| 1982 | Born in Kanagawa, Japan |
| 2004 |
Graduated from Oil Painting Course, Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art and Design, Tama Art University Lives and works in Kanagawa, Japan |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2024 | Synopsis, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England Sleep Walk, ARCH, Athens, Greece |
| 2023 |
The Sequel: Twin Boat Songs – Verdigris Vessel, with Kazuyuki Takezaki, Echigo Tsumari, Tōkamachi, Japan December Light, La Società della Api, Monaco |
| 2022 |
State of Stillness, Crèvecœur, Paris, France |
| 2021 |
Ebb Tide, Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw, Poland |
| 2020 |
Scene of Beholder, Crèvecœur, Paris, France Around October, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2018 | Aperto 09 Nichimura Yu-paragraph, Kanazawa 21st Century Museum Ishikawa, Japan |
| 2017 | portrait, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2016 | projection, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2015 |
project N 61, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2013 |
TWS-Emerging 202 Yu Nishimura: The Senery Carried, TWS Hongo, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2010 |
Haruhi Painting Triennale: Artist Series Vol.65 Yu Nishimura,Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum, Aichi, Japan |
Group Exhibitions
| 2024 |
How Did You Come into the World?, Taguchi Art Collection + Hirosaki Museum Contemporary Art, Aomori, Japan |
| 2023 |
“Pictures Girls Make”: Portraitures, Blum & Ploe, Los Angeles LA, USA L’INCONTRO, Le Quai, Monaco Crèvecœur, Paris, France CADAN Yurakucho, Tokyo, Japan TRACK, DASH, SSTROKE, Goya Curtain, Setagaya, Japan |
| 2022 |
Open Storage: 25 Years of Collecting, The Warehouse, Dallas TX, USA Tiere, MD BAR, Cologne, Germany An Exhibition with Little Information, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (MOCA Busan), Busan, South Korea Natural Function, Spiral Garden, Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan Shifting Glances, Simone Subal Gallery, New York NY, USA Gute Nacht, curated by Oriane Durand, Braunsfelder, Cologne, Germany Space, Laurel Gitlen, New York NY, USA |
| 2021 |
FLOWERS & BIRDS, Tomio Koyama, Tokyo, Japan The Prophetic Pictures, Crèvecœur, Paris, France L’INCONTRO, curated by Cristiano Raimondi, Le Quai, Monte Carlo Emerging Japanese painters, SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong Next World, Taguchi Art Collection x Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan Eli Bornowsky & Yu Nishimura, King’s Leap, New York NY, USA |
| 2020 |
The Sentimental Organization of the World, Crèvecœur, Paris, France Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum, Aichi, Japan CADAN Showcase 03, CADAN Yurakucho, Tokyo, Japan Twin Boat Songs, duo with Kazuyuki Takezaki, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2019 |
Triple traveler-Tea ceremony, Ikaruga-an, Seikeitei, the Nezu Museum, Tokyo, Japan VOCA 2019, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan Beyond the reasons, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo, Japan ACT Vol.1 – First Lingering Mist of Spring, Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) Hong, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2018 |
Azamino Contemporary vol.9, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Kanagawa, Japan CONDO Shanghai, GALLERY VACANCY, Shanghai, China Contemporary tales from the province 5 – Susaki artist in residence, Susaki Machikado Gallery, Kochi, Japan Hikarie Contemporary Art Eye vol.9, supervised by Tomio Koyama – through the glasses, Shibuya Hikarie, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2017 |
Shell Art Award Artists Selection, The National Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan Natsu no Tobira, organised by Misako and Jefrey Rosen, SHANE CAMPBELL GALLERY, Chicago IL, USA Spring Fever, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo, Japan Winter Show, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2016 |
Contemporary tales from the province 4 – Susaki artist in residence, Susaskia Machikado Gallery, Kochi, Japan Imprisoned, Jailbreak, Imprisoned, Jailbreak, KAYOKOYUKI, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo, Japan FACE 2016: FACE Award Winners – The Way of Paintings 2016, Seji Togo Memorial, Sompo Japan, Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan Scenes of Fragments, Akibatamabi 21, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2014 |
Some Like Witty – Daisuke Miyatsu collection, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong Art Kurabiraki Fujiyoshida 2014, Ono Satoshi Open Studio, Yamanashi, Japan FACE 2014: Sompo Japan Art Award Exhibition, Seji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2013 |
Shell Art Award 2013, The National Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2012 |
Tokyo Wonder Wall 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2011 |
YOKOHAMA 2011 Minato-Mirai, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan |
| 2009 |
The 6th Kiyosu City Haruhi Painting Trienniale, Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum, Aichi, Japan |
Awards
| 2017 | Grand Prize, Kinutani Prize 2017 |
| 2014 | Excellent Work Award, FACE 2014: Sompo Japan Art Award Exhibition |
| 2013 | July Incentive Award – Kenjiro Hosaka, Shell Art Award 2013 |
| 2009 | Best Prize, The 6th Kiyosu City Haruhi Painting Triennale |
Public and Institutional Collections
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AMOCA Artistic Museum of Contemporary Art, Wales Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France MWoods Museum, Beijing, China Kanazawa 21st Century Museum, Kanazawa, Japan Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum / Aichi, Haruhi, Japan Taguchi Art Collection, Japan |