Nobuaki Onishi

“Through his super-real works, Onishi invites us to examine the relationship between the original

and the copy in contemporary culture and in contemporary art. We are required to question what

our senses tell us of presence, absence and existence at both a personal and a critical level. He asks

us to feel how it is to be mistaken and to question what it is to respond to the surface appearance

of things.”

- press release from Georgia Scherman Projects

Nobuaki Onishi studied at the Kyoto City University of Arts. He is a lecturer at Kyoto City University, and

recently had a solo show at Georgia Sherman Projects in Canada.

http://nobuakionishi.com/

EDUCATION

1996-98 M.F.A. Printmaking, Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto,

JAPAN

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 "Nobuaki Onishi Exhibition" Georgia Scherman Project,

Canada

2010 "New Past", MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN

"Chain", Gallery Nomart, Osaka, JAPAN

2009 "Vertical Collection”, Art Gallery C-Square of Chukyo

University, Nagoya, JAPAN

2008 "LOVERS LOVERS", Nizawa Forest Museum, Toyama,

JAPAN

"Mumyo No Rinkaku", INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo, JAPAN

2007 "3?”, Studio J, Osaka, JAPAN

2006 "Desktop, Dress, Gray”, Aomori Contemporary Art Center,

Aomori, JAPAN

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 "product", gallery nomart, Osaka, JAPAN

"immanent landscape". West Space, Melbourne,

AUSTRALIA

"Book Art 2010 Japan-Korea", Gallery Jinsun, Seoul, KOREA

kunst bau, Tokyo

2009 “The Present Art, Okayama 2009”, Teijinyama Cultural

Praza/Nagi

Museum of Contemporary Art, Okayama, JAPAN

2008 “The White”, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN

“Art Resonance 2008” Kurashiki City Art Space, Kurashiki, JAPAN

“The Act of Looking ”, Voice Gallery pfs/w, Kyoto, JAPAN

2007 “Distance of Plate” Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, JAPAN

2005 “Power of Printmaking”, Kakei Museum of Art, Kurashiki, JAPAN

2004 “Printing Through, Printing Techniques ‘04”, Aichi Prefectural Museum,

Nagoya, JAPAN

PRIZES

2008 Grand Prix, 1st Oskayama Prefectural Mr.I Development of Rising Artists

Award, Okayama, JAPAN

2007 Asunaro Prize, Aomori Print Triennale 2007, Aomori

Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, JAPAN

2004 Grand Prix, Selected Artists in Kyoto, The Museum of Kyoto,

Kyoto, JAPAN

1997 Purchase Prize & Audience Prize, Annual Exhibition of The Committee of

University of Art & Print Studies in Japan, Machida City Museum of Graphic

Arts, Tokyo, JAPAN

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, JAPAN

Museum of Modern Art Wakayama, Hyogo, JAPAN

Nizayama Forest Art Museum, JAPAN

Kyoto City University of Arts, JAPAN

Kyoto Saga University of Arts, JAPAN

Sannohe Town Print Studio, JAPAN

The Museum of Kyoto, JAPAN

Zabludowicz Collection, GERMANY