Kaikai Kiki Gallery

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Born in Chiba in 1956, Nakamura received a Master of Fine Arts in oil painting from Tokyo University of the Arts, studying under the Mono-ha artist Koji Enokura.

He debuted as a painter in the 1980's, attracting attention for his "Y" paintings, expressionist works which employed "Y"-shapes as their motif. Following this came the Diagonal Grid, C Opened, Ranging Difference – Broken Shelter, Broken Hermitage, Saisoro, Shokusocho (Phoenix) , and other series. He has been tirelessly and dynamically exploring the meaning of pictorial space, producing more than 1300 paintings to date. In Japan, he is recognized as one of the country's most representative painters and has participated in many solo and group exhibitions, with several works in the collections of major Japanese museums.

Outside Japan, he was also featured in group shows such as Europaria Japan ’89 (1989) and the Japan Art Today (1990-91) exhibition which toured Northern Europe. More recently, he has exhibited frequently in East Asia, particularly in China and Korea, and has also published a book of theoretical essays on painting, Toka suru hikari Nakamura Kazumi chosaku senshu(Filtered light: a Nakamura Kazumi anthology) (Reifu Shobo, 2007).