MASAYA NAKAYAMA

Masaya Nakayama, born in 1983. Graduated from Osaka University of Arts, Department of Fine Arts Painting in 2005. After studying education as an art teacher at a public junior high school in Osaka, moved to the US in 2012. Currently based in Brooklyn and presenting works at galleries and museums in Japan and overseas. Actively engaged in educational activities such as nursery art design and holding workshops not only for children but also for adults. In 2019, Masaya gained widespread popularity after collaborating on a mural commissioned by Brooklyn Brewery, a leading craft brewery in New York.

Masaya is also the co-founder of the “Coperus”, a Japanese artist collective based in New York and Tokyo. “For the children,” the sole reason this artist group has come together and formed Coperus in 2018. We face and fight the modern-day problems head on in hopes of leaving a brighter future for the next generation.

EDUCATION

2005 BA, Osaka University of Arts, Osaka, Japan

ART FAIR

2022
Dallas Art Fair, Dallas Texas

2021
Dallas Art Fair, Dallas Texas

SOLO EXHIBITION

2022
”SUNRISE & SUNSET: LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES”, Peter Augustus Gallery, Dallas Texas

2021
"A world on paper" Shibuya Hikarie, Tokyo Japan

2019
”YES” Kitano Kitanagaya, Osaka, Japan
“There is“ Kamakura Drawing Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan

2016
“HOLE”, AIDA gallery, Osaka, Japan

2013
“stain:proof”, JaNet Hall, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITION

2020

“Brooklyn collected: Artists Next Door” The Watermark Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, NY

2018

"Shadow of Olympus" Soil gallery, Seattle, WA
"Ode To Spring" Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
"Time difference vol. 3” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2017

City of Gods Art preview organized by House of Yes, Paper Factory Hotel, Long Island City NY
"MONSTER" hpgrp gallery, New York, NY
“Bushwick Open Studio Open call”, Space 776, Brooklyn, NY

2016

“A SUSTAINING LIFE” Waterfall mansion gallery, New York, NY
"Time difference”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
“Call for Bushwick” International artists competition, Brooklyn, NY

2015 

“Domesticated space travelers Exhibition”, Brooklyn Fire Proof Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Making History”, Storefront Ten Eyck Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2014  

”Paper works unbound”, Williamsburg Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
“Bushwick Benefit”, Storefront Ten Eyck Gallery, Brooklyn, NY