
by the lake
Shota Nakamuraby the lake, 2023
195.6 x 150.5cm
three pear on the table
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Shota NakamuraUntitled, 2023
90.2 x 140.3cm
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Shota NakamuraUntitled, 2023
100.3 x 140.3cm
sigh
Shota Nakamurasigh, 2023
75 x 50cm
reader
Shota Nakamurareader, 2023
38.4 x 30.2cm
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Shota Nakamurauntitled, 2024
180 x 140cm
sleeper
Shota Nakamurasleeper, 2024
80 x 120cm
SUMMER TABLE
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